Planning Your Pirate Theme Party

 Shiver me timbers! Is it a Pirate Party that ye be planning? Then ye be at the right place. Arrr! Here you'll find the best party ideas for pirate party invitations, pirate party games, pirate party food and much more.

Today you will celebrate your birthday "pirate style". You and your buccaneer friends will hunt for buried treasure, have cannonball fights and even walk the plank at this super fun kids pirate party.

Invitations

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First order of business is to send a creative invitation to build excitement and anticipation for your upcoming pirate birthday party. An original pirate poem delivered on burnt parchment is a fun and creative pirate party invitation.

Decorations

Get your pirate pals shaking in their boots on their way to the door of your pirate birthday party by starting your pirate party decorations right out your front door.

Activities and Games

Now to entertain your pirate pals you'll need some adventurous pirate party games and activities, or there will be a mutiny for sure. Choose from board games and printable games, or some no-props game ideas.

Birthday Cake

A pirate birthday cake can be really fun to make. Decorate a regular cake with plastic pirate characters of every kind. Or make a sheet cake and use black and white frosting to make a pirate flag.

Party Food

Your scurvy crew mates will be looking for some real pirate grub to feed their bellies. Pirate party food should have pirate sounding names, so this way for Monkey Brains and Pirate Grog!

Variations to Party Theme

Pirate Sleep-over

At this pirate birthday party, you and your crew mates have been in a shipwreck and are marooned on a deserted island. Do all the pirate party games and activities, and add some survival skills and nighttime fun.

When you're marooned on a deserted island, you have to have shelter. It is fun to build a lean-to to play in, but you will probably sleep in a tent or in your house.

Here's how you and your crew mates can build a lean-to:

  1. Find a sturdy horizontal brace - a fallen tree, a large rock, a strong branch laid between two trees or, since you're at a pirate birthday party in your back yard and not lost in the wilderness, a fence or table will do.
  2. Lay a series of long branches against the horizontal brace (one end on horizontal brace and the other end touching the ground).
  3. This will form either one or two slanted sides.
  4. If you were using this for real shelter you'd now layer pine boughs, leaves and moss over the slanted branches. The more you layer on, the better the insulation. Again you are in your back yard, so a beach towel or tarp will do.
  5. If this was made for real shelter, you'd want to make sure your lean-to wasn't in or too near a river bed in case of rains and a flash flood.
  6. In a true survival situation you'd also want to make sure your lean-to was recognizable by a search and rescue party. Lean-tos, because they are made from what you find in your environment, blend in with the background.

Drink rum (root beer) or Pirate's Blood around a fire as you tell ghost stories.

What To Do with Siblings

 Siblings are great most of the time. You have someone to play with, a lifelong friend and someone to blame for the wet towel on the bathroom floor. But they can be hit or miss at a pirate party. Since you can't throw them to the sharks my advice is to get them involved with our pirate sibling ideas.

Host the perfect Pirate Party!

Follow each of these links to learn how to throw a swashbuckling pirate bash.

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