It’s a Pirate Party
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My 5 year old is having a pirate party next week to celebrate turning 5 and I think I need to get organised!!!! This week is busy with school visits so we had to wait until next week to fit it in.
Here are my plans so far. If you have any other ideas, I’d love to hear them.
CAKE
It all started with the cake. I have two children’s birthday cake books and my children spend hours pouring over them trying to decide which birthday cake they’d like. Trailer Boy chose a Pirate Ship and hence the idea of a Pirate Party was born.
LOOT BAGS
I had thought finding pirate party gear would be easy. It’s a pretty common theme at the moment. Turns out I was wrong. Perhaps it’s so popular that places had sold out? So, I turned to online sources and found this awesome site called Loot Bags. I thought for $3.25 each that these pirate loot bags were pretty good value. They’re like little mini showbags. Of course, I’ve bought some edible loot to add to them as well (I found a treasure dip, some gold coins and some edible jewellery as well as a few other bits and pieces - probably too many but I’m having fun!).
I’m usually one to be cautious about the cost of loot bags getting away from me (because they can easily run into $$$ if you let them) but I think I’m using a bit of retail therapy to deal with the fact that my baby is turning 5 so we’ve splashed out a little.
The contents are going to double as games prizes though so I don’t have any other costs in that department. The dress-up sets are going inside the pass the parcel so that everyone gets a prize and can put them on (should make for great photo’s). Other loot will be used for a treasure hunt at the end of the party.
GAMES
So far we have:
* Pass the Parcel (at Trailer Boys request)
* Treasure Hunt (also at Trailer Boys request) - we haven’t decided yet whether we’ll do a standard treasure hunt or a “follow the clues” type treasure hunt. It’ll come down to whether Farmboy can pull off an idea he’s working on for a moving pirate ship.
* Ships Ahoy - you call out instructions and they each have their own action (eg. scrub the deck, pull the anchor, dig for treasure)
* Captain Says - same as Simon Says only with “Captain Says”
* Musical Islands - like musical chairs only with island maps to stand on instead of chairs to sit on
* Water Relay - team race where you use a spoon to move water from one end to another
* Pin the Flag on the Treasure Map (if I get organised enough as I need to make this)
Back Up Games:
* Egg & Spoon Race
* Red Rover
* Peg Chasey (need to try and get each others pegs)
FOOD
Party is for lunch (10.30-12.30) and this is something I’m still working on.
Ideas so far:
* Golden Nuggets (chicken munchies)
* Hot Dog Ships (small red sausages with a flag stuck in them)
Any other suggestions for piratey type food would be much appreciated. Otherwise I’ll just go with traditional party food fare.
DECORATIONS
I’m a bit slack in the decorating department. I do have a few pirate balloons and a pirate tablecloth as well as a pirate door banner to hang up somewhere. We’re going to attempt to make a makeshift boat using some black fabric from my SIL (which is where we got the idea of making a boat from). That way the kids can play in it as well as it adding to the effect of the party.
So that’s about where I’m up to with it all and typing it out like this has been very helpful in pulling all those floating ideas together. Photographs and an update on how it went will be posted next wee.
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Happy Birthday to Trailer boy
have you seen this link
http://familyfun.go.com/parties/birthday/feature/famf58birthday/famf58birthday11.html
The party is sure to be a huge hit -great ideas you have already
We had those loot bags as show bags at our last school fete. They are good ones.
AS you are going a nautical theme, what about fish cocktail things for food as well - N went to a pirate party when he was 5 & they had these with oven chips. This mother also managed to find little bowls shaped like ships and had a mast & a sail in each bowl.
Also if it is hot you could throw cannon balls - black water balloons too.
Arrrrrr!!
I can’t wait to see it all babe. Next ‘wee’
You could probably download a pirate treasure map. Do you think your local toy store would have a few of those plastic pirate swords? And trailerboy, as “pirate king” will need a captain’s hat? Sounds like a lot of fun, can’t wait to see the pictures.
My son had a pirate party (also for his 5th birthday). We made little boats out of oranges which looked quite neat. You cut oranges in half, then make sails with a bit of paper on a toothpick and stick it into the centre of the orange. Of course you have to put the jolly roger on the flags!
You used to be able to buy those little fish shaped cracker biscuit things - I think we had some of those, along with chocolate coins/easter eggs for treasure (it’s an April birthday!). For party bags I bought small wooden boxes from the $2 shop and the kids decorated them at the party then filled them with loot from the treasure hunt.
I hope your party is a great success, and that you are not too worn out by the end of it all!!
Fiona
Hope the party is fabulous.
My sister in law did a pirate party for her son last year. One thing she found is that the blood and gore themed food put the children off. They didn’t want to drink the ‘red blood’ cordial or eat the ’sea slime green’ jelly. At 4yo the party guests were mostly too young to appreciate it.
The veggie stick platter we called ‘mini swords’ and that was a hit - albeit mostly to play fight with.
A family tradition on my in laws side is to play ‘Bang the Pot’ at parties.
You put some lollies on the ground, cover them in a big saucepan. Then blindfold a child and give them a wooden spoon. They have to crawl around waving the spoon to try and bang the pot. Everyone else stands around calling ‘warmer’ if they get close and ‘colder’ if they are going in the wrong direction. When the spoon eventually hits the pot the blindfolded child wins the lollies under it. Then it is the next persons turn.