Coolest Pirate Birthday Party Ideas
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Ahoy Matey! Prepare for an adventure on the high Pirate birthday party seas with these swashbuckling ideas that'll blow you outta the water!
Before we start walking the plank, here are the coolest Pirate party packs and party supply items:
- Swashbuckling Pirate Supplies
- ShindigZ Pirate Supplies
- Coolest Pirate Chest of Supplies
- Pirate Party Supplies
- Pirate in a Box Party Supplies
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Lots of visitors from all over the world have contributed their Pirate theme party ideas to this section. As you enjoy and find inspiration from the ideas here, take a moment and submit your own Pirate party ideas. You'll be taking part in creating the Web's "coolest" kid birthday party ideas resource that's ALWAYS FREE for everyone to enjoy! |
Pirate Invitations
Make Treasure Island maps on brown newsprint or brown paper sack and burn the edges. Write all the needed information in pirate lingo.
For instance, on the front you can write "Ahoy There Matey!" and inside you can write something like: "Aye...ye be invited fer some birthday spirits at Captain (child's name) Buccaneer Bash. Chart yer course fer the (address and day of month).
We be a meetin at (time) fer some swashbuckling fun, grub and kiddie spirits. Wave yer flag if ye be attendin or have yer mum send a message by yer phone to (phone number). Sees ye there... (if not, then you'll have to walk the plank - If you dare!)".
Then, you can roll each one up, tie with ribbons and place each one in a clear bottle or if you want in a root beer bottle for a more authentic look (leave a piece of ribbon hanging for easy removal). Add a few tablespoons of sand and small seashells to give it an ocean-like effect.
Another fun pirate birthday party invitation idea is to make a map of your home or backyard on a large piece of newsprint with a big red X where you want to hide or bury a certain treasure or clues for finding a treasure. Cut the map into the number of invitations you want to give out (like a puzzle). Burn the edges a bit and pour coffee on it to make it look more authentic. Then put each piece in a different invitation and tell them to bring the piece with them. When the guests have arrived let everyone put the puzzle together and look for the treasure or clues (this is a way you can start a treasure hunt if you want to).
*Tip - make a copy of each part of the map if someone doesn't arrive.
Pirate Printables
Here's a complete page with our very own Pirate party printable designs you can download and print for free. You'll find:
- Printable Invitations & Envelopes
- Greeting Cards
- Thank You Cards
- Coloring Pages
- Awards & Certificates
- Lots More!
To get instant access to our original printable designs you'll need to subscribe first (FREE) to our Partyology ezine:
Make sure you also check out these awesome customizable birthday party invitations!
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Pirate Decorations
An excellent way to start is by finding some pictures and clipart that'll give your imagination an artistic boost. (Here's our hand-picked selection of great pirate birthday party pictures to get you started...)
It won't be a pirate birthday party without a… treasure chest. If you don't have one or something resembling one-you can definitely make your own.
Take a Styrofoam cooler and paint it brown or black. You can use gold ribbon to trim the lid and the base of the chest. Then take some small rectangle shapes of yellow craft foam and glue on to the center of the lid in the front and the other directly below to make the lock. You can also cut out and glue different colored circles or diamond shapes around the base. Fill it with gold chocolate coins, gummy fish, starburst candies (they look like little treasures), colored beaded necklaces and a lot of other cool treasures. To make the chest look full you can add spray-painted gold rocks, shells, marbles, plastic gems etc.
If you're not up to making your own treasure chest, here are a few really nice Treasure Chests...
Hang fishing nets all around your house or yard (you can also use the nets over any kind of tablecloth for your tables). Stick rubber fish, seahorses, plastic oyster shells, lobsters and crabs in the fish net. And for that eerie pirate birthday party atmosphere, hang up all kinds of skeletons. Here's a great selection of skeletons...
You can also make a sign on the door "Enter at yer own risk" and hang old treasure maps on the walls.
Another great pirate birthday party prop is this personalized pirate ship. You can have each kid pose as a pirate in it (this could be a great way to send your thank-you cards). Have each pirate say "Aaaaargh" while posing for the picture :-)
And... for the final touch for your pirate birthday party decorations, this awesome water gossamer comes in three different watery patterns and you can use it to cover the furniture, walls, ceiling, table, etc., instantly and easily transforming them into the high seas.
Top Tip! Before you buy anything online, make sure to check out the Pirate supplies being offered on eBay. Often, you'll find new supplies at a fraction of what they cost at the stores:
Here's a complete page with even more Pirate party supplies... |
Costumes
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A homemade Pirate costume is easy to make and always lots of fun (especially because you get to rummage around your closet for items you'll deny ever having worn…) If you can't find enough stuff in your closet, try the second-hand shops where any old scarf can become a magnificent Pirate's bandana. Here are a bunch of homemade Pirate costumes submitted to us by visitors with detailed writeups and photos. |
Here are some pirate costume basics:
- Find a pair of old black or striped pants and fringe the edges with scissors.
- Find a big white, gold or striped blouse and tuck it inside the pants. Add a wide belt with a large buckle and tie a bandana around your Pirate's head and neck (with a knot at the side).
- Dig through your jewelry box or get some gold costume jewelry (particularly search for a big clip-on gold hoop earring.) Add an eye patch and a pirate's hook.
- Get some hypoallergenic black face-paint or eyeliner and carefully paint on a mustache and some stubble.
- To top off the costume, you can find a stuffed bird and fasten it with craft wire to your little Pirate's sleeve.
You can also ask all the kids to come in white t-shirts and blue jeans or black pants. As they arrive at the pirate birthday party, turn them into pirates with bandanas, pirate hats, eye patches, make-up beards, tattoos, possibly add blood, scars, some facial hair, self-adhesive mustaches, and sashes made from strips of red and white-striped materials.
Pirate Icebreaker Activities
Pirate Arts and Crafts:
Pirate telescopes can be made from paper towel rolls or toilet paper rolls. Kids can decorate them with jewels, feathers, stickers, glitter etc. and put cellophane paper (with a rubber band) covering the two openings. Swords can be made from long balloons.
Favor Box Treasure Chests:
Use recycled diaper wipes boxes (roughen up the sides with sandpaper and spray paint gold). Let the kids decorate them with stick-on "jewels" (stick-on earrings work well), pirate stickers, etc. Later, you can fill these mini treasure chests with the pirate birthday party favors.
Pirate Flags:
Give each kid a rectangular piece of lining material or cotton and permanent felt-tip pens. Let them color their own pirate flags. You can then add these to your decorations.
Ocean in a Bottle:
Each kid gets a baby food jar (or any other little jar or clear water bottle for that matter). They then add small sea beads, glitter, water, baby oil and blue food coloring to create their own ocean!! (Hot-glue the tops so the ocean doesn't drain on your floor…)
Homemade Pirate Cakes
Check out the cool Pirate theme party cake ideas on coolest-birthday-cakes.com, the Web's largest gallery of homemade birthday cakes. You'll find thousands of cakes submitted by visitors like yourself with photos and how-to tips.
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Pirate Party Food and Drink
Pirate Birthday Party Food
Here are some cool ideas for pirate birthday party food (remember to make little signs in front of each dish to make sure the kids recognize that it's authentic pirate food…).
- Chicken legs (no utensils allowed!!)
- Seaweed Pasta (Green Linguine)
- Treasure Salad (add dried cranberries, golden raisins and pecans in the salad)
- Hot Dog Ships (spear a wooden skewer through a small piece of paper to make a schooner sail and then pierce it through a hot dog, then add a few Goldfish crackers)
- Octopus (split hot-dogs)
- Pirate's Teeth (corn)
- Golden Treasures (macaroni and cheese)
- Golden Nuggets (chicken nuggets)
- Veggie Palm Trees - Cut up various vegetable and serve on a platter with dip. You can then decorate the platter with palm trees that you make out of vegetables. The way you make these is by taking a carrot and securing it in the vegetables with a toothpick. Then take the top fourth of a green pepper, cut a small whole for the carrot to fit snuggly in and you have a palm tree!
- Fish 'n' Chips
Pirate Birthday Party Drinks
- Frosty Ale (root beer) in mugs.
- Sharks Blood (take red Kool-aid or punch and make them as ice cubes…. Then you take sprite and the kids get to drop the red Kool-aid ice cubes into the sprite - kids think it's awesome that the drink turns pink/red…. This can also be called "Crocodile" or "Alligator" blood… whichever you think is tastier….)
Pirate Birthday Party Treats
- Goldfish crackers
- Ocean with sunken treasures (blue Jell-O with diced peaches)
- Peg legs (carrot sticks)
- Canon ball grapes
- Red Rubies (strawberries, cranberries and cherries)
- Octopus legs (gummy worms)
- Gold puffs (cheese puffs)
- Gold and Silver Hershey nuggets
- Golden candies (butterscotch)
- Breadsticks (swords)
Pirate Party Favors
A great pirate birthday party favor idea is to give each kid one or two REAL goldfish in a plastic bag with water. You can give them some fish food as well.
Another excellent idea is to all the pirate birthday party favors in the little treasure boxes (if you decided to do the treasure favor box as an activity) or in bandannas. Fill them with ring pops, candy necklaces, skull pops, golden chocolate coins, a compass, gem pop rings, candy necklaces, tattoos, gold chocolate coins, small telescopes, skull key chains, skull pencils, etc.
Pirate Games and Activities
Here's an entire page with the coolest ideas for Pirate party games, such as:
- Hook the Treasure
- Find the Crocodile
- Walk the Plank
- Treasure Hunt
- Cannonballs Away
- Swab the Poop Deck
- and many more (including visitor-submitted game ideas)...
You should also read these VERY important tips to help you survive (and enjoy) game time!
Yo, Ho! Yo, Ho! A pirate's life for me! Have Fun!
Your Pirate Parties and Ideas
Lots of visitors from around the world have contributed their party ideas to this site! Click here to see another page full with lots more visitor-submitted Pirate birthday ideas.
We'd love for you to take a moment and submit your own Pirate party ideas.
Some of our visitors have gone the extra mile and written up their complete Pirate party story with photos and everything they did. We call these stories "Party Tales" and they serve as a great inspiration! Take a peek at other people's Pirate theme Party Tales and you're sure to find lots more outstanding Pirate party ideas:
 Jordy's Pirate Birthday |
 Kristy's Pirate Birthday |
 Christine's Pirate Birthday |
 Michelle's Pirate Birthday |
 Karen's Pirate Birthday |
 Brenda's Pirate Birthday |
 Janine's Pirate Birthday |
 Christy's Pirate Birthday |
 Margaret's Pirate Birthday |
 Mona's Pirate Birthday |
 Shannon's Pirate Birthday |
 Susan's Pirate Birthday |
 A. Hawkes' Pirate Birthday |
If you'd like share your complete party with us, then once your party is over, send us your own PARTY TALE and we'll create your very own theme party page and photo gallery that's hosted on our site! (Family, friends and just about anybody will be able to find inspiration from your child's birthday party and comment on YOUR ideas!)
