Pirate Birthday Party Ideas

Decorations and party favors

Pirate birthday party ideas for decorations and party favors are plentiful. Turn your invitations into ancient treasure maps. Find standard sized printer paper that has the appearance of aged parchment to print out your map and then fold it in thirds so that it looks like an aged treasure map. Treasure maps can also be used as placemats. Decorate with pirate flags, treasure chests, palm trees, and pirate ships. Additionally, you can decorate the party area with fishing nets that have plastic sea animals attached to them, and skeletons with pirate hats. If you are looking for party favors you can fill your treasure chest with various small games, packs of crayons, pirate coloring books, or kaleidoscopes (spyglass).

Food

When you are thinking about pirate birthday party ideas for food you should think about the types of food that can be made to fit the pirate theme rather than foods pirates might eat. For the cake you can create a treasure chest, a pirate flag, or a pirate ship. You can also use these ideas for cookies or cupcakes. If you opt for a treasure chest cake use candy wrapped in gold or silver foil to form the ‘treasure’ and let it spill from the cake onto the table. For finger foods consider goldfish crackers, candy necklaces and rings, and island like kabobs of various fruits and vegetables.

Games and Activities

There are many great pirate birthday party ideas for games and activities. Provide each child with a black or white piece of poster board, glue, glitter, and nontoxic paints. Have them draw their own pirate flag that can be hung gallery style for all to admire, they can later take their creation home as a reminder of the party. You can also create a scavenger hunt to find the lost pirate treasure. Put the children in groups and give each group a treasure map with instructions on what items to find. The first group to bring back all of the items gets to be the first to choose a prize from the treasure box.