Kids Pirate Party

Ideas & Decorations

Decorate your Kids Pirate Party with Pirate party supplies such as plates, cups, invitations and napkins. Also, check out this great Pirate Invitation in a Bottle. For tablecoths - use black tablecloths and lay fish nets over the tablecloths.

For a centerpiece at your birthday party use a Pirate Hat and some Skull Balloons. Decorate the party area with black and silver or gold balloons as well. Here is another fun skull balloon:

Scatter gold chocolate coins and plastic jewels on the tables.

Hang pirate flags on the walls.

If you have any old trunks use them as decoration at your Pirate Party. Put them in the party area and hang plastic jewelry out of them and call it stolen treasure. Or purchase this great treasurer chest for the party:

String rope and fishing nets across the ceiling and around the party area.

Hang up a few skeletons on the wall or from the ceiling.

Give each child a Pirate Bandana or Eye Patch (or both) when they arrive.

Kids Pirate Party Favors

Call the goody bags loot. Add gold chocolate coins, play money & money clips, gummy fish, tattoo stickers, candy jewelry such as necklaces, bracelets and rings.

Activities - Pirate Party Games

Birthday Party Treasure Hunt - purchase small plastic jewelry boxes (call them treasure chests). put a toy or candy inside then hide them around the party area. Tell the kids they are on a treasure hunt for a treasure chest and have them search for the chests.

Pirate Party Treasure Toss - Buy a Treasurer Chest or make one out of boxes or a styrofoam cooler. Have the kids toss bean bags into the treasure chest from a designated point. After each round move the point further from the chest.

Create telescopes - Prior to the party take paper towel or toilet paper tubes and secure cellophane paper to one end using glue or a rubber band (less secure). Have the kids decorate them tubes and tell them they are making telescopes. Provide glitter, markers, stickers, feathers, buttons, glue, etc.

Walk the Plank - Secure a wood plank across a toy pool using duct tape. Have the children walk across the plank. As each child reaches the end give them a treat. For added fun put plastic alligators or sharks in the pool.

Cannon Ball Pop - You will need black balloons and prizes. In some of the balloons put a small note stating a prize. Blow the balloons up and put them around the party area. Then tell the children some of the balloons contain a note to a prize and the children must pop the balloons to find the ones with prizes.

Create a crafts station and allow the kids to bead jewelry. Provide all the supplies for beading such as string and beads.

Provide pictures of treasure (cut out pictures from magazines of jewelry, coins, fish, etc.) and have the kids make treasure collages. Provide stock paper and glue or tape to make the collages.

And check out these favorite party games!

Kids Pirate Party Food

Goldfish crackers.

Hotdog Ships - spear a wooden skewer through a small piece of paper and stick it in the hotdog.

Octopus Hotdogs - split a hotdog into several pieces leaving it still connected at the top by about an inch. Then boil the hotdogs. They will look like octopus tentacles after boiled.

Fried fish

Chicken nuggets - call them gold nuggets

Curly Fries - call them worms (fish bait)