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Pirate Party |
AVAST! Pirates are all the rage this year. You too can
have a fun and memorable pirate themed party. Hold this party at the
beach with your guest of honor arriving in a pirate decorated ship, or turn a
rental facility into an island setting complete with pirate ship.
Play pirate tunes and movies in the background. Staff can wear pirate and
wench attire. Have pirates sign a pirate flag and leave their weapons at the door, we want to send
everyone home alive! Always keep to the code ... the pirate code.
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Ideas for inspiration:
Pirates, wenches, ships, buried treasure, ships wheel, skull and
crossbones, pirate hat, eye patch, pantaloons and vest, boots, gold
teeth, peg leg, shipwreck, sails and mast, tavern, cutthroats, grog, maidenhead, treasure
map, torches, parrot, anchor, island, booty, doubloons, jewels, daggers, pistols and
swords, walk the
plank, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Watch pirate movies for more
ideas. |
Invitations:
Deliver a message in a bottle invitation, or treasure maps tied with fabric
are always a nice idea. You could make a folded paper treasure chest, with
party information on the inside, insert gold wrapped chocolate coins. |
Decorations:
Place a pirate flag or banner and black balloons out front. Inside place; ships wheels, fish
netting, telescope, shells, and lots of treasure including gold doubloons,
jewelry, fine fabrics, statuary, you name it and paint it gold! Place lanterns
and candles around for lighting, but in a safe place. Make a
treasure chest centerpiece with an old trunk and fabrics overflowing with gold
coins and jewelry. |
Refreshments:
Turkey or chicken drumsticks served on large platters with fruit and bread,
no utensils allowed! Serve seaweed pasta (green linguine), golden nuggets
(chicken nuggets), pirates teeth (corn) or swords (breadsticks). Vegetable
platters can be created to resemble an island setting, fish shaped crackers
could be in the dipping ocean. Red sharks blood punch could be served with
or without alcohol or grog in the form of root (or real) beer. Food can be served in coconuts, melons, on large silver
platters by wenches or on rough wood tables. |
Activities:
As guests arrive they can play coconut bowling- roll a coconut down the
sidewalk to see how many bowling pins (or other item) they can knock down.
Have guests "walk the plank" to gain entrance to the party. Guests
can dig for treasure on the beach (sandbox). Have a scavenger hunt with items
either at the party location or in the community. Play splat the eyeball
(squishy eyeball toy) on the pirate (pirate face drawn on poster board). Hold
a pirate trivia game to see whom is the most knowledgeable pirate. Liars dice
makes a great pirate game. |
Gifts, Favors,
Prizes, etc.:
Mardi Gras type beads, pirate stuff, rum, tiki torches, chocolate coins. For
adults; rum, food items, coconut bra, gift certificate to local seafood
restaurant, skull
and crossbones air freshener. After the party, send a pirate proclamation that congratulates guests for surviving and
declares them pirates, include photos of the event and it's activity participants.
The guest of honor gets to keep the pirate sign-in as their memento.
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Other ideas:
Many of these party ideas can also be used for luau, Gilligan's Island
cast away, survivor, island or marooned parties. |
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