Ahoy mate...batten down the hatches for an adventure on the high seas with a Pirate Party! Swing into your very own pirate adventure at your next birthday party with our Pirate paper goods and party items!

Pirate Theme Invitations

Always start with a theme invitation to get your guests thinking about your up-coming event.

Personalized Palm Tree Seals
Island Paradise Seal

Tropic Breezes Invitations
Seashell Card Invitation
Sail Away Invitation
Setting Sail Invitations

Pirate Theme Decorations

Please come to a Pirate Party and walk the plank for a great time.

Get ready with these Pirate Decorations, Treasure Activity Kit, Treasure Centerpiece, Pirate Ship Centerpiece and Vinyl Treasure Map then scatter some Gold Coins around the table or room.

Create a tabletop display using this Treasure Chest Pinata and then use it for a game towards the end of the party.  Fill with candy and let them pillage and plunder.

Plastic Treasure Chest
Super Toy Assortment

Add to the party with assorted Pirate cutouts. This 39" Pirate Decoration.  Jointed cardboard Pirate will add to the decorations

Pirate Accessories

Use Red Bandanas for napkins or loot bags.  Wrap up some  Pirate Tattoos, Gold Coins, Large Jewel Ring and Eyepatch & Earring, 

Or fill these colorful Pirate Loot Bags full of the bounty for your guests to take home. Fill with Pirate Spring, Tribal Bead Bracelet, or Magic Tricks.

Hand out Large Jewel Rings, Eyepatch & Earring or Pirate Bling Necklaces so your guests look like Pirates, too.

Treasure Map Cake

Bake a sheet cake, frost it white, then with black or red icing make a dotted line leading to a big X. Decorate the rest of the cake with Pirate Necklace, Large Stone Bracelets, gold coins, King's Crown Bling Bling jewels, assorted treasure Silver Bangles, Puca Shell Necklace

Pirate Treasure Chest Cake
1 box (16 oz.) Pound-Cake mix
1 can (16 oz.) Vanilla Frosting
Yellow Food Coloring
1-1/2 cans (16 oz. each) Chocolate Frosting
3 Pretzel Rods, trimmed to 3-1/2" lengths
Assorted candies such as foil-wrapped coins, chocolate nuggets, kisses, etc.
26 brown M&M's Minis
1 cup Graham Cracker Crumbs

Prepare pound cake according to package directions. Cool.
Place cake on serving platter or foil-lined cardboard. With long side facing front, cut cake in half horizontally at an angle. Set lid aside.
Hollow out a well in the middle of the base cake. Set aside scraps. Frost the base with chocolate frosting (don't frost the well).   To make a wood like effect, simply run a fork over frosting.  Insert pretzel rods vertically inside the well. Fill well with some of the candies.

For lid, cut an 8" x 4" rectangle from cardboard and cover with foil. Spread chocolate frosting on top, bottom, and sides. Place cake on top of foil covered cardboard for support.
Place lid over cake, using pretzel rods and back edge of bottom cake for support.  Tint the vanilla frosting with the yellow food coloring.
Pipe a single line along bottom edges and double lines along top and center. For nail heads, place the M&M's around the treasure box and in a row down center of lid. Make a keyhole in the middle of lid with some of the chocolate frosting.  For sand, mix the cake crumbs from the well and graham cracker crumbs together and spread around cake. Fill with remaining candies allowing some to fall into sand.
Makes 8-10 servings.

Mega Treasure Chest

Musical Islands
Like musical chairs, but instead of chairs  use a piece of paper cut in the shape of an island.

Schooner & Pirate Ships
Spear a wooden skewer through a small piece of paper to make a schooner sail and set it in the middle of a hot dog. Add a few Goldfish crackers.

Pirate Ships & Island

Veggie Palm Trees
Cut up various vegetable and serve on a platter, with dip. Decorate the platter with palm trees you make. How do you make these? Take a carrot and secure it in the vegetables. Take the top fourth of a green pepper, cut a small whole for carrot to fit snuggly and you have a palm tree!

3' Inflatable Palm Tree
5' Inflatable Palm Tree

Shark's Blood
Freeze red Hawaiian Punch into ice cubes. Put the ice cubes into sprite and the your pirates can watch as the sprite turns pink to red.

Palm Tree Cooler for beverages

More ideas...
Transform your party area into a pirate cove fit for the likes of any Captain Hook! Start with the outside to let them know the swashbuckling fun is here. Place some balloons on your mailbox or the  on your front door adds that nautical touch draped in various areas or behind tables with cutouts and tissue decor placed in the fish netting. Hangs lots of Skull & Crossbones  For a large area that needs decorating add 1.5" Gold Coins scattered beneath a Inflatable Palm Tree.

Treasure Hunt
We all know the reason pirating was such a popular career choice was because of the loot, so a treasure hunt is a must! Start with your treasure map you made a head of time with a big red X marks the spot. This map has been covered with decades of dust (a little bit of flour on the map to blow off for special effects.) Make clues or riddles (or pictures for baby pirates) depending on the area or place you are having this hunt to send your swashbucklers off to look for the loot. At your hunts end , be sure to hide a suitable prize, such as a Black Bandana filled with loot, or a Toys & Treasure Chest filled with candy and goodies for them to pillage and plunder.

When choosing hiding places for clues, remember that a child's eye level is relatively low, so be sure to leave your clues in places the kids are likely to spot - and reach. Here are a few examples of some hiding places:
Buried in a sandbox
Stuffed in a mailbox
Under your door mat
Taped under a garden or picnic bench
Pinned on a clothesline
In between pickets of a fence, sections of lattice or porch railings.

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Pirate Costumes

Greet each party guest dressed like a Pirate. Kids love to dress up for a party! Dressing in your theme is a must! So step into your best pirates costume and greet each of your guest. A great way to start the party is by giving each guest a "pirate name" when they arrive. You can use traditional pirate names or something to go along with their real name. Ex. Calico Jack, Captain Ben, Left Eye Lewie, etc. but beware......those names may stick forever!

Peasant Pirate Man

 
Pirate Vest
At a Pirate Party dress your guests in this colorful Pirate Vest. One size fits most. Vest made of plastic

Pirate Hat
Red Pirate Hat

Velvet Pirate Hat
Plastic Pirate Hat

Pirate Skull Cap
White Sailor Hat

Tricorn Hat With Fur
Black Bandana

48" Sword
Caribbean Pirate Wig

Children's Pirate Costumes

Pirate Cutie Small
Lil' Buccaneer Small
Pirate Girl Small

Pirate Matie Small
Pirate Matie Medium
Pirate Matie Large

Pirate Table Centerpiece

Place a small slit in the top of the Plastic Pirate Hat then using helium inflate about 5 Pirate 12" Balloons and Black 12" Balloons and tie with Curling Ribbon. Stagger at different heights and insert the ribbon through the slit on the top of the hat and tie ribbons to a small water or sand filled balloon or a Balloon Weight. Scatter Blinking Crown Beads or 1.5" Gold Coins around the hat.

Balloons create such a party atmosphere. Hang balloons and streamers from ceilings and doorways or in a canopy over the gift table.

Remember, the success of a pirate is how much loot he gets, so fix them up some a Pirate Loot Bag full of bounty and send them home with a treasure.

Pirate Theme Decorations

Pirate Captain
39" Pirate Decoration

Pirate Ships & Island

Pirate Hideaway

Beach Scene Setter

Pirates Danglers
Pirates Banner

Ahoy There! Treasure chests and jewels!

Treasure Chests and Toys

Treasure Chest Pinata

Treasure Chest with Prizes

Mega Treasure Chest
Plastic Treasure Chest
Red & Yellow Mega Chest

200 Treasure Toys
Teddys Treasure Chest
Grab Bag With Chest

Empty Large Toy Chest
200 Treasure Toy Refill
Stuffed Toy Chest

Grab Bag Refill
Box Of Super Toys (100)
Super Toy Assortment
Value Pack Refill (100)

Games and Activities
...Its Limbo Time! 

Bamboo Limbo Kit
Flowered Limbo Kit
6' Roll Up Limbo Poll

Cannonball Pop
Hand each pirate a Pirate Balloon. With string attach a balloon around each pirates ankle. At the start of go each pirate will try to pop the other pirate's balloon without having his/hers popped. The one left with an inflated balloon wins. Caution: have pirates remove their shoes to keep anyone from getting hurt.

Balloon Swords
Twist balloons can be sculpted into safe pirate swords for a swashbuckling good  sword fight. 

Peg Leg Race
Divide your buccaneers into two equal teams. Form two lines and stand two pirates side by side tying together their legs. After everyone is tied together have them race to a specified mark and back again. The team that finishes first wins.

Musical Islands
Make as many hoops (using string or rope) on the floor as you have pirates, and play music. Pirates must walk around the hoops until you turn off the tunes, at which point they must be standing inside one of the "islands" or they're out. Every few minutes, take away a hoop, until only one seafarer remains.

Pin the Patch on the Pirate
Hang this 39" Pirate Decoration in the room to add to the decorations. Make eye patches out of black construction paper and put each pirate's name on one. Depending on the age of your pirates, you can blindfold them to add to the difficulty.

Face Painting
Every pirate needs a few scars or skull & crossbones on their face. Let everyone have their very own Pirate face painting or apply an easy to use Pirate Tattoos.

Read about the real life stories of pirates
Blackbead and Jean Lefitte

 Our favorite Pirate Books

Pirate Posters

Treasure Island Poster
N.C. Wyeth
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