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Invitations Take some white paper and tear off the edges. Crumple it up tightly and then lay flat again. Soak paper in coffee or tea. Let them dry or dry them with a hair dryer. Run this paper through the printer to print out your pirate invitation. PRINTABLE INVITATION Invitation is on a transparent background Roll up invitations and put in small coke bottles. Stick a label over coke sign and write child's name on label. Leave on child's doorstep. Give parent's a call to let them know to look for the bottle. Decorations Tape balloons to the ceiling with black, gold and purple streamers hanging down. Attach handmade paper fish to the ends of the streamers. Put an eye patch and bandana on a Halloween skeleton. Place a plastic or cardboard sword in it's hand. Hang on front door. Make a sign which reads, "Enter at yer own risk" and hang it around it's neck. Find a large cardboard box with flaps. Tape the flaps down. Cut 4-5" down from top along side, front and other side. Leave backside uncut to use as hinge. Decorate the outside with construction paper, markers, paint and gems to look like a treasure chest, could write "Keep Yer Hands Off", Captain name's. Use a red or purple towel or cloth to cove the inside to make the chest look like it has silk inside. Use this chest to hold the birthday child's gifts. Play a music CD with sounds of the ocean. Use net for a table cloth. Decorate your table with plastic hooks, foil gold coins, plastic gems, fish, shells and rope. You can even use a map for a table cloth and chart a voyage. Have a parrot pinäta hanging from a tree in the backyard. Place signs throughout the house. "Upper deck closed due to storm wreckage", "Poop Deck", "Crow's Nest", "Skull Rock", Deadman's Cove", etc. Give all the children an eye patch and bandana when they arrive. Games Pin the eye patch on the Pirate: Played the same way was pin the tail on the donkey. The child who comes closest wins a prize. Variation: Pin the parrot on the pirate. Have a treasure hunt! Check here for ideas. Cannonball Pop: Use black balloons with prize slips inside a few of them. Peg Leg Race: Three legged races. Panning for gold: Spray paint some small rocks/stones gold. Fill a small wading pool with water and added a 25 lb. bag of sand and the "gold nuggets". Give the children metal pie plates and show them how to "pan" for gold. Marooned: A game of tag were the person chasing everyone is the "Shark". The marooned sailors can go to the "Island" one at a time. Why not make an island out of a palm tree made of cardboard and a brown towel for sand. When the shark catches a sailor he becomes a shark too and tries to catch sailors. The last remaining sailor wins the game. Getting the Booty: Get a refrigerator box and cut in half. Divide children and put each team in their box. Let them decorate their ship any way they want. Make sure they make a "Jolly Roger" for each team's ship. Give the kids glue or tape, markers, sequins, felt, paint, sticker or any other craft things. Give team one, 2 dozen ping-pong balls and see how many "cannon balls" they can toss into the other teams "ship" to try and sink it. Team two can catch the "bombs" and toss back into team ones ship, but they cannot pick "bombs" up off of the floor. After team one has used their 2 dozen balls, give team two a try, then count the bombs to see who sunk who's ship. Food Ideas Fish sticks or chicken nuggets, goldfish crackers, root 'beer', ginger 'ale', Jell-o Gems, "sharks blood" (Sprite with red Kool-Aid ice cubes), blue jello with gummy octopuses suspended in the middle, ice cream cone cupcakes decorated like pirates, hotdogs with pirate sails attached. Shark: Take a watermelon and cut small v's at one end of the watermelon to resemble a mouth with teeth and scoop out the insides into little melon balls. Then fill the sharks mouth back up with the melon balls, grapes, etc. Use black candy for eyes and attach to shark with toothpicks. Make it really scary by adding gummy worms and people. Jolly Roger Cake: Sheet cake, frost with chocolate frosting. Use frosting tube or other to make a skull and cross bones on front. Put a frosting eye patch and bandana on the skull. Make frosting swords on either side of the skull. Island Cake: Sheet cake decorated with wavy blue icing. Make an island out of an upside down muffin cake. Use brown icing for the sandy island. Get a coke gummy and place it in the ocean (message in a bottle). If you go to your local dollar store, they usually have bags of animal/dinosaur toys that have palm trees in them. Use those trees on your island. You can even find pirate toys that you can use to decorate your cake with. A shark is always a cool touch. Pirate Ship Cake: Bake a cake mix in two round pans. Cut each one in half. Use icing to stick the four layers together. Cut a small bit off the rounded end and stand the cake up to look like the hull of a boat. Ice it with chocolate icing then stick broken pieces of Flake chocolate bars (about five) to the sides to make the hull look wooden. Place a bamboo skewer into the top for a mast to fly the Jolly Roger (make out of construction paper or stickers). Place a few toy pirate figures on top of the cake. When serving, place crumpled blue cellophane around the base of the cake for an ocean. Loot Bags Goodie Bag ideas could be: a compass, ring, tattoos, stickers, mini coloring books, gem pop rings, candy necklaces, chocolate foil coins, gummy sharks, etc. Don't Forget Have a camera ready for your party. This is one party you will want to have pictures from. Also, make sure there is no "sword" play. Kids get hurt.

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