Pirate Party Decorations

• As guests arrive, give them each a black bandana and eye patch to wear during the party. You can even dot on rough beards with face paint and clip gold hoop earrings to their ears.
• Make a treasure chest by covering a large shoebox with brown construction paper and strips of gold foil or glitter paint. Fill it with shells, plastic necklaces, craft "jewels," or plastic gold coins.
• Turn your party space into a pirate ship! Hang fishing nets from the ceiling and/or walls, cover the table(s) with disposable, blue-colored tablecovers, sand, seashells, and faux pearls, and [erch a stuffed parrot on a table, chair, or shelf in the party area.
• Make a skull and crossbones out of white construction paper, and hang it on one of the walls of the party area.
• Play the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack or a sea sounds music CD.
• As the guests arrive, tie pirate bandanas around their heads and place eye patches on them. You can even dot on rough beards with face paint and clip on gold hoop earrings.
• Hang a personalized pirate banner on the wall.
• It's not a party without balloons and a pinata! Fill the party area with bunches of blue and black balloons! Add pirate-themed Mylar balloons to a few of the bunches. Hang a Pirate Ship Pinata in the party area that can be used as a decoration before the activity begins.
  

Pirate Party Food Ideas

Get creative with your party food by serving theme-specific treats. For a Pirate Party, consider the following ideas:

• A fun main dish to serve to your sea-faring travelers is chicken or turkey legs – without utensils! Let them eat like real pirates!
• Place a few cranberries and gold nugget candies in the bottom of a clear plastic cup. Make blue jello to pour into the cup. The end result will look like a bit of ocean and sunken treasures.
• Tint a bag of chex cereal green with a little food coloring. Mix with goldfish crackers and call it “Swimming with the Fishes Snack”.
• Make “Sea Water” by coloring pitchers of apple juice with blue food coloring, and serve with fish-shaped straws.
• Cook seashell-shaped pasta and spinach linguini and serve chilled with a little butter. Call it “Seaweed & Shells Pasta”.
• Serve Swedish Fish, gummy sharks, and sour gummy fish in large plastic seashells.
• Serve root beer in frosted mugs or goblets.
• Make a simple pirate cake by baking a 9”x13” cake and frosting it in grey frosting. With decorator icing, draw a treasure map, complete with a compass, a dotted line trail, and an X that marks the spot. Or, use our Pirate Ship Cake Pan instead!