Friday, March 22, 2013

Pirate Party!



Arrgghh!! The Invitations... 

Another year comes, and what do you know? Baby M turns 5 and once again it's time to party!!! This year, like every little boy's dream, we have chosen the pirate theme. We have the invitations printed out, and the edges slightly singed to get that "piraty treasure map" look. Oh yes, make sure you do this outdoor. The smell of burnt paper is strong! When I was experimenting with something small, I had my concern neighbor knocking on the door... She smelt a pungent paper burning, and came over to check. ;-))


The message in the bottles, all ready to go...

Both Baby M and Baby A helped out with finishing off the invitations. We used old plastic smoothie bottles, filled them with sand from our sandbox in the garden, and seashells we have picked up from one of our holidays. It was quite a messy task with two kids vying to do more than the other. We had quite a bit of vacuuming to do afterwards. Still, they caused quite an excitement when we distributed them in the kindergarten the next day. :-)


Bottled "sea" water for the pirates"

We did pirate crafts to get the little pirates properly geared up for the party. There were paper swords (transformed from old cardboard), telescopes (made from kitchen towel rolls with a surprise picture I drew on pieces of tissue on one end... We had pirate ships, cross bones, sea monster, etc.) and pirate hats!


The pirate cake

For food, we had mini sausages with pretzels, multi-colored chewy candy the shaped of sharks, fruit slices, chocolate muffins and a chocolate Birthday cake. Yup, I got out Baby M's Playmobil and glued them onto the Birthday cake. The kids were really amused! 


A pirate pinata ready for a bashing,
and pirate ships ready to sail off.

In the garden, we played an obstacle game (accompanied by a really funky pirate CD I found), did the usual pirate "canon" fight (actually aluminium paper wrapped ball) - had lots of giggles and laughter. Then followed by a modified round of pinata bashing. Modified because I turned it into a football instead of the usual bashing up with a stick. Baby M was concerned that someone might accidentally get whacked on his/her head. And finally a treasure hunt! I found party treats paper boxes the shape of treasure chests, gave the kids a treasure map to start the hunt. They were led from spot to spot with only pictures as clues. We had a lot of running.... and happy shinning eyes at the end of the hunt.




Now, we are looking forward to the next party...


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