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AHOY! sail into the graduation nautical party. Set sail for some exciting rough seas, splicing the mainsail, nautical games and a boat load of fun!

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I hope to give you lots of graduation party ideas, including:

• Invitation ideas and wording


• Costumes


• Food


• Games


• Favors


• Lots more ideas.

A nautical party can be a simple party and fun to do. Lots of fun and enthusiasm can make it amazing.

The venue could be simply at home, which is great for relatives and friends who will be comfortable and relaxed. Why not try a ship, Ocean Liner, Marina, Yacht, Yacht club, Harbor Cruiser, or indeed any venue with a sea view.

Graduation Nautical Party - Invitations

There are lots of great images to use to give graduation invitations, and the graduation party, a nautical feel.You can put together homemade graduation invitations, use clipart, photo graduation invitations and brilliant free printables. Images like yachts, boats, anchors, ships wheels, life preservers, and of course sailors.

Paper

Regular white printer paper is just fine. You may be able to find stationery from an cruise ship company, yacht brokers, marina or sailing school which you can customise with your own wording to make exciting invitations. Some marinas have their own postcards which you could use.

You can also use white construction paper cut out in the shape of yachts, anchors, life preservers, large boats, or even a lifeboat. Personalise the nautical images with school colors and name. Write the graduation party details on the invites.

Also you can use card and make travel tickets and ships boarding passes. Decorate the tickets with Graduate Liner, departing from School Docks at Terminal 1, for example.

Homemade Graduation Invitations

Once you have the paper organised you can move on to writing the invites.

Use lots of phrases like:

• Ahoy


• Shipmates


• Anchors away


• Ships captain


• Set sail


• Splice the mainsail


• Crew


• Below deck

Brilliant ways to word the graduation party invitations are:

Wording

Ahoy graduates, come to the school (name) graduation sailing party at the Marina (venue).
Sailors costume required
Set sail at (details)
RSVP to Captain(details)

The good ship (school name) invites you to the graduation sailing party at (venue).
Join the ship for deck games, ship's food and great fun!
Sailing Costume required
Set sail at (details)
RSVP to Booking Agent(details)

Join the Captain (graduate) at the graduation sailing party.
Sailors required (no experience necessary)
Join up at Dock (venue details)
Sailing Costume required
Set sail at (details)
RSVP to Captain (details)

Anchors Away!
The good ship (school name) is sailing for the nautical party from Dock (venue) on (time/date)
Please wear nautical costume
Set sail at (details)
RSVP to Booking Agent(details)

Ahoy Maties!
Jump aboard the Schooner (school name, venue)
The captain wants to catch the tide at (time/date)
Nautical costumes only
RSVP to Booking Agent (details)

Calling all seafarers
The good ship (school name) is sailing on the next tide at (time/date) from Dock (details)
Nautical Costume
RSVP to Captain(details)

The Admiral (graduate) invites you to the graduation regatta.
The regatta starts at (time/date) from Marina (details)
Nautical Costume
RSVP to the Admiral (details)

The Yacht Club (venue) Captain (graduate) invites you to a nautical graduation soiree
The party starts at (time/date)
Nautical Costume
RSVP to the Captain (details)

Clipart Graduation Invitations

The simplest way to complete the graduation nautical party invitations is to use nautical clipart.

• Copy and Past the nautical graduation clip art image that you would like to use into your word document. Before you paste make sure your cursor is in the location where you want the clip art placed


• Click on the image and arrows will appear on the corners. Use these arrows to stretch the image to the desired size.


• Then I simply added wordart at the top of the page for a great title and added the party details in plain text underneath the graduation clip art.

Photo Nautical Party Invitations

Also, simply arrange a good quality photograph. Photograph of the graduates dressed in nautical costume would be perfect. This could be done in many creative ways. Wearing a sailors outfit, or even just cap, take photographs against a sea backdrop, on a ship, or even just a sea and sand travel poster. Just set the scene for the nautical party.

Scan it onto your computer.

Using photo editing software, change the picture dimensions to the size you need.

Then simply print onto your choice of paper.

Free Printable Graduation Invitations

Graduation Nautical Party - Costumes

• Captains costume


• Navy Sailor costume


• Hats like captains, admiral or sailors hats


• Old fashioned admirals outfits with a hat, knee length boots, and vest


• Of course guests could choose a yacht club member outfit of shirt tie, jacket, captains hat and deck shoes


• Accessorize with tattoos, anchors, life preseverers, and hats

Graduation Nautical Party - Decorations

• Create an entrance to the graduation that will allow photographs to be taken. A sign saying Graduation Marina, Graduation Ocean Liner or School Dock, for example, would be excellent. Use a photo opportunity with a sailboat or ships wheel. Or this Life Preserver Entrance,, or, Bon Voyage Arch.


• In the front garden put anchors, a ships wheel, with perhaps some fishing nets, toy ships and plastic fish.


• For the walls have your own mural created with a nautical scene. Guests can sign the mural and leave messages.


• Put up pictures and posters of ships, ocean liners, sailing boats, yachts, and tugs. You may also be able to find posters of sea going films like Love Boat or The Perfect Storm.


• Hang toy ships up everywhere.


• Use any plastic lobsters, fish, carbs or even seagulls you can find


• Other ships items that would be good are portholes, ships rails, anchors, life preservers, ships wheels, telescopes and nets.


• Pictures of nautical people can be excellent. Sailors, navy, people fishing, old fashioned mariners, yacht club members.


• Bunting flags shaped as normal or sails.


• More nautical signs could be Ship Ahoy, Graduate Ahoy, Bon Voyage, Marina, Ocean terminal.


• Other decorations could be a fake lighthouse, ships lanterns, seashells, treasure chests, and flags.


• Balloons filled with helium.


• Hang streamers everywhere, including the entrance, with lots of colors, particulat green for seaweed.


• Use pale blue gossamer to create a sea blue look.


• If you can create a mural with the sky, clouds and planes.


• Create a passenger announcement board which can announce the graduation and also give the graduation party timetable


• Decorate with some world maps, globes and any nautical charts you can find.

Decorate your guests, this is a brilliant way to add to the graduation nautical party, and getting your guests in the graduation party mood!

• Captains or sailors hats


• T-shirts with Team Graduate and a sailing ship on them just like an Americas cup team would wear.


• Funtoos


• 2009 Glasses


• 2009 Beads


• Graduation caps


• Cap Medallions


• Lots of glow sticks and bracelets

A great idea is to have a box of guest decorations at the nautical party entrance and hand them out liberally!

Graduation Nautical Party - Food and Drink

Nautical party food and drink can be anything you want, from simple galley food to ocean liner buffet and formal dinner. Lots of seafood would be appropriate, though not to all guests taste. The simplest way to cater is to prepare a buffet and allow yourself more time with the graduation party guests.

• All kinds of sandwiches, cut into fish shapes with a cookie cutter.


• Seafood pasta


• Seafood stirfry


• Prawn or shrimp cocktail


• Fish N Chips


• Fishsticks


• Food that is prepared to look like a nautical theme like banana boats with sails made of say apple or orange pieces. Also the plate could have apple pieces with sail shaped cheese.


• Green salad


• Bread roll


• Boiled Potatoes


• French fries


• Ice Cream of any flavor


• Blue jell-o


• Fruit bowls


• Carrots and dips.

Of course it is a party, so to cater for guests of all ages it may be good to have some party food:

• Hot Dogs


• Nachos


• Pretzels


• Popcorn

To drink have lots of sodas and water.

Graduation Cake

The graduation nautical party cake is very easy to make as all the ingredients are mixed together in the same bowl.

The Graduation Cake page gives all the details you need on the recipe, cooking tools and ingredients. Also lots of ideas on cupcakes, graduation cap cakes, decorating ideas and lots, lots more.

Simple Decorating Idea for Your Graduation Nautical Party Cake

1) Decorate the cake with blue frosting for the sea. Using white frosting create a sailboat shape, with black or grey frosting add in portholes. Then using colored frosting of your choice add the graduates name and congratulations.

2) Alternatively, cut the cake into an ocean liner shape, once the cake is frosted with black frosting, plus white frosting for the decks, then add congratulations to the graduate.

Also consider an anchor or ships wheel.

Graduation Nautical Party - Games

A nautical party offers the chance to have fantastic games.

• Give everyone construction paper. Each guest is to make their own paper sailboat.


• An ocean liner has other games available such as deck quoits, horseshoe toss and putting. You could arrange competitive graduation party games based on these classics by hiring the equipment.


• Pin the sail on the boat, first arrange a picture of a sailboat, a sail and a blindfold. Spin the blindfold guests around and have them pin the sail on the boat.


• For younger ones buy nautical coloring in books and set up an area for them to play.


• To emulate the cabin crew carrying trays of drinks on a stormy day give each guest a tray with 6 full glasses of water. Set out a course, say along the deck. The guests must run along the course spilling as little water as possible.


• Treasure Hunt, first make sailboats with construction paper (or buy toy sailboat kits). Next cut them up into identical pieces which are hidden around the venue. Teams must find the pieces and assemble their boat. First team to complete wins the prize.


• Deck obstacle course, using a fake deck as a course, set out obstacles such as soft toys, toy boats, chairs and lanterns.Split the group into pairs. Blindfold one of the partners - he or she will be captain, and the other player - harbor pilot. When the game starts, the captain will be asked to move from one side of the deck to the end without hitting any obstacles with a help of harbor pilot.


• Decorate an nautical party t-shirt. Provide a t-shirt and t-shirt pens and ask each guest to make their own nautical design. Prize for best design.


• Using real flags or pictures set out real ship's messages. Ask guests to guess the message.


• Split the guests into teams and have a tug of war. Give them a rope, set up 2 lines about 2 to 3 feet apart and put a ribbon on the rope. First team to get the ribbon past their line wins. Needs a referree.


• Water relay, split the guests into teams. Each team is given a bucket of water. Mark out a course, say 12 to 20 feet long. One at a time, each team member runs the course carrying the bucket and passes it on to the next team member. The team which has the most water in the bucket at the end wins.


• Hire a yacht and a trainer who can put the guests through a series of real yachting exercises.


• Have a fitness exercise. Cruise ships have aerobics and water aerobics. Ask a qualified fitness instructor to put volunteer guests through a similar fitness routine.


• Observation test - the captain of any ship must observe all obstacles and other ships. Discretely display 6 to 10 toy ships or pictures of ships around the venue. Near the end ask guests to complete a sheet on what they observed. Ask for a description and location of the toy ships. Have prizes for those getting all answers correct.


• What Happened Next. Line up a series of videos with the most amazing and amusing moments in yachting. The idea is to show guests the footage in the short period leading up to the amazing event. Then they guess what happened next. Lastly you run the video on showing them what happened. You may be able to get amazing incidents. Perhaps there is time to show 3 or 4 of these.


• Guess the Star, cover large photos of well known yachting stars almost completely except for say a distinguishing nose, their eyes or even a tattoo. Guests must guess who they are, and again prizes for getting them all right.


• Disguise a guest with say a captains hat, beard and sports glasses. Video them pretending to take the wheel of a cruise liner for 2 minutes. Show the video at the party. Guests must guess who they are. First to guess wins the prize.


• If you are based at a Marina or outdoor activity centre then you may be able to have safe dinghy or rowing boat races. They should be booked through the venue and come under their safety rules and insurance.


• Map and compass game - the ship's navigator should be able to take directional instructions and plot a route. Split everyone into teams and give them an orienteering challenge.

• Spin The Wheel

  Borrow one of those wheels of fortune and fill in the prizes you have on the wheel. That will include no prize and a forfeit if you want. Arrange the right person to host the game and get the audience participating madly.
  



• Pass the Orange

  Split the guests into 2 teams, lined up behind each other. The first person in each team has an orange placed between their chin and shoulder. The must pass the orange to the next person in line without using any hands.
  

Click here for an amazing free collection of graduation party games.

A nautical party needs great music to make it come alive.The graduate's favorite music, bearing in mind the audience, will be fine.

Graduation Nautical Party - Favors

• T-shirts with a Americas Cup Team Graduate design


• Nautical stickers


• Anchor jewelry


• Fake ships wheel or anchor


• Nautical hats


• Tickets for a boat trip


• Toy boats or fish


• Sea Shells


• Fun stuff like glow bracelets and glow necklaces


• Mini binoculars


• Plane Tickets


• Map of the world


• Cake


• Chocolates

Graduation Nautical Party Preparation

The nautical party day does need a good schedule of events. You will need it to get through everything, even if you are having the nautical party at a marina.

• Plan the start of the nautical party, when each game will roughly occur, when the food will be served and when the party will start and end.


• Know exactly which games will be played


• Have the music, prizes, helpers and materials ready in advance.


• Each helper should know exactly what they have to do.


• Have the favors ready in advance, and in running order.


• Know exactly who is helping to clear away afterwards.

Graduation Nautical Party - Ideas

More ideas to make the graduation nautical party just brilliant:

• Make sure everyone has their photo taken, especially if you have a great nautical party entrance


• Video the nautical party


• Save money and have a joint nautical party with other graduates.
  This one of the graduation party ideas can give excellent cost sharing, lots of people to do the work and help find items at cheaper costs.


• Save money and Buy Bargain Supplies!


• Save money and book nautical party venues for the cheaper weeknights, perhaps giving more money to decorate your graduation party theme.

Good luck with your graduation nautical party. A nautical party will be fantastic!

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