Graduation Pirate Theme Party

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AHOY shipmates. Chart yer course for the pirate graduation party!

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I have tried to give you lots of pirate graduation party ideas on pirate invitations, vitals (food), grog (drink), pirate decorations, pirate costumes,pirate games and treasure (favors) which will be great for any pirate party venue. You may have a Home Party or alternative venue in mind for the pirate graduation party.

Hosting the graduation pirate theme party in conjunction with the kindergarten for example is a brilliant idea. That gives:

• a good size of party with better pirate decorations and a more eye catching venue to get the kids excited


• A budget, perhaps, to hire equipment, buy decorations and hire entertainers


• Parents to help organise, raise funds and help at the pirate party


• Lots of kids to take part in each pirate party game

This can meke an awesome pirate theme party.

With lots of fun, energy and enthusiasm your graduation pirate party theme can be a brilliant success.

A the brilliant idea is to make a large treasure map. Cut the map into pieces and send a piece with each invitation. (Have a copy of the map in case some kids cannot attend). Start the party by putting together the map and setting off on the treasure hunt.

Splice the mainsail and set sail!

Graduation Pirate Theme Party - Invitations

There are lots of great images to use to give graduation invitations, and the graduation party, the authentic pirate party feel. You can put together homemade graduation invitations, use clipart, photo graduation invitations and brilliant free printables.

Paper

To get that authentic, yellowed, old treasure map style you can stain paper with a tea bag or coffee. Leave it to dry overnight and print you invitations.

If you have more time and a real desire for authenticity you could burn the paper edges and make the invitations truly pirate style.

Homemade Graduation Invitations

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

Use lots of phrases like:

• Avast me hearties


• Shiver me timbers


• Have at ye


• Ye be havin a


• Ship Ahoy


• Walk the plank


• Buccaneer


• Splice the mainsail


• Lubbers


• Smartly


• Grog


• Arr


• Aye, Aye

Brilliant ways to design the graduation pirate theme party invitations are:

Maps

These can be a map to get to the party (the venue shown in the tropical sea as an island) or a map of the venue made out like a treasure island.

Wording:

AHOY

Ye be a special graduate. Ye be getting a Map to the treasure and an invite to the pirate theme party.

Use the map to seek out Treasure Island (the venue) and X(red) marks the treasure.

Chart yer course and be at the pier at (time, date).

Pirates only, land lubbers will be made to walk the plank!

Pirate Ship

Avast me hearties!

Join Capn Jack and his villainous band on board the good ship (kindergarten name) for a graduation shindig.

Chart yer course fer (location) and board the ship at (date, time).

Send Capn Jack (RSVP) a message letting him know you will be setting sail

Only pirates allowed, lubbers will be repelled!

Pirate

Capn (name of principal) be invitin you to set sail on the pirate adventure of your life.

To graduate to the next adventure you are invited to seek out the treasure at (venue).

Be at the pier at (date, time) in your pirate costume.

Beware, we'll be battling skeletons, seeking treasure, sailing uncharted waters and splicing the mainsail.

Aye Aye shipmates!

Other pirate theme party images are Skeletons, Treasure chests, Skull and Cross Bones.

Message In A Bottle

(Tie a ribbon round the invite and place it in an empty water bottle. Add in some sand and shells. Probably best where you are hand delivering the invites.)

Shiver me timbers! Rge graduate (name) has graduated! Ye be invited to a graduation party at the ship (venue). Pirates only! Time/date RSVP (details)

Clipart Graduation Invitations

The simplest way to complete under the graduation pirate theme party invitations is to use pirate clipart.

• Copy and Past the pirate 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 fancy title and added the party details in plain text underneath the graduation clip art.

Lots more detailed instructions on my clipart page.

Photo Pirate Theme Party Invitations

Also, simply arrange a good quality pirate photograph. Photographs of some of the young graduates dressed as a Pirate, Parrot, Captain Hook, Skeleton or Aligator would be perfect. Just set the scene for the pirate theme party.

Scan it onto your computer.

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

Then simply print onto flat sea blue card with the printed invitation details on the back. Instant pirate theme party invitations.

Free Printable Graduation Invitations

Graduation Pirate Theme Party - Confetti

One of the great graduation party ideas is to have personalised confetti.

The most amazing photo confetti maker can produce confetti using up to 10 pirate photos and up to 3 accent colors. You can choose blue for the sea , green for seaweed and black for pirates. They have packs to suit your occassion.

The pirate theme party photos could be of 10 of the little graduates.

Graduation Pirate Theme Party - Costumes

Fantastic to make your own pirate costumes. Even with just a small amount of accessories you can have brilliant pirate party costumes for the kids. There are lots of pirate theme party costume ideas.

• White T Shirts or Shirts, and using t-shirt pens decorate with skull and cross bones, anchors, ships wheel, parrots, and swords


• Pirate hats, which you could make yourself from construction paper


• Red sash made from any red material you have, you can include another color, say white


• Black Trousers


• Bandanna


• Eye patch


• Moustache, beards, scars, painted on with face paints


• Large buckled belt


• Boots


• Parrot


• Gold earrings and fake jewelry


• Fake gold tooth


• Fake Tattoos


• Beads and jewels


• Hook and plastic swords, which must all be safe for small kids

If you want to save time see the most amazing collection of Pirate Costumes. .

Everyone wearing pirate theme party costume is best.

Graduation Pirate Theme Party - Decorations

You can recreate a complete pirate theme party paradise. A good amount of decorations can make your pirate graduation party ideas come to life. It is a fun party!

• Create an entrance with a life sized pirate standee , pirate ship, pirate balloons (skulls), treasure chests , skeletons, anchor, dockside scene with piling, ships wheel.


• Background of sea blue which can be made from any blue material. That could be a gossamer.


• Banners to announce the graduation and the graduation pirate theme party. Including Treasure maps, anchors, swords and pistols on the banners which you can buy or make from a large bedsheet.


• Announce the party with pirate signs in the garden and even the mmediate neighborhood.


• Pirate Balloons styled as parrots, skulls, pirates and also colored to add to the background, attaching pirate balloons in bunvhes to light posts, the fence and any trees you have.


• Streamers, black and gold for pirate theme party effect. Hang them all over, for light fittings, walls, chairs, doors , tress and fences.


• Gossamer, colored to give a great canvass for the featured decorations, making a high seas scene.


• Inflatable parrots, skeleton light set, pop out eyes and tongue skeleton, skull and bones flag, hanging pirates, captains wheel, spyglass, shells and anchor.


• Make a ship from a refrigeration box. Decorate with a skull and cross bones flag, anchor, ships wheel and lots of pirate accessories.


• Make treasure chest from a cardbaordbox. Paint it and fill it with treasure. Use gold coins, beads, pirate goblets, spray paint some rocks gold, lots of fake jewelry/


• Hanging decorations of parrot, lighted skeleton, anchor, ships wheel, pirate and skull and cross bones flag


• Pictures of pirates, pirate ship, a sunken ship, treasure chest, skull and cross bones, Capn Jack, pirate ship, anchor, and a parrot


• Mural with a treasure map, finely details like an island with beach, trees, a path to the treasure, some landmarks and of course the treasure.


• Hang a fish net up. Put plastic fish, shells, seahorses, oysters and starfish in it


• Obtain enough brown paper from a large packaging roll to cover the floor. This is the fake sand part and then decorate this with shells and plastic fish to complete the pirate theme party look. Also add in a fake palm tree.


• Have the kids decorate pirates and parrots to hang as decorations


• Again, in advance have the kids draw their own pirate, pirate ship, ships wheel, or anchor and color it in. The graduation pirate theme party will have a gallery where the kids can be very proud of their work. The pictures can be used to also leave messages for the graduates


• Use posters for movies such as Pirates Of The caribbean

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

• Have face painting with blood, scars, facial hair


• Funtoos


• Have bandanas, mustaches, pirate hats, swords, parrots and coins ready to handout


• 2008 Glasses


• 2008 Beads


• Graduation caps


• Cap Medallions


• Lots of glow sticks and bracelets

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

For the pirate theme party table centrepiece you can use a treasure chest, anchor, or ships wheel. Use blue table cloths and some fish net. Also available are pirate napkins, cutlery and plates. The napkins can be tied with ribon for effect.

I think the best solution is just to use as many pirate decorations as you can and see if you get enough of an effect to really delight the kids.

Of course, if you have outside space available, a warm day and safe equipment you can always fill a a kiddie pool with water.

Depending on the time you have, you can make most of the decorations yourself. If time is short, to get the best pirate theme party you can get an awesome selection of decorations at the World's Largest Party Superstore.

Graduation Pirate Theme Party - Food and Drink

I always try and remember to balance providing a great selection of food with the fact that kids only eat so much and tend to go for what they like. A balance of presentation to ensure they eat healthy food and also to let them feel they did have a treat! Food graduation party ideas:

• Goldfish crackers


• Hot Dogs


• Sandwiches shaped as fish using a cookie cutter. You could just buy submarine sandwiches.


• Finger rolls decorated with cucumber to make the fins and tail with raisins for eyes


• Green pasta to look like seaweed


• Pasta shells


• Chicken Nuggets to be golden treasure


• Fish sticks with french fries


• Sunken treasure which is just cheese nuggets


• Chicken legs


• Carrot Sticks


• Bread Sticks


• Fruit, such as grapes, pineapple and banana


• Coconut


• Dole Pineapple Fish


• Chocolates dressed as gold coins


• Gummy fish, sharks, and worms

To drink, blueberry, strawberry and raspberry drinks give the right color. Lots of water to keep the kids going is best. You could prepare vanilla milk shakes and add a safe amount of food coloring. Ginger beer could be used as the 'grog'.

For the Cake, there are many, many brilliant decorations which will thrill the little graduates. Once you bake the cake it can be frosted, decorated and cut to the shape you want. Get creative and decorate in black for the flag with a white skull and cross bones. I like the idea of a treasure map with sand colored, green grass colored and a red X. Create a map with black icing as the steps. Try a treasure map, anchor, ships wheel, parrot. You could be adventurous and try a pirate, pirate ship, or treasure chest. Other symbols that are worth using are a pirate bandana, sword, hook, earrings, gold coins.

Cut into the shape you wish.

The kids will be delighted to have a pirate theme party cake and all the excitement that goes with a celebration cake.

A pirate theme party cake is one of the best celebratory graduation party ideas. The next section gives full cake making instructions.

Graduation Cake for Pirate Theme Party

The Graduation Cake page gives you all the cooking tools, ingrediantes, recipe, cooking and frosting instructions you need to create an amazing graduation cake.

Simple Decorating Idea for Your Pirate Theme Party Cake

1)Cover with chocolate frosting – should probably be black but dark chocolate will look much more appetizing.

2)Using greaseproof paper, cut out a template for a skull and cross bone.

3) Next lay the paper on top of the cake and use a piping bag with a biggish nozzle to pipe little blobs of white frosting to cover the template.  

Graduation Pirate Theme Party - Games

I like to mix the high activity games with quieter craft actvities. It gives the parents and teachers time to keep on top of things. Graduation pirate theme party ideas:

• Treasure Hunt, arrange a good treasure hunt with lots of goodies hidden around the venue. Supply maps and clues to each location with perhaps a grand prize at the end


• Parrot pinatta


• Pirate Pinatta, everyone will love this.


• To emulate diving you can have bobbing for apples. Fill a pail with water and apples. Guests must retrieve apples using only their teeth.


• To emulate fishing you can have Magnetic Fishing, simply draw colorful fish of all kinds on cardboard then cut them out. Attach a paper clip, setting up a fishing rod with a magnet on the end. You can stage the game in many ways with the simplest being just to put the fish on a blue sheet and have the kids sit on chairs to make it slightly harder


• Pin the parrot on the pirate, arrange a large pirate picture and cut out a parrot to use.


• Scavenger hunt if parents can help the kids, make sure there are plenty of items available to be found


• Three legged race, emulating a peg leg


• Octopus tag, with the first chosen child being the octopus and the rest the fish. Once each child is tagged they join the octopus and tag the fish too. Winner is last one not tagged


• Pass the Treasure, split the kids into teams of say 6 to 8. They line up behind each other. The first child passes an inflatable item over their head and runs to the back of the queue. The winning team passes the inflatable say 3 times down the line. Lots of loud music makes this even more fun.


• Bury treasure (coins, beads, anchors) in a sandpit and let the kids find it


• Put some parents into stocks and have the kids throw wet sponges at them


• If you can build a safe walk the plank over a kiddie pool then you can have the lubbers (parents) walk the plank with the kids throwing wet sponges at them. Also with kids the right age you can have your guests walk the plank. If the kids are old enough they can walk it backwards or balance a book on their heads to increase the challenge.


• To emulate swabbing the poop deck, you can arrange a course of say 8 to 10 feet. Give each player a broom and a large balloon. The players are to sweep the balloon along the course. You could have this as a team game.
• Carry the treasure, give the kids a spoon and a brightly decorated egg resembling some treasure. The kids must walk (or run) from one end of the course to the other with the egg on the spoon



More pirate theme party ideas:

Pirate Theme Party Games - Crafts

• Arrange a table with empty plastic drink bottles (with the lid opened wide enough to place the shells), sand, shells, small plastic fish and paper. Have the kids decorate, and create, a message in a bottle


• Similarly you could be brave and create an ocean in a bottle


• Paint a shell, with the kids decorating a blank shell


• Using blank treasure chests , let the kids decorate them by coloring in, adding stickers, and fill them with lots of favors


• Let the kids make their own pirate flag either on cotton or paper. Simply supply the pens


• Set up murals with a treasure map, pirate, treasure chest, pirate ship or any other pirate emblem. The kids can color it in


• Make telescopes, using cardboard kitchen towel tubes. The kids can decorate with stickers, glitter and paint. An adult can add the cellophane end.

Graduation Pirate Theme Party - Favors

Fill little treasure chests with gold chocolate coins, M&Ms, starfish, gummy sharks, plastic parrots, stickers, fake tattoos, earrings, pirate hats, skull key rings, bandanas, buttons, stickers, pirate goblets, skeleton pens, skull pencils and let the little buccaneers remember the pirate theme party.

Graduation Pirate Theme Party - Music

Just find lots of soundtrack music and play it at your pirate theme party! Try Pirates of the Carribean and Hook.

Graduation Pirate Theme Party - More

Lots more pirate theme party ideas:

• Take a photograph of everyone posing beside a pirate or a pirate ship. A good pirate theme backdrop will make the photos excellent. Send the photo to the guests.


• Pirate style face painting


• Hire a balloon artist to make cutlasses, parrots and much more


• Let the kids laugh by making up their favorite teacher as a pirate at the graduation party. Some of the face painting will be wonderful.


• There will be lots of gifts for the graduate. Thank You notes written by the graduate are the best!


• Write out rough timings for the party, including expected games times and when you want to serve the food


• The kids need some free time just to play, arrange activity areas where they can choose what to do, or just run around


• Stick to games the kids know, it can be too much to teach a new game


• Try to avoid games where some kids are out. An increasing number of bored kids will not help the party


• Protect your furniture


• Talk to your neighbours in advance


• Save money and have a joint party with other graduates.
  This 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 venues for the cheaper weeknights, perhaps giving more money for the pirate theme party.


• Think about the venue and the likely weather. A tent, kindergarten, YMCA, local park or school gym can be great alternatives.

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The little graduates deserve the best graduation party ideas. Graduation pirate theme party is a fantastic theme full of fun and real swashbuckling adventure.

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