Pirate Party Activities

To entertain all the kids at the party I made a tape the patch on the pirate. I thought the kids would be old enough for this game but they were not quite ready. The age range at the party was mostly 4 and younger. The small kids didn't even get the patch on the eye without a blindfold (which I forgot so we used a friend's sweatshirt). I was planning on hanging it somewhere but it was SUPER windy/cold the day of the party so we used the stroller.

As the kids arrived I had rolled up white card stock that the kids could decorate for their telescopes. Then we went on a pirate treasure hunt. They would find a clue, use their telescopes to find the next location until they were lead to the pirate treasure.

For the pirate treasure box I spray painted a Costco Baby Wipes Box and used masking tape for the designs. The "treasure" inside was the party bags. Tanner looks like he has a pirate side pony in this picture, it is just Lily behind him.. don't worry, he doesn't have a side rat tail.

This is the sad end to the Pirate Party series. Maybe something new next week.

Cupcakes and Pirate t-shirt

The cupcakes sailed to the pirate party. I used some free printables from cottage industrialist. Super adorable if you ask me. She has great printables for pirate parties. I was lucky enough to find some pirate party hats and other decorations at the dollar store, otherwise I would have used more of her free printables.

I used the pirate party for an excuse for trying out some of the crafty techniques that I have been dying to try. For example Freezer Paper Stenciling. Tanner HAD to have a homemade pirate shirt for his party. There are a ton of tutorials out there on how to do this. I used Create Studio's tutorial. I didn't have textile medium so I just used puffy paint and painted it in. I did this a lot in high school when making t-shirts. It didn't work as well as I remember it working but my puffy paints are from high school, so maybe that was the problem. This was a lot of fun and easy to do. Now I want to make some onesies for Claire. This picture was taken months after making the shirt and washing it weekly (since it is one of Tanner's favorite shirts). He did wear it to the party but his jacket covered it the whole time.

tomorrow: activities

Parrrrty Bags

Here are the parrrrty bags I made for the pirate party. I've wanted to try potato stamping FOREVER. This was the perfect project for it. I went to check out any tips from Martha and she actually has instructions on doing skull potato stamping. HERE is the link. I didn't use her template. Potato stamping would be great for so many other projects and even with kids. I will be doing more potato stamping in the future.

My skull and cross bones stamp.

Party bag sweat shop.

tomorrow: t-shirt and cupcakes

Pirate Party Invitations

I threw a pirate party for my son Tanner's 4th birthday party. This is the first of four posts with all the fun crafty things I did for the pirate parrrrteee.

I made super simple invitations for the party. I made them using microsoft word and printed them on some scrapbook paper that I had. Then I crumpled them up to make them look old. I rolled them up and tied a ribbon around them. I used this link HERE to get ideas for wording the pirate invitation.

tomorrow: party bags