A Pirate of a Day
Set sail and stiffen mini sea legs with Pirate crafts and high sea adventures. Plunder a whole Pirate day full of learning activities, Pirate printable coloring pages, treasure hunts, recipes and fun projects for your toddler, who will eagerly say "Aye, Aye, Captain!"
A Pirate birthday party and "talk like a Pirate day" is fun, but creating an entire themed Pirate day is enjoyable for the whole family and not limited to once a year. Just make sure that you go completely "overboard" and keep the fun going!
So let's weigh anchor and hoist the mizzen. Arggg :-)
Pirate Costumes
Gather your garb and gear...
You can opt to create your own costumes and make that part of your crafting activities for your Pirate day. Easy projects such as newspaper hats are fun for your toddler.
Pirate Sayings and Phrases
Use these guides below to write down your favorite Pirate phrases to keep on hand...
- Pirate Vocabulary
- Pirate phrases and sayings cheat sheet - printable.
- Pirate Lingo
- Pirate phrases, gestures, and helpful tips for making it sound authentic.
Get Ready to Set sail
Another option is to purchase an inflatable pirate ship to get sailing quickly.
Pirate Hideout Play Center, 120" x 60" x 64"
Amazon Price: $22.49 (as of 12/19/2009)
Includes water slide, wading pool, water sprayers, cannonballs, inflatable treasure chest, two inflatable shields, swords and hats. Perfect for small children and toddlers.
Pirate-themed Recipe Guide
A little extra Pirate booty...
If you're bold, go to the store in costume and test out your new phrases. :-)
You'll need to create ingredient lists with check boxes so the kids can cross off each item as they find them. Bananas, chicken, and seafood are easy Pirate finds, but you may need a few extra ingredients for these fun recipes:
Blue Jello Ocean Scene
Cook a box of blue Jell-o according to package directions, and pour into a large flat dish. Add jelly beans to portray rocks at the bottom of the ocean and place in the fridge. Before the jello completely sets, include a handful of gummy fish and sharks. Easy and edible ocean scene!
- South Seas Chicken & Bananas
- Coconut flavored and corn flake battered chicken and bananas - for tropical Pirate flair.
- Pirate ship deli sandwich
- Mini deli subs created to look like Pirate ships.
- Colorful Veggie Coins
- Healthy and beautiful dish of coin veggies.
- Skull Cupcakes
- Cupcakes made to look like skulls...
Pirate Puzzles
Pirate Treasure Hunt
Toddlers love to have scavenger hunts!You can either tear a brown paper bag into a treasure map, or print one out: Printable Pirate Treasure Map.
Label each place on the map as a part of your home (such as a skull mountain can be your living room). Hide treasure in relation to where the x would be on the map. On the printable treasure map above, the x is on an island, where you could turn that into the bedroom and hide a treasure box under the bed.
To keep the hunt adventurous hide random things, such as plastic gold coins and mini treats, around your whole home so there's plenty of things to find along the way to the treasure box. Give your little one a pouch to collect the small items in.
Treasured Items to Find
Printable Pirate Pages
Pirate Coloring and Crafts
- Pirate Word Search
- Easy pirate word search.
- Pirate Maze Crossbones
- Fun pirate maze for toddlers.
- Pirate Ship Coloring Page
- Printable Pirate ship coloring page with a lot of detail.
- Pirate Dot-to-dot Printable
- Printable Pirate Skull and Crossbones dot-to-dot.
- Pirate TP Roll Kids Craft
- Color and decorate TP roll craft.
- Pirate Ship Coloring Page - PDF file
- Detailed pirate ship coloring page with large skull and crossbones.
Pirate Chest
Melissa & Doug Pirate Chest
Amazon Price: (as of 12/19/2009)
List Price: $29.99
For children over 3, this pirate chest contains a pirate bandana, eye patch, loot bag, gold doubloon coins and a special, secret compartment to stash your most valuable loot away.
More Pirate Games, Crafts, and Activities
- Build a boat - use blocks, small boxes, bottles, or paper to create a fun mini ship. If it can float, fill up the bathtub and have ship races.
- Message in a bottle - everyone writes their own messages to place inside plastic bottles. Number the bottles and later in the day, pick a number from a hat to see who's bottle message you get to keep.
- Play "cannon balls" with lots of balloons.
- Create telescopes by decorating paper tower rolls with craft supplies.
- Learn about the different types of fish in the ocean with flash cards and books with your toddler today. Pirate day is a good excuse to fit in quite a few learning activities.
Pirates of the Caribbean Game
Pirates of the Caribbean Pirates Dice: A Game of High Seas Deception
Amazon Price: $8.95 (as of 12/19/2009)
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Pirate Movie Marathon for Toddlers
A Pirate night ending...
If your toddler is like mine, he will leave his costume on and be part of the movie night. Don't forget to join in the fun with a couple of "Argggs"!
Will your family be having a themed pirate day?
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- Pastiche Pastiche Oct 26, 2009 @ 8:52 am
- Aye, me wee young grandson in NH is a true buccaneer. Now that he's highly moble and has met the Atlantic ocean, this scallawag has become a true sea-faring pirate child. Lensrolling this pirate party goodness to all me pirate crafty treasures in the Squidoo sea ...
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- amy1980 amy1980 Oct 14, 2009 @ 8:14 pm
- I think we'll do a pirate day on Friday - just because. My daughter loves to dress up like a "pirate ship" :)
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- justinecredible justinecredible Sep 16, 2009 @ 7:54 am
- Some good ideas here - will be using them for my not so little one's birthday this coming weekend! (he's 34!!)
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- aj2008 aj2008 Aug 5, 2009 @ 8:52 am
- Nice ideas here.
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- Ramkitten Ramkitten Jul 25, 2009 @ 12:40 am
- Sounds like fun ... even if you're not a kid!
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