How to Treasure a Pirate Day with Ye Toddler
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A Pirate of a Day
Set sail, and stiffen a few mini sea legs with these Pirate crafts and high sea learning adventures. Plunder a whole Pirate day full of activities, Pirate printable coloring pages, crafts, treasure hunts, recipes, games, costumes, fun projects, and pirate sayings for your toddler, who will eagerly yell "Aye, Aye, Captain!"
A Pirate birthday party theme and "talk like a Pirate day" is fun, but creating an ENTIRE Pirate day is enjoyable for the whole family and not limited to just once a year. Make sure that you go completely "overboard" and keep the fun going...all day long.
So let's weigh anchor and hoist the mizzen. Arggghhh! :-)
Pirate Costumes
Gather your Garb and Gear...
The adventure begins with full pirate costumes for everyone in your family - yes, even Mommy and Daddy should dress up to play their part! Jackets, hats, eye patches, and who wants a pegged-leg? Keep extra garb on hand in a chest to use again on your next Pirate day...
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.
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
Kids Pirate Phrases
You can study traditional pirate phrases, sayings and words together with your kids before you host your pirate adventure, in order to have authentic conversations throughout the day. Simple phrases such as "Ahoy, Matey" and "Heave, Ho" are easily learned by your toddler and make the adventure far more entertaining.
Use these guides below to write down your favorite Pirate phrases to keep on hand...
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
Large Pirate Ships
Every Captain needs a ship for his or her Pirate crew. You can extend the ship-building activities by starting from scratch with cardboard boxes. First, cut out the windows before your children receives the boxes to decorate. Use thin wooden craft dowels and old sheets or construction paper for sails. Your toddler can decorate the ship with cut out shapes, crayons, and foam pieces. Sail them in the bathtub!
Another option is to purchase an inflatable pirate ship to get sailing quickly in a usable real-life toddler size version, or try a pre-build pirate ship made from cardboard boxes, like this one:
Another option is to purchase an inflatable pirate ship to get sailing quickly in a usable real-life toddler size version, or try a pre-build pirate ship made from cardboard boxes, like this one:
Pirate Ship - Markers Included
Amazon Price: $32.99 (as of 02/16/2012)
Color your own pirate ship from this pre-made cardboard design...also includes markers.
Pirate-themed Recipe Guide
A little bit of pirate booty...
Grocery Store Scavenger Hunt
If you're a very bold pirate parent, take your children to the store in full costume to 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!
If you're a very bold pirate parent, take your children to the store in full costume to 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 created to look like skulls...
- Pirate Skull Cookies
- Skull shaped cookies with tootsie roll features.
- Apple PIE-rate ship
- Pirate ship apple pie...amazingly fun and delicious for little and big pie-rates!
Pirate Ship Cake Pan
Pirate Cake for a Perfect Pirate Day
Nordic Ware Pro Cast Pirate Ship Cake Pan
Amazon Price: $26.95 (as of 02/16/2012)
Create a cake that's sure to sink everyone's little tummies...and be sure to spend a lot of time decorating it together with various colors of icing and several varieties of sprinkles! :-)
Pirate Puzzles
Puzzle your Little Pirate
While you are preparing the grub, a quiet sit-down activity like piecing together a puzzle might be necessary. How about these piratey puzzle options?
Pirate Treasure Hunt
X Marks the Spot
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
Scavenger Hunt Treasure
Pirate Themed Books
Pirate Stories and Activities
Printable Pirate Pages
Pirate Coloring and Crafts
If your toddler loves to color, here's a list of fun printable Pirate crafts, coloring pages, treasure hunts, word searches, and mazes.
- 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.
- Mini Treasure Box to Color
- Print, color, and fold this mini treasure box. Print multiple copies as a fun activity for a pirate birthday party or pirate day party. Great small favor boxes! :-)
Pirate Chest
Melissa & Doug Pirate Chest
Amazon Price: $16.46 (as of 02/16/2012)
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: $50.99 (as of 02/16/2012)
Pirate Movie Marathon for Toddlers
A pirate night to end your pirate day...
Finish your Pirate-themed day with a movie night of high sea adventures. Instead of popcorn, buy a bag of "Pirate's Booty" or fill the bowl with dried fruits and nuts.
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"!
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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kiwisoutback
Sep 22, 2011 @ 5:21 pm | delete
- Not this year matey, but the next year be sure to be rich in Pirate themed booty. Blessed by the Dirty Rapscallion Angel of the Sea!
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Dkyforever
Jul 7, 2011 @ 2:09 am | delete
- This is great! My mom is having a Pirates/Princess day at their house in a couple weeks. I will let her know about this!
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BunnyFabulous
Jun 23, 2011 @ 7:45 pm | delete
- My daughter's not into pirates right now, but that could easily change. Love the ideas, especially the treasure hunt!
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MissMerFaery
Apr 1, 2011 @ 2:19 pm | delete
- Oh, love love love! Will definitely be playing pirates with my daughter as she gets older. Any excuse to put on the accent and go in search of treasure, me hearties! Have ye an April Fool's Blessing, before you walk the plank!
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Senora_M
Feb 4, 2011 @ 11:58 am | delete
- This is a great lens! My nephew used to love pirates and would have had so much fun doing this all day long!! :)
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rasudesign
Nov 21, 2010 @ 9:19 pm | delete
- Very fun! Who doesn't love pirates? Blessed by an angel and added to my angel lens :)
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gravityx9
Nov 17, 2010 @ 6:51 pm | delete
- fun lens! I featured it on my PIRATE DAY lens, once a year, but I'm always looking for ways to enhance it! Thumbs up! :D
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QueSea
Sep 11, 2010 @ 9:42 pm | delete
- Sounds like fun! Our youngest grand daughter would really like it. I'll make the suggestion to mom and grandma (smile).
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Treasures-By-Brenda
Jul 21, 2010 @ 9:38 pm | delete
- I'm sure we had a pirate party or two...we certainly had some pirates circling around!
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bechand
Jun 25, 2010 @ 9:32 pm | delete
- Pippi Longstocking is a great movie that for a girl who loves Pirates - maybe not as a toddler, but any age after about 4 will love it.
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