Pirate Birthday Party Ideas

Great Pirate Games for your little buccaneers

• Pin the eyepatch on the pirate--draw a simple pirate on posterboard and have the kids take turns trying to pin on an eyepatch while blindfolded. (You can make eyepatches out of black construction paper.)
• Swab the Deck--this is played as a relay race. Each team gets a broom and 3 ping pong balls. They have to brush the ping pong balls across the floor to the other side where another team member takes the broom and brushes the balls back. The first team to finish, wins.
• Bomb the ships--This is a bean bag toss. I drew w simple ship on posterboard and cut out some holes in the picture. Then I made bean bags using black felt and dried beans. I cut squares of felt and hot glued the squares together--stuffed with bean. Hang the picture on the front of an open box and have the kids throw the bean bags at the ship to try and get them in the holes.
• Cannon Ball Blast--I filled black balloons with a few pieces of candy. There were lots of balloons on the living room floor. At a given signal the kids pop the balloons and get to keep the candy inside.
• Walk the plank--I used my daughter's balance beam (or you could use a piece of board propped between 2 large concrete blocks) and had the pirates walk across the plank. For older pirates, they had to do this blindfolded or backwards. For younger pirates, they just had to make it across.
• Pirate Pinata--this was the final activity before cake and ice cream.
• Pirate Ship Coloring Page--I printed these from the website listed in "Find additional ideas here" (below). This is a good filler activity to do while you are waiting for kids to arrive or be picked up.