Originally Posted By LVBelle Jake's first birthday is quickly approaching and we're having a Pirate party for him! I've already made goody bags with eyepatches, pirate rubber duckies, gummy skulls, pirate pencils and pirate finger puppets. Guests will be given a pirate bandana to wear and I'm (hopefully) making two pirate ship cakes with a little rowboat cake just for Jake to smash. I did a test run on the cake today and failed miserably so we may end up with a bakery cake. For games I'm thinking about a cannonball toss using black water balloons and a Pin the Eyepatch on Captain Jacob game. The party will be mostly adults, around 30 people. My house is fairly small so we'll probably have most of it out in our backyard. It's a rather large area with absolutly no landscaping, just dirt and rocks and a small patio. Anyone have any other fun ideas?
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Maybe you could put down a blue tarp or canvas on your backyard dirt to give it an ocean look (blue astroterf?). Cost Plus has (had?) wooden chests, not very sturdy, that you can maybe use as a treasure chest to hold the goodies. You can call the punch rum and any adult beverages grog or vise versa and the snacks sea tac or rations.
Originally Posted By nevadarebel You could try a treasure chest cake if the boats don't work out. Here is the link that I used a couple of years ago. <a href="http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50213" target="_blank">http://jas.familyfun.go.com/re cipefinder/display?id=50213</a> here are a couple of party ideas <a href="http://familyfun.go.com/parties/holiday/specialfeature/doca0603_pirates_sf/" target="_blank">http://familyfun.go.com/partie s/holiday/specialfeature/doca0603_pirates_sf/</a> <a href="http://familyfun.go.com/parties/birthday/feature/famf58birthday/famf58birthday11.html" target="_blank">http://familyfun.go.com/partie s/birthday/feature/famf58birthday/famf58birthday11.html</a> some of this is for older kids but sometimes it is easy for me to adjust to different ages once I have an idea to work from. Coming up with the ideas is hard for me...
Originally Posted By nevadarebel As far as a cake for Jake to smash, you could do a small version of this using loaf pans or do round pans. Let me know if you need help, heaven knows I have had practice!
Originally Posted By tink2680 Oriental Trading has a ton of cheap pirate stuff, although it may take you too long to get it.
