Pirate Party Help

LaurelBee

So Ds's party this weekend is pirate themed. We will have a bounce house, but I wanted to do a "walk the plank" game too. I was going to buy a plastic baby pool and fill it with water and have the board be suspended over it. Dh says it's a terrible idea bc kids will inevitabley fall in. My Sil suggested sand so we can have burried treasure! But I don't want sand being dumped all over my yard and tracked into my house. WWYD?

Also, I was going to have a treasure hunt in the back yard. Is it ok to have the "treasure" be the party favors? (Foam swords, eye patches, and scarfs) Or should I get something else?

LaurelBee

I'm probably thinking too much into this. Dh would thank you if you told me to hump the breaks

LaurelBee

HAHAHA! I'm leaving it

LaurelBee

I love the ball idea! My Sil actually has a tons of balls. I'll ask if I can borrow them I'm mostly worried about the sand bc we got hardwood floors installed a couple months ago and I baby them. I get twitchy thinking about sand getting stuck in the cracks.

SCSmith2011

SD had a princess and pirate party and we had a treasure hunt. The treasure was a mixture of plastic gold coins and chocolate gold coins. Oh and ring pops too. We also gave them pirate and princess stuff as part of the party favor but didn't put it in the treasure chest.

Rxmom04

I think it's ok to have treasure as the favors. We did a pirate party for DS last year and did just that. Found treasure chests (think happy meal style cardboard boxes) and gave the kids an eye patch and inflatable sword and then let them fill up the boxes with candy as favors. The kids loved it.

klondikebar

I did a walk the plank by placing a skinny board over a cheap plastic table cloth cut into a pond shape. We added shark fins out of foam.

 Another option for digging for treasure is bird seed if you have it. We used shredded brown packing paper.

For a scavenger hunt, we had the children wear the eye patches and have a fake hook on one hand. We hid empty plastic water bottles. Inside was a piece of paper with ripped edges and "aged" with tea. Each slip was rolled up and had the children's names written on them. They had to open the bottles and find only the ones with their names. I'm not sure if that would work for your age group though.

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