When you are sending out your pirate themed kids birthday party invitations remember two very important things about pirates: they are energetic and love to take lots of booty! This is good to keep in mind when you are picking party games. Our party experts have put together some great pirate party game ideas.
- A treasure hunt is a sure bet: You can make up practically anything for clues. At the end of the hunt, find an interesting place marked with a large X to hide a treasure chest filled with goodie bags for each child. This ensure the loot will be distributed evenly throughout all the kids.
- Like the real pirates: Most of the kids will want to sword fight. So, we have an idea for a safe solution! Have the birthday boy and a guest start the duel. Each child is given a bread stick for a sword and the object of the game is to break your opponent’s bread stick without breaking your own. When you have nothing left but a stump you must surrender and the next pirate steps up. The kid who stays the champ the longest is the winner. (Make sure to tell the kids beforehand that they are only allowed to hit the other’s bread stick. If any other body part gets hit the pirate is disqualified!).
- Talk the Walk Pirate Game: On a chart write the pirate word and their meaning. For example, Aye – yes, Cutlass – sword, Ahoy – hello, Deadlights – eyes etc. Say that whoever talks like a pirate the most throughout the party wins a prize!
- Canon Ball Pop game: for this game place slips of paper inside white balloons that have skull and crossbones printed on them. On one or a few slips write “Shiver me timbers! Booty fer ye!” and on the rest write “Begad! No booty fer ye!” Kids then pop the balloons and read the slips.
- Walk the Plank pirate game: No Pirate birthday party is complete without “Walk the Plank”. There are many innovative ways to play it. The simplest is to draw a plank on a sidewalk with chalk. Blindfold the kids and have them walk inside the lines. Another is to take a kiddie pool and put it underneath a plank. Have inflatable alligators swim in it and that’s your alligator pit. Then see who can “walk the plank” without falling into the “alligator pit”.
Your little buccaneers will have a blast with any of these fun pirate game ideas.
