Tuesday 12 July 2011

Pirates Ahoy

It was my sons 5th Birthday in June and what better way to celebrate than to get dressed up as Pirates.  We had so much fun on the day that none of us wanted it to end.  We handed out our pirate scroll invites to the whole class and the best dressed pirate won the treasure. 


With his little brother Luca (left) and cousin (will) standing infront of the Pirates cave that Grandad built.



To get the party started we had everyone dress up, even Dad.  I bought Pirate necklaces for everyone to wear and had plenty of hats, swords and eye patches.





This was the dress up table, every child received a pirate head scarf, pirate necklace, tattoos and an eye patch




 I had a black eyeliner also for those wanting mustaches and scars on their faces


The kids got to put on their own tattoos


Yummy Pirates Rum (Punch)


The yummy food table.



These cute water bottle wraps were from Etsy, worth every cent.


Pirates Teeth (Caramel Popcorn)


Buried Treasure cupcakes with candy crosses ontop



Basic Butter Biscuit with a Jaffa in the middle (Captains Eyeballs)


Red & Green jelly shots (Sharks Blood)






Table Centrepiece

The treasure bottles I made with a treasure map, shells, sand & a cork & twine wrapped around the neck of the bottle.
The Treasure box was found in a craft store, after soaking it in coffee made it look a little more aged.
I finished it off with some pirate money, treasure maps, jewels, gold nuggets and more.


Red & Black baloons were everywhere, they looked great.


We had lots of inflatable palm trees and parrots, these really set the scene



The Pirates cave that Grandad built.  The kids had a ball in there, we had light up skeleton lanterns and a scary skull mask inside.



Pirates Plank that Grandad also built for us.  The kids had alot of fun on this.  We made up new ways for the kids to cross the plank, split the teams up of boys and girls and they had to try and pass each other without falling into the water. 







All the little pirates ready to play 'Pass the Parrot'.
All of the parents did such a wonderful job of dressing their kids up, some were busy cutting and sewing and even gluing costumes together.  Their efforts paid off because they all looked great.




Middle sister Kerrie and niece Ella


Dad, Uncle Karl and brother Luca with Captain Kyha


Birthday boy Kyha with my older sister Leanne


School friends


Leanne & Kerrie made novelty balloons for all of the kids


Cake time


I was in charge of the party and my wonderful husband was in charge of doing the cake


Mountains of presents







Cousin Charlotte & Luca


And at the end of a very big day the ship had sailed and it was time to go to bed