Pirate Party!

UGAalum94 · #1 02-23-2007, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by PiKA2001

Actually yes, I do find pirates offensive.

Did they touch your booty?

UGAalum94 · #2 02-23-2007, 10:34 PM

Carnation,

Do you know anybody in a place where they celebrate Mardi Gras in a big way with a parade?

Some of the best pirate themed stuff was at Mardi Gras parades, and if you do know people, you might be able to ask them for float decorations, props or costumes to loan you.

(I don't mean anything about parades where people flash floats for beads: some small towns do family friendly stuff.)

PiKA2001 · #3 02-23-2007, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

Did they touch your booty?

ha ha..butt-pirates

KunjaPrincess · #4 02-23-2007, 11:34 PM

Send a message in a bottle as the invitation.
Pin the beak on the parrott
Chocolate coins for party favors
Have a pirate treasure map scavenger hunt?

FSUZeta · #5 02-24-2007, 01:24 PM

"send a message in a bottle as the invitation"

yes!! my son was invited to a "survivor themed" party in this manner. they used plastic condiment bottles, such as worchestershire sauce, tabasco sauce and kikkoman soy sauce, to name but a few.

they soaked the labels off the bottles, added a bit of beach sand(which is readily available here), some tiny shells which you could probably find at a hobby/craft store and the invitation. screwed on the lid, taped it shut, added a preaddressed address label and mailed them. it was impressive!!

jadis96 · #6 02-25-2007, 02:32 PM

we are doing Pirates of Penzance at school right now and for the set we made big rocks out of paper mache. cheap and sets the scene... we also are using pirate flages made out of bedsheets in the entry way. Yet again... cheep and sets the scene. how bout having blue jello with gummy worms and such in it too for food?

carnation · #7 03-10-2007, 07:01 PM

I wish I could report that the party was a raging success. The decorations were super--we had a huge pirate flag waving from our porch, a talking pirate head on the door, a tunnel that they crawled through to get in the door, you get the idea. The refreshments were great--Blazercheer baked a pirate chest cake spilling over with candy jewels and chocolate coins.

However, this nasty little creep from our son's class came to the party, a kid we didn't know. Teachers require that if you give out invitations at school, you give them to all the kids or at least those of your own sex. I understand this but if I'd known about this kid, I would've found another way to give them out.

He refused to play any games, preferring to run about and destroy decorations. He wouldn't eat cake because he wanted to run balloons through with his sword. We had to abandon the games and merely showed a Garfield pirate movie and then have the treasure hunt because there was no other way to corral him.

My son seems content and is playing with his presents now. However, what could have been a smash hit wasn't and here's a warning to all you mothers of young kids: check out your guest list before you send out invitations. Wish I'd thought to.

UGAalum94 · #8 03-10-2007, 07:06 PM

That's awful. How embarrassing for his mother that he behaved that way.

I'm sure the other kids had a great time though. They didn't know what they were missing.