Pirate Party Favor Ideas
Create a memorable ending to your child's pirate party with the perfect favor bags. Continue the pirate theme with favors such as a bag of treasure kids have to find, a take-home pirate costume or a ready-made kit that can be used to dig for buried treasure.
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Scavenger Hunt Bag
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Instead of handing out goodie bags at the end of the party, send the little pirates on a scavenger hunt where they have to find their treats. Make enough treasure maps for everyone and plant clues around the house and yard. One way to create your own map is to use old paper grocery bags and markers. Crumple the bag a few times to give it an old, weathered look. Use the markers to draw the directions and be has decorative as possible.
If the children are preschoolers or early elementary age, enlist the assistance of a few adults to usher them from clue to clue. Purchase a large, fake treasure chest from a party store or make your own by covering a cooler with a black plastic tablecloth and adding gold paint details for the handle and hinges.
Stack the bags inside the treasure chest and be sure there are enough for each guest. Purchase velvet-lined bags to hold buried treasure such as fake jewels, fake coins, chocolate coins, candy skulls and bones. You could even include a pirate bandanna. Recent pirate movies have made it easy to find accessories.
Be Your Own Pirate
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Send the party guests with their own pirate costume party favor. Being a pirate is easy if you buy pirate hats, eye patches, birds to perch on their shoulders, fake beard, wigs, beads, temporary pirate tattoos, treasure maps and maybe a little candy.
Before you hand out the costumes, demonstrate to the kids what they will receive in the pirate dress-up favor bag. You can even try on the costume. Purchase large pieces of fisherman's netting to wrap up the kit and tie at the top with a ribbon.
Buried Treasure Dig
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Little pirates will enjoy a do-it-yourself pirate dig kit. Customize the kit with pirate stickers and pirate coloring books.
Purchase enough large plastic buckets for each guest, along with shovels, sandcastle-making molds and sand rakes. Decorate the buckets with pirate stickers and other items to turn them into a true kit that pirates would use to dig for buried treasure. Add pirate-themed toys and age-appropriate items such as pirate coloring books, crayons, temporary tattoos and chocolate coins.
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