Pirate Birthday Party for a 4yr old!?

Question

Hello! My son is turning 4 and we are having a pirate theme party. I am at a loss what type of food to serve...any ideas? We will be having kids and adults over

Answer 1

Pirate Birthday Party Food:

Here are some cool ideas for pirate birthday party food (remember to make little signs in front of each dish to make sure the kids recognize that it's authentic pirate food…).

*Chicken legs (no utensils allowed!!)

*Seaweed Pasta (Green Linguine)

*Treasure Salad (add dried cranberries, golden raisins and pecans in the salad

*Hot Dog Ships (spear a wooden skewer through a small piece of paper to make a schooner sail and then pierce it through a hot dog, then add a few Goldfish crackers)

*Octopus (split hot-dogs)

*Pirate's Teeth (corn)

*Golden Treasures (macaroni and cheese)

*Golden Nuggets (chicken nuggets)

*Veggie Palm Trees - Cut up various vegetable and serve on a platter with dip. You can then decorate the platter with palm trees that you make out of vegetables. The way you make these is by taking a carrot and securing it in the vegetables with a toothpick. Then take the top fourth of a green pepper, cut a small whole for the carrot to fit snuggly in and you have a palm tree!

*Fish 'n' Chips

Pirate Birthday Party Drinks:

*Frosty Ale (root beer) in mugs.

*Sharks Blood (take red Kool-aid or punch and make them as ice cubes…. Then you take sprite and the kids get to drop the red Kool-aid ice cubes into the sprite - kids think it's awesome that the drink turns pink/red…. This can also be called "Crocodile" or "Alligator" blood… whichever you think is tastier….)

Pirate Birthday Party Treats:

*Goldfish crackers

*Ocean with sunken treasures (blue Jell-O with diced peaches)

*Peg legs (carrot sticks)

*Canon ball grapes

*Red Rubies (strawberries, cranberries and cherries)

*Octopus legs (gummy worms)

*Gold puffs (cheese puffs)

*Gold and Silver Hershey nuggets

*Golden candies (butterscotch)

*Breadsticks (swords)

Answer 2

If you're having real food, try chicken drumsticks.  Wrap the bony end in aluminum foil to help keep little hands a bit cleaner.  Skin them first, then flour and fry as usual.  (Email me for a much-lower-fat way of frying them, if you want.  Click on my avatar for an email link.)  These are quite popular with kids.  Call them Pirate Peglegs if you like.  

If you're more interested in just munchies, try "bumps on a log."  Spread peanutbutter in the groove of a celery stalk cut into small lengths.  Dot with raisins.  Come up with a "piratey" name for them.  Kids love them.  

For the cake, bake a circle layer and a square layer, both *' or 9" across.  Use the square layer as the ocean.  Cut the round layer in half and freeze the halves for an hour or two.  Then glue the halves together with frosting so it makes a half-circle kind of shape.  Cut a small bit off the middle of the round part of the half-circle.   This makes a flat spot for the bottom of the boat to rest on the ocean layer.  Using frosting to secure it, set this on top of the square layer.  It's a pirate ship!  Make a sail or two out of white posterboard and write the Happy Birthday part on the sail.  Be careful in your placement of candles, of course!!  There are only 4, so you'll be able to find space for them away from the paper sail, I'm sure.  Frost the boat in chocolate, and the square in blue-tinted vanilla or banana.

If that's a bit ambitious, make a large loaf cake and decorate it as a pirate chest.

Answer 3

Hi,

To make the celebration special I will suggest to prepare a cake with a very special theme, since party theme is Pirates you can prepare a Pirates cake.

The cakes or cupcakes look very nice. This is one example:

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You can also can offer Pirates Gummy favors.. Very cute!

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Congratulations!!

Answer 4

Pirate parties could be my profession!  I had a pirate party for my sun on the beach.  I bought a treasure chest at Ross and filled it with candy and toys.  Each child had a pirate back pack to fill their bags with the booty.  (so that was their take-home gift).  

Cup cakes with a pirate's face, gram cracker crumbs for sand and gold chocolate coins.

Mini 'Pirates' Booty' bags (Have to order online from company).

At Bev Mo they have different flavor (even blue root beer)pirates soda

There are a lot of great party items at www.orientaltradingcompany.com