My son’s 5th birthday party was last weekend and it went really great! All his little friends had a blast running and playing in the back yard. I don’t think I stopped moving the whole day. Adrenaline kept me going going going. It certainly was worth it I just loved how everything turned out.
The building the pirate ship was the biggest project (I’ll post more about that later).
The party started off with this pirate invitation from Shutterfly, it was super easy and quick to put together (as most of my shutterfly projects are!)
We set up the kid’s table using 2 big tubs and a piece of plywood covered in plastic table cloth. I bought the roll of plastic table cloth
I’ve had these plastic chairs for a year or so picked them up on a Target clearance sale they stack for easy storage and are perfect to keep on hand for children’s parties. A wooden pirate ship toy that we had served as a centerpiece for the table.
The Target mini seasonal clearance came at a perfect time for our party and I picked up most of the decorations, a bunch of the party favors. All the kiddos got a bucket full of goodies which included a pirate sword, head scarf, patch.
I can’t recommend enough getting foam swords for a pirate party for 5 year olds. The kiddos really got into the role playing!
I served salad, veggies, and pizza with lemonade and water, juice boxes for the kiddos.
My kiddo doesn’t do cake or cookies so I just did cupcakes for the guests and added a quick sail topper that my mother-in-law and I made in about five minutes using bamboo skewers and pieces of cardstock.
There were to be three babies at the party so I had a little mermaid island for the babies to play on during the party.
I had wanted to do a scavenger hunt with a treasure map to locate this really cool treasure chest but I ran out of time before the party and with 5 and 6 year olds it worked much better just to have them run around having fun and playing on the pirate ship.
I also set up a photo booth those are always so much fun at parties but none of the adults really wanted to dress up and the pirate ship actually ended up being a better place to take photos.
Over all I know my kiddo had a great 5th birthday party and I’m pretty sure all his friends did too! Our next big birthday party will be baby girl’s big first birthday early next year!
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The kiddo is turning 5 in a few days and we’re having a pirate party. We go BIG for the odd number birthdays (his 3rd birthday we had a huge carnival). I knew I wanted to build a pirate ship…ahem well I guess I knew I wanted my husband and dad to build a pirate ship. Planning starts early with these projects as it takes awhile to convince them to come along for the ride LOL!
I found this image of a pirate ship in a vintage children’s play structure book…and this is the inspiration for the whole project:
Sadly the book just showed this with no plans or instructions. I started researching the internet, and only finding a few options. A couple weeks ago I finally settled on a simplified idea. A friend of ours did up a drawing for me of what I explained to him I was trying to do.
So we’ve been busy designing, shopping, cutting, thinking, painting, and constructing. Basically all our free time has been thinking about this party and planning.
I did a mock up with index cards to get a feel for what we were looking to accomplish.
I did the drawing and my husband and dad did the cutting.
I did the supervising and the revising LOL:
I also primed all the pieces, and the kiddo helped too:
One of my favorite parts is the seahorse, the hubs cut this out using a jig saw it notches into the front panel:
That’s where we’re at right now. I’ve cut the steering wheel and anchor out of plywood using my rotozip (see mom I finally used that birthday present from 12 years ago LOL!) I’ve got a few more things to prime and the painting is almost done! We’re looking to get it installed early next week. I’ll post more pictures soon.
Because a pirate party is nothing without a mermaid I got the cutest outfit for baby girl to wear to the party:
If you’re interested in the mermaid costume check out The Crochet Elephant and tell her that I sent you!
So I promise to post more about this pirate party as it unfolds. Catch you later!
From our family to yours! God’s Blessings to you as we all celebrate today!
