I like having their parties together where we have kids of all ages come, and I don't like having a bunch of gifts because we have enough things as it is. Last year we simply said no gifts but this year we had everyone bring one treasure item...it could be an old toy or something from the dollar store. When they got to the party I had them hide it and then mark it on a treasure map, at the end of the party everyone exchanged maps and found their hidden treasure. It was perfect everyone left with a new special treasure!
Besides our treasure hunt we had the kids stand in teams on ships (kitchen chairs pushed together) and then bomb each other with balls, when a chair got hit, it was taken out and they had to squish until all the chairs were gone. We also played pin the boat on the treasure...pictured below. (Kindof like pin the tail on the donkey.) The last activity other then cake of course was everyone made a paper ship and we saw how many rocks their ships could hold until it sunk. It seemed as though everyone had a great time and we all learned a lot about pirates through it all too!
Evan was an angel which was nice. I was a little worried about doing the party all by myself especially because we had a good amount who came, but it all worked out great!
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