Kid pirate birthday games

Every time the Captain is touched with the sword he must stand in the spot until he gives away some of his booty candy to be released. The game is played until the Captain runs out of candy. The captain can be played by you or you can enlist another fun spirited adult to help for a bonus have them dress up a little.

Kids love chasing adults around, this pirate party game is always a hit. How to play: The Swashbucklers must try to spot clues in the pictures to work out where the treasure is hidden. Find all the treasure for a bonus pirate prize. A variation of musical chairs with the chairs replaced with treasure maps.

Use these treasure map placemats and lay them on the ground so there is one less than the number of players. Have the pirates circle the treasure maps while the music plays, then when it stops they have to dash to stand on a map. Every time someone loses they can be made to walk the plank see above. The team that has the least amount of balls in their ship when the whistle blows again wins. Play a couple of rounds of this and then award all participants with a small prize.

You should definitely check it out because this was not the only worthy pirate party game. My favourite was Pirate Pete Says — where the kids learn fun pirate actions to do when they hear specific prompts during a story. For cannonballs use plastic ball pit balls or for a more budget-friendly option simply use crumpled up balls of newspaper.

I would make about of them. For ship, you can create your own, or even better let the kids make them out of empty cardboard boxes. If they are younger you may need to help with the construction but you can let them decorate with markers and stickers. Use an old pillowcase and let each pirate team create their own flag. To play space the ships out about ft apart in the yard or party space.

Create a line a few feet in front of each ship. Play four or five rounds lasting about 3 minutes each. Kids can decorate them to look like pirate ships if they want. Place the ships a couple of feet away from each other. Divide guests into two teams and have each one gather at a pirate ship. When you signal the start of the game, each pirate crew will bomb the other ship with cannonballs.

Once they figure this out, the next clue can be hidden taped to the bottom of a rubber black spider taped on the gutter in your back yard or on some sort of water spout. The next clue can be floating in a vile in a pail of water. Hide this clue in your garden. Get the idea? At the end of the hunt, find an interesting place marked with a large X to hide a treasure chest filled with a goodie box with each kids name on it.

Draw a treasure map with details such as palm trees, lakes and animals. Tear the edges to age and if you really want an authentic look burn the edges briefly and stain the map with tea bags. Take the map and hold it up against a window or bulb to reveal the X that is on the back and where the treasure is! Then push a wrapped candy cane halfway down into it.

Now empty a large bag of pretzels into a bowl. Other kid pirates can have squirt bottles and can be instructed to squirt the plank walker if they touch the ground. Hang cored apples at the kids height. Have one person volunteer to be the designated captain and have them run as fast as they can while the rest of the crew chases them. Whoever captures the captain wins. Hide the skulls all over the yard or inside your house. The child that finds the most skulls wins! Get Card stock and make a template for a pirate hat.

Have the children decorate their hats. Once done, have the pirates vote on their favorite hat. Similar to the traditional easter egg hunt, hide chocolate gold coins for the children to find. Print a picture of a pirate ship on A4 sized sheets of cardboard. Glue a cardboard Tube to the top of the sheet on the back.

Thread the sheets onto string and separate them whith cardboard discs glues to the string on either side so that the pictures are about 40cm apart. Hang the string like a banner between two poles or trees so that the pictures will rotate over the string. Give each child three cannon balls tennis balls and they see how many ships they can scupper. Blow up a large amount of black balloons, approx per child playing. The aim of the game is for the children to sit on the balloons canon balls and pop them, the children who get to pop the balloons with the paper in them, wins a prize.

Get 2 pirate flags — a red and black one or 2 different colors. Divide the kids into 2 teams. Have them decorate the flags. Stick the pirate flags in the ground on 2 different sides of the yard.

Fill a black balloon with water. The children stand in a circle and throw the balloon as quick as they can without dropping the cannon ball … BANG. Have the other children join hands and form a circle around the blind man.

The players should then start moving in a circle around the blind man while singing:. See how they run! Have you ever seen such a sight in your life, As Three Blind Mice? When the verse stops, the blind man points in the direction of a child and guesses a name.

If the blind man guesses correctly, he or she trades places with the other child. If not, the child steps into the circle with the blind man so the blind man can try to catch him or her.

Once the blind man catches the player, he or she must try to identify the child by touching his or her face, hair, or clothing. If the blind man guesses correctly, they switch places. If not, the blind man stays in the center for another round.

Have your guests wear a bandanna over their eyes, and spin them around, facing them towards the Map. Have the kids divide into two person teams and line up in two lines facing each other. Fill up some balloons with water and draw skulls on them with markers. Toss the water balloons back and forth— each toss taking one step back. You give each kid a map you made with pictures of objects around your house, for example, under bed, behind sofa… and put chocolate coins or other surprises in those spots.

Have 2 or 3 adults blowing bubbles with bubble liquid and bubble wands in the yard.