Aaaaarrrrggghhhh, Matey!

My son's favorite character right now happens to be Captain Jack Sparrow. Anyone else start belting out a rendition of Michael Bolton's "Lonely Island"... "this is the tale of Captain Jack Sparrow..." So, no. Just me? Anyway, I digress.

Maybe not the best parenting decision ever to let him watch Pirates of the Caribbean. It is what is and he decided he wanted a pirate party for his 6th birthday. A few months prior I started my Pinterest board and I'm SO very happy with how it all turned out. I don't have specific links mainly because I'm too lazy to go back and look for every single thing, but you can find everything pretty easily with a search.

 My talented hubby carved the watermelon shark and we added some red food dye to make it extra realistic!

 These cupcake wrappers and flags were free printables I found! I used a mini Twix bars to represent a boat.

 I used a fish cookie cutter to make PB and J sandwiches. The labels were free somewhere, too.

 I actually came up with this one myself. I used breadstick dough, cocktail sausages, and almond slices to make fingers. I cut each breadstick in half and formed it over the sausage before baking.

 I used a sand pail filled with rocks to make the base of my pirate flag. I covered it in leftover drop cloth from another party and used PVC pipe spray painted black for the pole. The table is covered in the leftover drop cloth and I used the tablecloth section I cut off for the flag as a runner on the table.

 The flag is just a Target plastic table cloth. I bought mini bags of Pirate's Booty. I made egg salad seaweed wraps.

 Grilled Parrot - chicken wings

 Super Cute Pirate Princess

 Walking the plank over a kiddie pool filled with toy sharks. The birthday boy is in the front with his birthday shirt. Side note - I have a shirt made each year for the boys' birthdays. When they outgrow the shirt, I put them in their 'to save' bins and plan on having a T-shirt quilt made when they leave for college or get married.

   Pirates VS the British in a water balloon canon fight. There was laughing, crying, and much mud!

 

NOT PICTURED - I had plastic glasses filled with blue jello and gummy sharks. Each kid left with a cup filled with 'treasure' - beads and wrapped gold chocolates.   

 

I think he had a great time turning 6!