Pirate Party for a Buckaneer and a Princess

Here is my two precious birthday pirates!

Addie and Corbin share the same birthday month: April 7th Addie turned 4 and April 27th Corbin turned 6.  We have celebrated several birthdays for these two together. This is the first year that Corbin groaned about sharing a birthday with Addie. So we shall see what the future holds.

I was able to get some pics of the pirates.

The mustaches were so fun. We had a dress up table for the kids to add to their pirate costume as they liked. Girls could have a tutu and sword eye patches and makeup. Boys had the same but no tutu/ sashes and bandannas. I had made paper pirate hats as well, but they were hard to stay on while running and jumping off the plank.

We found this little pirate

who loved the sword

But adding the mustache was going too far. Maybe not a pirate after all...

Pirate games were first on the agenda. We had two pirate ships who found each other and broke out in a paper cannonball battle. (most of my ideas came from my best friend who did this for her sons sixth birthday party. Thanks Anna)

Some of the kids walked on the water to retrieve more cannonballs to throw. ha ha
The ship with the most cannonballs inside lost and had to walk the plank. We played a few times and the boys ended up walking the plank.

This game was the battle of the crew. Each pirate went in their own end of the stretchy tunnel and climbed over the other to reach the other side. The winner emerged first.

There were pirates of all sizes at our party. Fun fun!

Our Captain Hook game ended quickly. The parts broke too easily and these girl pirates waited for the next game.

The food was so much fun to make. We had these ice cream cupcakes, anchor sugar cookies, pretzel swords dipped in chocolate and our pirate cake.

Pintrest had great ideas for a pirate menu: popcorn cones, octopus dip, jello ships, salty island with dip, and goldfish.

We made our deck the ship. You can see our mast, wheel, and plank

I let Matt man the craft. We made paper boats for our races.

The boys went first but found their ships a bit more delicate that anticipated and most of them sunk.

So they played on the ship while the girls made their boats.

Captain Corbin calls, "All aboard."

The girls liked making the boats more than sailing them.

These two are such pals. So cute, Micah turned to Addie as they were watching kids play on the ship and walk the plank, and he said, "your dad can make anything, can't he?" Addies response. "of course."

Pirates or Princess' we haven't decided. Maybe a little of both.

See he just isn't a mustache guy.

Now the finale. Aunt Rebekah had written a pirate map with clues to find the treasure. The older kids jumped all over this and lead the way as they ran from clue to clue.

Others couldn't keep up and manned the ship in their absence.

So at last they found the treasure and we whacked it into submission.

Happy Birthday to our pirate and princess!

Princess Adaline and Princess Sarah

Princess' Melanie, Natalie, Sophie, and Adaline

opening presents...

Matthew trying to fill Eric's shoes with Tracey, Levi and Maggie (nicked named snow white)

Princess Adaline and Jillian

Now for the grizzly Pirates: Jansen and Corbin

Pirate Corbin and Tayden

Pirates Tayden, Corbin, Jansen, and Micah

Thanks for all the help with our Birthday party. Love our Aunts (here with Rebekah)

We had such a terrific time, Thanks to all our friends for coming to celebrate with us!