pirates crafts for kids?

Question

does anyone have any suitable craft ideas etc for a pirate theme for kids, brownie guide girl scout ages, we need games, quizes and puzzles for a pack holiday

Answer 1

I did a pirates themed day one day, as part of a summer camp babysitting program. One of the activities that we did was to take pieces of white newsprint and let the kids draw their own maps, with an "X" for "X" marks the treasure, and they also drew islands, palm trees, skull and crossbones, etc on them. Then, they brushed the paper with strong black tea made from black tea bags, and then we burned the edges slightly with a lighter and allowed the paper to dry on cookie sheets in the oven. Then when they were completely dry, the kids balled them up to get them all crinkled, and then flattened them out, and I light ironed over them to make them look flat, but the wrinkles remained, they looked awesome.

We also made salt dough islands, which we decorated with milk carton boats, palm trees made from drinking straws and green crepe paper, and the kids painted them. We placed the baked salt dough islands on cardboard, and the kids painted it to look like water, added in their boats, and decorated the whole scenes.

We made treasure stones, using a recipe I found on the Internet, and had a treasure hunt, where the kids followed clues to find the "buried treasure".

The kids made hook hands out of styrofoam cups and chenille stems by bending the chenille stem into a hook shape, inserting it into the bottom of the cup, and then painting them.

We made striped pirate vests out of paper grocery bags.

We made scopes (I forget what they were called out of paper towel rolls and toilet paper rolls)

We made a parrot toilet paper roll craft to sit on the kids shoulders.

The kids had an absolute blast. I also printed pirate coloring pages and activity pages off the Internet and made mini workbooks. It was a really fun theme to do!

You can get in touch with me via my web site, if you would like the links that I pulled off the Internet with the recipes, crafts, etc:
http://home.earthlink.net/~batraylover_24/

Answer 2

For pirates they will need to do things with ropes or string, so all games with those might do.
Skipping, but also a six knot chalenge if they know their knots, (tie six knots as fast as you can, the best time wins), crossing a rope-bridge, real or put a long rope on the ground and let them walk it without putting a foot on the ground besides it.

And in the Netherlands we have a game that translates as "Skipper, may I cross?"
On a field you set appart the two opposite edges, with a rope or line on the floor, in the middel there is a pirate!!! he/she is going to 'attack' as many ships as posible, (just tag.)
When all 'ships' have crossed those tagged join the pirate, in one long string if there is enough space, or in twos or threes holding hands.
So on till there is only one 'ship' left, this kid will be the next pirate.
If you play indoors in a smaller space, you might not have space for a line on the floor, have the kids touch the wall as sign of being in the save habour.

You can also do craft things with strings, 'All pirates had jewelry!' so hemp string bracelets or necklaces can be the thing.
Or boondoggle, scoubidou or 'lanyards'.
Making keyfobs, or bigger knotted objects might take an afternoon or even more:
http://knopen.ismijnhobby.nl/frames/homepage_frame_eng.html
http://www.boondoggleman.com/look_in_tin.htm
http://www.panduro.co.uk/scoubidou.html
(Real string can be used instead of plastic string if you can not find it.)

Battle ship, maybe with other names for the different boats, (like a four dot ship is a galley, the one with one dot is a sloop or dory.)

Sea-scout sites may help you further, as they are bound to have boaty games.

Here is a link to the games-list of a girl-scouts site, brownies:
http://guidezone.e-guiding.com/jm_games_brownies.htm
And here a link to the whole site:
http://www.scoutingweb.com/ScoutingWeb/index.htm

Answer 3

A great day for the party would be "International Talk Like a Pirate Day" on September 19.

Check out the home page below for lots of piratey stuff, especially jokes:
Q: what's a pirate's favorite letter?
A: RRRRRRRR

Q: What's a pirate's second favorite letter?
A: "P" 'cuz it's like an RRRRR with only one leg>

Answer 4

Holy Peter Pan! I wish I'd have had Willeke's answer when I did my DD's pirate party.

One other pirate themed game is to get boffo swords (either inflatable or foam) and a plank. For littler kids you can put the plank directly on the ground. For older you can use 2x4 pieces or bricks to raise it a bit. Two kids get swords and start at either end of the plank. They try to knock each other off. You can add blindfolds to make it harder if you want.

We ended her party with a treasure chest cake: http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/special/cake/cake_treaschest/

Answer 5

here's a neat website that may help you out.

Good Luck!