Ammon's Pirate Party

This year for Ammon's birthday party he really wanted a pirate party complete with pirate ship cake. Since Simeon and Corrine have outgrown the fun decorated cakes, and Ammon is still into them, I was excited to make a 3D pirate ship cake. We made the cake the night before and stuck it in the fridge. This morning when we woke up I was sad to find out the it had split in half. Some extra frosting glued everything back together, but I made the mistake of NOT putting it back in the fridge while I went to the dentist and came home to a split in half cake again. Some more frosting glue and a trip in the fridge was my last hope. (It had straws inside of it to keep the pieces together already.) Time for the party and the cake wasn't going to stay together anymore no matter how much frosting "glue" I used, so we did the next best thing. We pulled out the big squid from the Pirate of the Carribean movie and put it on the cake like it had split it in half! The kids loved it and thought that was my intention!!






We started the party by getting the boys dressed in pirate gear-bandannas and eye patches. Then the boys made their own telescopes with pirate stickers and markers.


When they were done they helped make cannons by crumpling up paper. Then we had the cannon ball battle. The original plan was to get refrigerator boxes, make masts and windows and use those for the cannon ball battle. Our friend who was getting them for us, never came through, so we improvised and used couches, laundry baskets and giant lego bricks. In the end I was so glad we didn't have the boxes because then I'd have to find a way to get rid of them, and they'd still be in my house weeks later.
Think 6 year old boys throwing paper cannons at eachother and think FUN!! The boys were laughing, smiling, yelling, throwing and having a great time. We changed the team multiple times so that each boy partnered with all the boys.



Next was the treasure hunt. We started at the table where a treasure chest had the 1st clue. They went to Ammon's Hammock to find their own treasure chest to collect treasures along the way. After that they went to look out the front window at the advancing pirate ship with their new telescopes. Then they went downstairs in search of things to decorate their pirate ships (stickers), and to dig up the buried treasure (gold coins) on the island they sailed to. Then they came up stairs to find the hidden treasure chest with candy and pirate silly bands in it.


One of Ammon's friend Will is very into pirates. His mom told me that he was so excited to come to a pirate party because his life long goal is to be a pirate when he grows up!! I love this age. Thier imaginations run wild and it doesn't take much for them to go play for hours.
This was such a fun party for a very fun kiddo!