Materials:
Printed Invites (normal paper stock)
Sand
Empty mini bottles (I got mine from The Warehouse)

Instructions:
Empty bottles and allow to dry.
Use a funnel to fill the bottom with sand.
Roll invitations and insert into bottle.

Glue craft paper or wrapping paper onto an empty toliet role- Voila! Spyglass

Yo Ho Let's Go!

Invites:
You’re Invited to Pirate Island!
Do you want to join  our pirate crew?
Yo Ho, Let’s Go to (Name)’s Birthday Party!
There will be treasures and adventure today!

Food:
Skully's Cheese and Crackers
Cubby's Awww Cococnuts Macaroons
Izzy's Pixie Dust Punch (add edible glitter)
See our pirates party post for more ideas.

Cake: Bucky (using our 3D pirate ship pan)

Decoration:
Sign at your gate "This way crew"

Games:
Treasure hunt! Use your treasure map to find your team treasure chest that the old codfish Hook has stolen! (filled it with gold doubloons and gold mardi grais beads). Set up an obstacle course that leads them from Crocodile Creek, up Skull Rock, around Mermaid Lagoon and across the Never Sea to Pirate Island make plenty of pirate problems for them to solve. You will also want extra gold doubloons for when they complete each task (Let's grab em and go!).
Cannon Ball Fight
Help Peter Pan find his shadow- Hide silhouettes (cut out of black construction paper) of Peter Pan around the house.

Favors: Jake/Cubby/Izzy Bandanas & Izzy Pixie Dust Pouch (Just in case of emergencys!)

Just try not too eat these all at once I dare you.
Ingredients:
1 packet of Tim Tams
100g Cream Cheese
1 pack Milk chocolate Melts
 
Instructions:
Crush the tim tams in a food processor (or plastic bag with a rolling pin). Add cream cheese and mix.
Roll into balls and refrigerate
Melt chocolate as per package instructions. Coat balls with melted chocolate. Allow to set.

For parties these make good Cannon Balls (Pirates) or Wrecking Balls (Construction)

Pirates of the Caribbean, Jake and the Neverland Pirates, Peter Pan and Blackbeard, Pirates rock! Invite your Mateys for a Paarrty.

Food:
Canon Balls (Cake Balls)
Polly Wants a cracker (Cheese and Crackers)
Grilled Parrot  (Chicken Wings)
Pirate’s "Rum" Drink (Gingerale)
Orange Jello Ships
Oreo Eyeballs

Games:
Walk the plank
Treasure Hunt
Dig for Treasure
Temporary Tattoo Parlour

Favours:
Eye Patch
Sword (Plastic or Foam)
Bandanna
Booty (Chocolate Coins)

Ingredients:
22 Oreos
1/2 cup cream cheese, softened
12 chocolate drops
12 gummy ring lollies
White chocolate Melts

Instructions:
Crush the Oreos into fine crumbs in either a food proccesser or by putting them in a bag and hitting them with a rolling pin.
Combine crumbs and cream cheese.
Roll into 12 balls and place on a tray lined with baking paper. Push your thumb into the top of each ball to make a shallow dip. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
Press chocoate drops into centre of gummy lolly to make pupil and iris for each eyeball.
Melt White chocolate melts as per package instructions, Dip balls into melted chocolate (a toothpick can help with this) return to tray.
Set gummy lolly iris into the dip before chocolate sets.

Tip: Oreos can be replaced with crumbled cake of any flavour.