Megan's Pirate Birthday Party!

I had so much fun planning Megan's pirate birthday party!  Let's step back a bit and first learn how this theme came to be.  Just a couple days before her Cinderella party last year Megan declared that she wanted a pinata.  I told her she had to wait until she turned four and that was fine with her.  The week later when we went to Target the first pinata she saw was a pirate hat.  And she just saw it by chance - it's not like we were even on the market for a pinata that day.  Well, the pirate pinata idea stuck.  And it stuck for an entire year!  I tried to get her to change the idea to something a little more girly but I'm glad she stuck her ground.... This was a super fun theme - even for a girl!

Once we determined the menu the whole party fell into place.  We had cannonball (meatball) boats, seaweed toppers (lettuce), deep blue sea (jello), veggie-paddles, cowabunga crab dip with Polly's crackers (Ritz) and peg legs (pretzel rods), gold nuggets (cheese cubes, and finally a beautiful chest of jewels (fruit salad)!

 

The cake was chocolate with a chocolate buttercream frosting.  The surprise, though, was a layer of rum buttercream frosting between the two chocolate cake layers!  I dressed up the cake to look like a treasure chest and even added a lid!  It turned out great!  Oh, and we even added some mock-sushi to either side of the cake.  (Looks like sushi but it's just Rice Crispy bars wrapped in fruit roll ups.)

I love that our families got so into the theme.  Fun hats, fake teeth and a good "arrgghhh" made for a fun time!  John ordered himself a pirate costume and luckily we convinced Megan to be a pirate princess and wear something she already had in her dress-up bin.  Owen's costume is borrowed from a friend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also to go with the theme I arranged a scavenger hunt for Megan and Alexa.  I wrote clues that brought them all over the house with the final clue leading them to the shower where the found a box of treasure. (I just wrapped up a bunch of snacks - nothing too major.)

Megan got so many thoughtful presents!  Thank you!

Cake Time!!  Megan was literally asking when she could put the candles in the cake from the moment she woke up that morning.  It was finally time!

 

 

And wouldn't you know.... Ironically, we almost forgot to do the pinata.  Guests were about to leave when John realized we had one more thing to do.  This pinata was a bugger to crack open.  All the kids swung with the broom and we finally had to get a baseball bat out.  What a super fun party - a lot of work but so much fun!