Decorations

Create the high seas in your party room by blowing up a sea of balloons in an array of blue, green, and pearl white colors.

Hang colorful paper fish from your ceiling using fishing wire. Also, create jellyfish by using solid green, blue, and yellow paper plates and attaching streamers in alternating colors to the bottom of the plates in varying lengths. Hang your jellyfish from the ceiling at varying lengths for added décor.

On the front door to your party, hang a skeleton decoration and create a sign that says Enter At Yer Own Risk in pirate scratch.

At the front entrance, place a treasure chest to collect the party gifts. Use a large cardboard box with flaps that you tape down. Cut down from the top along one side, the front, and the other side several inches, leaving the back side uncut to use as a hinge. Decorate with paper, markers, faux gems, and glitter to look like a treasure chest. Place a sign on it that says Keep Yer Hands Off!

Make a pirate ship for the party by going to a local appliance store and getting a refrigerator box. Place the box on its side, cut one side off, and cut the other sides into a ship shape. Use the flaps from the top of the box to make a bow, and draw planks on the side to make it look like wood. Make a helm by cutting the wheel shape out of cardboard and bolting it to another piece of cardboard that is bent in half.

Pull out your old Halloween decorations, like skulls, crossbones, and cobwebs, and use these to decorate the rest of the party area.

Alternatively, you can keep with nautical decorations of fish, nets, lobsters, and crabs. However, a combination of Halloween and nautical decorations would be ideal for mischief-making pirates.

Spread beads and faux jewelry and gems around your treasure chest and across the party table to showcase the pirate’s loot.

Use a large net as a table cover.