The Big 5 Pirate Party ~ Arrrr!

We did it!

Justin is happy being 5, so far.  He did wake up the day AFTER his party and told Mommy "yay, my pirate party is today!"  Um, sorry, buddy.  Mommy told him that he only gets one party for each birthday...I guess it was a successful party in his eyes, too, if he wants another one!

Here are some of the things we did or used, that were thrifted...

Above, the plastic (little tikes, or similar) pirate ship was thrifted.  The kids loved it - we used some thrifted styrofoam balls, about 1-1/2" diameter, for cannonballs. They were a perfect fit for the "cannon" on this ship.  Oh, and the picture of the ship on the lid of the big treasure chest was thrifted...now we need to find a thrifty frame for it & hang it in the boys' room!

We found this one day, paid $1 for it, "just in case" we could use it...Justin saw it when we got home & said it looked like an Atlantis map, so we used it!

Several of the gift bags were thrifted, for cheap! We LOVE to reuse those gift bags... Also, we found a pirate themed book (see the stack on the table) for each child that came to the party, and included it as part of their "party favor" goody bag.  We made sure to find books at different reading levels - everyone found one that the liked! (we didn't pay over fifty cents for any of them)

(I need to figure out how to rotate the pics in here...)  This is the lunch box (I think I mentioned it earlier) that we found for $2 & Amanda painted it to look like a treasure chest...It looked great! Unfortunately, I didn't get a better picture of it...and the little guy in the pic with our birthday boy LOVED that little treasure chest so much - he carried it around the rest of the party.  Justin was very sweet & let his friend keep it!  :)  awwww.

We got these 2 bottles for $1 each.  We thought they looked cool, but kinda smelled "funky" so we just used them for decoration.

THIS is the amazing treasure chest we found, $3, and we found it last week, just in the nick of time for the party! Needless to say, it was a big hit, too. 

This is a star chart globe - at first we thought it was a "regular" globe with the continents, but we liked it, so we got it for $1 & hung if from the ceiling.

The aquarium decoration was a big hit, too.  We just put it on the table by the treasure chest.  It was only $1, I think.

Well, I was on photog duty & apparently, I missed some stuff... Not included in pictures are several serving bowls & trays, thrifted for cheap. 

Most of the items thrifted for this birthday bash will be reused in the boys' bedroom when it shifts from a Spiderman theme to the Pirate theme.  Originally, we planned to do this at Christmastime, like we did Spidey for Christmas last year, but both boys are liking Pirates right now, so it might be changed early.  We'll just keep looking for thrifty pirate items for the bedroom re-do!

Whew.  Party done.  Next party, the little one turns 3...he says he wants a pirate party, too.  We'll see.  The next one will be more low-key.  We like to do the "bigger" parties for milestone years (turning 5, ready for school, etc.).  In the meantime...

Happy Thrifting!