Pirate party: preparing a party in the style of sea robbers?

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June 9, 2021 463
A party in a pirate style is an excellent solution for a fun company, because it is imbued with the spirit of freedom, risk and adventure. Such a holiday can be held at home or outdoors. Pirate parties don't need a special occasion: it could be a meeting of friends, Halloween or even a New Year's party. The main thing is that the evening will not let anyone get bored.

Selecting a location

First of all, you need to decide on the location of the holiday. Since this is a themed meeting, you will need a room in which you can recreate the atmosphere of the seas, constant risk and the spirit of piracy.

Organizing a pirate party by the water is a great idea. You can rent a hall or the entire room in a restaurant or cafe located on the embankment, or arrange a meeting on a river tram or boat. If this is not possible, find a suitable place in nature. If it’s a New Year’s pirate party or the weather is bad in summer, you can prepare a cool holiday even at home.

When choosing a location and design, focus on several points:

Children's and pirate parties are held differently. It is better for children to gather at home or outdoors.
Depending on the occasion, different designs may be required: for a birthday - a “Happy Birthday!” banner, for Halloween you need to add “scary details”, etc.
Pay attention to the interests of the company: cheerful and active people are better off going out into nature, while calm people should gather at home or in a restaurant.

Whatever your choice, you can organize a party with the help of the team /your link/ or on your own. The main thing is to know the style well.

Pirate menu

If your event is exclusively for adults, then give preference to light snacks. Well, if there are children present, then prepare sweets and cakes for curious sweet tooths.

When choosing to create a menu for a pirate party, it is worth remembering how pirates lived and what they ate. Of course, the main food product on the pirate table was fish, because when traveling across the seas and oceans, this is the product that could be obtained in any case. The pirates did not refuse to feast on a fragrant piece of meat, and they also couldn’t do without vegetables. Of the drinks, rum played the main role in their lives.

If you are throwing an outdoor party, you can have a barbecue and grill meat, fish and bake vegetables; skewers with seafood can play the role of light snacks. If the party is at home, you can have a feast with crayfish, shrimp and various seafood.

Decorate your table with snacks to go with beer and rum: chips, dried squid. If rum is not your thing, you can replace it with tequila, whiskey, or gin. Make fruit smoothies for the kids. Finally, get creative and give each dish a name that fits into your party.

Sending invitations

An invitation to a pirate party should be mandatory, and this is where preparations should begin. How to issue invitations:

Roll the note into a tube and put it in a bottle.
Compose your text on aged paper.
Make a tattered map and mark the meeting place with a cross.
Send a postcard with a black tag.
Make a chest with an opening lid and a note inside.

You can find ready-made invitation templates on the Internet and print them or make them yourself. In the text, be sure to indicate what clothing and paraphernalia will be needed. You can invite guests to come up with pirate nicknames or change their names for the evening. Nicknames can be used instead of a password word.

Room decoration

Properly selected attributes and props set the tone for the atmosphere, so they need to be treated with the utmost care. The main colors are red, white and black, you can add blue and brown. Gold and silver will do.

A pirate party for adults and for children will be different. The older ones need to create a more realistic picture, and the younger ones need to create a cartoonish one. What should be done:

Important points when decorating

Remove all modern and out of place details or hide them behind posters or posters depicting chests, rum, flags, etc.
Hang the fabric from the ceiling so that it represents nets and sails.
Choose simple wooden or wicker furniture. An interesting idea is to put wooden boxes.
Hang ropes and sea knots and nets connected from them on the walls and furniture. Hook fish, seaweed, crabs, etc. onto them.
It is better to turn off the main light and replace it with candles in decorated candlesticks. For this, a tin can painted in silver or gold is enough.
Prepare anchors, steering wheels, etc. from cardboard.
Hang up old maps: you can pick up real maps from past centuries or fictitious ones.
Try to find a marine compass, telescope, telescope, etc.
Place chests filled with jewelry, coins and decorations.

You can add a little modernity and fun to the atmosphere: hang a garland in the appropriate style, a rope with ribbons tied on it, buy balloons. At the entrance you can hang a wall newspaper with photographs of guests and their pirate names.

If you are holding a holiday in a loft, when choosing a room, focus on the overall interior. It should be decorated in dark colors, not too “technological”. The design with wood and brick, with a lot of air, is perfect. The staircase will look interesting. It can be used to decorate a mast or sail.

Photozone

Regardless of the meeting place, gender and age of the guests, everyone will want to leave memorable photos or videos, footage. A specially equipped photo zone will be a good solution to this problem. Suitable options:

Make the bow of the ship and portholes from which guests will look out.
Place chests with jewelry. With friends, you can depict a scene in which pirates share or rejoice in the spoils.
Build a boat and waves.
Hang a poster with a photo of pirates.
Set up a ship's cabin.

Also give guests the opportunity to use photo props: a map, cocked hat, spyglass, bottle of rum, etc.

Pirate treats: not just sandwiches

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When planning what to serve, keep in mind the pirate lifestyle. While swimming, they chewed crackers, ate porridge, fish, salted meat and drank rum. Today's pirates, of course, are more greedy for sweets and Coca-Cola; give them cakes and muffins, well, at most, they'll munch on a boutique with fish. Therefore, based on the preferences of the real company, it is worth setting the festive table.

The signature dish of the pirates is “salmagundi,” popularly known as an ordinary vinaigrette. Real sea wolves know many recipes for this delicious dish. Are you hungry, perhaps? Are pirate bellies rumbling in anticipation of goodies? We have tons of ideas for making pirate treats. Everyone please come to the table!

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All kinds of canapés and sandwiches on skewers are suitable for a buffet table. Once you decorate them with pirate flags, sails and other attributes, they will immediately acquire a special attractiveness in the eyes of the newly minted “robbers”, and their appetite will immediately creep up.

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Sweet fruit jelly can be decorated in the form of boats. Surely young sailors will not refuse such a treat.

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A little work on the fruits, and they will turn into a real pirate delicacy!

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All the pirates in the world will sell their souls for... of course, for treasures! But they won’t refuse the cake either.

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Take care of the drinks. The “rum” should flow like a river, because the company, inflamed by competitions and fun, will come “to the watering hole” often. Glasses or individual bottles can be designed in the shape of the famous pirate drink.

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Selection of costumes

Guests' attire must match the theme. You can even make your own costumes, since corsairs did not wear elaborate or elaborate clothing. Female images can depict ladies and bandits, male images - pirates and sailors.

Vests are the simplest solution. Men just need to wear it, women can style the item by hanging it over one shoulder, tying it in a knot, etc.
To look like a corsair, you need to wear a light shirt with loose sleeves and puffy cuffs. On top - a frock coat, vest, cloak, camisole. Below should be leather trousers or baggy breeches.
A more elegant version of the pirate dress is a short dress with a full skirt and wide sleeves, with a vest or corset worn over the top.
Men's shoes - high boots. Women's - short boots or shoes with a small stable heel, knee socks are also needed.

To create a more believable image, the clothes need to be perforated, rubbed, and aged so that they seem “worn.” Transferable tattoos and black marks are appropriate. Accessories play a special role:

Accessories for the event

Wide bandage.
Leather belt with buckle.
Scarf, cocked hat, eye patch.
Weapon: saber, sword, or pistol. You can stylize accessories using a sheath or belt.
Watch on a chain, compass, telescope.
Earrings in the form of rings, massive rings, talismans, amulet, etc.

Menu creation

The sea robbers' menu consisted of meat, fish, vegetables, fruits and rum. Recipes need to be selected in accordance with this. Not only the nature of the food is important, but also its presentation. Skewers with a picture of a pirate, cards with the names of dishes, etc. The names need to be appropriate: Jolly Roger salad, Black Pearl salad, Treasure main course, shark caviar bread - rename each appetizer.

What you can cook:

Sea fish with vegetables.
Meat with garlic.
Chicken in mayonnaise and spices.
Vegetable salads.
Sandwiches with fish or meat.

There must be fruit on the table. For sweets, prepare chocolate coins, chocolate in the form of gold bars, cupcakes with images of pirates, a nautical-themed cake, etc.

The first drink to drink should be rum. It can be served chilled or warmed as grog. Brandy and gin also work well. Girls can be offered Mojito, Pina Colada, Daiquiri, etc. Non-alcoholic drinks include fruit smoothies and juices.

What to drink and feed guests?

First you need to design a pirate table. The easiest option to set the atmosphere of the evening on the festive table is to print stickers for bottles, plates, glasses and straws in a pirate style. Attach flags with a pirate skull to the tubes, you can tie red satin ribbons to the bottles, and put on small decorative hats. A bright addition can be red/black napkins, with or without a pattern of pirate elements.

You can surprise your guests with the following dishes: ♦ As a rule, the most basic dishes at any party are appetizers. In this case, all snacks should have a marine theme. For example, a chicken egg cut in half, filled with pate, and into which either a piece of bell pepper, chips or cheese is inserted as a sail. You can also take pieces of bread, spread butter on them, put a piece of red fish on top and insert a skewer on which a cucumber or cheese will be threaded like a sail.

♦ You can also make snacks from hot dog buns, small round buns, ciabatta and sausages.

♦ Another great option for snacks for a pirate party is pizza. The pizza must either be decorated in an original way, or it must have a non-standard thematic shape.

♦ Additional snacks that any party cannot do without are fruits and vegetables, which also need to be cut and decorated in a themed style.

♦ salads made from seafood and decorated in a themed style. An original way to decorate salads for a pirate party would be to place them on a dish in the shape of sea animals - octopus, crab, shark, etc. You can also cut out a pirate chest from white or black bread in the shape of a brick and fill it with some delicious salad. In order to make a “bread” chest, you need to cut off the top of the brick and use a knife to cut out the flesh of the bread so as not to cut through the crust along the edges and bottom. You can see one of the options for decorating salads for a themed pirate party in the photos below. You can also decorate the salad by adding crab sticks laid out in the shape of claws, or you can put peas in the shape of beads, etc. It is ideal if there are seafood dishes on the holiday table. Baked fish, stewed mussels, fried octopus or skewers of shrimp and mussels - a truly rich pirate buffet!

♦ An important point in organizing a pirate party is the availability of desserts. Pirates, although they are formidable sea robbers, also love sweets. Here you can offer guests a variety of desserts decorated in a pirate theme. For example, custard cakes shaped like boats; two-layer cookies in the middle of which a white round candy in the shape of a pearl is inserted; crab-shaped marmalade; chocolate gold coins, and of course - a cake in the shape of a large pirate ship with cannons or in the shape of a treasure chest.

♦ And now the most important thing - what would a pirate be without a bottle of rum? Alcoholic drinks can be drunk both in pure form - rum, brandy, whiskey, and in the form of cocktails. By placing a piece of ice in a glass, the rum can be diluted with cranberry juice, whiskey and brandy with cola. You can also be more original and prepare real pirate cocktails that will make your pirate party even more unforgettable. We will offer you detailed recipes for such cocktails for a pirate party.

— “Hot Pirate Grog” cocktail. Perfect as a festive warming drink if you're planning a pirate party during the cooler months. Ingredients: put 2 lemon slices, 3 cloves, 3 cardamom into an Irish coffee glass. Pour 40 ml white rum and 100 ml hot black tea. Add 20 ml sugar syrup, squeeze 20 ml lemon juice. Stir and garnish with a cinnamon stick.

- Mojito cocktail. Mojito is considered one of the leading refreshing pirate drinks. In the 16th century, pirates added mint and lime to rum to dull the taste of molasses and fermented sugar cane. In addition, on ships on long voyages, citrus fruits served to prevent certain sea diseases - scurvy. The classic way to prepare a Mojito cocktail is based on white rum with the addition of soda. Ingredients: White rum - 60 ml, Lime juice - 45 ml, Brown sugar - 2 spoons, Mint, Soda to taste. To prepare, crush mint leaves with sugar and lime juice in a glass. Pour rum and soda on top. Garnish with lime wedges.

— pirate cocktail “ Bumbo ” . _ Ingredients: white rum 60 ml, water 30 ml; sugar 2 cubes, ideally cane sugar, cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon; nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon. Mix everything thoroughly in a shaker with pieces of ice.

- Bacardi cocktail. Ingredients: white rum 30ml, lime juice 25ml, pomegranate juice "Grenadine" 10ml. Mix everything thoroughly in a shaker with pieces of ice. Garnish the cocktail with pieces of mint.

— Pirates of the Caribbean cocktail. Ingredients: white rum 30ml, sparkling water 30ml, sugar syrup 25ml, lime juice 8 ml, orange bitters 8 drops, mix everything thoroughly in a shaker with pieces of ice.

- Konchanchara cocktail. Ingredients: white rum 50ml, lime juice 25ml, honey syrup 25ml, ice. Place all ingredients in a shaker, shake with ice and pour into a chilled serving bowl. Garnish with a slice of lime or mint. You can verbally replace the usual names of ingredients with fictitious ones. For example, instead of rum, use the name “elixir of fun”, instead of juice “decoction of courage”, etc. Have fun with your guests!

Preparing the script

The scenario of a pirate party for adults depends on the location of the holiday. It is more convenient to organize active games in nature, quizzes at home, and songs and dances in a restaurant.

Start immersing yourself in the atmosphere from the moment you meet your guests. Divide them into two teams - two ships and ask them to come up with a name and pirate nicknames, and choose a captain.

You can include a quest in the script:

Two ships sail to an island where treasures are buried. The one who swims the fastest will receive them - it depends on the number of victories in competitions.
For each victory, one participant receives a piece of the card. By putting them together, guests will be able to find the place where the treasure is buried - gifts for them.
Pirates go to the black market. The more victory coins they have, the more they can buy.
Each competition can be taken as a step towards initiation into pirates. After passing all, the participant receives the title of pirate.

The tasks can be anything. They are easy to adapt for both single and team competitions.

Competitions for a pirate party:

"Boarding". Participants receive a balloon with coins inside. They must burst their opponent's balloon in order to take his “gold” and protect theirs.
"Strength of mind". Plastic stoppers are placed in front of the participants. Whoever blows them away further wins.
"Treasure". In front of the participants stood bowls of water with grapes floating in them. You need to get as many berries as possible with your teeth without using your hands.
"The captain is coming!" Participants drink a cocktail or rum from a large container. They have a certain amount of time. Whoever drinks the most during this time wins. Afterwards the captain “comes” and confiscates the alcohol for himself.
"Secret name" Participants have a piece of paper with a pirate's name attached to their back. They stand facing each other. While jumping on one leg, they must see the opponent's name. The one who first finds out the pirate's secret wins.

Quizzes:

Knowledge of pirate slang.
To know facts about pirates or the plot of a movie about pirates.
Riddles on a sea theme.
Untying sea knots at speed.
The most colorful description of the life of pirates, ships, etc.

Musical accompaniment

Music for the evening is a must. Pirates have always loved to dance, so funny and energetic songs are a must. You can play incendiary songs or make a playlist from the soundtracks of films about pirates.

A party dressed as pirates will help you discover the romance of the seas, constant risk and unbridled fun. It requires careful preparation of details: accurate recreation of the interior, selection of costumes, drawing up a menu, thinking through the script. Such an evening will be remembered for a long time with a cheerful smile on your face.

How to entertain guests?

Pirates are associated with active people with strong emotions. Therefore, for entertainment, you can choose the following: • Before entering the room with a party, place a poster with the jolly pirate Roger, and let everyone entering say a password; a rhyme or any rhyme about pirates will serve as the password. • Be sure to find a holiday leader or play this role yourself. Greet your guests at the entrance, recording each one in a special logbook, while dressing up as Jack Sparrow or Captain Flint. • When throwing a party in a restaurant, seat the guests at separate tables, each table will be a ship of its own and will have a separate name. Thus, when participating in competitions, teams of certain ships will compete with each other. The winners of the competition will receive gold coins from the captain, and at the end of the party, by counting the coins, it will be possible to determine the winning ship. • Since we associate pirates with the search for treasure, this activity becomes mandatory entertainment at such a party. It’s great if the party is expected to be outdoors and there is a small forest or clearing nearby. Draw a large map and cut it into as many pieces as there will be participants in the event. Hide all the map pieces in different places in the forest near your party. And when holding various competitions, leave small hints for participants where they can find pieces of the map. During the break of the competition, do not forget to make a toast and drink in honor of the birthday person of the celebration or select toasts for your event for which you have gathered. When all the parts of the map are collected, with your whole friendly company go in search of the hidden treasure chest. Prepare a chest in advance; the treasure could be a cake for the birthday boy or gifts for party participants. • If you have difficulties organizing music on the street, then you can light a fire and show off all your vocal talents with a guitar.

How to make invitations to a pirate party?

You can be sure that with such recommendations, everyone will like your pirate party, and most importantly, it will not leave either children or adults indifferent. And, of course, you will want to end such an evening with a bright photo that will join your photo album.