Pirate Party Decorations

I'm breaking G's birthday party into two posts. I wanted to show the decorations separately from the party fun, or else we'd have a super long blog post today!

We had a blast in our 'photo booth'. I made beards, mustaches, and balloon signs for props, and had pirate hats, hooks, telescopes, and eye patches! I purchased most of the pirate hats at Hobby Lobby when they were on sale after Christmas, and I found some in Target's $1.00 section around Halloween!

I took each little pirate's picture, and they'll be receiving it in a few days!

The props were easy to make with just scrapbook paper and paint stirrer sticks; you can also use dowel rods, but I didn't want to pay for them :)
I made a sign to hang on the door as our party guests entered. I hung the sign with twine, distressed it with ink, and hot glued three gold coins on it.

I made a treasure map using shipping paper, that I purchased from the $1.00 store. I printed off images that you would find on a treasure map (island, ship, volcano, palm trees, totem poles) and glued them on. I then added dash lines and a giant red X. We used this as our photo backdrop as well as a "Pin the treasure chest on the X" game.

You could also distress each of the pictures with your ink pad, crinkle the paper, and burn the edges.

I stored our photo props in a basket, and we had a large treasure chest for our pirates to dig through and take home their very own treasures!
Inside the treasure chest, the pirates found compass', necklaces, gold coins, chocolate coins, pirate themed silly bands, diamond rings, and telescopes!

I made the telescopes using left over scrapbook paper from the invitations. I glued it around the tube, and added hot pink paper to some of them where the paper didn't evenly meet the bottom of the tube. (Place on paper clips to hold the paper down while it dries.)
I ordered treasure map placemats from Oriental Trading, and purchased the Pirate ship from Target.
I made a "Happy Birthday" banner using scrapbook paper and twine to hang on the mantle. I also added red candles and necklaces on the mantle.

I would really like to know if i'm the only person that does this, but I color coordinate our wrapping paper with the party theme! Please tell me, i'm not alone! I purchased red wrapping paper, and added pink, gold, black, black/silver, and twine as the bows!
Each child received their very own pirate cup for their party drink (ale) and they were able to take it home with them! I found these in Target's $1.00 section this summer.
We served Cannon Balls (oreo truffles)
Deep Sea Creatures (cucumbers)
and "Octopus eyes" (grapes)

The cucumbers and grapes were placed on sword skewers from a party supply store.

I placed the food on gold & silver charges.

Guests were served chocolate or vanilla cupcakes with red whipped icing and pirate sticks.

I made the cupcake stand by purchasing two gold plates and a hot gluing a glass candlestick between them, and a silver necklace around the top tray.