Me hearties dressed for the part. Instead of newspaper hats, I took 2 pieces of black construction paper and cut them into the pirate hat shape (rectangle with a bump) and then stapled the ends together. It's actually open at the top, like a crown, but I thought they looked better than the newspaper hats. The skull and crossbones were cut freehand from white paper and glue sticked on.
The pistols we just had lying around (I think from a costume party before we had kids...).
The kids did piratical paper packets (everything from alphabetizing pirate words to treasure themed mazes) adjusted to their ages. We went heavy on fmap skills
Then they made their own pirate flags (after looking up the meaning of the symbols and colors). We also did the pirate web adventure, determined our pirate names, and listened to sea shanties.
Then it was on to the main event!
This time around, I didn't do a clue by clue hunt, but instead did a treasure map.They started on top of the mountain (upstairs), trekked through an alligator infested swamp (the boys bathroom), and you see them here making their way through a thick forest.
Then they went into a spooky cave with only a single torch to light their way...The treasure was in the innermost cavern, marked with an X!
Gold, silver, chocolate, and jewels for everyone!!!
At the moment, we are finishing up by watching Pirates of Penzance.
I'll leave you with a sea shanty. As you may know, there are different kinds of shanties depending on the kind of work they were sung to. Different jobs used different rhythms. This is a capstan shanty, used to keep everyone together while turning the capstan (the large horizontal wheel which raises the anchor) :
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