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Sailor Themed Party
Ages: 3 to 10
Invitations:
Make your invitation in the shape of a sailboat, life preserver or
sailor’s hat and write the information on the inside. See how to
make a
Paper Sail Boat.
Decoration Ideas
Think red, white and blue for a color scheme. Put out play boats
and any other nautical themed items you may have like lighthouses,
flags, fishing poles, rubber ducks, life jackets, binoculars etc.
Set up a few kiddie pools or large tubs and float boats in them.
Set out sailor hats for the kids to wear while at the party.
Craft Ideas
Provide the kids with popsicle sticks, paper,
crayons, glue and glitter and let them make a boat.
They can also make a
Paper Sail Boat.
You could also make hats out of newspaper and
provide the kids with items to decorate them.
The kids can also make their own telescopes out of
paper towel tubes.
Game Ideas
Have the kids do boat races with the boats they
make or toy boats you already have. Have the kids at one end of the
pool or tub and let them blow on the boats. The first boat to the
other side wins.
Set up a fishing hole by putting a blue sheet over a
clothes line or porch railing. Give the kids fishing poles (sticks
with a string attached) and have them throw the line into the
watering hole (over the sheet). Have someone behind the sheet attach
small prizes to each line.
Sailor Dress Up Relay
Divide the kids into groups of at least four. Have
them line up at one end of the party area. At the other end put out
a life preserver, sailor hat, and toy binoculars for each group.
When you tell the kids to start the first kid runs down, puts the
items on and then runs back. Then next kid in line must take the
items from the first kid and put them on, then run down to the other
end and remove the items and leave them there. They then run back to
their group and the next person runs down and puts the items on.
This continues until everyone on the team has worn the items at
least once.
Food
Ideas
Make sailboat snacks by cutting an apple in quarters. Put a
toothpick in the center and add a piece of fruit roll cut in a
triangle as a sail on the toothpick. You can turn little
sandwiches into sailboats with this idea as well. Offer fish
sticks, fish shaped crackers, and gummy fish in a blue punch. Make
the cake in the shape of a sailboat and make cookies shaped like
fish to put out underneath the cake. You could also make a round
cake look like a life preserver.
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