We went to Beaver Meadows with my parents and sister for a long weekend and stayed in a condo (great deals, BTW if you are looking near the Denver area). When we arrived, I quickly frosted the treasure chest cake and decorated it. We had our schooner hot dogs with goldfish for dinner and then the cake for dessert. After dinner, we made a treasure hunt with a Pirates of the Carribean set that I got on clearance at Target. It came with a “magic” marker that could only be seen with a special light-up compass. Very cool. I picked up a bunch of coins and a pirate costume set from Dollar Tree and filled the treasure chest. Isaac was very excited to read the clues (tub, sink, bed, door, etc. – all words that he could read on his own) and find the treasure. Aunt Kiki and Grammie and Isaac had several battles, quests and treasure hunts through the weekend, and we had our games, costume and Playmobil pirates for entertainment as well.
Overall, the party was fun, we didn’t want to monopolize the weekend in the mountains with pirates. The schooner dogs were super easy to make and assemble, I did the sails with shiskabob sticks and construction paper while my sister was prepping the hot dogs. For the cake, it was a great recipe/instructions. I would perhaps bake it in a bread pan rather than a 9×13 – because the top and bottom were both the same size, the bottom portion looked a little lost under the jewels. By using a bread pan, the top would already be rounded and you could cut it so that the “lid” was not as thick as the “trunk”. Of course, the one time I actually needed them, I could not find chocolate coins OR candy necklaces, and of course I ran into them the following week. UG. We used butterscotch candies for coins (which did melt after two days, just FYI, but looked great).
Enjoy the pictures!
We didn’t make this at the PIrate Party, it was just something I forgot to add to my Where We are With Pirates post. This was Isaac’s “free choice art” project that he designed and created himself.
This wasn’t a Pirate Party creation either, it was our major Math project for the unit. We sorted and counted Isaac’s playmobil men and their supplies and then made a graph. I had Isaac dictate the steps that we took to make it, and he also made a prediciion about which line was the tallest.
Another view of the Treasure Chest Cake – see what I mean about perhaps using a bread pan instead? One cool thing we discovered was that the fruit roll-ups I bought tore down the center which is why the red border on the edge of the lid looks so cool (I didn’t spend time cutting that!).
In the middle of our treasure hunt, Isaac is reading his clues!
Black Fart finds Ye Clue!
I spent too long re-remembering how to insert pictures and I don’t feel like flipping this one! This is Daddy in the tubes after we wore ourselves out. He and Isaac enjoyed rolling down the hill inside them, much to everyone else’s delight!
Somewhere in there is a tired and cold little pirate. He had a blast with the actual sledding, but the eventual wipe-out at the end each time was not enjoyable for anyone within ear-range.
Emma was SOOO unimpressed with sledding. She only went down about 10 feet before we left because it was so steep, and spent the rest of the time eating snow off her mittens. You only live once, right?
Here are the hot dog schooners, and the treasure chest cake. I can’t believe I got ALL three looking AND smiling in this picture! For us adults, we made the schooners into Chicago dogs with my mom’s homemade chili (so yummy), onions, pickles, cucumbers, banana peppers, and seasoning salt. Very yummy.
