Preschool Pirate Theme 
Book List
A Pirates Life for Me - Julie Thompson
Do Pirates Take Baths? - Kathy Tucker
Edward and The Pirates - David M. McPhail
Everything I know about Pirates - Tom Lichtenheld
Matthew and The Midnight Pirates - Allen Morgan
Pirates Past Noon - Mary Pope Osborne
Scooby-Doo and the Sunken Ship - James Gelsey
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Hand Hooks
Make hooks for hands by taking a Styrofoam cup. Draw a hook on
cardboard, cut it out and insert it in the bottom of the cup. The kids then insert their hand and it looks like a Pirate's Hook Hand.
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare
Eye Patches
Make eye patches out of black foam and elastic bands.
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare
Buccaneer Hats - For 12 hats
1 pkg. or 12 sheets 20x30 inch black tissue paper
For each hat, fold a sheet of tissue into a 20x15 inch
rectangle. Now fold the rectangle into a 10x15 inch rec., with the major fold at the top. Fold the corners of each top side down 7 inches and crease. There should be about a 1 inch space at the top. Fold bottom on each side up 1-1/2 inches. Crease. Fold up 1-1/2 inches again and crease. Turn hat over and repeat on
the other side. Staple hat together at edges. On the right side of hat, slightly off center, staple a feather behind the cuff or brim. Stick a gold seal over the staple.
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare
Pirate Boats
Make little pirate boats out of a 1/2 a walnut shell. Insert Plasticine in the bottom Then attach a toothpick with a little paper sail. You can have pirate ship races.
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare
12 marabou feathers
12 gold seals
Treasure Hunt - sensory table
Like a scavenger hunt only for a list of things to find for the very young children, you could use pictures instead.
~Submitted by Carol in MD
Pirate Game
Swashbuckling Bread sticks We can have a sword fight with bread sticks the object is to break down your opponent's bread stick, without damaging their own, or as little as possible. When one player's bread stick becomes so short that he or she can no longer use it, the player surrenders the stub and is forced to "walk the plank."
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare
Pirate Scavenger Hunt
We hide the items in the area beforehand then the kids are given a list of what to find.
1 skull & cross bones (I make them out of white fun foam)
Give the kids an allotted time to find as many items on the list.
~Submitted by Cheryl's Sweethearts ChildCare
1 Jolly Roger Flag
4 golden doubloons (chocolate gold covered coins)
1 bottle of rum (I use those little liqueur chocolate bottles)
3 jewels ( I use different coloured beads, red for rubies, green for emeralds and so on)
1 gold earring
2 parrot feathers
1 eye patch
1 treasure map
1 shell from Oak Island
Coming Soon!
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