Guest Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Anyone got any planning or ideas for a pirates theme please? Children love pirates so we've chosen it as the whole school theme for book week.. would love to find a theatre company who would come to visit us with a pirate themed production. Anyway your ideas would be greatly appreciated! Can't wait till Bookweek!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanking you in anticipation Moo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Anyone got any planning or ideas for a pirates theme please? Children love pirates so we've chosen it as the whole school theme for book week.. would love to find a theatre company who would come to visit us with a pirate themed production. Anyway your ideas would be greatly appreciated! Can't wait till Bookweek!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanking you in anticipation Moo We hid coins (big ones) in a wooden wheelbarrow for a treasure hunt, pin the tail on the parrot, and at my local school I (and a couple of other PTA members) sang/acted 'It's a Pirate's life for me'. . . what a laugh! For the girls who aren't keen, we asked them to dress up as anything feminine, which bought in loads of those georgian style princess dresses - perfect! Treasure maps for find the treasure were great - everyone got a chocolate penny for entering and a sticker for the winners so there weren't tantrums. It's a great theme...oh yes, and we made a pirate flag and stuck it on the climbing frame, pretending it was a ship! Enjoy, enjoy ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 We hid coins (big ones) in a wooden wheelbarrow for a treasure hunt, pin the tail on the parrot, and at my local school I (and a couple of other PTA members) sang/acted 'It's a Pirate's life for me'. . . what a laugh! For the girls who aren't keen, we asked them to dress up as anything feminine, which bought in loads of those georgian style princess dresses - perfect! Treasure maps for find the treasure were great - everyone got a chocolate penny for entering and a sticker for the winners so there weren't tantrums. It's a great theme...oh yes, and we made a pirate flag and stuck it on the climbing frame, pretending it was a ship! Enjoy, enjoy ;-) Thanks for that, Loved the flag for the climbing frame idea! Thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heff Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 We did a Pirates theme a couple of years ago. The children loved it. We made pirate ships from balsa wood -they cut up their own wood and attached pieces together with hammer & nails or glue and then painted them. I was very nervous about the risks but we didn't have any accidents and they spent hours on them. We designed skull & cross bone flags and attached them to the ships and then attempted to float them in the water tray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 We did a Pirates theme a couple of years ago. The children loved it. We made pirate ships from balsa wood -they cut up their own wood and attached pieces together with hammer & nails or glue and then painted them. I was very nervous about the risks but we didn't have any accidents and they spent hours on them. We designed skull & cross bone flags and attached them to the ships and then attempted to float them in the water tray. I like that one- sounds great fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apple Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Ah ha! my favourite ever topic just a quick idea- get the children to bring in a washing tablet soap box- small ones that open like a 'treasure box'. Cover in papier mache and paint brown/ gold. Add a little gold paper if you have some. inside fill with tissue paper. We used them for a circle time as we asked the childrent o bring in soething that they 'treasured' from home- e.g. photo of parent/sibling, or holiday momento, small toy etc. Children then shared their treasure boxes in a circle time and then we had them on display. We also made salt dough pieces of eight to put int he boxes too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue R Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 If you do a Forum search there's loads of stuff!! This is always cropping up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiny Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Have you ever heard of National Talk like a Pirate day? It is in September I think the 19th. We plan on celebrating it this year in our setting! Shiny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 A big welcome to heff and shiny. Thank you for making your first posts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Wow - all of your ideas sound magic! I was going to throw out some large cardboard boxes but i'll be keeping them for pirate ships to paint etc. Managed to get an artist in for a half day to work with us and a drama company who will do a pirate themed show and do some drama with us, on another half day Anyone know of any good books or DVDs that would lend themselves to the theme? Thanx for your help!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiny Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Hi Moo How old are the children? Boogie Beebies do a pirate edition which my son really enjoyed at 4 years old. Shiny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 There's a nice pirate story with CD. Cant remember the name off hand but its a fairly new one so you ought to be able to trace it easily enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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