Foster Family Fabulous Feast-A Pirate's Dinner

July 31 was the perfect day for July's Foster Family Fabulous Feast! My wonderful and very creative sister gave me the awesome idea to do a pirate themed dinner and even gave me her decorations (so, yes, we can add super generous to her qualities). Love you, Kimberly! Since it was a rather boyish theme I figured what better day to do it than on my oldest boy's 4th birthday. Plus the pirate theme worked out very well for a treasure hunt for his presents!

Although my sister gave me the idea, with food choices, and decor, I did decide to go one step further and try to find a treasure chest since the food items were treasures.
Chicken nuggets=golden nuggets
Pirate's booty=pirates booty
Green and red grapes=red rubies and green emeralds

I love Freecycle for this very reason. Someone responded to my wanted post and had a pretty large treasure chest for me to use!

I put our black tablecloth on the table and used red plates. (At this point, Foster child #1 comes in and asks, "Ooh, are we having a vampire dinner?" Umm, nooooo. Seriously, where does she come up with this stuff?!?!?!) We also had 1 Mardi gras bead necklace (And another seriously, where did all the other ones go that I know the kids got for free and why would these not be something someone on Freecycle would not want to get rid of?)

I found a super cute craft project for the kids to make parrots for their shoulders here.
Foster dad and I had bandanas on our heads. (It would have also been rather easy to make eye patches and do fake goatees and mustaches, but the day was super busy with a trip downtown. Next time!!!)

My sister made signs that said Shiver Me Timbers and Ahoy, Matey (out of crumpled paper bags, with cut edges and pirate stickers). She also found a printable of a treasure map that she printed on brown paper and also made to look old (cut and burned edges).

Along with our treasure dinner,

we had pirate ships on the open seas (orange slices with pirate flags held with toothpicks on blue jello).

We tried talking pirate during dinner and when the phone rang I asked the kids if I should answer with ARRRGH. Of course, they gave a resounding Arrrgh back, so I had to. (I was fortunate that my guess of it being a family member wishing Foster child #2 a happy birthday was correct!)

After dinner we asked Foster child #2 how a pirate would know where the buried treasure was on a map. (An X marks the spot.) We then sent him on a treasure hunt to look for his birthday presents with his brother and sister closely behind.

We finished the night eating a Pirate Hat shaped cake found here,

and watching the Veggie Tales Movie-the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything. Thanks, Katefor letting us borrow the movie!

* Oh, and sorry Foster Dad for me not being cognizant of you not being in any pictures that night! He was there!!!