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If you are planning on having a pirate party this Halloween, then to make it even more memorable you will need to decorate your home with some authentic pirate decor to make it an awesome swashbuckling soiree!

With all the amazing Halloween stores that are now available online, you are going to be spoilt for choice when it comes to pirate props and decorations. What I have done is to research some of the biggest online costume and accessory stores and came up with a list of what I thought were the coolest pirate theme party decor, and which were
quality items at an affordable price…

A Peel’ n place pirate wall decoration is a great start. These can be used year after year if you are careful how you take it off the wall. The one I found, that I thought was authentic, had a rustic look of real weather-beaten wood and measured approximately 20″ wide x 11.5″ high, and said “Beware Of Pirates”. This decoration is made of plastic and will cling to just about any flat surfaces, for example, you can easily put it on walls, windows or doors.

What about a pirate flag? All pirates used flags as a symbol as to which piracy group they sailed under. There’s always the typical Jolly Roger that everyone knows about, but the one I really liked was a little more unique and definitely more colorful! It is a pirate skull with crossed pirate swords are displayed in the center with the words, “Pirates Only – No Trespassing! – All Others Will Walk The Plank” written on it. It has eye-catching brilliant colors. After your pirate theme party it doesn’t have to be folded up and put away, as it would be great for a bedroom or game room too!

You know that pirates are infamous for drinking rum, and lots of it! A pirate’s life can be tough, so it didn’t hurt to have a little something to take the edge off – a pirate’s bottle of rum! This is a great pirate prop. The one I found is a brown bottle with a red label, white skull and crossbones. It also has a blue ribbon style label featuring a red skull on the bottles neck, and a cork top. This plastic bottle adds a nice touch for pirate-y effect, either tucked into a cloth belt or used as simple decoration. It has a nice weathered look, and is really quite unique.

Then finally there’s the huge life-size pirate decoration, he is perfect for your pirate party. This jointed pirate skeleton cut-out will tower over your most of your guests at a whopping 6′ high with his skeletal parrot on his shoulder. This wall hanging is one-sided and made of cardboard. Just imagine this freaky chappy hanging on your hallway wall to greet your guests as they arrived!

Then, if you liked making crafts, you could go to your local craft store and buy a few items and then you could make some of the following homemade pirate decor…

• A treasure chest – you could make one out of a shoebox or cardboard box, or if you were extra ambitious you could make a proper life-size one out of wood!
• Make some gold coins – cover large round cut-outs of cardboard with gold foil. Make them different sizes, coins come in all different sizes. You could add these to the treasure chest, if you made one.
• You could bake a pirate cake or a pirate ship cake and put in the center of your table.
• You could make some Jolly Roger flags – just draw the skull and crossbones shape onto black construction paper and then paint the drawing with white paint. You could make a few of these and then put them all over the walls around your house.

For your pirate theme party, not only could you decorate your home with the pirate decor I’ve mentioned above, but another great idea would be to have a real treasure hunt! You could make your own realistic looking pirate treasure map and think up your own treasure hunt, or you can actually buy online some already prepared treasure hunt games for all different age groups, they can be purchased for ages 5-9 years (easy), ages 10-teen (medium) and teen-adult (hard). All you then need to do is for you and all your guest to dress up in pirate costumes and female pirate costumes and you will have the best pirate party ever! Don’t forget to take lots of photos, you’ll want to remember this one!

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You’ve probably seen those homes on your neighborhood that have some really great Halloween decorations that they put up each year. Well why not join them, this year, and really dress up your home and yard – you don’t have to buy them from a store, you can make your own!

It can even be a fun activity for your whole family to get involved in, your children would probably love to help you out with making the decorations as Halloween approaches, and it will help to put you all in the Halloween mood.

There are a few basic supplies that are a must-have when you want to make your own Halloween decorations. You can easily get these things at your local craft store. The most important ones are…

• Construction paper
• Glue and/or glue sticks
• Newspaper to help protect your work surfaces
• Tape
• Markers
• Crayons
• Pencils
• Stickers of all types
• Scissors
• Styrofoam (if you want to make tombstones)
• Paints and paintbrushes
• Lettering materials whether they be stencils, stickers, or plastic.

You can add anything else you think you may want to this list or you can see what your children come up with when they look at what is available.

Some people choose a specific theme for Halloween and stick with that and decorate their homes accordingly and choose their costumes to match. For example, if your theme was vampires and you dress up as Dracula or female vampires, then your decorations you should make would be bats, coffins, stakes, fangs etc. However,if you decided your theme this year was to be pirates and you are dressing up as a pirate lass or Captain Hook, then your decorations would include such things as skull and crossbones, ships, cutlasses, parrots, eye patches, jolly roger flags, treasure chest, gold coins etc.

If you want to make a decoration a bit more adult, then you can go for things like wood and glass, and the correct type of paints you would need to cover them. Sometimes, some paints can come off the glass or wood when exposed to the weather or if they are handled too much. You can also get some type of top coat that you can use to keep your items looking nice and lasting longer so you will have them for many more years to come.

It may also be a good idea to consider getting some waterproofing material to apply to your decorations if you know something is going to be used outside and will have to endure weather conditions like rain, snow, and wind. You can ask at your local hardware store as to which product would be the best to use.

For interior Halloween decorations just think about what Halloween means to you. Some of the best types of decorations are ones that will be spooky but don’t actually outright freak someone out. You can get all types of spider webs very cheaply and they will look great, and really add to the Halloween atmosphere. You can stretch out and drape the spider webs wherever you want in your home and then make or buy spiders to add to the webs. Nowadays, you can even find web that works outside and is resistant to all kinds of weather conditions.

If you find that you are having trouble coming up with ideas to make your own Halloween decorations, or you are running short on time and you have only got some of the ones you had planned to make, completed, then you can always go out and buy what else you need. Look at online Halloween stores for great ideas, values, and fast shipping times. Things like orange outdoor lights are great, and you can even now get purple ones as well. Sometimes you may find that you can get things cheaper if you buy more than one item, so buy try to buy something in groups if you can use all of the items they offer. Another source for great ideas for making your own Halloween decorations is to visit your local craft store a month or so before Halloween.

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