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If you are having a pirate theme party at your home this Halloween and you are looking for instructions on how to make an authentic looking pirate map to decorate your wall with, then you have come to the right place! This is such an easy project to do, and really adds to the atmosphere of your party.

Here are the items you will need…

• White construction paper
• Tea bags
• Colored markers
• Lighter (to char the edges of the map a little)
• Large cookie sheet (or bathtub, if you are making an extra large pirate map)
• Blow Dryer
• Cooking Oil
• Paper Towels

First of all, you are going to “age” the paper. If you are making a small size map then you will need a large cookie sheet filled with cold tea solution. If you are making an extra large size you will need to fill the bottom of a bathtub with some cold tea.

Dip the paper in the tea for about 5 minutes. Then flip and leave it in there for about 1 more minute. At this time, when the paper is wet and pliable, carefully tear and fray the edges a little, this helps to make it look more like an authentic pirate map.

Then remove the paper from the tea and gently crumple it up a little and then lay it out more or less flat and allow it to dry.

If you are in a hurry, then you can speed up this process by using a blow dryer.

Blow dry on high for about 5 minutes (leave it lying flat to prevent it from tearing or breaking). When it’s mostly dry (and starts to lift up a bit) then switch the blow dryer to low setting to finish it off (about another 2 minutes).

When it is completely dry. then lightly char the edges with a lighter. This adds a really authentic touch. If you don’t feel comfortable using a lighter, then as an alternative you can use cinnamon powder. Just sprinkle a little over the torn edges and rub it in a bit. It will colour the wrinkles and torn edges more than the actual surface of the paper, and will also give it an old an authentic appearance.

Now it’s time to draw your map. Take some markers and just get creative. I have included on this page some pictures of finished pirate treasure maps to help give you some inspiration. Some suggestions to add are…landmarks like mountains, ponds, beaches, lakes, forests, palm trees. You could also add shark fins in the water, waterfalls, large rocks, jungles, caves, trees, rivers, and of course a compass rose and a big X to mark where the treasure is!

Now wipe both sides with a small amount of cooking oil. Finally, blot off the excess with paper towels – this will make it will look and feel like genuine parchment!

That’s it, that’s all it takes to make a really authentic treasure map that you can be proud to display at your pirate party!

All you need to do now is decorate the rest of your home with other pirate decor like a Jolly Roger flag, gold coins, a treasure chest, etc and dress up as a pirate!

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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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This is soooooooo easy to make and is a great finishing touch to your pirate girl costume. All you need is some black felt that you can get at your local fabric store or your local craft store and then a couple of shoe laces or a piece of elastic (black would be best).

First of all you need to draw on a piece of paper a shape that is your basic eye patch shape, you just have to approximate this, but it’s better to make it too big than too small, as you can easily make it smaller one once you have cut out the basic shape.

Use this piece of paper as your pattern and pin it onto a piece of black felt and cut out the patch.

Now you have your patch and all you have to do it to attach the shoelaces so you can tie it round your head. Just push one end of each of the shoelaces through the felt patch at each side of the patch and make a knot in it so that it won’t pull back through the felt when you try to put it on.

All you have to do now is to tie the ends snugly behind your head.

If you have chosen to use elastic, then just do the same as you would for the shoelaces to attach each of the ends of the elastic to the patch.

There you have it, an easy great finishing touch to your piratess Halloween costume!

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