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Halloween Pirate Pool Party

Make the most of the crazy success of Pirates of the Caribbean by throwing your own Halloween Pirate Pool Party! This party is legendary because it combines two things that rarely go together, Halloween costumes and a pool!

This party can be held in the summer when everyone is dying to dress up but doesn’t have a good reason too or with an indoor pool in October! It also challenges your friends to be creative enough to find a costume that fits around a suit that can get wet!

Games & Activities

Costume Contest
Every Halloween Pirate Pool Party must have a costume contest! Award prizes for these categories to mix things up a bit: Best Wet Costume, Best Swimwear Costume, and Most Likely to Scare Away the Opposite Sex Costume. Award the winners Pirate Medallion Beads.

Dead Man Float Contest
Players start by swimming and lying down on the bottom of the pool. If a player floats up, that’s ok as long as they don’t take a breath. 

The last player to breathe fresh air wins! 

Tip: if you exhale before you go down you’ll be able to stay on the floor longer.

Save the Pumpkin from a Watery Death
Get yourself a pumpkin, cut the stem off, and cover it with baby oil. Drop it in the middle of your pool.

Have all of the players on the outside of the pool.

On ‘GO’ all the players jump into the pool and try to get the pumpkin. The first person out of the pool with the pumpkin wins!

Walk the Pirate Plank
Choose the person with the birthday closest to Halloween to start this. Put them on the plank (the diving board). Ask them a Halloween trivia question.

If they answer correctly, they get to decide who "Walks the Plank" next and are still in the game. They must choose someone who hasn’t walked the plank yet.

If they answer incorrectly, off the plank and into the water they go! They are out of the game! Then you decide who walks the plank next. Again, it needs to be someone that hasn’t walked yet.

Keep playing in rounds until you get to the winner, the only person that didn’t walk the plank!

Treasure Chest Piņata
Get yourself a Treasure Chest Pinata and fill it with Hershey’s Treasures, chocolate gold coins, and other fun Halloween candy. Hang it from something. Then grab a stick and a blindfold and have at it!

Drink up, me 'earties, yo ho

Rum! Where's the rum? At your Halloween Pirate Pool Party! This concoction of rums will have all your friends shouting Yo Ho! Yo Ho! A Pirates Life for Me!

Pirates Party Punch

Ingredients
1 cup 151 rum
1/2 cup dark rum
1/4 cup coconut rum
2 1/2 cups pineapple juice
2 1/2 cups orange juice
1/4 cup lime juice
3 tbsp grenadine syrup

Directions
Mix all ingredients together in a punch bowl. Throw in a ladle and allow your guests to serve themselves!

Food

Fish 'n' Chips is a Pirate’s favorite meal and your guests will enjoy it too! Include snacky foods like Goldfish crackers, Hershey’s Chocolate Treasures, ‘Jewels’ (cut up fresh fruit), and Halloween Tortilla Chips, and Halloween Brain Mush Dip

Location

Hmmm, let's see. Where do you think a Halloween Pirate Pool Party would be held? A pool of course! You're so smart!

Don’t have your own pool? Call a local pool and ask them about parties. Or see if a nearby hotel has any pool party packages! Or buy a slip-n-slide and name it the ‘SLIDE OF DEATH’.

Music Playlist

Download the Pirates Soundtracks and mix them in with music that you love.

Invitations

Make your own Halloween Pirate Pool Party invitations that look like treasure maps!

Decorations

Start at the front door since you want people to know this is where to party is! A Personalized Pirate Skull Door Cover is a lot of fun! Personalize it with ‘Ahoy, me Hearties to Monica’s Party’ or something like that! Add a Pirates of the Caribbean Skull Door Mat and everyone will feel welcome!

Now that people are inside, they will want to use the bathroom! Put a Pirates Of The Caribbean Door Knocker with Sound on the door to scare the pee out of your guests trying to pee! Hee! Ok, that might have been too much rhyming . . .

For the pool, throw a bunch of Halloween rubber ducks and eyeballs in the pool to creep out your guests and make the games harder!

Use a Pirate Inflatable Treasure Chest to hold all your cold drinks.

Make a graveyard scene out by your pool. Really creep your guests out by adding some movement to your graveyard scene!

Add lots of pirate party balloons and orange balloons and voila, your party is decorated!

Paparazzi Photos

Set up picture area with a beach scene. Add hanging skeletons and fighting pirates and everyone will line up to take pics by it!

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