How to Make an Easy Treasure Chest Cake
3-12 ounce pound cakes, 2 tubs-8 ounces Cool Whip, Assorted Candy for jewels, 3 pretzel rods cut to hold chest open, regular pretzels for chest handles
You can use any pound cake, I found mine at Sams Club. Cut a 1/2 inch slice off the top of the cake & set aside (this is the top of chest). Hollow out a little of the center of the cake to make room for cool whip & jewels. Spoon cool whip into center of cake and frost rest of cake. Add pretzel handles. Add broken pretzel rods to hold up chest lid. Place cake lid on top of pretzels & frost. After I hollowed out my cake I put it in the freezer for a little while so it was easier to frost and add the jewels. After you decorate your cake leave in fridge or freezer until ready to serve. I had mine in the freezer because it was summer time.
Pirate Birthday Party Ideas
How to Make a Treasure Chest: This is simple just buy a styrofoam cooler paint it with gold spray paint (it took 1 whole can for mine). Once paint is dry apply decorations jewels etc. (I glued the pirate napkins on the side of the chest). The kids loved finding this at the end of the treasure hunt.
Easy Treasure Hunt: I had 12 kids at the party so I took 12 pictures of items in my yard that would lead me to where I hid the treasure chest. For example: I started at the front bush went to the mailbox, to the side gate etc. taking a picture of each item.
Then I put 1 picture in each envelope. I number the envelopes (1-12) in order to take me to the treasure chest. Then I hid the number 1 envelope in the bush, the number 2 envelope on the mailbox, number 3 envelope in the gate etc.
Next I wrote a clue to find each envelope example: I am tall & green I live in the front yard my family puts christmas lights on me. (front bush) example: I am tall and silver people visit me 6 days a week I am in the front yard. (mailbox)
I give 1 clue to each child.
I tell them NOT to open the envelope everyone meet back at me.
When all clues are found then we all look for the chest, the child with envelope number 1 opens it to find the picture where we start (front bush) who has envelope 2 where do we go next (mailbox)...
TIL WE FIND THE TREASURE.
I did this with mostly 7 year olds and it was the hit of the party.
What did I put in the treasure chest, I was lucky and found 5 packages on pirate gear to fill the chest each contained swords, guns, treasure maps, tatoos, earings, hook hands and eye patches. When we found the treasure I had the kids line up and picked what they wanted.
GAME:
An alternative to musical chairs.
I purchased gem stone looking rings for this game, I put them on a table.
12 children 11 rings on the table.
Start the music when it stops who ever has a ring stays in the game, take a ring away each round til you have a winner. The winner keeps the ring & picks another gift from the treasure chest.
