Handmade Pirate Party Favors

Guests love homemade party favors and they are a great way of showing your appreciation for their attendance. Homemade pirate’s eye patches and hats make excellent party favors for a pirate theme party and they are not very hard to make.

It is always easy to make homemade party favors if you plan ahead and assemble all the materials you need before you start to make them. For the eye patch you will need black cardstock paper, black elastic or black yarn, pen, glue and scissors. Sketch the basic shape of an eye patch on the cardstock to make a template. Use this template to cut out enough eye patches. To make the bulge in the eye patch, cut from one edge up to the center. Overlap the cut edges and glue them together. Make small incisions on either side and attach the elastic to the eye patch.

To make the pirate hat homemade party favors you will need the skull and swords design or stickers along with all the other materials needed for making the eye patch. Trace the basic shape of a pirate’s hat on a cardstock to make a template and use this to cut out as many hats as you need from the black cardstock paper. The length of the hat should be about half the circumference of an average kid’s head. Stencil in the skull and swords design in center of the hat or instead of a stencil you can use a skull and swords sticker to make your job easier. Tie the elastic or the yarn to the hat by making small incisions on both ends of the hat.