dreamaastrid | Pirates

All you pirates and parents out there - got a question or two..

I'm on my class reunion committee. And we are having a picnic for the families the Sunday after our reunion dinner/dance. We'll I'm helping organize kids games and since our school mascot was a "Raider" as in a pirate here are the committees ideas so far:

Kids Games
1. Musical Chairs
2. Freeze dance
3. Three-legged race (tie legs together with Pirate bandannas)
4. Limbo
5. Water Balloon relay race (teams or 2 or 4 must hold bandannas with the water balloons on top)

and pirate stuff for favors:
3 dozen bandannas, 3 dozen bubbles, and a gross of eyepatches, temporary pirate tattoos, and treasure coins

and a Parrot Pinata filled with candy and pirate loot including jewels, necklaces, telescopes, etc.

I found them at http://www.deadmentellnotales.com/index.shtml

For the winners of the games we figured we'd get #1 medals for 1.79 a 4 pack.

Oh yea and balloons a plenty - blue and white (school colors)

Some of the other things they had at the party store that I didn't think were good ideas were pirate weapons - swords, daggers, guns - but I could just see the kids beating each other with them or poking an eye out and they were also much more costly $3 or more each. The pirate hats, and goblets were like $3 or more a piece...

Any other ideas that are inexpensive?

Laurie