Best pirate party food ideas and DIY party food menus for a pirate theme party, children’s birthday party, Halloween kids’ party theme, or even Talk Like A Pirate Day. (Or, just easy snacks for any day.) We used these fun pirate food names for the appetizers, snacks, and desserts, but you can use your own fun party foods names!
What do you serve at a pirate party?
Easy Pirate Party Food Ideas:
- Pirate Pinwheels (tortilla roll-ups)
- Pirate Pond (blue dip with floating Goldfish crackers)
- Pirate Princess Cake
- Pirate Treasure Salad
- Pirate Cannonballs
- Octopus Ocean Pirates Food
- Pirate Peg Legs (Pirate Hotdogs)
- Walk the Chicken Planks
- Pirate Ship Sub Sandwiches (pirate sandwiches)
- Dead Man’s Fingers (fun pirate ship food)
- Pirate Punch
- Polly’s Crackers
Full pirate party menu ideas, pirate themed dinner food, and pirate recipes below! KEEP SCROLLING! (These work for pirate party food ideas for adults or kids parties, or even pirate party food ideas for toddlers with a few adjustments!) We have everything you need for the best pirate party ever!
PARTY TIP: Looking for pirate party games, pirate party decorations and kids pirate costume ideas? Be sure to see more party tips after the food ideas!
Before we get to our must-try pirate-themed goodies for your party pirate adventure, here’s how our DIY pirate party started…
One year my daughter asked specifically for a Hello Kitty pirate party.
(I guess it was more like a pirate and princess theme.)
So, I had to do some creative pirate theme planning.
(When we had this party, pink pirate party supplies were not a thing! Weird, to think about now, I know!)
These suggestions aren’t just for a pirate and princess party, though.
You can use them for any pirate theme, pirate birthday party ideas, and any fun pirate party foods ideas!
Let’s get to the food for a pirate themed party!
12 Best Pirate Party Themed Food For Fun Kids’ Parties
OK!
Now the fun ideas for pirate party food and pirate party snacks!
I’ve included the pirate expressions (pirate names) we used with our pirate snacks, but you can make up your own for your pirate food ideas!
These are fun for pirate adventure dinner or even just pirate party finger food ideas / pirate foods for parties, Pirates of the Caribbean food ideas theme, and a really easy pirate themed menu!
What kind of food would you serve at a pirate themed party?
1. Pirate Pinwheels
The Pirate Pinwheels are really fiesta roll-ups, but they make the perfect pirate party snack ideas.
You just make them with tortillas, ranch mix, shredded cheese, and cream cheese.
It’s a super simple recipe that everyone seems to love and an easy pirate birthday party food idea!
It’s also a vegetarian option for those guests who prefer that and works for pirate dinner ideas, party lunch, or snacks for pirates at your party!
These are a great addition to a pirate theme dinner for adults, too!
(If you want warm appetizers, try this pinwheel recipe instead.)
2. Pirate Fishing Pond
The Pirate Fishing Pond is ranch dip (sour cream and dried ranch mix) with blue food coloring to make it look like water. However, you can make it any dip flavor you like (just add the blue food coloring to make it ocean-y).
Then, add sides of Goldfish crackers and celery sticks.
The kids can “fish” using the celery as fishing poles and the Goldfish crackers will stick to them with the ranch dressing dip.
(I love this as fish themed party snacks for toddlers and preschoolers or fishing themed birthday party food ideas, too!)
These are fun pirate snacks for birthday party or pirate parties themes, super easy pirate desserts ideas if you make the dip sweet, or if you need pirate themed snacks for preschool.
3. Octopus Ocean
What would pirate theme food be without some beasts of the sea? This is great if you’re looking for pirate candy ideas or even sea themed party food / ocean themed food recipes or beach party menu ideas, too!
We made this easy sweet treat Octopus Ocean is made of blue Jello.
After the Jello set in the refrigerator, I pushed Swedish Fish, Gummy Worms and Sour Octopus gummies into the Jell-O and on top of the Jello so it looked like they were swimming in the water.
Be sure to make the jello in a glass bowl so you can see the fish and worms and octopi “swimming” in the ocean.
If you want individual servings for pirate themed appetizers, make them in clear cups like this.
PARTY TIP: This snack was a HUGE hit with the kids and will become your little pirate’s favorite food!
If you’re wondering what kind of food should we have for one year old pirate birthday party or toddlers, blue ocean jello cups are great options!
4. Hello Kitty Pirate Princess Cake
My daughter wanted a Hello Kitty Pirate Princess party, so that’s why we have a Hello Kitty pirate cake.
Just in case you do want to make a Hello Kitty Pirate Princess cake…
My husband and I made the Hello Kitty Pirate Princess cake ourselves.
It wasn’t as hard as we thought (we made a template out of paper and worked from there), but it was our first time working with fondant, so there was a learning curve for that.
(Like, we made the fondant way, way too thick and now my daughter hates fondant on cakes.)
For the shape:
We found an image of Hello Kitty on the internet and printed it out and cut it out on paper.
Then, we laid the cut out on top of a sheet cake and just cut around the template. (If you’re not that adventurous, you can just use a Hello Kitty cake pan like this.)
We made the face, pirate eye patch, bow, and bones coming out of the kitty (like a skull and crossbones) out of fondant.
The pink around the cake is just pink sugar.
You could also make a regular skull and crossbones cake (non-Hello Kitty theme) with this cake pan.
This was one of those fun pirate birthday party food ideas, but I’m not sure we would make it again. We’d probably just make pirate cake pops or pirate cupcakes.
5. Pirate Cannonballs
Hands down, these were the star of the party and perfect if you want sweet pirate treats for party, but don’t want a cake or cupcakes (or if you’re looking for simple pirate cake ideas and alternatives).
The “Pirate Cannonballs” were chewy brownies, shaped into balls and dipped in chocolate (kind of like cake pops without the stick) – super simple recipe and super yummy.
DEFINITELY add these to your pirate themed treats!
GET THE FULL PIRATE CANNONBALLS BROWNIE RECIPE
6. Pirate Treasure Salad
The kids also loved the Pirate Treasure Salad.
I used:
- Balled melon
- Strawberries
- Canned mandarin oranges
- Canned fruit salad (with juice)
Then, I added star-shaped colored marshmallows and called it a Pirate Treasure.
You can use any fruit that your kids love in this salad, but I think the star marshmallows really made it feel more treasure-y.
You can also leave it in a hollowed out watermelon, put a pirate mast ship on it and call it a watermelon pirate ship.
Great for pirate fruit snacks!
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7. Pirate Ship Sandwiches
We also made long sandwiches (on sub sandwich rolls) and put “masts” on them to look like ships.
The masts are just the Hello Kitty pirate princess (you could use a pirate ship or skull and crossbones or whatever) printed on off-white paper.
I then cut around them and burned the edges to make them look like ships that had been in battle.
I glued the paper to wood chopsticks so that they were sturdy to stick into the sandwiches. (They turned out really cool.)
You can also call them Skull and Cross-bone Sandwiches with pirate flags like these.
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8. Pirate Punch
We made a party kid punch and called it Pirate Punch.
Honestly, this can be any kind of punch that you like … even juice just poured into a punch bowl.
If you want to do individual drink cups, this swirling punch is really fun.
9. Walk the Chicken Planks
I also made plain old chicken strips and called them Walk the (Chicken) Planks.
I included ranch dipping sauce and a few other sauces.
These were a huge hit, too, for our pirate party ideas food.
You can also do chicken nuggets and call them treasure golden nuggets.
What you provide at your pirate theme party is only limited by your imagination!
10. Dead Men’s Fingers
These baked apple fries can easily become a dead man’s fingers for your party of pirates and pirate themed food!
GET THE APPLE FRIES RECIPE HERE
11. Polly’s Crackers
Prepacked bags of mini cheese crackers (or packages like this) make great pirate party favor ideas!
Label the bags with “Polly’s Crackers” and attach them to parrot fidget toys like this.
12. Pirate’s Booty Golden Treasure
We originally made these gold treasure snacks for a gold at the end of the rainbow snacks, but you can easily make them for a pirate’s party, too.
Place these gold popcorn bites inside a treasure chest like this and call them Pirate’s Booty Gold.
GET THE POPCORN GOLD RECIPE HERE
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