{"id":537,"date":"2014-09-18T08:34:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T20:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/?p=537"},"modified":"2016-01-13T13:05:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T00:05:31","slug":"veggietales-pirate-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/veggietales-pirate-party\/","title":{"rendered":"VeggieTales Pirate Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/VT-Header.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-543\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/VT-Header-1024x460.jpg\" alt=\"VT Header\" width=\"770\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As promised in <a title=\"VeggieTales Pirate Party Invitations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/veggietales-pirate-party-invitations\/\" target=\"_blank\">last weeks post<\/a>, today is all about the remaining details of my son&#8217;s VeggieTales Pirate Party.\u00a0\u00a0I had so much fun putting this party together.\u00a0 A lot of effort was made to have as many of the party details match scenes from &#8216;The Pirates Who Don&#8217;t Do Anything&#8217; movie &#8211; needless to say, I lost count of the number of times I\u00a0watched the movie and my son still comes out with an &#8216;Arrrgh&#8217; at the most random of times.\u00a0 But that is\u00a0all just part of the fun.<\/p>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Party Highlights:<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>The theming of the food was definitely a highlight for me, in particular the little fish and chips boat dishes.<\/li>\n<li>I thought I would have a go at making the birthday cake as well as all the modelled chocolate figurines.\u00a0\u00a0I was pretty pleased with how it turned out even though there were moments of great frustration.\u00a0\u00a0Let&#8217;s just say I have a new found appreciation for those who do this for a living.<\/li>\n<li>The recycled pallet furniture and the barrels did a really\u00a0good job of setting the party scene.<\/li>\n<li>The way\u00a0I managed to dress the soft toy, Larry,\u00a0to look like his character, Elliot,\u00a0from the movie.<\/li>\n<li>Lastly, I\u00a0loved the little treasure chest favour boxes.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Veggie-Pirates-Page-046.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Veggie-Pirates-Page-046-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Veggie Pirates - Page 046\" width=\"770\" height=\"996\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Party D\u00e9cor:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>The furniture played a big part in setting the party scene.\u00a0 With help from my\u00a0husband,\u00a0we used some old shipping pallets to make bench seats for the children to sit on, and for the &#8216;lemonade stand&#8217; style food table.\u00a0 We also hired some\u00a0barrels\u00a0from <a title=\"First Scene \" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstscene.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Scene <\/a>prop hire.\u00a0 These came in handy for displaying the favours, as well as adding to the d\u00e9cor.\u00a0 At either end of the children&#8217;s table we constructed two ship masts and then hung bunting from\u00a0one to the other.\u00a0 The bunting was from the As You Wish Events &#8216;Simply Nautical&#8217; printables collection.\u00a0\u00a0From this collection also came\u00a0the &#8216;Happy Birthday&#8217; banner, bottle wraps, cupcake wrappers and toppers, toothpick flags, buffet labels and the fish and chips boat dishes.\u00a0 The overall look was finished off with a tea stained tablecloth, hessian runner and a few themed props for the centrepiece.<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Party Favours:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>To help set the atmosphere, as each guest arrived they were given a spotted bandanna to wear, just like Elliot&#8217;s. I had managed to find the perfect fabric for this at Geoff&#8217;s Emporium in Dominion Rd.\u00a0 In addition to\u00a0this each guest received their own little treasure chest, which I had found on Trade Me.\u00a0 Each one held a small bag of gold chocolate coins, a Veggie Pirates bookmark and a Veggie Pirates sticker.\u00a0 The bookmarks and stickers were among the free printables on the <a title=\"Veggie Pirates Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.veggiepirates.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Veggie Pirate website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Veggie-Pirates-Page-048.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-542\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Veggie-Pirates-Page-048-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Veggie Pirates - Page 048\" width=\"770\" height=\"996\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Party Entertainment:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>For this party we decided to keep the entertainment\u00a0rather simple.\u00a0 We set up a colouring-in station with pictures\u00a0download from the Veggie Pirates website.\u00a0 We also had a barrel of fish which could be caught by a magnetic fishing line.\u00a0 Lastly we finished off the party by watching the &#8216;Veggie Tales: The Pirates Who Don&#8217;t Do Anything&#8217; movie.<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>The Party Food:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>As mentioned earlier, we worked really hard to make all the food connect to some part of the movie. As a result this is what we had on the menu:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fish Bites and Chips with tomato sauce served in the boat dishes<\/li>\n<li>Evil Cheese Curls &#8211; aka ETA Cruncheese Corn Snacks<\/li>\n<li>Fudge Cupcakes with themed cupcake toppers<\/li>\n<li>Rocks of Malabar Sundaes &#8211; aka Vanilla Ice cream, coloured with blue food colouring and rocks made from modelling chocolate.<\/li>\n<li>Cannonball Munchkins &#8211; these were from Dunkin Donuts<\/li>\n<li>Pirate Pea Cakepops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Veggie-Pirates-Page-047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-541\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Veggie-Pirates-Page-047-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Veggie Pirates - Page 047\" width=\"770\" height=\"996\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Summing Up:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Because the\u00a0weather wasn&#8217;t great we had to\u00a0squeeze all\u00a0the guests into our smallish house &#8211; but I wouldn&#8217;t have\u00a0changed\u00a0this as I think there is something\u00a0special about entertaining guests at home, and no one seemed to mind.\u00a0 There were enough places to sit, plenty of food for everyone and the hush that came over the children as they ate, said to me\u00a0&#8220;Job well done!&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Vendor Credits:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8216;Simply Nautical&#8217; Party Printables:<\/strong> As You Wish Events Ltd<\/li>\n<li><strong>Veggie Pirate Printables:<\/strong> <a title=\"Veggie Pirates Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.veggiepirates.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;VeggieTales: The Pirates Who Don&#8217;t Do Anything&#8217; Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>D\u00e9cor &amp; Styling:<\/strong> As You Wish Events Ltd<\/li>\n<li><strong>Catering:<\/strong> As You Wish Events Ltd<\/li>\n<li><strong>Photography:<\/strong> Adam Ferris<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised in last weeks post, today is all about the remaining details of my son&#8217;s VeggieTales Pirate Party.\u00a0\u00a0I had so much fun putting this party together.\u00a0 A lot of effort was made to have as many of the party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,26,30,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-as-you-wish-events-latest","category-fabulous-food","category-parties-for-kids","category-planning-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/asyouwish.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}