Pirate Art, Model, and Craft Kit Gift Ideas
Present Suggestions for Boys and Girls That Love Pirate Toys
Dec 8, 2008
Boys and girls who like pirates and making crafts will enjoy playing with pirate theme art supplies or assembling model and craft activity kits for building piratical objects such as sailing ships, treasure chests, and even pirate skeletons!
Help a young buccaneer develop creativity, eye-hand coordination, and fine-motor skills with some of the following toys.
Suggestions for Pirate Theme Art Kits
- The materials and step-by-step instructions included in the Fun with Rock Painting: Pirate & Treasure kit by Walter Foster allow children to paint rocks to look like pirates, treasure chests, and other fun designs.
- The Piggy Story offers a pirate theme Art-To-Go ArtFolio, or cloth carrying case for a drawing pad and 12 crayons.
- Children may enjoy coloring and decorating a Velvet Art Box Kit or the posters from Faber Castell's Creativity for Kids 3D Fuzzy Fun Pirates set.
Suggestions for Model Craft Kits to Make Your Own Pirate Ship
A whole sea of model pirate ship kits are available, some more suitable for children than others. Most are meant for display, not play, and some may require an adult's assistance to assemble.
- Creativity for Kids offers a basic Make Your Own Pirate Ship kit (ages 5 and up) that contains a small and simple wooden ship to put together and paint.
- Creativity for Kids also offers a more complex Haunted Pirate Ship kit (ages 7 and up) that assembles into a glow-in-the-dark model ship with spooky accessories such as cobwebs and a pirate skeleton.
- The Pirate Ship 3D Woodcraft Construction Kit (ages 9 and up, with adult help) is good for kids because its pieces interlock, allowing it to be assembled without the need to cut or glue any pieces.
Suggestions for Model Craft Kits to Make Your Own Pirate Treasure Chest
- Melissa & Doug offers a Decorate Your Own Treasure Chest set (ages 4 and up) that is good as a party favor or a small individual craft activity. Children decorate a jewelry box-sized wooden chest with included materials such as glitter, stickers, paints, and gems.
- Creativity for Kids offers a Pirate Treasure and More set (ages 5 and up) with a paper mache chest to decorate with included materials such as felt paper, paint, and stickers. Also included are map-making paper and some "treasures" such as gold coins and gems.
- Toysmith offers a Paint a Pirate Treasure Chest set (ages 5 and up) with a wooden chest to paint and decorate with included paints and craft materials, plus two tiny pirate figures and a treasure map to store in the finished chest.
Suggestions for Pirate Activity Kits
- In a fun alternative to building a model pirate ship, children might prefer to assemble a model pirate skeleton from pieces excavated from the Pirate Dig Kit from GeoCentral (four different skeletons are available).
- For more digging fun, children might enjoy the I DIG Treasures Curse of Pirate Island Excavation Adventure or Secret of Skull Cove Pirate Adventure (in which they dig up tiny treasures), or Treasure Island Dig & Play, in which they uncover a treasure that can be used to play a board game.
- Children might also enjoy assembling and decorating Calafant's small cardboard Pirate Fortress.
Children can both learn and have fun with art and craft toys that appeal to their interests. For other gifts that appeal to kids who like pirates, check out Pirate Costume Gift Ideas for Boys and Girls, Pirate Puzzle, Board, and Card Game Gift Ideas, and Pirate Playset, Figure, and Doll Gift Ideas.
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