National Talk Like a Pirate Day: Pirate Craft and Free Printable

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September 19 is “National Talk Like a Pirate Day,” to celebrate I wanted to give you and your kiddos a fun craft to do and some fun Pirate words they can learn.

National Talk Like a Pirate Day

This year National Talk Like a Pirate Day falls on a Saturday. The perfect day to let the kids dress up, do an easy Pirate craft together, and learn some Pirate words. I created this sheet that gives you the Pirate word and its English counterpart, to make this lesson a little more educational the English words are traceable.

This is a great way to turn a fun activity into an opportunity to practice sight words, letters, and spelling. You can download the FREE printable here!

Once you have learned your new Pirate words there is no better way to practice them by making these EASY Pirate puppets!

Supplies Needed:

  • Paper Lunch Bags (or you could just use craft paper or a paper plate)
  • Construction Paper
  • Glue (or tape)
  • Scissors
  • Crayons, Markers, or Colored Pencils

How to Assemble your Pirate:

  1. Trace your child’s hand on the bag with their fingers pointed down to the opening.

National Talk Like a Pirate Day

2. Let them color the hand trace as the Pirate’s face. The thumb and palm are the hat, the middle of the palm is the face, and the four fingers are the beard.

3. Let them decorate the body

4. Cut strips of paper for the arms and legs. (You can even get fancy and make hands and feet…we did not LOL) Then you will accordion-fold these strips to make them bouncy. As you can see my son wanted his pirate to have a peg leg so one of his legs is brown and I drew what I thought was a pretty good peg leg on it before I folded it!

5. Glue the arms and legs onto the bag and you’re done!

And the best part is you might get a good 5 minutes of quiet while they focus on decorating their puppets! At least one can hope right!

National Talk Like a Pirate Day

Your kiddos now have fun Pirate puppets to play with!

We want to see your puppets! Tag us on your social media @coastalbendmomcollective with your puppets and your Pirate word sheets! 

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Jennifer
Jennifer is a Coastal Bend Native, born and raised in Ingleside. She began contributing to the Corpus Christi Moms Blog in 2018 and stepped up as the Community Engagement Coordinator in 2019. She is happiest when she is crafting, writing, or doing anything artistic. She loves music, especially ANYTHING from the 90's, and is often seen dancing around the kitchen to Nsync while cooking dinner. She is married to Derik and has two kids, Connor and Keeley (pronounced Key-Lee). Jennifer still feels like a novice when it comes to parenting and enjoys letting other moms know they are not doing life alone. She also admits she watches copious amounts of Netflix, but balances that out by reading to and with her kiddos as much as possible each day.