For my daughter's 9th birthday she wanted to have a girl pirate theme. We ordered the supplies from Oriental Trading, including plates, invitations, etc.  We decided to make the entire party about collecting jewels.  I went to Michaels and in the floral department I found vase fillers that looked like jewels in all different colors. Here's what we did. When each girl arrived they received a small treasure bag with one jewel in it and the goal of the party was to collect as many jewels as you could.  The first activity was taking a group photo (each girl got a jewel), then they ate pizza (a jewel was by each plate), then they painted wooden jewelry boxes (each one had a jewel in it), then we played a modified form of hot potato. I wrapped up a box in several layers of wrapping paper. I fixed" the game so that my daughter would win but inside was not a prize. It was a poem that told them we'd be doing a scavenger hunt to collect more jewels. (as each girl was "out" for hot potato they earned a jewel).  So my daughter got to read the poem.  The girls were separated into 3 teams of 4 girls each.  I only had one team do the hunt at a time so it was more fun and as each team finished they had to wait for the rest at the end. While the girls waited for their team they played freeze dance.  The hunt was made up of clues in the form of poems that lead them to something fun to do. For example go to the swingset each girl must swing 5 times to earn a jewel or I sent them to my daughter's room where there was an old fancy dress and shoes of mine that each girl had to put on and then they could earn a jewel and I sent them to the karoake machine where each girl had to sing to earn a jewel. I set up about five poem clues to lead them around. I convinced my older son and his friend to help out by going around with each team to make sure they were doing what they had to do. At the end of the hunt the prize was that they each received a treasure box (Oriental Trading) which had a necklace and some gold coins in it.  Then I had a huge plastic container in the yard full of sand that they each got to dig through to find more jewels.  Then we played Bingo (you can go online and make your own bingo boards...we made one with words all associated with my daughter and then gave clues to get the answers). Each girl used their jewels as the markers for the Bingo game.  Then at the end each girl got to take home their treasure box and the wood jewelry box that they painted which by this point was full of jewels.  I attached a note in the form of a poem to the box telling the parents everything that we had done and thanking them for coming.  "