DECORATIONS: 1.I held the party in my downstairs room, which is about 700 sq feet. I bought rolls of Black tarp plastic at Wal-Mart for about $5 a roll. I used this to cover the walls. We use this as a work out/ playroom so I moved all the equipment outside and pushed as much as I could against the wall, and then covered it all. I initially bought 6 rolls but only used about 4. So then at the bottom of the stairs as the kids enter I had 1 piece of tarp and cut strips in it (like a beaded doorway) and hung this. 2.My husband cut a large piece of particle board and screwed it into the wall, which cut the room in half. (1 half was the ship and the other for games, cake, etc.) I covered this with some of the black plastic as well. 3.My husband cut a large 2 x 4 and sturdied a plank coming off the ship. (This I did not cover because the kids would later walk on it and the plastic is so slippery). 4.I bought a couple of those Styrofoam ice chests and spray painted them to look like treasure chests. 1 I had sitting there for gifts to be setting in and around, and the other was for the big treasure hunt later on. My mom gave be 12 black cloth napkins and I bought some white fabric paint at Wal-Mart and painted skulls on each one. You might be able to find a stencil of a skull, but I couldn't find one. 6.My kids and I gathered up a bunch of rocks and pebbles and we then spray painted them a metallic gold. I used some of these and wrapped tule material around a few and tied off and used these as ôbags of goldö as gifts for the kids. I had purchased 3 small treasure chests at the Dollar store and filled them up also with gold  7.I made signs on large poster paper with permanent markers such as: Captain's Quarters for the Bathroom. Danger Beware Pirates Only Enter at Ye Own Risk Keep Out. I hung these around. 8.I found this box of state maps at a yard sale for .50 cents and trimmed each one up and burned the edges and hung these around. 9.Other items I bought at the very affordable www.orientaltrading.com and Ebay are 2 dozen mini pirate flags, black balloons, a fishnet and plastic fish, spray spider webs and plastic spiders, a large skeleton. 10.I also bought 2 blow up Parrots to hang and 3 blow up sharks to have sitting under the plank. 11.My mom gave me about 8 old milk crates and I spray painted them black and then used them as chairs for the kiddies. 12.I also downloaded about 10 pirate songs online and transferred these to a CD and played it during the party (we played it especially loud as the kids were first entering the ship).