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August 2027
Understanding International Pirate Month in EYFS & KS1
Ahoy, mateys! International Pirate Month, celebrated throughout August, is a fantastic, swashbuckling opportunity to inject adventure, imaginative play, and a whole heap of learning into your setting! It's a month dedicated to embracing all things pirate – from treasure hunts and sailing ships to talking parrots and daring adventures on the high seas.
For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this theme provides an incredibly rich and engaging context for cross-curricular learning. It's about sparking imagination, developing language through storytelling, honing problem-solving skills, and engaging in active, adventurous play. This month offers endless planning ideas and inspiration for thrilling activities that truly resonate with young minds, making learning an unforgettable treasure hunt!
Why Is a Pirate Theme Important for Young Children's Learning?
Integrating a pirate theme into your practice with young children (aged 0-7) can be useful when fostering creativity, language development, physical activity, and problem-solving skills. During their early years, children thrive on imaginative play and engaging narratives.
Imaginative Play and Creativity: The pirate theme is a rich springboard for imaginative play, allowing children to create their own stories, characters, and adventures. It encourages creativity in art, drama, and construction.
Language and Literacy: Pirates bring with them a fun and unique vocabulary ('Pirates Word Mat', 'Pirate Word Cards'), exciting narratives, and opportunities for mark-making and early writing through treasure maps and wanted posters.
Physical Development: Swashbuckling, walking the plank, digging for treasure, and navigating a ship encourage gross motor skills, balance, and coordination. Our 'Pirates Activity/Movement Challenge Cards' are great for this!
Problem-Solving and Maths: Treasure hunts involve following directions, counting gold coins, and solving puzzles, which are fantastic ways to integrate early mathematical concepts and logical thinking.
Social and Emotional Development: Role-playing pirates encourages cooperation, negotiation, sharing (treasure!), and understanding different roles within a group.
Sensory Exploration: Creating pirate-themed sensory bins with sand, water, "gems," and gold coins offers rich tactile experiences.
Engaging Pirate Activities for International Pirate Month (0-7 Year Olds)
Making International Pirate Month a roaring success is easy with these planning ideas and activities perfect for EYFS and KS1 children. The focus is on discovery, adventure, and lots of "Arrrrs!" Many of these early years and year 1 activities can be supported by the extensive range of printable resources we have available.
Here's some inspiration for bringing the thrill of pirates into your setting: (Please use your own discretion and knowledge of your children to ensure appropriateness of each activity and safety concerning any materials given and activity undertaken.)
Pirate Ship Role Play: Transform your setting into a pirate ship! Use our 'Pirate Ship Signs (Free Sample)' and the comprehensive 'Pirate Ship Role Play Pack' to create different areas like the captain's cabin, the deck, and the galley. Children can climb aboard and embark on imaginary voyages. You can even explore 'Pirate Ship Porthole Drawing/Imagination Stimulus' and 'Pirate Ship Port Holes' for creative window views.
Design Your Own Pirate Flag: Talk about what a pirate flag represents. Provide fabric, paper, or even plastic bags and art supplies for children to design their own pirate flag or use our dedicated 'Design a Pirate Flag' (free sample resource). They can create their own unique symbols.
Treasure Map Adventures: Create a simple treasure map of your setting or outdoor area. Children can follow clues, count steps, and solve riddles to find hidden "treasure." Our 'Pirate Treasure Map & Template' and 'Pirate Mission Cards - Instructions' are perfect for setting up a 'Pirate Treasure Hunt'.
Pirate Character Creation: Encourage children to design their own pirate characters. Use our 'Pirate Character Building Description Sheets' for drawing and describing. Provide pirate hats (use our 'Pirate Hat Template'!), eye patches, and scarves for dress-up, or use our 'PIRATES - Role-Play Masks - Colouring'.
Pirate Word Fun: Introduce fun pirate vocabulary using our 'Pirates Word Mat' and 'Pirate Word Cards'. Play games like "walk the plank" for words, or try 'Pirate Picture Snap'.
Phonics Treasure Hunt: Hide "treasure" with letters or words for children to find and identify. Our 'Pirate Treasure Letters and Sounds Game - Phase 2 & 3 Phonics' and 'Phase 3 High Frequency Words Pirate Game' are ideal for reinforcing literacy skills.
Counting Pirate Gold: Use gold coins (real or pretend) for counting activities. Our 'Pirate Talk and Count Game (1-5)', 'Pirates Number Formation Mat', 'Pirate Number Multimats (Playdough, Whiteboard & Pen or Loose Parts)', 'Pirate Number Slice Puzzles', and 'Pirate Number Slice Puzzles - Colour, Cut & Stick' are fantastic for numeracy. Not to mention the 'Treasure Chest Numbers 0-100'.
"Walk the Plank" Number Line: Set up a pretend plank (a long piece of tape or fabric) and use our 'Pirate 'Walk The Plank' Large Number Line Activity' for active counting and number sequencing.
Pirate Arts & Crafts: Provide 'Pirate Colouring Sheets' for calm activities. Children can also draw themselves as pirates on a 'Wanted Poster Template' or imagine what they'd hide in a 'Treasure Chest Special Things - What Will You Hide?'.
Pirate Songs & Movements: Learn simple pirate songs like 'The Pirate Song Words (The Day I Went To Sea)' and incorporate actions like scrubbing the deck or climbing the rigging. Our 'Pirates Activity/Movement Challenge Cards' offer further inspiration.
Pirate Names & Ships: Have fun coming up with pirate names for the children using our 'Pirate Names Game' or choosing names for their pirate ships with the 'Pirate Ship Names Game'.
Celebrating Achievements: Use our 'Pirate Themed 'Well Done!' Certificates' or 'Pirate Reward Chart - A4' and 'Pirate Reward Charts - Small' to recognise and reward great pirate efforts and good behaviour.
Daily Pirate Check-in: Use the 'Pirates Self Registration Display' to welcome children each day with a pirate theme.
Planning Support: Don't forget to check out our Planning resources, including 'Topic Plan Ideas - UNDER THE SEA', 'Topic Plan Ideas - AT THE SEASIDE', and 'Topic Plan Ideas - PIRATES' for broader context and more ideas.
These activities offer great inspiration for making International Pirate Month a memorable and impactful experience in your early years and Key Stage One setting, fostering imagination, early literacy and numeracy, and adventurous play.
To explore ideas surrounding additional early years events, please visit our 'Special Dates Calendar' page.
Printable resources to support teaching & learning surrounding: ‘International Pirate Month’
These Pirate Ship Signs are perfect to use during 'Pirate' role-play. They can be used to enhance a pirate role-play area to prompt dialogue and develop subject knowledge.
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Ideal as part of 'Pirate' role-play. This ‘Design your own Pirate Flag’ sheet can be printed out for the children to draw their own flag designs to take home. If your children enjoy using this to enrich their role-play they may also enjoy designing their own ‘Pirate Hats’.
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Perfect for ‘Pirate’ role-play activities! Plus your children will love to colour the masks themselves! 5 different masks included.
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These sheets are designed to help children to build up a character in preparation for story writing (oral and/or written). Children can write their own descriptions or an adult can scribe for them. The sheets come in a few different formats within the pack.
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Ideal as part of 'Pirate' role-play. This ‘Treasure Map’ accompanied by a ‘Design your own Treasure Map’ sheet can be printed out for the children to use as part of role-play and also as a more focused activity whereby they design their own to take home. If your children enjoy using this to enrich their role-play they may also enjoy designing their own ‘Wanted Posters’.
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Pirate Mission cards to have great fun inspiring role play whilst also learning to follow instructions and working on other learning skills!
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‘Pirates’ word mat. Why not use in conjunction with our ‘Pirates’ word cards? Includes 10 different pirate items. Can be used as part of a display, activities or a discussion starter for talking about pirates.
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‘Pirates’ word cards. Why not use in conjunction with our ‘Pirates’ word mat? Includes 10 different items associated with pirates. Can be used as part of a display or activities. Why not hide them in a sand tray and see which items the children can uncover?
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‘Pirates’ Banner for your Pirate Topic or Pirate Ship role-play area.
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‘Pirate’ themed colouring pages.
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Have fun counting gems and pretending to be pirates!
Game for two children.
Organise the cards into two identical sets. 12 in each pile.
Child A to have a shuffled pile face-down in front of them.
The second set of 12 cards to be laid out with the gems showing in front of Child B.
Child A takes a card from the pile and looks at the picture. Then asks for the shown gems in their best pirate voice!
e.g. “Arrrr! Can I have two green gems matey?”
Child B to find the correct matching card to give to Child A.
When all cards are matched, reset the game, and reverse the roles!
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Help your pirate ship find the treasure with this fun and engaging Letters and Sounds game. Two different boards to choose from - one for Phase 2 Sounds and another for Phase 3 Sounds. Dice required. Children choose a pirate ship to place at the start, roll the dice and move the appropriate number of sound squares towards the treasure! When they land on a sound square they can practise saying the sound. Have fun!
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Includes two versions of ‘5’ formation. Primarily designed for use as a mat to be laminated and used time and time again with whiteboard pens for children to practise their number formation, this resource has many uses. It could be used by a child once and taken home as a consolidation of their learning. It could be used as part of a Pirates and/or Maths display. Place it in a learning area where children may be writing numbers as a reminder of how to form numbers. Or alternatively use it as a playdough counting mat.
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These A4 size mats can be laminated for use as playdough mats, or for number writing practice with a whiteboard pen. Alternatively, they can be part of a loose parts activity. Also ideal for a pirate themed counting display!
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These ‘Pirate’ themed repeating pattern sheets can be laminated for a repeatable activity (tokens to fill in the blanks on last page) or simply printed for individual children to either draw their answers or use as a ‘cut and stick’ activity.
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‘Pirates’ themed Number Slice Puzzle Activities. Puzzles available for 1-5 and 1-10 sequencing. Full colour versions in this pack. Cut along the vertical lines and laminate for multiple uses or allow your children to cut and stick as an individual activity to take home. Great for number recognition and ordering, observational skills and motor control. Picture and number combination enables child self checking.
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Pirate Treasure Hunt Clue Cards designed for you to fill in and place small treasure cards (included) around your setting before game begins. Simply print out the cards that you would like to use (looking carefully at the sentence starter wording at the top of each card) and then write in clues which fit with your setting and children. We designed this activity with following instructions and positional language in mind and so it is intended that you read the cards to the children. Some suggestions for clue writing are included on the first page. We suggest that you hide the second clue with the first small treasure card to be found so that a chain is created. The ultimate aim is to find the treasure chest!
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Have fun with this set of 10 Pirates Activity Challenge cards. Perhaps children could stand in a circle around the pile of cards and take turns to pick one for everyone to do. Once the children get to know the cards they will be able to relate the action to the picture without necessarily needing the card read to them...For example an adult may be able to simply hold up a card and everyone will be able to do the activity together! Great for physical development, descriptive language, understanding the world, number recognition and turn taking.
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Ideal as part of 'Pirate' role-play. This design your own ‘Wanted Poster’ sheet can be printed out for the children to draw their own wanted poster designs to take home. If your children enjoy using this to enrich their role-play they may also enjoy designing their own ‘Treasure Maps’.
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‘Pirates’ Number Slice Puzzle Activities - Colouring versions. Puzzles available for 1-5 and 1-10 sequencing. Colour the pictures, cut along the vertical lines and then put the pieces back together in numerical order. Stick to a new sheet of card or paper once complete! Great for number recognition and ordering, observational skills and motor control. Picture and number combination enables child self checking.
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Enjoy teaching your children the basics of blending sounds to create words when you play this fun ‘Pirate Map’ themed 'CVC word builder' game together! Easy to play and instructions included on the front page. Will you end up making a 'real' or 'nonsense' word when you put your CVC map together? Why not use this game in conjunction with 'Phase 2 Letters and Sounds Flashcards', 'Sound Mat' or the 'Cut and Match Activity'? Various themed Phase 2 word cards also available in the Literacy section.
Please note that all Phase 2 sounds are included and so it is at your own discretion as to the selection of sounds you use in order to allow/prevent particular undesirable letter combinations.
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CLICK HERE to visit the ‘Pirate Themed ‘Well Done!’ Certificates’ page in the Certificates menu.
Simple, original and fun Pirate Gold Game using Phase 3 High Frequency Words. Help children to learn and consolidate their knowledge of Phase 3 high frequency/sight words. Instructions included on front page.
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Encourage children to use their imagination with this pirate porthole stimulus. What do they imagine they can see from their pirate ship? Perhaps children may like to draw what they imagine or others may prefer to simply tell you what they see or just launch straight into role play with their friends inspired by their own ideas. You may like to use this template in conjunction with our role play porthole pictures.
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Encourage children to use their imagination with this ‘Pirate of the Month’ stimulus. What do they imagine the pirate may look like? Perhaps children may like to draw what they imagine or others may prefer to simply describe the pirate to you or just launch straight into role play with their friends, inspired by their own ideas, as all of a sudden they have dreamed up a pirate character they would like to pretend to be! You may like to use this template in conjunction with our ‘Pirate Ship Role Play Pack’.
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A4 sized ‘Pirate’ themed reward chart. Check out our other reward charts!
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Have fun creating your own 'Pirate Ship names' for role-play! If your children enjoy playing this game to enrich their role-play, they may also enjoy creating their own ‘Pirate names’.
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These Pirate Ship Signs are perfect to use during 'Pirate' role-play. They can be used to enhance a pirate role-play area to prompt dialogue and develop subject knowledge.
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Ideal as part of 'Pirate' role-play. This ‘Design your own Pirate Flag’ sheet can be printed out for the children to draw their own flag designs to take home. If your children enjoy using this to enrich their role-play they may also enjoy designing their own ‘Pirate Hats’.
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“What be inside this here treasure chest matey?” Use this template as an aid to discuss with children what could possibly be inside the chest. Children can draw and/or write inside the speech bubbles. Also an ideal tool to spark role-play.
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Ideal as part of a ‘Pirate’ topic. These Pirate themed Snap cards can be printed, cut out and laminated as a fun game to consolidate children's recognition of pirate themed objects. For a more robust design, try backing them on card. Also could be used as a stimulus for role-play.
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“What be inside this here treasure chest matey?” Children can decide what would be important enough to them to hide it in the treasure chest. Thought bubbles can be used to draw and/or write inside. Also an ideal tool to spark role-play.
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CLICK HERE to visit the ‘Pirate Themed Self Registration Display’ page in the Self Registration menu.
Ideal as part of 'Pirate' role-play. This ‘Pirate Hat’ template can be printed out for the children to design their own pirate hats to take home. If your children enjoy using this to enrich their role-play they may also enjoy designing their own ‘Pirate Flags’.
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Song words for ‘The Day I Went to Sea’. Resource for use in your setting or to send home with children.
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What will your pirate say? Use these sheets as part of a mark making, emergent writing or role play stimulus activity.
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Why not use these ‘Pirate ship Porthole’ designs as part of a Pirate role-play area? Great to aid the development of narrative…”Cap’n, where did that barrel be comin’ from?”…”Who be on that ship yonder?”…”There be beasties in these here waters, what be yer orders?”…
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Numbers 0-100 on treasure chests. Alphabet also available.
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Alphabet letters on ‘Pirate’ themed treasure chests. Print one or two treasure chests to a page for use as part of an alphabet display or four to page for a set of flashcards. 0-100 number line also available.
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Walk the Plank’ number line activity from 1 to 10. Print & cut these numbers for a fun floor activity that reinforces number recognition and ordering to ten. Note: Please take care to think about how you use this resource within your setting and consider factors such as slip hazards when doing your risk assessments.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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This pack contains some activity ideas for the ‘Under the Sea’ topic as well as some blank forms for you to note down your own ideas.
Staring at a blank page when planning can be difficult so we hope that even if you don’t end up using our exact suggestions, they will be a spark of inspiration for your own great ideas when planning for your children.
(For additional ‘Under the Sea’ themed resources visit our ‘UNDER THE SEA’ PAGE.)
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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This pack contains some activity ideas for the ‘At the Seaside’ topic as well as some blank forms for you to note down your own ideas.
Staring at a blank page when planning can be difficult so we hope that even if you don’t end up using our exact suggestions, they will be a spark of inspiration for your own great ideas when planning for your children.
(For additional ‘At the Seaside’ themed resources visit our ‘AT THE SEASIDE’ PAGE.)
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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This pack contains some activity ideas for the Pirates topic as well as some blank forms for you to note down your own ideas.
Staring at a blank page when planning can be difficult so we hope that even if you don’t end up using our exact suggestions, they will be a spark of inspiration for your own great ideas when planning for your children.
(For additional ‘Pirates’ themed resources visit our ‘PIRATES’ PAGE.)
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Additional Pages you may like to explore which cover relevant &/or Connected themes
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Printable ‘Beach’ teaching and learning resources include: scavenger hunts/checklists, mindfulness activity cards, cockle shell age poster, senses booklets and prompts, colouring pages, drawing/writing/mark making sheets, shell multimats, playdough/ loose part mats, art and craft activities, templates, pattern cards, natural loose part art prompts/posters, shapes, pre-writing, rockpool fact cards, symmetry, activity/movement challenges, display lettering, sand play and more!
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This page is for educational purposes only and is intended to support early years and primary practitioners with ideas and resources related to 'International Pirate Month'. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by any official organisers of this specific awareness month. We do not claim any rights to specific trademarks or official materials associated with this period. For general information, please refer to reputable online sources.
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