1. Talk Like A Pirate
Dastardly Tasks for Wicked Pirates
2. Piratical Portraits
Sketch yourself as a pirate.
What would you be doing if you were a pirate?
What would you wear?
What would you look like?
Would you have a parrot? A Ship?
A band of merry men?
3. You In Pirate’s Shoes
Take a digital photo of yourself using the
laptop or digital camera.
Place your photo into Kid Pix.
Add features to make yourself a pirate - hat,
compass, parrot... what else can you think
of? Save your image. You could print it,
upload it to your blog, this wiki or use it to
make a Fotobabble.
4. There be Treasure there!
Take an area of your school and create a map of
the area - you might like to use grid paper to draft
your map.
Use wet tea bags to stain the paper and leave it in
the sun to dry.
Get a black and red marker or vivid to mark in your
map.
Decide where you would place your treasure and
mark it with an X.
5. Rules O’ Pirates
Even Pirates had rules...
The Pirate Code Of Conduct was very important.
Read some examples here.
Imagine you have your own Pirate ship and crew -
What would be your Code Of Conduct for your
pirates?
Create a poster or glogster showing your Code Of
Conduct.
6. Jolly Roger
Here are some examples of pirate flags (Jolly
Rogers).
Design the pirate flag that would fly from your pirate
ship.
What symbols would you use to show what makes you
the best pirate?
7. Wanted!
Research and then choose a pirate from the list
below and create a wanted poster for them.
Take a digital photo of your artwork and then upload it
to your class blog.
Captain Blackbeard
Captain Kidd
Anne Bonny
8. From Here to There
Create your own Pirate Ship.
Design and draw your ship and all the things it would
need to sail the 7 seas.
Don’t forget a great pirate name for your ship!
If you can, have a go at drawing it up using Google
sketchup!
9. A Singing A Children’s Sea Shanty
Chorus
Yo Ho, my friends I have a tale
Sea Shanty of treasure, plunder, sea and sail
my story's bigger than a whale
it gets so deep, ye'll have to bail.
Chorus
I like to fish, I like to fight Chorus
Take the sea shanty I like to stay up half the night I'm a pirate! That I be!
When I say "starboard" ye go right!
Me ma, she says, "Ye look a fright!" me ship upon the sea!
I sail
and practice it. Chorus
I stay up late - till half past
three!
I've got no hand but that's me hook! that's a peg below me
And
Get ready to perform I pillage stuff but I'm no crook. knee!
Me booty's in this chest I took.
They'll write about me in a book!
it for the cameras and Chorus
And that's all there is to this song.
your class with great I hope it hasn't been too long.
A pirate's life might just be wrong
So grow up nice and big and strong!
pirattitude! Chorus
10. Piratical Words
Create a class pirate visual dictionary - brainstorm
pirate words as a class.
Take an A4 page - write your word and the definition
for it.
Illustrate your word.
Collate them altogether for your very own Pirate Visual
Dictionary.
Check out words here to get started!
11. Piratical Problems
Write up some Pirate Maths problems for other
pirates to solve. Type them up and post them to
the wall and blog for our pirates to solve!
Example...
The pirates of The Black Pearl are a motley crew. Arrr! Twenty-
seven of them have earrings, and 25 of them have peg legs. If
the crew consists of 37 pirates, how many have both earrings
and peg legs? From: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/teachers.html
12. A Pirate’s Life
What would it have been like to live the Pirate’s
Life?
Write a ‘Day in the Life’ of a pirate. It could be a
famous pirate you’ve learnt about. Or it could be the
day that you imagine you would have as a pirate.
From Dawn to Dusk... what would a Pirate’s life be?
