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Create a Fruit Pirate Ship for a Healthy Treat

September 17, 2014 by Tom

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Are you looking for a fun family activity or something awesome to make for a birthday party, Talk Like a Pirate Day, or any other fun occasion? My husband, Tom, made this super fun and cool pirate ship, and it’s quite easy to make!

Have fun!

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Avast, ye land lubbers! This pirate ship made entirely of fruit is perfect as a fun and healthy family activity. You can make it as a centerpiece for a kids’ pirate theme party, a family activity for International Talk Like a Pirate Day September 19 or a celebratory treat as part of a pirate unit study. I’m a 29-year-old kid and had so much fun designing and building this pirate ship. Kids of all ages will love creating their own pirate-ship masterpiece.

Create a Fruit Pirate Ship for a Healthy Treat

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Here’s how to make it!

You Will Need

  • A large oval-shaped watermelon
  • A large orange
  • 5 white grapes
  • 1 cactus pear (A plum would work also but I suggest you try a cactus pear if you can)
  • 10 red toothpicks
  • 5 blue toothpicks (colors are your choice)
  • 3 12″ bamboo skewers
  • Wood cutting board
  • 8″ Chef’s knife
  • Carving knife (optional)
  • Vegetable knife
  • Melon baller

Carving the Hull

1. Using a sharp chef’s knife, cut out a wedge from the front of your watermelon. This will form the ship’s front.
First Cut

2. Slice a large chunk from the top 2/3 of the watermelon to form the main deck. Try to keep both parts intact.

Second Cut

3. Slice a smaller block out of the back of the watermelon to form the captain’s deck

Third Cut

4. You have now formed the hull of your fruit pirate ship!

Finished Hull

Making the Sails

1. Take the large chunk of watermelon you sliced off in part 2 of Carving the Hull. Slice it in half and then carefully slice the skin away from the flesh. You may find this easier with a thinner carving knife. The skin will form your sails, so be careful not to slice through it.

Cutting Sails

2. Trim the edges of your sail so that it is a neat square or rectangle.

Trimming Sails

3. Push one of the 12″ bamboo sticks through both sides of your sail.

Putting Sails on Mast

4.  Insert your mast and sail into the main deck and spike an orange wedge on the top of the mast.

Hull with One Sail

5. Repeat steps 1 – 3 and insert your second mast and sail into the captain’s deck.

Hull with Two Sails

6. Slide some spare chunks of watermelon and orange onto the final 12″ bamboo stick and insert into the bow of your ship to create the figurehead.

Hull with Two Sails and Nose

Constructing Your Pirates

This could be a quick activity if you are short on time and is a perfect way to involve younger children.

1. Make 5 melon balls from some of the spare chunks of watermelon and your melon baller. These will be your pirate heads.

Melon Balling

2. Slice up your cactus pear. First slice it from top to bottom and then across the width to create your pirate hats.

Cutting Cactus Pear

3. If you prepare a Montessori-inspired pirate-making tray, younger children can construct their own pirates. See Living Montessori Now for more information on where this tray came from. Put your toothpicks (blue ones snapped in half), grape bodies, melon ball heads and cactus pear hats into separate containers and place them on a tray.

Fruit Pirate-Making Tray

4. Use a red toothpick to attach the pirate’s hat, head and body together. Then slide another red toothpick straight through the body to make the arms. Use 2 halves of a blue toothpick to make the legs. I made mine with a little peg leg here, arrgghh matey!

Finished Pirate

5. Make four more pirates and add them onto your ship. Don’t forget to make one of them the captain on the captain’s deck! Bring me the horizon, you scurvy dogs!! 

Finished Ship

Finishing Touches

Finished Ship at Sea

Why not make a little display with your fruit pirate ship? I used Safari Ltd Ocean TOOB and Safari Ltd Coral Reef TOOB. You could also use this Safari Ltd Pirate TOOB.

Here’s the melon baller if you don’t have one already.

Create a Fruit Pirate Ship for a Healthy Treat

Photos (except those with a blue background) taken by Deb Chitwood. Montessori-inspired fruit pirate tray designed by Deb Chitwood from Living Montessori Now.


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  1. Liz says

    September 18, 2014 at 7:15 am

    I LOVE this ship, especially the pirates! Thanks for sharing this excellent idea!

    • Christina & Tom says

      September 18, 2014 at 8:54 am

      Thanks Liz, Glad you liked it! It works great for parties because all the fruit keeps well if left out. Enjoy

  2. XmasDolly says

    September 18, 2014 at 8:48 pm

    This is so cool. I sure hope you can come over by me and join my recipe linky and share your recipe. I know my readers would flip over this just as much as I did. I have got to do this for my grandson’s birthday… oh my goodness I’ll be NaNee of the year. LOL Thanks

    • Christina & Tom says

      September 19, 2014 at 9:01 am

      Thanks for the invite to your linky, I shared it. Hopefully your grandson will love it!

  3. Selena says

    September 19, 2014 at 6:20 am

    How fun! And so perfect for a pirate unit!

    Stopping by from the TGIF linky. )

    • Christina & Tom says

      September 19, 2014 at 9:04 am

      Thanks Selena! Thank you for stopping by. This would be a great activity for your 4 lil homeschool students.

  4. Phyllis says

    September 19, 2014 at 2:41 pm

    Cute, Cute, Cute!
    Phyllis@grandparentsplus.com

    • Christina & Tom says

      September 19, 2014 at 5:47 pm

      Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🙂

  5. Tricia Coniglio says

    September 19, 2014 at 2:49 pm

    This is so cute and cool all at the same time. It is great for kids and it’s great for big kids too. I am seeing this be a hit at football parties! Stopping in from the link up.

    • Christina & Tom says

      September 19, 2014 at 5:50 pm

      Thank you!! It’s perfect for parties as all the fruit in it stay fresh. You could maybe put it in a bowl of ice and it should be good all day for a football party. Go Chargers!

  6. Sylvie Roy says

    September 19, 2014 at 3:32 pm

    Love this! Especially the little pirates!

    • Christina & Tom says

      September 19, 2014 at 6:01 pm

      Thank you! The pirates are really easy to make, a perfect mini project for younger kids to contribute.

  7. Marla says

    September 20, 2014 at 10:46 am

    How very creative and a great way to get kids to eat fruit. Thanks for sharing on Real Food Fridays, Pinned.

    • Christina & Tom says

      September 29, 2014 at 9:24 am

      Thank you so much! I used a lot of the watermelon to make smoothies. Recipe coming soon…

  8. Sheila says

    September 22, 2014 at 5:56 am

    Stopping over from Thoughtful Spot linky to say hi 🙂 We love pirates in our house and your pirate ship is really neat. Pinning.

    • Christina & Tom says

      September 29, 2014 at 9:28 am

      Thank you for stopping by and thank you for the pin. Glad you enjoyed it!

  9. JDaniel4's Mom says

    September 27, 2014 at 5:16 am

    Thank you so much for linking up to The Sunday Showcase last week. I was thrilled to see this post on the link up! It is amazing how many fun elements you have placed on the ship.

    • Christina & Tom says

      September 29, 2014 at 9:32 am

      My pleasure Dierdre. I had so much fun creating this post. Glad you enjoyed it!

  10. Create With Joy says

    September 28, 2014 at 1:53 pm

    Tom, your project is FABULOUS! I’ve had it sitting open on my computer for several days!
    Congrats – you’ve been featured on Inspire Me Monday at Create With Joy!

    • Christina & Tom says

      September 29, 2014 at 9:40 am

      Thank you so much for featuring me on Inspire Me Monday!!! Happy to hear you enjoyed it. I’ll be following up with a smoothie recipe for all that watermelon soon…

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