Family Event Refreshment Table and Theme Cakes
Book Fair attendees will definitely drop anchor for dessert when they spy your nautically-inspired refreshment table. Include treats such as a cake made to look like a pirate ship or treasure chest, fish-shaped crackers, and bottled root beer chilling in a tub.

Table with Mast

1. Drape refreshment table with burlap and place fishnets on top of the burlap. Add a seashore flair with shells, plastic gold coins, and parrots available at discount and party stores.
   
2. Attach four wooden dowels (4-feet in length with 1-inch diameters) with hot glue close to the outer inside edge of two precut wood circles with 12-inch diameters, forming a type of barbell. Attach a 10-inch square piece of wood to the top of one of the circles with screws. Screw four eye hooks to the outer inside edge of the square.
   
3. Wrap brown craft paper around the dowels and tape, creating a cylinder of paper.
   
4. Run four ropes of about 6-feet through the eye hooks. Weave and knot four more ropes with the four hanging ropes, creating a ladder.
   
5. Gather a piece of 5-foot x 5-foot canvas into two sections and tie to a 5-foot broom handle. Secure broom handle to eye hooks with three rope knots. Place mast on top of the table in the far left corner.

Treasure Chest Cake

1. Bake two simple sheet cakes in 9" x 13" or larger pans.
   
2. To create the bottom of the chest, frost one entire cake with yellow frosting. Embellish cake with details by piping brown icing on it. Add candies wrapped in foil for treasures to the front half of cake.
   
3. For top of treasure chest, slice a thin layer from the other sheet cake and place on a piece of cardboard the same size as the slice of cake. Frost with yellow frosting and add small round candies.
   
4. Insert wooden dowels into the front half of the bottom of the treasure chest cake to prop up cake piece on cardboard, creating an opened chest.
   
5. Add brown sugar around edges of cake for sand.
   

Pirate Ship Cake

1. Bake two cakes in different sized oval-shaped pans.
   
2. Stack small cake on top of larger one and frost with icing of choice.
   
3. Make borders and portholes by piping icing onto cake.
   
4. Caramels and foil-wrapped candies serve as cargo and treasure on the ship.
   
5. Cut sails out of felt and run wooden skewers through the middle. Insert skewers at different heights into the cake.