Minecraft Birthday Party

This year, the little guy requested a Minecraft birthday party. I got a lot of inspiration from Pinterest and ended up making most things from scratch in lieu of purchasing generic party supplies:

This is my party decorating helper, exercising the highest of self-control, by not batting at the streamers or balloon strings: 

For the invitations, I found this photo on the web and saved it.  Then, I dropped it into MS Word and used it as a background.  

 After downloading a couple of Minecraft fonts here and here, I used them to type out the party information.  Totally legit, right? ;)

I found a really awesome wall display on Helen's site, where she used square, paper plates to create a Creeper face.  After checking the prices on square plates (~$4/pack) at various stores, I decided that $16 for the four required packs was more than I wanted to spend on a temporary wall display.  I ended up purchasing round plates for less money and cutting them into square shapes.  The entire thing cost less than one pack of those square plates, and I was able to cut them all out while watching TV.

All it took was a gray, plastic tablecloth and black construction paper to produce this Minecraft Skeleton front door display.

My sister helped me create the Minecraft windows, using white electrical tape.

The framed meme (birthday boy's name blurred out) was made, using the same method as the invitations.  I saved an image from the web, dropped it into MS Word and then typed out what I wanted it to say.

I found several character faces and printed them out on Avery 22816 stickers.  The kids l-o-v-e-d them, can you tell?

Don't forget the Ghast piñata! (Tutorial: here)

The Minecraft party food was pretty fun to put together.  I made Zombie Boogers, using this candy corn recipe.

Twizzlers (strawberry and chocolate) were bunched together to create TNT.  These disappeared almost as fast as the Dirt.

I made the Torches AKA chocolate dipped pretzel rods, using white chocolate and orange food coloring.  Careful! They're hot ;)

Unfortunately, I didn't get a good picture of the Dirt (brownies) before they disappeared.  The Minecraft Coal was made from black Rice Krispies treats, rolled into balls.

I made a cake (half white; half chocolate), and topped it with green buttercream icing.  The Creeper face was formed, using black marshmallow fondant.

I made table runners, using a strip of artificial grass that I purchased from a home improvement store. 

By the way, have you purchased a present for the birthday girl/boy?  Check out these amazing gift ideas!

***Table Tents and Stickers are available below for printing!!!***

Stickers - Creeper
Stickers - Zombie
Stickers - Ghast
Stickers - Steve
Stickers - Enderman
Table Tents: Boogers-Torches-TNT-Dirt
Table Tents: Cake-Grass-Coal-Pizza

What fun themes have you used, when throwing birthday parties?

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Minecraft Ghast Pinata

Yeah that's right...

I. Made. A. Pinata.

Honestly, I really didn't have much of a choice.  My son wanted a Minecraft birthday party this year and NO ONE sells party supplies for it (seriously?).  This left me with two choices: buy a random pinata or make one myself.  After seeing the pinata that Megan created, I realized that making a Ghast would be the easier wiser choice. Many other characters in the game have a head, arms, legs, etc.; this is just a square, single-color blob with tentacles.  Easy enough.

Here's what you'll need:

12x12 cardboard box

packaging tape

scissors 

zip tie

glue 

tissue paper

 

To start, tape up the bottom of the box.  You need just enough tape to keep the bottom of the box from falling out, with all of that candy.  Next, cut off a piece from the lid as shown in the photo below.  Set it aside.

Cut out a flap, so that you can drop in the candy later.

Take the strip of cardboard that you previously sliced off and cut it into 3-4 smaller squares.  Use one of those pieces and place it on top of the lid, poking two holes through the small square and your lid.  You want the holes in between the center of the box lid and the edges of the small square.  

Poke two holes through the remaining squares, using the original piece's spacing.  Stack the pieces together, position them underneath the box lid and run the zip tie through everything. 

Fasten the zip tie and tape the top of the box shut.

 Take a sheet of tissue paper, fold and cut off a 2 inch strip.  Cut slits all the way across the folded side of your strip.

Glue the strip along the bottom portion of one of the sides.

Continue cutting strips of tissue paper and gluing them, until you've covered the sides and top. 

Glue on a few flat sheets of tissue paper to the bottom, to cover up the black print.  Then, cut a bunch of tissue paper strips and glue one end on along the bottom, so that they'll hang like little octopus tentacles.  Print the photo below, and cut-out the eyes and mouth.  Glue them to the front of your pinata.

Nailed it!

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How did yours turn out?

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Minecraft Creeper Shoes

I found the idea for these on Nik's site and figured I could make these for my son, who is a m-a-j-o-r Minecraft fan.

Supplies:

Fabric Paint: Black, White, Neon Green, Leaf Green

Vans slip-on shoes ($45) or the Faded Glory ($5) knock-offs from Walmart ~ it's your wallet

Popsicle stick

Steady Hand

Patience

To start, I used the white paint to draw a grid outline on the shoes.  The fabric initially soaks in a lot of the paint, so I recommend drawing on just enough to where you can see the white against the fabric.  It's OK if you mess up or accidentally smear paint at this point, because you'll be covering it all up in a bit anyway.

Next, I took the black paint and drew an outline of my Creeper face over parts of the white grid.

I waited about an hour and then filled in the black squares with matching paint.  Depending on how thick you want your paint to be, you may have to outline and then fill again with several layers.  I used the same outline-let-dry-fill-in technique with the other colors, allowing time for each color to dry before painting the outline of my next color right beside it.  

When I did this project, I initially finished one shoe and then used it as a guide for the second as far as color placement. They took a bit of time to complete but were well worth it when I heard the little guy say: "This is the most awesome thing I've ever seen in my entire life". 

  How much did your little Minecraft fan adore their cool shoes?




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Making Lunch Fun: It's Your Birthday!

I got this idea from Happy Home Fairy, and fell in love with the notion of having to unwrap individual lunch items.  What a fun way to make their school day special on their birthday! 

First of all: Yes, I sent my kiddo to school with a Mountain Dew AND a bag of cotton candy in his lunchbox. 

1) It's his birthday and he n-e-v-e-r gets soda with his lunch; dessert items are a rarity as well.

2) His grade level went on a field trip today, so it's not like he'll have to sit still at a desk for hours after consuming this.

   I used my star cookie cutter, to stamp out the sandwich shapes, drew a Minecraft Creeper face onto the Mountain Dew bottle with a Sharpie, and wrapped everything in polka dot wrapping paper.

What exciting lunch ideas have you tried with your little ones?

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