Minecraft Party

This party was months ago, but I wanted to post all the ideas that were used..most of them were thanks to other blogs and Pinterest.  According to my youngest son, this was his most awesome birthday ever...and I admit, it was a lot of fun.

The planning started again with Pinterest.  So many have done this party already with fabulous results!  Here is a link to my board of compiled ideas: http://pinterest.com/kellokittymommy/minecraft-party/

Party Food

Carrots cut from whole carrots with parsley in the end

Watermelon

Chicken Strips

Pretzel Rods dipped in chocolate (Torches)

Marshmallow dipped in red and white chocolate for mushrooms

Gold ingot chocolates

Diamond chocolates

Minecraft Cake

Creeper Juice

Two 8 inch vanilla square cakes (made from a box), store bought fondant, red sugar sheet, and buttercream.

 Party Goodies

Green paper favor bags with Sharpie creeper face - used ruler as a guideline

Black shirts with green glow creeper face : http://www.twindragonflydesigns.com/2012/11/glow-in-dark-creeper-t-shirt.html

Minecraft access badges with birthday date and guest name, printed on cardstock, designed in Word

Cube lollipops found at hobby store

Sunglasses (12 pk for $3 at party store)

Minecraft stickers (Steve face, Creeper face, Minecraft cube, pig, printed onto sticker paper from Internet images)

Party Games

Perler Bead Minecraft weapon crafting

Minecraft Dance Party - I made a youtube playlist of their favorite Minecraft parody songs and let them dance to their hearts content while their videos played on our tv.  Diggin' Minecraft Style was a favorite!  Playlist here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp66y6zIVD6_hAJ-AmKxYQX5wvwHugqaD

Minecraft cube treasure hunt and 'digging' for ore - I made the ingots and diamonds out of polymer clay and rock candy mold - bought clearance beads for the other ores - consulted the boys on this.  I don't have a picture for some reason but I spray painted the plastic cube containers (6pk $1 dollar store) brown and drew lines for the chest and clasp with gold sharpie.  My husband made a treasure map of our backyard and hid our finished baked Minecraft cubes filled with ore and gave each boy a different map to each find one cube.  The cubes were broken apart by hand and in the bucket of water and the boys got to take their 'ores' home in the brown plastic chest.  Recipe for the treasure cubes here:  http://pinterest.com/pin/121949102382083642/