Hello everyone! This will be my first blog ever, but I wanted to share my ideas and other peoples ideas on throwing a Minecraft Birthday for their child. Some of the products that I have listed below are designed by me and others I have gathered from the internet. I will not take all credit and I will do my best to hyperlink there ideas to the webpages I found them on. I am also going to try to have all templates in this post or through Google drive so you don't have to recreate the wheel.
First, going to start off with a table of contents and hopefully install hyperlinks/bookmarks to each area.
Minecraft Decorations and Games:
- Minecraft Happy Birthday Banner(Triangle)
- Item Frames for Snacks
- Water Bottle Labels
- Glass Pane Windows
- Creeper Face Plate Wall
- Minecraft Chest Gift Boxes
- Ghast Piñata
- Pin the Tail on the Enderdragon
- Musical Stones
- Knock Down Blocks
- Crafting Table
- Create your own Minecraft Face
- Minecraft PS3 Controller and PS3 Game
- Minecraft Cake
Return to the Top of the Page 1. The Mincraft Happy Birthday Banner file is located "
here" and I had office depot print them on hard stock paper and then cut them out myself. We also bought a string with mini clothes pins on them to use as the banner holder.
Return to the Top of the Page 2. Item Frame for snacks are located "
here". I made these ones myself with using Minecraft Graphics. The only thing i had to do after getting these printed at office depot on hard stock as well, was to make a way for it to stand up. So i used black hard stock paper and made triangles and glued the item frames on top of them as seen in the photo below.
Return to the Top of the Page 3. Water Bottle Labels are located
here". I had office depot print theses on full page clear labels and cut them out my self. they worked pretty well in my opinion. All I had to do was rip the original labels of the water bottles and then wrap theses new ones around the water bottle. Sticks really good to since they are full labels.
Return to the Top of the Page 4. Glass Pane Windows was created out of masking tape on my back door windows. It was pretty easy to make, all I did was make squares on my windows and looked at a minecraft window pane picture and kind of matched the streaks that were in it.
Return to the Top of the Page 5. Creeper Face Plate Wall. This one was a little tricky, my wife ordered these plates from Century Novelty website and they deliver really fast, about 2-3 days.
I laid out the plates in rows (Top to Bottom) and taped each plate to each other by rows. Then I put wall tack behind the top, middle, and bottom plate to hold that row up. Then I moved on to each row, this was my method but I'm sure there are more then one way to hang them up.
Required Materials:
3) A way to cut the boxes to create the lid (I used a jig saw)
4) One 8.5x11 foam sheet. 1/4" thick if possible (Micheals had it) (
Click for Example)
6) Hot Glue Gun with a pack of glue sticks
7) Ruler and scissors
Steps:
1) First we measured a line around three sides of the box that was 2 inches from the top. This is where we will cut to create the lid.
2) Once the lids are cut we hot glued the tops and bottoms shut to create the 3D box. Now you should have a box that has an opening on three sides, where the uncut side will be the hinge.
3) Now use the yellow paint and the brown paint and mix them a little bit to make a yellowish brown color. Not to dark now. Paint all the boxes with this mixture. We didn't paint the bottom of the box but the other 5 sides we did. You also may have to put two coats of paint on to cover any box markings.
4) Now measure a boarder around each side including the cut line that you created. The measurement is about 1/2 inch and this is were you will use the brown. We mixed some black into our brown to make it a little bit darker.
5) Once all the painting is complete, take the foam sheet and cut rectangles that are 1 inch x 2 inch. These will be the latches for the boxes.
6) Now you will need to hot glue the latches to the top part of the chest to make it a permanent fix and also hot glue the Velcro circles to the foam and the other to the box. The originating adhesive on the Velcro isn't strong enough, so that's why we hot glued everything :).
There you have it. The foam allows you to bend it to get the Velcro separated from each other and open the box. We tried this with magnets but it wasn't strong enough.
Steps:
1) Take the steamer paper and cut them into 12 inch strips, you will need a lot.
2) Then you need to take scissors and cut small slits in the bottom half the streamer long ways. (you can stack like 5 or so streamers to cut more at once)
3) Then you can use Spray Adhesive or something else to spray the box and start laying the streamer paper on the box from bottom top to overlaying each paper by half. This will give you the Piñata look. Do this for all the sides.
4) Then use uncut streamer paper and cover the top and bottom flaps that will be exposed.
5) Then use more uncut streamer paper to make the tentacles that dangle from the bottom.
6) We used construction paper to create the face the ghast makes when he attacks. So black and red paper to make the eyes and mouth.
There you go, now you have a home made Piñata that looks awesome :)
Return to the Top of the Page 8. Pin the Tale on the Enderdragon which you can get "
here" and the tails "
here". I had office depot print the poster at 36 inches by 19 inches to keep aspect ratio. The Enderdragon was printed on poster paper and the tails were printed on the clear full page labels like the water bottle labels were. Then I used an old box to make a backboard for the poster to make it more stable. The tails were a little different because we had to have the poster printed first before we knew how big the tail needed to be. The office depot employee was able to do that modification on the spot.
Return to the Top of the Page 9. Musical Stones is our way of playing musical chairs. Click "
here" for the templates. I used more cardboard and made 11x11 inch squares to use as backboard for the printed stones that were on hard stock paper. Office depot can only print as big as 11x11 on hard stock. I Used adhesive spray to glue these stone templates on to the card board and that is all that needs to be done. Then you lay them out outside and play musical stones where the kids run around the stones and when the music stops they have to get on one. Who ever doesn't, gets out.
Return to the Top of the Page 10. Knock Down Blocks is just like the game you play at a fair where you have three tries to throw something and knock down all the items that were standing up. We converted this game into minecraft blocks. The templates are "
here". Just get them printed on normal paper at office depot and then adhesive spray it to more 6x6x6 boxes, I made 6 boxes. Just glue the boxes shut and attach the pictures to it. This picture is after the party so they held up well :)
Return to the Top of the Page 11. Crafting Tabels is what our end stand tables in our living room turned into. We just used the tops of the tables in which the template is "
here". I had office depot print 2 of these 22x22 inches and then used sticky tack on the corners to place on top of my end stand tables. I then used them during the minecraft face crafting event.
Return to the Top of the Page 12. Create your own Minecraft Face event. I made 10 or so 12x12 pieces of cardboard out of a tri-fold from walmart and drew 2x2 inch grid squares on it. Then I bought a pack of construction paper and cut all the colors into 2x2 inch squares and bought a pack of glue sticks. I hot glued some big Popsicle sticks to the bottom of the cardboard so they can hold them up as faces. During this event they were able to pick different color squares from the crafting table and glue them on to create their faces.
Return to the Top of the Page 13. I took one of my old PS3 Controllers and took it apart to where only the shells where left. I then cleaned it very well and slightly sanded it. I then took a full page label and printed a minecraft steve, zombie, blocks, and minecraft logo. I cut them out and stuck them on the controller. I then used used a can of spray clear coat/poly and put about 7-10 coats on the controller. I used the flat kind, not the glossy. Doing this locked the stickers under the clear coat which will prevent them from being ruined and picked off by a child. Put the controller back together and you have any awesome present. I also bought the game for the PS3 so it goes hand in hand.
Return to the Top of the Page 14. Minecraft Cake! This was my wife's project and was a little challenging. She made 4 8x8 squares of chocolate/marble cakes. Once she made them, she cut the tops off of them to make them level so they can stack on top of each other. Then she put butter cream in between them for flavor and to have them stick together. We bought a small box of green fondant from Micheals to use as the grass on top. She cut the layers of the cake to make it look like a hill like it is in the game. The picture is below. Then put grass on the exposed spots and you have your self a dirt block minecraft cake. We also bought the little zombie figure that came with a sword and block from walmart. That was our topper :)
Now just some pictures to show our set up: The bowls and platers we got from dollar tree, awesome!
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