Life With My Ginger Snaps: Mine Craft 8th Birthday Party

Like most 8 year olds, my son LOVES the computer game, Minecraft! I wanted to give him a Minecraft party for his birthday but there was nothing available in stores yet. So it was time to get creative! My son actually had two birthday parties this year: one was celebrated with family while we were on vacation visiting them. The other was celebrated at home with a few close friends.

PARTY #1: The "Out Of Town" party with extended family

I designed and printed this Happy Birthday banner.

For the centerpiece I printed out pictures from the game and attached them to a pre-made centerpiece I bought at the dollar store.

I cut out a Creeper face from black paper and glued it to a green plate. I then glued a clear plate on top of the green plate. Instant Creeper plates!

I used Twizzlers to make TNT

Cheese cubes for Gold Blocks

Pretzel sticks for Torches

I drew Creeper faces on bottles of sprite to make Creeper Juice

I designed a brownie cake using Grass Blocks made with brownies with green icing for grass and rice crispy treats for the Sand Blocks. I put the cake together on a tray covered with part of a blue plastic table cloth to represent water. The figures on the cake were printed from here and cut out by myself and my mother-in-law. I then folded and pieced together the figures and blocks over a two day period (talk about tedious work!). The cake turned out awesome and my son LOVED IT--which is the only thing that matters anyway, right?! :-)