DIY Minecraft Birthday Party | How to Pull off an Awesome Party with Limited Resources

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Pulling off this Minecraft birthday party was harder {initially} than it might look at first glance. A miracle of Pinterest, Photoshop and lots and lots of crepe paper streamers!

With life as busy as it can be these days grabbing up at least a few pre-made supplies or decorations is usually a must. Problem? Minecraft party supplies do. not. exist.

The good news? They are crazy easy to make and oh so much fun! Here are the details of my DIY Minecraft Party.

First, everyone needed shirts! The birthday boy got a I Porkchop Minecraft T-shirt because he really does porkchop Minecraft.

In fact, I porkchop it, too.

I also made the birthday boy, his little brother and my niece some extra special Creeper t-shirts using Tulip Twilight Shimmer Transfer Sheets in black glitter for the Creeper faces.

For our party guests’ party favors, I used Silhouette Smooth Heat Transfer Vinyl and easily cut the faces with my Silhouette machine. These were a huge hit with our Minecraft loving friends! Download the SVG file to use with your Silhouette right here: Cuttable File Creeper Face for Silhouette

Don’t have a vinyl cutting machine? No problem! Visit my guest post on Lil Luna.com today for an easy way to DIY your own creeper T’s without any special tools!

Decorations were simple with black balloons and crepe paper spiders.

Nether Portals made from the black and purple crepe paper in our archways for added fun.

My soon-to-be 10-year-old had fun helping me draw the faces on our Creeper sprites (aka Creeper Juice).

And since I already had the creeper face pattern saved as a cut-able file in my Silhouette, I went ahead and cut some creeper faces out using my regular black vinyl. Voila’! Creeper balloons!

You’ll want to place your vinyl faces onto the balloons last minute. As the balloons lose air, they shrink {doh!}, making the faces wrinkle. You don’t want wrinkly Creepers.

I can honestly tell you, I had the most fun making this party food! It was easy and just plain fun to look at.

I adored the Tissue Grass Mats for the table runners. They came in a package of 2 making them around $2.50 each and I only needed 3 to cover the length of my farmtable that seats 10. I used the other ones on the food tables to dress them up. Easy, easy, easy!

I made Dirt Clod Brownies with buttercream “Grass” frosting and topped them with Creeper printables.

Possibly the most amazing party food ever, especially for children, were these Giant Campfire Marshmallows. Dipped in a little red candy coating and topped with upside down white chocolate morsels. See! Like I said, easy and adorable!

Taste tested and approved!

We had regular ol’ kid friendly foods….

We just “dressed” them in fun Minecraft disguises.

Guaranteed to make things easier for Mom and sure not to go to waste!

Rice Krispie treats tinted with a dash of cocoa powder and black food coloring and pressed into haphazardly shaped lumps. When has party food ever been this easy?

We used Swedish Fish but any gummy fish, especially the blue ones, will do.

Chunks of cheese mimic lava blocks. You’ll save yourself some money if you buy the Colby Jack block of cheese and cube it yourself.

Go ahead. Give your child permission to eat sticks.

Best. Party. Ever.

My child saw this vanilla ice cream and orange sherbet combo at the store and insisted he have it at his party. With the carrot cake he also requested. I compromised and told him, let’s turn it into Lava Bucket Punch!

Best {and yummiest} idea ever!

{EDITED: Many of you have asked me for “my Lava Punch Recipe”. I swear, all I did was dump in the Vanilla Orange Sherbet (pictured above) then poured the Strawberry Soda (also pictured above) on top of it. It turned out awesome looking all by itself and totally by accident. Have fun!}

And possibly my highest party achievement ever – Getting them to do Science at a birthday party. On purpose. And enjoying it!

Of course, when Science means heading over to the Enchantment Table and concocting an exploding potion that sends soda 20 feet in the air, it winds up looking more like fun than school work.

And they made their own Slimes. But only if they followed the potion directions correctly!

That took teamwork!

It wasn’t long before they had it down and then they wouldn’t stop making slime.

That is until we said, Pinata time!

And what else do you do for a tweenage birthday party that doesn’t seem lame? Well, believe it or not, they all loved jammin’ to Kidz Bop. Plus, I downloaded several Minecraft parody songs that my child is obsessed with and that was a big hit, too!

I will never get tired of this child’s present opening faces! The mouth wide open directly correlated with receiving an ipod for his birthday. The perfect place to download all of that Minecraft music we played at his party.

Have Sumo Cake!

Some Minecraft Carrot Cake, if you’re into it. You might even like my version of this tried and true recipe even if you don’t usually like carrot cake. I’ll be sharing that recipe with you soon!

This was, by far, the easiest birthday cake I’ve ever made. I just poured half of the cake batter into a square pan and the other half in another and baked. Covered with icing as usual then topped it with randomly shaped squares cut from a Wilton Sugar Sheet in red to mimic a real Minecraft cake. Only I imagine this one tastes much better.

In addition to our t-shirt party favors, we also filled these Gold Bar Foil Favor Boxes with candy for them to take home. So they ended up leaving with a t-shirt, a jar of slime and a ton of candy for less than I used to spend on those pre-filled party favor boxes.

And what do you get a Minecraft lover anyway? Well, I’ll tell you this – none of it is cheap! Take this Minecraft Light-Up Redstone Ore, for as pricey as they are, Minecraft products can be even harder to come by. So if you have a Minecraft lover in your life you might be able to justify the price tag. But even if not, you’re now armed for pulling off a pretty awesome, pretty time-saving and pretty easy Minecraft birthday party!

There was so much to share with you about our DIY Minecraft Birthday Party that I’ve broken it down into two posts. Join me later in the week for Part 2 with FREE printables, directions and printables for making your own slime and exploding potion, your own creeper t-shirts and more. So get ready to get your party on!

And if you have absolutely no idea what Minecraft is or just want to brush up on your lingo before your party just visit the Minecraft Wiki page for all you ever wanted to know. And more.

Hope you enjoyed it! And remember to join me later in the week for Part II.

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Jennifer Beardsley says

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I seriously LOVE your blog. You have the greatest ideas and this Mine craft party is the best!! Thanks for sharing!!

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  Aww thank you! That’s an amazing compliment. Glad you enjoyed the party!
  
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gabe says

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Hi! This is really cool im 11 and i thought this was very cool though i did have a minecraft cape custom game designer skin and heads it was nothing compared to this. BTW if you could tell me what is your sons Minecraft name because i would be happy to add him to my server staff. Signing off TheMcWalrus!

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Shea says

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Maybe I missed this somewhere but I’m curious as to where you got the grass for all that? Or did you make it? My stepdaughter is wanting a minecraft party in 3 weeks and I feel like that grass really pulls it all together!

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  It’s ok Shea! There’s so much in that post it’s easy to overlook some things. I have a link for where I got those grass mats. You will find it just above the picture of the 3-tiered cake plate (with the dirt clod brownies on it). The paragraph starts out like this, “I adored the Tissue Grass Mats for the table runners. They came in a package of 2 making…” The Tissue Grass Mats is hyperlinked, meaning you can just click on the words and it will take you Amazon where I purchased them. Hope this helps! I thought they really pulled it all together, too. One of my favorite things from the day! Thank you!
  
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Shea says

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Perfect! Thank you so much for responding so quickly, I’ve already ordered the Tissue Grass Mats! Thank you, thank you!

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  You are very welcome! Have a great party!
  
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Stephanie says

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My son is turning 8 and his world is almost consumed by Minecraft – he has very few other things that he calls hobbies and none of them rank high enough to use for a party theme. After nearly every Christmas present was somehow tied back to MC, I know the scarcity of product and he already has most of what’s available (at least as much as I’m willing to buy for him). So, when he said that he wanted a MC bday party I wasn’t surprised, but I was filled with some dread. That was, until I found your pins and blog! I’m really excited about pulling this together and exercising some creativity – I don’t play the game but this is a way that I can connect to that world with them.
Thank you for all the printables and the how tos.

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- jamie says
  
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  Aww that’s wonderful! I am so glad to hear that. I hope you guys have an amazing party!
  
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Joy says

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So glad you posted your amazing party online…I’m having a Minecraft party for my sons next month and got lots of ideas for your blog! Your kids are very lucky to have such a creative mom!! Great job!!

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  Thank you so much! I hope you guys have an amazing party!
  
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Andrea says

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Thanks for posting all your great ideas for the Minecraft party. I am planning one as well and I was curious what you used for the individual slime containers? Thanks so much!

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  Well, because I had a store at the time we had those jars to pour paint samples. They were 4oz jars, I believe, with screw on lids. They were purchased from Uline.com but I think you might have to buy them in bulk there. You should be able to find something similar online though. Try Amazon.com. Good luck and thank you!
  
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Carissa says

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Dirt Clod Brownies. I’ve not heard of these. Is there a recipe for them, or is it just a boxed brownie/cake mix? I’m thinking of making Rice Krispie Treats with green frosting for the dirt/grass squares, but if I could pull off the brownies, I think it would be better. Thanks!

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  It’s just a box brownie mix done using the ‘for cake like brownies’ variation. You could also use a chocolate cake mix, too!
  
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Carissa says

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HA! Ha! You can totally tell I DON’T play minecraft… Dirt Clods are actually brownies! Not Dirt Clod Brownies! Ha! Ok. So, these brownies look rather thick/tall. Almost like cake. Did you make a specific type of brownie?

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Jennifer says

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I just wanted to Thank you for all of the great ideas. My twin boys are turning 7 this month. It will be a minecraft pool party but I plan to incorporate the science enchantment table!!!! Thank you for making my life a tad bit easier!!!! I’ll let you know how it goes!! Thanks a bunch! 🙂

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- jamie says
  
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  Thank you Jennifer! Enjoy your party!
  
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Desiree Kilgore says

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Hello! Thank you sooooo much! You just made my life SOOO much easier! I was just wondering where you got the cupcake topper printables at?

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- jamie says
  
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  That’s great to hear! Please be sure to check out part 2 of this post for a complete supply list and the free printables:
  
  https://www.southernrevivals.com/2013/09/diy-minecraft-party-part-2-supply-list.html
  
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Desiree Kilgore says

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Ok for the Large Marshmallows (mushrooms), Where can I find Red Candy Coating, and how do you use it?

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  Red candy coating is like that stuff you use at Christmas time to dip peanut butter balls in except it’s red. It’s made by Wilton. I got mine at Hobby Lobby but I think they may also have it at WalMart and certainly other retailers. It comes in a white and red bag and there large “chips” of the coating inside. Basically, following package instructions, you just heat, melt and dip. Easy peasy!
  
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Michelle says

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Hi there! What great looking ideas! Where can I find the boxes you used for the gold bars?

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  Here ya go! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0065P5PNG/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0065P5PNG&linkCode=as2&tag=southreviv-20
  
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kim says

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Hi Jamie! I am trying to copy your minecraft template to make a shirt. I just bought the silhouette machine…not too sure how to use it tho. I tried to right click on the picture as it says but I cant get ti to come up in the silhouette program. qny ideas??
Kim

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  Hi Kim
  I know we’ve already worked this out via email but wanted to post here so that others can see I have added the cuttable file download in the post. Enjoy!
  
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Paul David Wilson says

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I’ve created a set if 54 Minecraft Food Tent cards that have been amazingly popular. They’re featured in my Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/235477524/

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  Very cool!
  
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Tiffany Torres says

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Hi Jamie!

Thanks so much for all of your wonderful ideas! I will definitely be putting some of these to use at my son’s 7th Birthday party in February! I was just wondering if you ever posted your carrot cake recipe? Thanks! 🙂

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  Thank you! I did not. Maybe I should get on that for this Spring!
  
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Edelyn says

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Great party! Thanks for sharing. I’m going to use some of the food labels. 🙂

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Edelyn says

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Good job on the party. It looked like it turned out great! Thanks for sharing, I’ll be using some of your food signs. 🙂

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  Thanks so much! Enjoy the printables!
  
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