Running away? I'll help you pack.: Minecraft

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Minecraft Gift Idea

One of my friends was having a minecraft party for her son. I of course wanted to do a Minecraft themed gift. The boys and I got busy making items that we did for Cole's Minecraft party last year. Thank God Caden is like me and loves making things, he sat with me doing the perler beads.

We made a large version a treat bag to put the gifts in, check out my tutorial here.

We made Perler Beads in the shapes of the characters, check out my tutorial here. It takes a little time put they are so cool when you're finished.

We bought a Minecraft T-shirt to add to the bag.

We picked up a green water bottle at the Dollar Tree and cut down my stencil from the bag and put it on the bottle and made an outline. Cole then colored it in for me.

Twizzlers for TNT - black sharpie and tada TNT.

Kisses in a bag with a label Diamonds.

Glow stick Ax

Caden also made a rainbow loom bracelet in green and black.

Cole glued on creeper and Steve sleeves onto mini candy bars. See the free printable on Keep It Simple.

Any Themed parties planned?

Thanks for Stopping by!

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Minecraft Bento Lunch

I gave up making the themed lunches a while a go when the boys seemed to be more into hot lunches then anything I could make. Then the other day they asked why they hadn't gotten any of them lately. Oh yes be still my heart they want something I make!! So I went on the hunt for an easy Bento lunch and what came to mind but their favorite video game Minecraft. I did a quick Google Image Search and found a cool idea on Bento Better Lunches. I of course made it my own and did a little twist on her's.

What you Need:

Bread (Sandwich of your choice)

Green Grapes

Brownie

Cheetos

Fruit Roll Ups (Orange & Purple)

Square Cookie Cutters

Bread Cutter (Crust Removal)

Cut your bread to be a square, I used a sandwich cutter to cut the crust off and to make a perfect square. I then cut the top corners to make room for the hair. I cut a Fiber One Brownie to make the shape of the hair. For the eyes I used my mini square cookie cutter to cut out fruit roll ups. I shopped at Grocery Outlet so I didn't have a lot of choices in color so I found some Despicable Me Fruit Roll Ups in a yellow / blue color. I made Steve's eyes and mouth out of Yellow Fruit Roll Ups. Instead of the apple I made a square creeper out of green grapes, held together with tooth picks. For the creeper eyes and mouth I used my cutter and cut blue fruit roll ups. And of course for the "carrots" are cheetos.

Easy Peese but the looks they'll get from friends is so worth it!

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Minecraft Birthday Party ... Treat Bags with Thank You Cards

And we end the Minecraft invasion at my house with the Treat Bags and Thank You Cards! As many of you know I hate treat bags and usually don't do them. Really I don't want to take home a crap load of candy or dollar tree toys. Usually I just skip them but the last two parties I've done I did make them with items we made or something with the theme.

What You Need:

Creeper Treat Bag (click for the tutorial of the ones we made)

Glow Sticks (Dollar Store 5pk $1, 1 each per bag)

Creeper Loom Bracelet's (see below on step by step pics)

Minecraft Gelly Bracelet's (bought 4 packs of 5 on Meritline $3.99 a pk)

Minecraft Perler Bead Necklaces (click for tutorial on how to make)

Steve or Creeper Mini Candy Bars (see below)

Minecraft CD (click for tutorial on how to make)

Add one of each or more to each bag! Print a Thank you card. I attached by using my hole punch and tying with ribbon I found at Michael's that looked like a minecraft theme.

I found this really cool free printable Mini Candy Bar wraps on Keeping it Simple. She used her's for a Valentine but they were simple to make and had no wording so they worked perfect for the gift bags.

I also tried my hand and Rainbow Loom Bracelets. I ended up having to YouTube a video on how to do, yes I had to be schooled by probably a 8 year old ... lol. Caden ended up becoming a pro at it and was able to make almost all of them for me. He then had to start making them for his friends in school too .. lol.

I've created a google Drive with everything I've done printable etc, let me know if you want any of them and I'll send them over.

And when you're ready to head out

Put them in a tub and carry to the party!

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Minecraft Party Items Done:
3D Minecraft Invitation

Minecraft Character Perler Beads
Minecraft Creeper Cupcakes
Minecraft Music CD (for Gift Bags)
Minecraft Creeper Treat Bags (DYI)
Creeper & Pig Candy Tubes (Can be Gumballs)
Creeper Juice
Rice Krispie Dirt Blocks and Creepers
Creeper Cake
Minecraft Food Ideas and Food Tents
Potion of Healing (Water Bottles)
Minecraft Birthday Party Treat Bags and Thank You Cards

Monday, May 12, 2014

Minecraft Birthday Party ... Potion of Healing (Water Bottle Wraps)

Tomorrow I will wrap up this party with the party bags and what we put in, but today I will show another EASY item that goes with the theme and gives a little jazz to a water bottle.

I found these water bottle free printable wraps on Catch My Party. You must check out their site they have TONS of free printable's for every party theme you can think of.

What you need:

Water Bottles

Hot Glue Gun

White Card Stock

Printer

Scissors

Peel off the water bottle label. Print the free printable above onto cardstock (You can use white paper but card stock gives you a little extra strength. You can take a pair of scissors to cut, I use my scrapbook paper cutter. Take a little hot glue on the water bottle to put the end of the water bottle wrap down. Wrap the paper around the water bottle and glue the other end of the paper to the bottle.

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Minecraft Party Items Done:
3D Minecraft Invitation

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Minecraft Birthday Party ... Food and Food Tents

Now on to the Food for the Minecraft party! I found these really cool Food Tents on Catch My Party that was a FREE download. This link also has other FREE printables for your party! For the extra food tents I needed I googled Dirt Block and made my own tents using the Minecraft font and googling the pictures I needed. Let me know if you need any help and I'll send mine over I created.

What You Need:
Card Stock
Printer

Food:

Bread = Mini Pigs in a Blanket

Carrots = Cheese Puffs & Carrots

Coal = Oreo Popcorn

I used my Lump of Coal Recipe

Cookies using a Minecraft Cookie Cutter
I used a Rolled Sugar Choc Chip Cookie found on Sugar Bakers

Diamonds = Hersey Kisses

Fish = Swedish Fish

Gold = Gold Hersey Mini Bars

Golden Apples
I tried Caramel Apples they were a FAIL
So I cut up apples and served the left over caramel

Caramel Apples recipe from the Chow

Sadly were a GOOEY mess!

Melon = Watermelon

Redstones = Strawberries

Slime Balls = Green Grapes

Sticks = Pretzel Sticks

TNT = Red Licorce
I used a free TNT printable on MC Paper Craft to wrap the Licorice

A wrap of the food:

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Minecraft Party Items Done:
3D Minecraft Invitation

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Minecraft Party Wrap

I still have one more week of post to share next week but I wanted to show the party all wrapped up. We had it at the Local YMCA so I wasn't able to take pictures of the kids in the pool or going down the slide.

As my comical luck would go I few things of course went not according to plan. I was so busy trying to get all these items together I didn't call people I just sent a FB invite which didn't reach some people. I didn't give a call or a text like I should have, but lesson learned.

We got to the YMCA and found out that a kid puked in the pool! OH Yes so the swim part of our party had to be moved to the middle. We did the gifts first but of course no one could eat, have you ever had to tell kids no eating? We had to wait almost an hour then let the kids in the pool. OF course they could swim but the slide was closed for yet another hour! YUP but we got an extra 1/2 hour in the pool and they opened the slide. So then our party got pushed out over an hour. Oh yes it was fun, not man kids showed but we made the most of it.

Next week I'll show the last of this party

Have a GREAT weekend!!

Minecraft Party Items Done:
3D Minecraft Invitation

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Minecraft Birthday Party ... Creeper Cake

Now for the Cake! Now I know everyone makes fun of cupcake cakes but I really think this one turned out cute. PLUS it's so much easier to dish out! The kids and adults all seem to really enjoy so that always is a plus!

This looks like a lot of work but it actually came together really quick and easy!

What you need:

Chocolate Cupcakes

square Wilton Fondant Cutter

Square Cupcake Pan

Square Cupcake Liners (Block Design)

Frosting (I used My Sturdy Buttercream)

Fondant (I used My Buttercream Fondant)

Food Colors (3 Shades of Green, light, medium and dark)

Cake Board

Cake Box

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups white sugar

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

2 eggs

1 cup milk

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup boiling water

DIRECTIONS:

1.	Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two nine inch round pans.
2.	In a large bowl, stir together the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla, mix for 2 minutes on medium speed of mixer. Stir in the boiling water last. Batter will be thin. Pour evenly into the prepared pans.
3.	Bake 30 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until the cake tests done with a toothpick. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.

Make 25 cupcakes, I stretched the recipe and it made 27 which was great I had 2 that didn't rise right. I took my cake board and made a square 5 high and 5 deep. I frosted the cooled cupcakes, now I don't do the light dusting when putting on fondant. I have a fondness of sugar as you all now so I put a THICK layer of frosting on each cupcake.

For the Squares, I took my white fondant and broke it into 4 balls. At Hobby Lobby for $1.99 (Amazon wants $3.75) I found AmeriColor Gel Paste. I picked 3 greens (Light = Avocado, Medium = Mint Green and Dark = Forrest Green) and Black also. You can pick whatever 3 green's you would like. I kneaded in the greens and black and then got to work. I rolled out my first green and took my square fondant cutter to cut out my blocks. You need 3 Black, and 22 green (7, 7 and 8) also 2 small squares (1/4 of square) and 2 half squares.

Play around on how you like the greens to look I tried to do every 3rd block the same color but had to play around when I got to the black spots. For the mouth of the creeper I laid those 2 small squares and 2 half squares on top of the green so the mouth was a little raised.

I placed on a silver cake board and then put in a cake box that traveled nicely to the party on my friends lap :).

Any Themed Parties planned?

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Minecraft Party Items Done:
3D Minecraft Invitation

Monday, May 5, 2014

Minecraft Birthday Party ... Grass Blocks & Creeper Rice Krispy Treats

Next on my Minecraft domination party was rice krispy treats formed as Dirt Blocks and Creepers. NOW I saw some pretty cool ones and one by Nerdy Nummies but my first fail was that recipe. I tried to do the black chocolate melts stenciled onto a wax paper to form creeper faces. It didn't work at all! So I went to my back up of fondant cut out. I found these really cool Dirt Blocks on Haniela's.

For the Rice Krispy's you do a normal recipe

What You Need:

6 Cups of Rice Krispies (I bought mine in bulk section of Winco)

3 tbs Butter

1 (10oz) package of marshmallows (I use minis)

Food Coloring (Brown, Green)

Black Chocolate Melts or Black Fondant

Melt Butter in a large sauce pan over low heat. Add Marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove from heat. Working quickly add rice krispies cereal and stir until the cereal is well coated.

At this point add the food coloring. I usually use Wilton Icing Colors, but I found at Hobby Lobby AmieriColor that comes in a great squeeze bottle. I will use these to color my fondant and icings from now on! I made 3 batches, one using brown color and 2 using green color.

Using a buttered spatula or wax paper (I use wax paper that I spray with pam) press into a greased pan.

Mincraft Dirt Blocks

For Dirt Blocks I pressed Brown rice krispy Treats into my silicone pan. I then topped with green rice krispies. I let them set up then cut into blocks.

Creeper Rice Krispies

For Creepers I pressed Green rice Krispies into a greased pan. When they set up I used my square Wilton Fondant Cutter (bought on Amazon) to make perfect squares. For the Creeper face I used mine Creeper Cookie Cutter (bought a set on Amazon). Since the cutter had the square part too I just pulled off the outside square leaving me just the face. I then placed the face onto my squares.

A few more things to come to finish out the party! I hope you have enjoyed all the items.

Any Themed Parties planned?

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Minecraft Party Items Done:
3D Minecraft Invitation

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Minecraft Birthday Party ... Creeper Juice

The party was a hit! Sadly my invite on Facebook wasn't seen by many so the number who showed was down. I didn't figure out the FB thing until the day after, and was so upset that some of my friends thought I hadn't invited them. But happy to know that people weren't ignoring me ... lol. Reminder to self, calling people the old fashion way sure would alleviate any doubts. UGH some days!

Here is a quick an easy recipe for Creeper Juice!

What you Need:

Sprite

Green Kool-Aid (Or Green Punch)

Ice

Ice Tea Container

Fill up your container, for kids parties I use a plastic one just to be on the safe side. Fill up container with 1/3 of ice or more. Add 2/3 of the green juice (I used Walmart brand Kiwi Strawberry Punch) and then add 1/3 of the sprite. The sprite gives it that bubbly feeling and the kids loved it!

Any Themed Parties planned?

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Minecraft Party Items Done:
3D Minecraft Invitation

Thursday, May 1, 2014

I'm Featured on Pin Me!

I'm still on the party train here so just a quick post :). I'm so excited my Minecraft Character (Perler Beads was featured) on Diana Rambles Pin Me! Thank you so much Diana for featuring me!