Minecraft Scavenger Hunt Pieces

I used these for my step son’s party.  We wanted to do a scavenger hunt.  I knew I wanted to make a crafting table, the challenge was how to make pieces that wouldn’t blow away outside. You can see our crafting table here.   I didn’t want to spend much.  I thought we could just use paint stir sticks, cut the pieces and tape them onto the wood pieces.

My sweet patient husband went out and cut these pieces, ALL 200 of them 🙂

Husband note: This was actually very easy. I used the width of a stir-stick to set a guide on my miter saw, stacked them10-high, and got 10 squares each time I brought down the blade. 200 pieces in just a couple minutes.

Next I spent time cutting out the pieces.  Then I used packing tape and tapped them around the piece of wood.  It took some time, we watched a movie and we both wrapped all these pieces.  

This only cost me paper and ink!  Such a great easy way to do it!

Minecraft Birthday Party

My step son turned 12 years old. He wanted a Minecraft birthday.  I knew nothing about Minecraft!  I’ve never seen him play or anything! So this required me to have many talks with him, he loved it, I felt confused most of the time.  I decided to go with green as the base theme!  I downloaded the Minecraft font and then started making signs, like above.

 

I had a major fail on my step daughters cake so I was a little scared to make another one.  I found out freezing the cake makes all the difference in the world!  I made a square cake and chocolate frosting, I crushed Oreo’s and added them into the frosting to make it look like mud.  I use my Winton grass tip to make all the grass like frosting.  We have a very big family so I made some mini cupcake just incase we needed more. I also found these cute cardboard figures on amazon and placed them on top.

 

My step son tole me about the potions and brewing them.  So I found a potion diagram on google and put it on the board.  I used Koolaid squirt bottles so the kids could make their own “potions”.

For an activity I decided to do a scavenger hunt with a crafting table.  I used a card table, tablecloth, and duct tape to make the “crafting table”. I made crafting templates with my Silhouette Cameo software.   I bought a bunch of prized at the dollar store that seemed to fit the theme.  I got sword, chest armor, axes, and much more.  I also made little tupperware with coal, diamonds, and emeralds.  I used my silhouette Cameo and make stickers to put on them.  I wish I had pictures of how they turned out.

I made these wooden scavenger hunt pieces for the scavenger hunt.  See how I made them here.

 

They came inside and matched their pieces to get their prizes.  This was a little crazy, but they had fun!

I didn’t get a picture of the cute lanyards I made.  I loved how they turned out.  I again used my Silhouette Cameo.

I made these “dynamite” out of pool noodles.  I used duct tape and taped them together.  My husband is always thinking about the details, so he got the rope out and tape three pieces together and I hot glued them into the holes.

I started collecting boxes about a month before the party.  I just went for it with Steve and the pig.  For Steve I cut a narrow long box in half for the arms and spray painted them and the large box and light blue, then I spray painted the other large box dark blue.  I used brown packing paper for the head, and I used black duct tape for the hair and painted all the other features. I decided to use a pink tablecloth for the pig and wrapped all the boxes individually.  Afterward I think it would have been better to spray paint it.

I really enjoyed this challenge of this party!