Kids Minecraft birthday party ideas
If your little one is as Minecraft mad as my just turned 8 year old, then you need this post. I’ve included links to all the products I used too.
The only birthday party my eldest wanted this year was Minecraft themed. I searched online for Minecraft entertainers or anything we could arrange for him, but the only thing that was coming up was gaming parties or buses that come to your house (someone’s missing a trick here!). With all his friends being only 7 or 8 they were too young for this (the minimum age was 9) and I didn’t really want them sitting in front of a screen for the whole party either to be honest. So the only other option was for me to host the party myself at home.
Here’s what we did.
Decorations
I wanted to make the house look as green and Minecraft-y as I could, so I found a Creeper balloon tower and a green balloon arch. Both of these were self assembly so I also got a balloon pump to save some time. These still took two of us over 2 hours to pump up and assemble, but my son was thrilled with them, especially the creeper.
I also found a cheap green tablecloth, which helped protect the table from the crafts we were doing. It did the job, but it was a bit thin and see-through. These green foil curtains helped to decorate the doorway entrance too.
Birthday card
Luckily my husband Simon is an artist with an online shop - Rocket Jack, so he was able to make him a personalised Minecraft card, Caspar was thrilled with. He also offers lots of other personalised prints.
Crafts
Keyrings - Caspar is a big fan of Hama beads or perlar beads so we printed off a Minecraft sword design for all his friends to use as a guide to make keyrings. This activity was a little challenging for some of them but with a bit of help, they were all able to make them. Once they added the beads to the boards, they were ironed to fuse them together. Then stuck them under a book for 2 minutes to stop them bending and I added the keychains.
T-shirts - I bought some plain white t-shirts from Tu at Sainsburys so that we could add a creeper design. Simon cut out a design on some cardboard and tapped all the T-shirts to pieces of thick card so they could be drawn on without soaking through both sides. One by one, the boys drew the green square of a Creeper first with the Posca pens then once it was dry, added the black eyes and mouth with the black pen and second stencil. The Posca pens shouldn’t wash off but to help prevent fading I ironed each one for around 60 seconds once they were dry. These went down really well with all the boys who wanted to wear them straight away.
Games
I found a Minecraft Top Trumps set and the boys enjoyed playing a round of this.
I also used this brilliant Minecraft Bingo download which managed to keep the boys entertained for at least 4 rounds. The boys went a little wild in between activities but this was a great option to calm them down.
Food
Of course all the food had to be Minecraft themed. I bought some basic containers from Poundland and Simon made some labels for them. We only used food that can be found in Minecraft and even turned the fruit shoot labels into ‘Potions of healing’. Square/rectangle pizza was a must which I bought from Asda and I moved the pepperoni around to make the spare of the creeper eyes and mouth.
Cake
Usually I would make a cake but Caspars party was the day after we got back from holiday, so to save time, I ordered some cupcakes from Asda and bought some Minecraft cake toppers to add on after, worked a treat.
Party bags
To keep things simple, the keyrings and the t-shirts the kids had made were the main favours in the party bags. I also added some chocolate and sweets of course. The party bags I got here.
Overall I was really pleased with how (mostly) calm the kids were for the 2 hours they were at ours for the party and my house was fairly tidy afterwards which I would say was a massive win! If you want to watch the video please click here.
