While scouring the internet for ideas, I found another mom who held their party at The Microsoft Store and that it's FREE!
We don't have an Xbox 360 (we only have the pocket edition), so I knew my son would love it as he's been dying to play it on the Xbox.
Going this route was super easy! I didn't have to worry about any entertainment and really, for all of the food that I brought, not much was eaten. We did put a bunch of the candy items in their favor bags for them to take home.
Here are some pictures of the spread.
Food wise, we gathered some of the easiest ideas that I found from lots of different parties.
My favorite was the lava bucket. All of the kids loved dipping different items in the lava. (rice crispies, marshmallows, pretzels, swedish fish, cookies...)
The kids also really loved the jello water blocks. I just put the jello in a greased ice cube tray and then put 3 or 4 cubes in small clear cups.
A fun thing that I did when making the cake was that I put some blue, yellow, brown, and green M&Ms in between the layers and told them they as they were eating their cake, they could mine for diamonds, gold, iron, and emerald. I had good intentions of making little pick axes out of these flat skewer sticks and electrical tape, but didn't want to do it at 2 am.
Couple things to note... the juices were these little hug barrels. I got the printable labels for them from Heather at Geek Mom Mashup.
The CreeperAides (there are a couple on the table, but each kid had one in their bag) were Hawaiian Punch Lemon Lime Splash in 10oz bottles. They came in a package like this. I also included some crazy straws to use with them which also doubled as a favor in their bag so that we hopefully wouldn't have any issues with spills.
I used glow sticks for the diamond sword, but wanted to use rock candy suckers. Just didn't have time to make a trip to the official party store.
I also ordered some tissue paper grass because my son loved how it looked at one of the parties we looked at online, but we totally forgot to bring it in with us along with the brown table cloth.
We also had printed of some of the printable 3D Minecraft characters to put on the cake, but forgot those at home.
Oh well. It was still a great party!
If you're doing a Minecraft party, I have all of the food labels made up for you along with the Steve face for the bags, CreeperAide labels and TNT wraps. These were all things that people had done for their parties, but that I had to create myself. It didn't take long to do them, but it would have been nice to just have them done, so here you are!
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I hope that you enjoy what I have to share and that your party is amazing! There are so many great and fun ideas out there for Minecraft parties!
