Many children adore a super popular game called Minecraft that intrigues kids at first sight with its unusual geometry, the prevalence of square shapes, and pixilated graphics. Game-themed bday will become a chic birthday present that will be able to teleport the game universe to the real world or help them find themselves in the virtual world, albeit for a short while!
To make your guests understand that the party is going to be great, pay due attention to decorating your home for the upcoming event. Preparation can take a really long time, but if you get a cool decor, consider that half the battle!
In this article, we are going to share with you some amazing Minecraft party decorations ideas, including interior, table, and photo zone décor ideas!
Planning for the Unique Minecraft Celebration
If your future birthday boy is fond of this wonderful game, then he will surely like a birthday arranged in the style of his favorite computer game!
But first, you should consider planning your celebration, which includes several consecutive steps:
- preparing unique invitation cards;
- searching for the best DIY Minecraft party ideas;
- purchasing the necessary amount of supplies for decorations;
- thinking over the menu and serving;
- asking friends and acquaintances to help you with creating decor and serving the festive table.
In order to 100% understand the style, it would be useful to get to know the computer game better. You can find many interesting ideas for homemade decorations that will be relevant at a children's birthday on the Web.
Think about Minecraft party costumes
All good Minecraft themed birthday parties include a dress code!
Boys can dress up as Creeper or Enderman, and girls can become real game witches! Alternatively, you can just ask parents to dress their children in brown, black, or green T-shirts.
Ask the kids to make themed costumes out of scrap materials — regular cardboard boxes with multi-colored cubes glued to them will perfectly do.
Also, you can arrange a competition for making a themed T-shirt. Buy enough green t-shirts beforehand and prepare stencils (they are available at any party supply store) with squares cut into them. Guests can apply black acrylic paint according to the template, remove the stencils and leave it to dry.
In just-40 minutes, each kid will get a memorable stylish T-shirt!
Use printable Minecraft party décor
If you’re looking for simple and quick Minecraft decoration ideas for birthday, you can use free themed printable images — there are plenty of them on the Web. You can find cool invitations, themed banners, water bottle or napkin labels, chocolate bar and cupcake wrappers, toppers, thank-you cards, poster images, etc.
To make an atmospheric celebration, you should try to create a whole world consisting of blocks:
- to create blocks, you can use styrofoam or cardboard boxes: they can be used to make three-dimensional characters and items from the game;
- to make the figures look just like game characters, print out the necessary images and glue them to your cubes;
- don't forget to make 2D flat items out of regular cardboard. Cut and paint square swords for your boy and his friends, prepare pickaxes, make the faces of game heroes;
- hang garlands on the walls, and decorate the whole room with black and green air or helium balloons;
- also, you can place square spiders, pixel fruits and vegetables in different corners of the room to surprise your guests.
Make a Minecraft themed photo zone
IY photo zone is one of the best Minecraft theme birthday party ideas that will help you make the celebration unforgettable:
- order a backdrop in a printing house or create it yourself in Photoshop;
- hang the printed backdrop on the wall, decorate the space above it with a balloon garland, attach colored ribbons to it;
- place figures of game characters, such as Steve, Enderman, Wither, Blaze, Creeper, and Zombie, made from cardboard boxes near your photo zone.
Minecraft Balloons bouquets
Bright balloon bouquets help to make any party look special. We have some great Minecraft decorations ideas for your celebration, too!
Use themed Mylar balloons in the form of the heads of the main game characters, TNT dynamite, potion bottles, etc. Combine them with green and black latex balloons in the style of the game; modify your bouquets with small balloons in contrasting shades.
Make Pinata
Huge Piñata will be the perfect end to the party! You can make it in the form of the Ender Dragon, the main boss of the game. When the young warriors beat their target, they will be surprised with prizes and sweets falling from it.
Making a game-themed Piñata is very easy: you will need a regular box lined with green paper.
Balloons arches and columns
Using regular latex party balloons and twisting balloons, you can easily make cool columns that will perfectly fit your Minecraft birthday party theme: try making Blaze, Enderman, Ghast Zombie, Skeleton, and other monsters or even a Minecraft tree with your own hands — it's gonna be fun!
As for the themed arch, use green and black balloons of different sizes as a base and then add smaller white and brown balloons. Also, use themed Mylar balloons to make your arch stand out.
Minecraft themed favors
If you manage to find cool Minecraft birthday party ideas for a boy or a girl, little guests will surely want to take a piece of the magical world with them. These themed favors will help you with that:
- papercraft animal mobs
- pixelated sunglasses
- pixel-style miner character wristbands
- paper pixel treat bags
- toy action figure hangers
- pencils with mountain climber pickaxe toppers
- large plush pixel pals stuffed square balls, etc.
Minecraft party table and foods
- Main course.
Serve diced bread, carrot sticks, pork chops, and fish fillets or chicken medallions. - Sweets.
Prepare crackers, cut into squares, pie, cookies with chocolate chips. - Fruits.
Make sure to prepare some watermelon and apples for the kids – the heroes of the computer universe love these foods so much. - Desserts.
Prepare desserts in a non-standard way: for example, tie each three marmalade sticks with a ribbon to create the themed TNTs. Place a topper with the “coal” inscription near the slices of chocolate and raisins and decorate the green marmalade with the “emeralds” sign. - Themed cake.
A cake made of portioned cubes of "earth, water, sand" and other edible blocks is a very interesting idea. Moreover, it's so convenient to eat. - Drinks.
You can serve any drinks kids like, such as carbonated water, lemonade, or juice. The main thing is that they are green or red. Put some stickers on the bottles that say "invisibility potion", "strength potion", "antidote", etc.
Party games and activities
You can find dozens of interesting ideas for children's Minecraft-style games that won’t let your guests get bored. However, if you're short on time, check out these ideas for a Minecraft birthday party for a girl or a boy.
Searching for resources
The main task of any player in the Minecraft Universe is to find useful things that may come in handy in the future.
Put small matchboxes pasted over with colored paper or painted cardboard squares in different corners of the apartment. Let the kids search for treasures, and then exchange them for swords and other valuable items.
The battle
After all the children are given weapons, they will be able to arrange a real battle with each other. It is best to use water sticks for this: they are inexpensive, elastic and soft, which means that none of the guests will get hurt!
Let the children fight inside the drawn circle: the one who first crosses its borders loses the game
Creating a character
Kids are very fond of creating their own computer characters and changing their appearance!
Cut out images of game heroes from white paper in advance, line them into squares, and then give each guest a template and markers. The children will be able to relax a bit and draw the characters they like at the same time!
Make an unforgettable birthday!
If your birthday boy is fond of Minecraft, then he will surely like a party arranged in the style of his favorite computer game. And, since boys and girls want not only to have fun at the birthday party but also to remember the cool moments of the celebration, this idea seems the most advantageous!
Now you know how to make a Minecraft birthday party that both kids and adults will love — go ahead and make this day really unforgettable!
