A Creeper Minecraft Birthday Party

So my older two boys are a little obsessed with the game Minecraft.

Are you familiar with it? And by familiar with it, I mean you have heard the name, seen some weird blockhead type characters, and are vaguely aware there is building involved.

Other than that, yeah, I have no clue what this little game is all about.

So when Middle asked me to throw a Minecraft party, I was a little worried. I was also more than a little lost and WAY over my head.

So what does one do when they are lost, you hug a tree.

AKA you cling on to what you know for dear life.

What I know?

Minecraft has Creepers.

What are Creepers? Well that I don't know, but what I do know...

There are Creepers.

It became clear that Middle needed to have a Creeper Minecraft party.

There was a whole lot of green and black.

Creepers were everywhere.

These chair covers kind of made my day.

I downloaded a free Minecraft font. Then I used it as a stencil to create this birthday banner from felt and biased tape.

Hands down though, my very favorite part was this giant creeper face.
 

I used green, gray, and black scrapbook paper. Eight squares by eight squares. For all of you multiplication nuts...or your average fourth grader...that is 64 squares.

I spend a bit of time on that giant wall mural, but the good news is that I didn't really have to plan any games because all they wanted to do was actually play the game.

This banner was so easy and fun to make. Duck tape, paint sample cards, and vinyl.

When they weren't playing, they were eating.

 The boys made squares pizzas.

The square pizzas were followed by square Creeper cupcakes.

I continued the green theme with some green ice cream. P.S. I am officially obsessed with these teeny tiny wooden spoons.

Taking a break from the eating and Minecraft playing, we hopped on the Perler bandwagon and we made Creepers.

Ending a party is so sad. We try to make it a little less sad, by sending them home with a little bit of the party.

So even though I have no clue what Minecraft is all about, I think the party turned out pretty good.

After all, Middle had a good time and that was the goal.

Happy Birthday Middle.

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A Charlie Brown Birthday Party

Whoosh! Guys, what a week. Heck what a month. Okay let's be realistic...it has been a crazy SEVERAL months.

Good news folks! This Charlie Brown Birthday Party marks the end of our CRAZY, with a capital CRAY, run of birthdays.

Little came up with this birthday theme around Christmas time when he developed a mild obsession with all the Charlie Brown movies playing on Netflix. I readily agreed because to be honest it is really hard to tell Little no when he asks so sweetly.

For the next 3ish months we have heard of very little else.

He was very excited. In fact in every sweet little prayer he has uttered for the last month plus, he has thanked Heavenly Father for his birthday and birthday party coming soon.

It was really rather sweet.

So sweet in fact that I was given to panic when just a few short weeks before his party, nothing was actually planned, and I was worried about letting his sweet face down.

AHHH!!!  

A Charlie Brown Themed Birthday Party was a little harder to put together than I had anticipated.

Everything finally came together and there was plenty of Charlie Brown fun!

I decorated with a lot of yellow and black in true Charlie Brown fashion. Although, did you know that Charlie Brown did not always wear his oh-so-well-known yellow with black chevron?

I found that little gem out while putting stuff together for this party.

For a little pop there was some red added in, but it was just a tad since Charlie Brown was the star.

One of my favorite things were these simple graphic Charlie Brown poster that I made using PicMonkey.

Ya wanna know what my very favorite part was?

The birthday boy in his custom-made Charlie Brown Shirt was my very favorite part.

The kids' favorite part was lunch.

The lunches were packed with traditional lunch items.

Fresh cut red apple slices.

Pretzel twists.

Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Of course we can't forget the PB and J. Everything was nestled in a cardboard lunch box.

 Just add a glass of milk and let the eating begin.

Happy, happy eaters.

Cute, happy, happy eaters.

We followed lunch with a few games, hot potato Snoopy being the crowd favorite.

Next we went on to coloring and chalkboard fun.

Coloring took a lot of concentration.

They weren't concentrating hard enough to forget about the baked goods though.

Black frosting adds a bit of fun to an otherwise boring cupcake.

Little had a really good time and as always, was very appreciate by saying "thank you" over and over.

When the party was done he said "thank you" to his little friends with Charlie Brown take home gifts.

My new favorite thing is printing on lunch sacks. I am all set to show you how I made up these bags tomorrow in a little tutorial.

Thanks for sticking with me last week while I was MIA. I would send you each a little Charlie Brown Thank You, but that would be a lot of lunch sacks AND more ink than I could buy at Sam's Club.

So accept my little virtual "thank you". You guys are the bestest.

See ya tomorrow!

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