A minecraft birthday party

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Birthday card with Creeper

 My daughter's house just went on the market in Oshawa, and there were going to be two viewings on Sunday. So we made last minute plans for my daughter and my two grandkids to come visit their grandma and grandpa on Mother's Day. Tomorrow is my grandson's fourth birthday, so my daughter phoned on Saturday to tell me she was bringing a cake for him because it would be the only opportunity to celebrate his birthday because of them selling their house. (That made sense). So I told her not to go to all that trouble because I could bake him a cake. But she said no thanks, because her son really, really wanted a Minecraft birthday.  And just like many of you, I had no idea what Minecraft was.

I love the Internet. I googled "free printable Minecraft birthday" and got lots of ideas for decorations and food. I printed until my printer ran out of coloured ink. I made the banner, Welcome sign for the front door, food labels, water bottle wrappers, wrappers for Hershey mini chocolate bars, and other pictures of Minecraft symbols as wall decorations. So Sunday morning, I got up at 6 AM to start the cleaning and decorating. Then we were off to Bulk Barn to buy the snack food and candy. At home again, I put a green table cloth on the table and wrapped my table bench (that sits on top of the table) with pale green tissue paper and laid  matching green "Easter" straw that looked like grass, on top of that. I filled 4 small plates with building blocks for the game, like sticks (pretzels), slime balls (green spherical snack crackers), redstone (red spherical snack crackers) and carrots (cheezie twists). Grandpa, in the meantime, went to the Dollar Store in Amerstview to buy green balloons, and plain green paper plates and cups. My daughter  made a wonderful cake to look like a "creeper". Like the game of Minecraft, the kids had to "build" their party food. We made pizzas. His uncle gave him a Minecraft poster for his new room when he moves and his mom, dad, and big sister gave him a new bike (which they brought with them). Grandpa and I gave him a Fisher Price Batman Cave, which we had already bought for him. 

This party was thrown together so quickly, I forgot to take pictures. Fortunately my daughter took some which she will share with me later. Here are some of the offerings. From l to r, slimeballs, red stone, and Lego candy. 

Before they left, I gave them each a green cardboard container to fill from the candy bar, which were also building blocks from the game.....diamonds (Hershey kisses), gold ( gold foil wrapped mini chocolate peanut butter cups), coal (black cherry jubes that were really black in colour...perfect) and cookies (tiny 1" chocolate chip cookie snacks). We also included the wrapped Hershey bars, Lego candy that really stacks and locks like Lego blocks, and a small "mystery box" that contained a toy figure from the game. I think the kids had a good time. We played in the playground over at the school grounds so my grandson could try out his new bike on the paved parking lot. The day was exhausting, but what a wonderful way to celebrate Mother's Day. And how was your week-end?