Minecraft Birthday Party

I've mentioned how much I love taking my art classes at 4Cats Arts Studio. This year, I decided to have my birthday party there because they have a new Pixel Party, and I was the lucky person to have the first one. 

When we arrived, Messy Martha had already prepared the grid for the Creeper painting on a 36-inch square canvas. She had marked off where we were supposed to paint black. Each of us painted the section nearest to us. 

Then we used different shades, tones, and tints of green to randomly paint the rest of the squares. Every couple of minutes we switched colours so that we had lots of variety in our sections.

I can't wait to see the canvas when it's stretched. We are going to hang it my video game room.

Next, we all sculpted a creeper. A few of us made Minecraft Creepers, and some of my friends got creative and added mustaches, hats, horns, and tap dance shoes. One was a Hammer-head Creeper

While we ate, Martha added pins and then put the Creepers in a toaster oven. She made each one into a key chain that everyone was able to take with them.

After we enjoyed some pizza, we had cupcakes. My mom and I baked the cupcakes using this recipe. We added green frosting and used a different shade of icing to add grass. We added paper wrappers and Creeper faces that we printed from The Party Animal. We taped the faces to cake-pop sticks.

At the end of the party, everyone left with a goodie bag. My family had a lot of fun preparing them. After seeing lots of ideas on Pinterest, we went to the candy store and found candy to include in our goodie bags. I also made some Minecraft things out of Perler Beads and each of my friends got two of them.

 

Gold = Butter 'n Cream Candies
Diamonds = Hershey's Kisses (Cookies & Cream)
Gravel = Chocolate Pebbles
Redstone = Caramel Cups
Sticks = Pretzel Sticks
TNT = Mini M&Ms

Here's a close-up of the Perler Beads (the Enderman was upside down - oops!):

My mom used Photoshop to make the toppers to label the bags. She used the Minecrafter font to add the Minecraft name and what kind of candy was included. We folded and stapled them to  snack-size bags.

We also really like the name labels that we saw on a pinterest post, so we created our own in Photoshop. 

I loved everything about my Minecraft Party!

Happy New Year!

Come check out my Minecraft house while you wait for the New Year's countdown:

 

Best wishes in 2014!

Minecraft Haunted House

Happy Halloween!

This week, I made a haunted house and graveyard in Minecraft PE. Check it out:

Minecraft Bowling Alley

Hi everyone! Today is another addition to Minecraft Monday! I wanted to make a bowling alley in Minecraft because I was inspired by ACtennisAC. I used redstone to make working pins.

Check out the video:

If I make the shot with the bowling ball, an arrow shoots at my face, and then I get knocked off the pressure plate which makes the "pin" go down. Luckily, this is in Minecraft, and not real life, because that would be a crazy way to bowl. ;)

Minecraft Pirate Ship

Hi everyone! It's Minecraft Monday! So I decided to build something special just for you guys. I built a Minecraft pirate ship. It has working cannons, hidden chests, a plank, an anchor, a cabin, barrels of rum, and even a crow's nest. I wrote a story about me destroying the Kraken, and I'll share that in another blog post.

Take a quick tour of my Minecraft Pirate Ship:

I spent most of my weekend building the ship. The hardest part was building the ship itself, and the sails were also challenging. I really enjoyed making the rapid-fire cannons. 

Lego Minecraft Stop Motion

Hi guys! It's Minecraft Monday again. But today is not about a normal Minecraft video. This one is a stop motion video made with Lego. 

I had a lot of fun making the set for this video and also gathering sound effects from Minecraft.  Now that we have a Lego Minecraft world, you'll be seeing more stop-motion videos from me.

Enjoy!
1legoson

Minecraft: My Amusement Park

It's Minecraft Monday!
 
Yesterday I uploaded a short video to show you my Minecraft Amusement Park.

I started by making my first roller coaster, then got more advanced. My first roller coaster was the Roller Coaster Of Death I. I used red wool with rails on top to make the roller coaster. But of course, Minecraft carts have weight, so you need powered rails with redstone torches underneath the red wool.

After making my roller coaster, I made some mini games like the ball throw and the mirror maze. I got the idea of making an amusement park by watching people play on the super popular Minecraft map Fun Land. Even my funny looking enderman observatory was an idea I got from Fun Land.

 

If you see anything in my amusement park that you'd like to know more about, or how to make it, just leave me a comment and I'll let you know.