Epic and Affordable Minecraft Birthday Party Ideas

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Did you guys know that Minecraft is the best selling video game of all time?! Wow, I had no idea until I started researching this theme for a birthday party! If you have a kid that enjoys Minecraft, chances are great that they would LOVE a Minecraft birthday party! And you’ve come to the right place because not only do I have great ideas that are fun and relatively simple, but they’re also budget-friendly. 

I learned all about the Minecraft world so you don’t have to…unless you want to that is! Basically there is the Overworld and two alternative dimensions: the Nether and the End. The End is the final stage of the game and killing the Ender Dragon opens access to the exit portal. The important characters are:

• Steve and Alex – Default characters you might play as a New Player
• Lots of different animals
• Creepers – The green silent hostile characters that sneak up on players and explode
• Enderman – Teleporting hostile characters
• Ghast – Crying ghost-like characters that shoot fireballs from their eyes
• Zombies
• Large Spiders
• Witches
• Skeletons
• Ender Dragon

The basic goal is to gather resources, craft things, protect yourself and vanquish hostile “mobs.” Thankfully knowing all the details isn’t important to create an awesome Minecraft birthday party! 

Minecraft Birthday Party Ideas

I think you’re going to love these Minecraft party ideas. I wanted to keep it as simple as possible but still have a lot of WOW factor. This particular party was for an 8-year-old boy, but these ideas will work for lots of ages. To save you time and money, this post contains so many great links to FREE printables and resources. Let’s get into these great ideas now!

Minecraft Party Invitations

In my exhaustive search for Minecraft birthday party ideas that I could actually replicate easily and inexpensively, I came across these great cubes at Pixel Papercraft. After downloading the template, I simply inserted it into a Word document. From there, I increased the size to fill the page, and then added text boxes to insert the text to make it an invitation. I printed them in color on white cardstock paper, cut them and assembled them! They were fantastic. The birthday boy and all the guests loved them!

If you prefer a flat Minecraft birthday party invitation (that can handed out or mailed), be sure to check out this totally free printable set from Catch My Party, that includes invitations, cupcake toppers, fun food labels and more!

I have one more cool set of free printables to share with you. I thought about creating my own printables for this party but honestly, with great ones like these available for free, why would I bother. Am I right!? You do have to download the font if you want to customize these, but the extra step is well worth it. The link to the font is in the post. And it includes a super cute Minecraft banner as well!

Minecraft Party Decorations

Focal Point

I set up my main party room, as I always do, with a strong focal point. I used this awesome Minecraft themed backdrop (the one I used is no longer available but this is a great option!) over the party table containing snacks and party favors. It measure 5 feet x 3 feet and helped theme the space perfectly! 

Balloon Garland

Above the backdrop, I added a balloon garland. I absolutely love a balloon garland to add a lot of “wow” to a party space for not a lot of money! You can choose to buy Minecraft themed balloons or just do what I did and add printed “faces”  or labels to the various greens, black, and red balloons By adding your own faces, you can easily get them all facing exactly how you would like them.

I used the creeper faces from the free printable set at Elvamdesign.com for the creeper balloons. The TNT labels from that same set were perfect for the red balloons. I used clear packing tape to attach them. Just make sure you don’t attach them too far in advance of the party, as the tape may make the balloons a little droopy after awhile and increase the likelihood of them popping. 

Balloon Garland Instructions

Check out this post to learn how to easily make a balloon garland. It has options for using fishing line or purchasing balloon garland tape. I used about 60 balloons in this particular garland. Purchasing a reusable balloon pump is the best way to blow up that many balloons. And since you’ll fall in love with how crazy cool balloon garlands are for decorating party spaces, you’ll use it over and over again! I always inflate a handful of balloons to about 1/2 way and leave them out until the end, so I can attach them (just use tape) where needed to fill in the blank spots.

Command strips and hooks are a party planners best friend! I used them to hang banners and anchor the balloon garland in place.

I draped the main party table with a Minecraft table cover (the one I originally purchased is no longer available). You can also just grab this Minecraft party set that includes plates, napkins, balloons, table cover and more! I also draped the dining table with a Minecraft tablecloth. Minecraft cubes were used to decorate the tables. To create the cubes, I used construction paper and cut it to look like Minecraft characters from the video game. To make the TNT “cubes,” I used red tissue paper wrapped around a couple of smaller rectangle-shaped boxes and attached a TNT label from this free set of printables.

Other Minecraft Decor

I printed out some Ghast characters and added white streamers to the bottom of each one to make them look more authentic. I hung them from the chandelier and around in a few other places as well, using fishing line. 

Near our entryway, I hung black and purple streamers, adding a sign at the top that said, “Nether Portal.” The sign was made by printing three letters per page and then taping them to a piece of poster board. The boys loved walking back and forth through the portal throughout the party!

Here are the Minecraft plates and creeper napkins we used for our party. 

Some Great Minecraft Birthday Party Decorations

Although I didn’t use these ideas for this party, I thought they were really great ideas and wanted to share them with you. 

• Check out this giant creeper face made with square paper plates!
• Giant Spider

Minecraft Birthday Party Food

Candy Bar

We had this party in between meal times and kept the food pretty simple. But I really love how much fun you can have with Minecraft food! Our party was for 8 year olds so we basically did a candy bar which doubled as Minecraft party favors! I found these cute food labels at Catch My Party. Here’s how we used these fun labels:

• Redstone: Cherry sours
• Slime Balls: Green gumballs
• Golden Apples: Gold gumballs
• Coal: Mini Oreos
• Bread: Mini Nutter Butter cookies
• Cookies: Mini Chips Ahoy cookies
• TNT: Red licorice cut in half and wrapped with TNT wrappers
• Gold: Rolos wrapped in gold foil
• Diamonds: Cookies and Cream Hershey Kisses
• Emeralds: Green grapes

Minecraft Cake

This might have been my favorite thing. I think it turned out so awesome! 

1. I used 8″ square cake pans to make 3 layers
2. I stacked them using chocolate buttercream frosting in. between the layers and all over the cake.
3. I cut one square of cake from the top layer and placed it on the top of the cake in the opposite corner from where I cut it. I added chocolate frosting to cover the cut edges.
4. I used a Wilton Grass Frosting Tip and lots of green frosting to add “grass” to the entire top surface.
5. The finishing touch was adding some Minecraft Lego figures to the top.

I love this Minecraft cake!

Other Minecraft Food Table Ideas

• Water bottles using these wrappers, some are for “water” and some are for “healing potions”

Minecraft Birthday Party Activities

This is what a kid’s party is all about! The kids had so much fun playing these Minecraft party games.

Minecraft Pin the Tail on the Pig

I created my own poster for this using a picture of a Minecraft pig. I recreated the pig using construction paper. Then I made several curly tails for the boys to pin on, while blindfolded. The rules are pretty simple: Each kid, on their turn, gets a tail, blindfolded, spun around three times and then they have to go find the pig and pin the tail on wherever they think the tail goes. The one who gets closest to the right spot wins!

Minecraft Swords

These were a party favorite for sure! My amazing neighbors own Circle and Square and were kind enough to cut these out of cardboard for us. They turned out so great! Circle and Square now sells these precut swords if you want to recreate this fun craft, but don’t want to cut them all out by hand. 

Here is an additional DIY Minecraft Sword craft that I like as well!

I had the swords waiting at a craft table when the boys arrived at the party. There were lots of markers available so the kids could decorate their sword however they wished while waiting for all of the guests to arrive.

Minecraft Bingo

I printed these free printable Minecraft Bingo cards for this game. I also made a Creeper punch board for the prizes. Once someone got “bingo” they got to destroy one of the Creepers with their sword and see what their prize was! I put a Minecraft figurine in each of the cups and made sure there was one for every kid attending. 

To make this punchboard, I simply glued green Solo cups to a piece of green poster board. Then I carefully drew Creeper faces onto green tissue paper, cut each one out, and secured it over the top of each Solo cup with some glue. It turned out great and the kids loved it.

Minecraft TNT

This one is messy but soooooo fun! We bought several 2-liter bottles of diet soda and Mentos candy. Have you done this one before? The chemical reaction is a blast….literally! Definitely do this one outside and have the kids stand back. We used 4 Mentos per 2-liter bottle and it worked great. We tried to measure the different sodas and how high the explosions went. Our conclusion? The Diet Coke definitely went higher than the Diet Dr. Pepper. If you do this Minecraft activity at your party, please let me know in the comments which one of your sodas went the highest!

Minecraft Hunt for Food

This is basically an Easter egg hunt, but with a Minecraft theme. We scattered dozens of plastic Easter eggs around in the backyard and the kids hunt for them. Each color was assigned a point value that we kept secret until the end when it was time to tally up the score.

​The kids were surprised to find out that some boys who only had a few eggs ended up with a higher score because they found a couple of highpoint value eggs. The highest points won and the winner got a prize!

Minecraft TNT Walk

​This one is musical chairs but with Minecraft images. I searched for Minecraft images and printed them out, each one on a full sized sheet of paper. They were laid out in a circle and the kids walked around the circle, outside of the Minecraft images, while we played Minecraft music. Once the music stopped, the kid that was nearest the TNT “exploded” and was out. The next round, one of the images was removed and the remaining kids did the same thing until there was only one kid left and he won a prize. 

Steve Versus Creepers

This is played like Sharks and Minnows. Like regular tag, there is one who is”it” or the Creeper (the birthday boy for our party!). The others are Steves and run around trying not to get caught by the Creeper. As kids are caught by the Creeper, they become Creepers too and go after the remaining Steves until there is only one Steve left and that kid wins!

Minecraft Treasure Hunt

What better way to end a Minecraft party than taking turns playing the game and going on a treasure hunt? My daughter spent a lot of time building a huge house in Minecraft. Then she hid treasure chests throughout the house with diamonds inside each of the chests. The kids took turns going through the Minecraft house trying to find and open a treasure chest. They loved it. 

Minecraft Party Favors

I made these cute Minecraft party favor bags out of bright red paper bags with these TNT labels on them. The kids took several candies from each bowl at the candy bar and put them in their TNT bags on their way out of the party. It was cute and simple.

Here are some other party favors that we used as prizes for the games. The Minecraft figures and Lego Minecraft figures have increased in price quite a bit so I will include several other options as well: 

• Minecraft Figures
• Lego Minecraft Figures
• Minecraft Fruit Snacks
• Minecraft Pez Dispensers
• Minecraft Stickers

Here are a couple of great DIY Minecraft party favors:

• Green Slimeballs (This recipe is simple and can be divided into smaller containers for party favors)
• Corner Creeper Bookmark

Final Thoughts

This was an incredibly fun party that everyone thoroughly enjoyed! I tried hard to keep this party on a reasonable budget but still have plenty of fun and activities for all. It was fun to plan but my favorite part was watching the kids enjoy themselves and just be kids! Let me know in the comments how your Minecraft party goes!