Last summer I had no idea what minecraft was, until my 7 year-old son became obsessed with everything minecraft. He first began playing the game on my phone, and then we finally bought him the X-box 360 version. Every year we have a theme for his birthday, in the past it has been Disney's Cars, Curious George, Thomas The Train, SpongeBob, etc. So I asked what he wanted for his 2014 birthday theme and of course he said "MINECRAFT". As other bloggers have mentioned, there aren't any minecraft party supplies that you can purchase in store. I did see a few sites such as etsy, but I figured I could save money and make them myself. The party is February 22nd, so I still have time to complete a few projects. First up, Ghast piñata. I plan on having a candy buffet, so I don't think I'll actually put candy in it. I like it more for décor...and besides, I don't want to destroy all of my hard work.
First thing I did was find a box (12x12?), white crepe paper, and a printout of the Ghast face.
I tried to follow another blogger's instructions, but somehow misunderstood them, lol. So I ended up doing this the hard way. I cut strips of the crepe paper the same width as the box, stacked them, and then cut little slits into it. I'm sure there is an easier way to do this (fold & cut tissue paper) but I wasn't really thinking. This was very time consuming and I wish I had doubled the crepe paper because it was very thin and see through. I had to go back over it with another layer of crepe paper.
Anyway, I glued the crepe paper strips all around the box. As I mentioned before it was pretty thin & you could see the brown box underneath, so I filled in the gaps with more crepe paper strips. Before covering the top & bottle of the box with crep paper strips, I punched a small hole in the top and tied a string to it for hanging. Then hung varying lengths of crepe paper from the bottom for tentacles.
I cut the Ghast eyes & mouth out from the printout and glued them to the front.
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