Minecraft birthday

Aaron had an awesome Minecraft birthday involving no screen time! Instead, it was a paper Minecraft event. We purchased a big pile of Minecraft paper pop-out items and spread them on the table, and the kids merrily folded objects and tucked tabs for an hour and a half without pausing. It was sort of like a marathon of folding paper dolls, but instead with dirt blocks, trees, pigs, sheep, and cows. The kids were wild for it. They just folded and folded, and shouted at each other about Minecraft. 

When they had folded All The Things, they played with them. Each kid got to take home some of the things as a party favor. 

There were wearable Steve heads, which were hilarious. 

Eventually we herded them outside for Creeper Cake. I was pretty pleased with this one; chocolate cake, green frosting, and squares of fondant in black, grey, and green.

Finally, there were snowball and slimeball fights. (Ping pong balls and green water balloons.) It was a very hot day so the water play was much appreciated. We set up a mister.

Fun stuff!