Minecraft Crafting

Minecraft confuses me- I'll just go straight out and say that, but there's no ignoring its popularity. So because I had NO IDEA how to incorporate Minecraft into a library program, we decided to combine it with our summer reading room decorations. Normally, we'll adorn our walls with properly themed art pieces, but this year, we advertised our Minecraft program as the kids chance to help decorate our room. There were 2 different decorations to make..
 
SCULPTURES 

To construct the base forms, we used small cardboard boxes and mini gift boxes previously ordered from Oriental Trading.

We'd had mini boxes left over from a past program so those were used to create animal sculptures. They were just hot glued together. There's a cow, pig, chicken and creeper.

The original idea was to let the kids stack boxes to make the critters themselves. ...We decided against that, since it actually took me over half a day to get all these guys ready!

Also 3 ghasts were constructed because they're super easy to make. Those were small boxes, folded all the way out with cardboard covering the openings at the top and bottom.

These were decorated using square pieces of construction paper... again, leftovers from a previous craft.

Some kids actually asked if they could come back the next day to finish the cow and pig... which they did!

WALL ART

Do you ever have that moment of panic before a  program, where you're suddenly struck with the thought, "WHAT IF I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FOR THEM TO DO?"  These thoughts typically come to me while I'm going to bed the night before or rinsing the shampoo from my hair the morning of a program.

This is how I found myself the morning before the program tracing critters onto poster board.

We had Ender Dragons, spiders, cats and some Zombies. To maintain the pixelated Minecraft look, we used squares cut from tissue paper and crepe paper and glued them onto the bodies.

What I liked about using this instead of the construction paper squares was since they were more translucent you could still see the sharpie outline through the paper.

 

END RESULT!!

 Notice the pigs head has fallen off and the cows left back leg is barely holding on! Maybe there's a better option than hot glue out there...

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