My son LOVES Minecraft. I’m sure I’m not the only parent that gets to hear about it non-stop. I haven’t seen too much in the way of merchandising for Minecraft yet, so I thought it would be fun to make some things for my son’s lunchbox.
For these projects I used my Silhouette to cut out the shapes in vinyl, but a creeper face would be very easy to do by hand.
For uninitiated, a creeper is a green bad guy who sneaks up behind your character and explodes. The little snack box has a Minecraft cookie on it. Your player has to eat and a cookie is one of the many food items you can make.
I will break down everything I did, so you can recreate it if you want.
Creeper Water bottle:
The Water bottle came from Michael’s. You can find lots of choices on Amazon too. I did a Google Image search for creeper face and made my design from there. This is a great image to use from Instructables.
Creeper Sandwich holder:
The sandwich holder also came from Michael’s. There are also tons of sandwich containers on Amazon too. I used the same creeper face and added my sons name with the MineCrafter font. The font is available for free download at dafont.
Cookie Snack box:
The snack box came from Dollar Tree. They are 2/$1. I created a layered cookie design, which I will share with you here. Click the links to get the Minecraft Cookie SVG, Minecraft Cookie .Studio file. (Note: Google Docs can’t generate previews of SVG and .STUDIO files. Select File>Download to save, or hit CTRL+S on your keyboard to download)
Glow in the dark Creeper Backpack:
I love the backpack I found at Kohl’s. In fact, I’ll be doing a whole post on all the great back to school things I found at Kohl’s very soon. I think it is just perfect for this Minecraft theme.
To make the backpack:
- Cut a freezer paper stencil of a square and iron on to your surface. Make sure the edges are nice and secure so you can get clean paint lines.
- Paint few coats of green acrylic paint. To make it glow in the dark add a few coats of glow in the dark fabric paint on top of the acrylic paint.
- For the face, create a stencil and iron on top of the square.
- Paint with black fabric or acrylic paint.
- After the paint has dried for several hours, lightly iron the design to set the paint.
I love all the Minecraft things! My daughter is a total Minecrafter. 🙂 That Backpack is so cute!
So fun.. my boys would DIG this!
My kids are minecraft addicts! Thanks for sharing this!
My boys would love this too! That backpack is totally perfect!
I am so excited to have found this page! My son is named Jasper, he is 8 and addicted to Minecraft and wants accessories for school. As you know the merchandise pickings is slim. I happened to have found a backpack/lunchbox & accessory set at Staples that is sort of camo but little Minecraft like blocks, so I think now I will buy that and use your ideas to customize! He will be VERY excited….thanks so much!
HI, Love this and thank you for the links to all the info. I tried to download the Minecraft Cookie SVG, but it said file was unavailable. Are you able to email it to me? Thanks, Elizabeth casadesousacrafts@gmail.com
You are incredible this is so cool. My son loves the mine craft it borders on psychotic. I pinned them because I am going to try them hopefully I win the Silhouette so I can make them look normal.
That’s pretty cute… I know a few friends who would like this!
These are wonderful, thanks for sharing!
Very fun!
What a great MOM you are and a lucky son. Thanks for the ideas
This is such a great idea! Kids always love personalized things.
This is adorable, I love Minecraft. I really love how you managed to find the perfect backpack to use.
My daughter was sitting next to me when she saw this and instantly loved it! SO fun and cute!