Minecraft IRL (In Real Life) Ages: I held this program as a middle school afterschool event. You could easily scale the difficulty up or down.

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1 Minecraft IRL (In Real Life) Ages: I held this program as a middle school afterschool event. You could easily scale the difficulty up or down. Size: I planned for a group of 15. Time: My program lasted about an hour and a half. Cost: $15-$25ish depending on what you already have on hand. Materials: Printables: Swords and hilts Scavenger Hunt sheets and pictures Design Sheets Poster board or cardboard Scissors Glue sticks (or white glue, whatever you ve got is fine) Perler (fusible) beads Perler bead pegboard (optional, but it makes creating designs easy) Iron Parchment paper (if you re purchasing fusible bead stuff new, this paper is usually included with the beads. Prizes (optional I picked up three Minecraft mini-figs from a local toy store, which ended up costing me less than this Amazon listing Slips of paper and a hat or bag for prize drawing The Plan: Make a sword Scavenger Hunt Minecraft face or character building with beads Give away three prizes As kids arrived, they could put their name into the prize drawing and start working on their swords. The swords ended up taking a lot longer to make than I had anticipated. I used poster board for the sword structure, because I wanted to keep the swords from being totally floppy so they would look good, but I wanted them to be flimsy enough to discourage sword fights. It did deter sword fighting, there was some pretend fencing, but no one was ever actually hit (Success!). Making them is simple: print two sword hilts and sword blades, and then cut and

2 glue away. Once most of the swords were completed (and the few that weren t set aside safely to be completed later), I grouped the kids into three teams. Each team was given a Library scavenger hunt with four items. Each item they found or question they answered would earn them part of a Minecraft picture (the pictures were created by doing a Google image search for Minecraft scenes, printed out, then cut into 4 quarters). The first team to put their entire picture together would be able to put their name into the prize drawing a second time. At this point I explained to the kids that the extra name only meant a better chance to win one of the prizes, each person could only win once. After the scavenger hunt we went to work with the beads. I demonstrated how to design with them, showed them a completed Creeper face, and presented the guide for design reference if the kids wished to use it. Then set them loose to design. The challenge was that I only had 4 perler pegboards. So I had the kids work on their designs and then when they were ready, transfer them to the Perler boards so I could fuse them with the iron. Some of the kids needed to leave early, so I did the prize drawings while they were working on their designs. Sample Scavenger Hunt Questions: I chose to go with more general Library scavenger hunt questions, but you could certainly put together a Minecraft-ier hunt ( I did allow computer searching. And I wanted to encourage the kids to talk to other Librarians, so one of the rules I set out was: You can ask a Librarian for help, but you can only ask each librarian one question. So if you need to ask for help on more than one question, you ll have to find another Librarian. Find 3 different books that have each been turned into a movie. Find a book with a picture of money. What are the names of all the Weasley children? Find a book about Fone, Phoney, and Smiley. Find a book with illustrations by Bill Watterson. Find a book with a character named Jeremy. What was Mr. Popper's Address? What year was The Cat in the Hat first published? Find three books with the word Fire in the title. Find a book with illustrations that are made of photographs. What book won last year s DCF award? What number in the non-fiction section will you find Minecraft guide books in the Library?

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