Life-Size Minecraft Christmas Tree

Minecraft, who thunk it? Such a simple game, in fact when I first saw it I thought back to my days, many, many, many days, of playing Zelda (1987). Here we are 26 years later with one extra dimension. Kids and adults are crazy for Minecraft, my boys included. So, here we are and Christmas time is upon us. I decided to take the craziness of the season one step further and build a life-sized Christmas Tree, a Minecraft Christmas Tree, and this is how I did it. Obviously, I needed some good blocks. I did some searching and found 12x12x12 inch boxes online at Staples.com that I thought would work perfectly. I ordered the boxes and while I was waiting for them to arrive I decided to head over to Lowe’s to search from some plywood. I needed the plywood to create a frame that would not only support all the boxes, but that I would be able to conceal easily. Here is what I came up with....