Minecraft Fishing Game

Updated on March 27, 2025

Minecraft Fishing Game. Create your own magnetic Minecraft Fishing Game for your next Minecraft party or as a fun activity for the kids year-round.

For my son’s 8th birthday party, we had a Minecraft-themed party. It was so much fun! I am excited to share all the details with you.

The first game I created was a Minecraft fishing game. It uses clothespins, magnets, and paper clips to catch the fish!

Supplies:

• 3/8″ Dowel rods
• Twine
• Clothespins
• Magnets
• E6000 Glue
• White Cardstock
• Printer
• Cricut Machine
• Paperclips
• Laminator and Pouches

Build Fishing Poles

I started by creating the fishing poles. Use 3/8″ dowel rods and cut them to 18 inches. Sand the cut edge so it doesn’t have any rough edges.

Using a drill, I made a hole in one end of the dowel rod. This step is not absolutely necessary, but it prevents the twine from falling off while the kids are fishing.

Thread the twine through the drilled hole and tie a knot.

I used these little character clothespins because they have a round bottom edge to glue the magnet to and a little round circular top end, making it easy to attach the twine to it.

Tie the twine around the round edge at the top of the clothespin and secure with a knot.

Attach the magnets to the bottom of the clothespins using strong glue.

Note: I now use Beacon Power Tac instead of E-6000 as it has much less odor.

Create Magnet Fish

Now that I had the fishing poles done, I needed to create the fish.

I found images of the clownfish, raw fish, raw salmon, and pufferfish at Minecraft Wiki. I saved them to my computer and created a PNG with all the images on one page in Photoshop Elements. 

Note: If you don’t have Photoshop Elements, you can use a free program like Canva.

I uploaded the image to Cricut Design Space and used the Print then Cut feature to cut out two sets of fish. 

Note: You can easily hand-cut out the fish, but this will take longer than using the Cricut.

Laminate Fish

I placed all the fish on a laminating sheet face down and placed a large paper clip in the middle of each one before running it through my laminator.

If the paper clips are moving around too much, you can use a little double-sided adhesive to hold them in place. Once they were laminated, I cut around each fish to separate them.

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How to Set Up the Minecraft Fishing Game

We set up a tub with all the fishing poles. 

I created a Let’s Go Fishing sign in Photoshop Elements using images of Steve, the fishing pole, the raw fish, water, and a grass block I found on Minecraft Wiki. 

We then put all the fish in a small kid pool, and the kids tried to catch them using their magnetic poles. 

The kids really enjoyed this game!

You can have races to see who can catch the most fish the quickest, or you can have each person try to catch a certain type or color of fish. There are lots of variations on this one game. My kids still play with it and create new versions of what they have to do.

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