Visit a planetarium for a very "spacy" celebration.
Kids love outer space for many different reasons. Whether your little tyke dreams of being an astronaut, wants to meet an alien someday, or just loves gazing through a telescope, celebrate her passion by throwing her a fun space-themed party. These party ideas will help make it a space bash to remember. Does this Spark an idea?
Deep Space Cupcakes
Alternately, use plastic stand-up stars.
Make a double or triple batch of chocolate cupcakes (depending upon how many kids are attending the party). Ice the top with French vanilla frosting---dyed black with food coloring. Roll out some homemade yellow fondant and use cookie cutters to cut out big and small stars. Place one fondant star in the center of each cupcake.
Arrange the cupcakes around a small round cake decorated to look like Earth. This arrangement also works for sharing cupcakes with a class or sports team.
Star Field Ceiling
Have someone paint the kids' faces with stars.
Hang dozens of silver or gold stars from the ceiling in the main party room with invisible fishing line to create a star field effect. Or, you could hang glow-in-the-dark stars and planets. Give them away as favors at the end of the party.
Alien Treasure Hunt
Attach a doctored "photo" of M'Xrgenth on your lawn.
Inform the party guests (in a suitably dramatic fashion) that mysterious lights danced in the sky last night. Then, you saw something falling and felt an impact, almost as if something crashed. This morning, you found a strange note and you were wondering if they could help you solve it. The treasure hunt should lead to a cache of chocolate coins and alien-like artifacts.
Decorate each clue with "alien symbols" and write in odd handwriting or download an otherworldly font. The final clue should be located near a shallow hole in the ground (just scuff up the dirt a bit if you don't want to dig a full-on hole). The clue should explain, "My ship got caught in an ion storm last night and crashed on your planet. I was able to fix the ship, but I had to get rid of some weight, so I've left these Daxanian coins and some other things behind. I hope you enjoy them. Come visit me on Alpha Centauri sometime! Sincerely, M'Xrgenth."
Instead of placing clues, you could divide the guests into teams to follow the colored strings you've wound "all over your property," as a University of Illinois Extension site suggests. "Teams must wind up their roll of string to find the treasure at the end of the roll."
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