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Space Party Ideas |
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Theme: Space, Aliens Among Us or To The Moon. |
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Images and inspiration: Space, astronauts, solar system, aliens, laser beams, space suits, astronomy, planets, astronaut foods, star, space ships, galaxies, milky way, glow in the dark stars and mission control. |
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Date and time: An evening event will add to the glow in the dark effects. |
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Budget: Fifty to three hundred dollars for a small event. |
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Location: At home or laser tag. |
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Layout: A fog machine or dry ice can create a space atmosphere outside. Scatter snappers around the ground (when they are stepped on they snap). Have a space movie or space music playing. |
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Record event: Record the event with a camcorder and digital camera use a voice changer to talk to the folks back home, tell them about the arrivals, events and departures. |
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Transportation: Turn a van into a mission control chase vehicle, by attaching magnetic mission control signs to the side, and dress up like the ground crew. Talk to mission control over a walkie talkie, about your location status and ETA (estimated time of arrival). |
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Costumes: Astronauts and aliens! Space suits can be made from winter snow gear and a helmet. Aliens can be made from silver sweat suits and Styrofoam ball antenna. |
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Invitations: Attach invitation information to a spaceship, or use glow in the dark pens to write information on a space picture, and send with a flashlight. |
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Decorate: Hang twinkle lights outside and black lights inside. Place glow in the dark stars and planets around the entire party area. Balloons should be black, silver, green or marbleized. Windows can be covered with black cloth and decorated with pictures of planets or space stickers. A solar system model makes for instant decor. Turn a round table into a space ship by covering a large umbrella with silver fabric, and placing it above table, then cover the table with silver fabric or aluminum foil. |
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Food: Spaceships are round, so anything round. Pita bread, pizza, rolls, decorate the tops to look like a space ship. Spaceship cake can be made from a bundt shaped cake, insert an alien into a silver balloon, blow it up and place it in the center (this is the alien's flight deck) sprinkle with edible confetti. Place mini spaceships (cupcakes in silver bake cups) with toy balls or mini aliens/astronauts in center, around the mother ship. Serve dry astronaut food. Punch should be anything green: lime Gatorade, green sherbet and ginger ale or serve Tang: "the drink mix of the astronauts". Pop rocks (candy that snaps in mouth) could be sprinkled on food. Serve everything in and on silver, black or space platters, plates, cups, bowls or try using flying discs. |
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Activities: The arrival activity should be taking pictures of guests in space suit (for thank-you's). Blue Planet Special: each team puts on space (ski) pants and boots, space helmet (motorcycle/bike) and gloves (ski/work), walks on the planet (foam mattress hiding under blue plastic), picks up and eat a space strawberry, goes back to start, takes off space suit, next person goes. The first team done wins. Planet Orbit: have each team form a circle facing out, toss as many planets (inflatable earth, ping pong, tennis, soft moon rock balls...) as there are children around circle, those dropped are lost in space. The team with the most balls wins. Planet Rotation: place a planet (balloon) in between two people, have them turn around three times without dropping the planet or using their hands. The first couple done wins. Pass the Moon: in a dark room, pass a lite up ball around a circle, when lights are turned on, the person caught, is out. Spaceship explorer: throw a spaceship (Frisbee) into the black hole (hula hoop with black fabric or blindfold the children). True/false: list of facts about space. Pick a Planet: dig in clouds (cotton) for a planet (painted ping pong ball) with 1-? stars that correspond to a prize. Space trivia: game or information to take home. |
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Gifts: Name a star, astronomy books or maps, astronaut stuff, glow in the dark items. |
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Favors and prizes: Toy planet balls, space ships, aliens, light sticks, gak, Frisbees, yo-yo's. Milky Way candy bars, alien shaped fruit snacks, or anything that is UFO shaped. Put favors in space bags, seal it with a glow in the dark sticker, and hand out as they leave. You may also want to give small favors to guests for their siblings. |
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Follow-up: Take a picture of each guest in a space suit, in front of a space background, print them on postcards, send them your thanks for attending and any gifts. |
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