
Making your own invitations for parties can save you a lot of money and they're fun to create.
Use dark blue poster board and draw a constellation that matches the astrology sign of the guest of honor. Use a silver ink pen to draw the constellation and to write the party information. Glow in the dark stickers can also be placed onto the dark blue paper.
Wrap a variety of balls with foil and hang from the ceiling as the solar system.
If your budget allows you can cover the walls in a room with black plastic or dark blue plastic and place glow in the dark stars onto the plastic.
To Play:
Divide the group into two teams. Have the teams line up far enough from the wall that they can't see which star has their name on it.
On "go" the first person in each line runs to the wall and grabs their star runs back to the line, tags the next player who runs and grabs their star. First team to gather their stars, wins.
To Play:
Mark a spot away from the craters and have the boys line up behind it. Each player takes a turn tossing three moon rocks (marshmallows)into the craters. Award one point for each rock that lands in a crater. Winner is the person with the most points.
Make a rocket from materials found around the house or easily obtained. You could do this at the party, but I'd make the rockets ahead of time as they can take a little while. The printout would be good as a party favor.
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Bake a fun ufo spaceship cake.
Mix up a batch of cake mix and pour half of it into an eight in round pan. Bake the other half of the batter in a four to six inch oven proof bowl.
Frost the round cake.
Trim the dome shaped cake so that it sits level on the round cake and frost it.
Decorate the cake with small round candies.
A cherry or a gumdrop can be used to create the top dome light.
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