When we were thinking about the theme for Aiden's six year birthday party he had several ideas. First he wanted a soccer party, then a pirate theme, then the astronaut theme came around. It took about three weeks to settle (well convince) on the Astronaut theme. The first thing we knew we wanted to do was have glow in the dark constellations (we used glow in the dark paint on poster board and put them in the bathroom, the kids piled in and we turned off the lights to go on an adventure), then we decided to have space "goop" (cornstarch and water) for the stone scavanager hunt. I also did some searching online for ideas and there were some people that spent an outrageous amount of money on these really adorabole space helmets for each child. I opted for the low end version and we used paper bags turned inside out and a hole cut for the face. They were pretty adorable as well. As the kids were entering they each got to make their own space shuttles out of thick cardboard tubes. We went to the photo lab at Walmart and asked for the paper rolls from the paper they develop the film on. (these make great blocks as well!). These were the art supplies they had to use with their imaginations: Aluminum foil, egg cartons, yard sale stickers (the dots you write prices on colored blue, red and yellow), star stickers, markers, popsicle sticks and tape. It was wonderful to see what they came up with!
This years party was almost as big of a hit as last year's dinosaur party with the exploding volcano!
This is the "goop": Making the shuttles: decorating the helmets:
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