Space Party

from this post: http://thestar.blogs.com/parenting/2006/05/prepare_to_get_.html

The space party: You get a couple of mega-cardboard cartons from an appliance store. Ask the guests to bring a bike helmet. When they arrive, you adorn their helmets with foil. Then they build a rocket and cut out some windows. They decorate it with sparkles and streamers and markers and stickers. Then they put on their "space helmets" and you count down to blast off about 500 times and they go in and out and and in and out. This will keep them amused for
many minutes. Trust me. And after that you can play pin the astronaut on the moon and have an asteroid hunt (for silver Hershey kisses) and play statues by "moon-walking" to the theme from 2001 A Space Odyssey. If all goes well, you'll barely have time for cake.