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Spaceship Cake. Bake cake in a 9-by-13-inch pan. Frost with blue-tinted icing. Let icing harden. With a toothpick draw, or have your child draw, a spaceship on the icing. Fill in the drawing with white icing and decorate with candied silver balls and gumdrops.

Vanilla ice cream

Juice, milk, punch. Serve in plastic bags tied with twist ties around straws. Explain that because there is no gravity in space, the juice won't stay down in a cup, and that this is similar to the way astronauts drink beverages.

DECORATIONS

Cover the table with aluminum foil. In the center place various toy spaceships and spacemen.

FAVORS, PRIZES, ITEMS FOR TREAT BAGS

Small toy spaceships, balloons, kites, small plastic spacemen, paper for making paper airplanes, gummed stars

INSIDE GAMES AND ACTIVITIES, NONCOMPETITIVE

1. Make robots and spaceships out of boxes. Glue on nuts, bolts, smaller boxes, and toilet-paper rolls. If possible, take all the boxes outside and spray them with silver paint while the children are playing. When dry, let the children stick on gummed stars (good favor).

2. Space Bag Game. Play like the Treat Bag Game.

INSIDE GAMES, COMPETITIVE

1. Make paper airplanes and see who can fly one the farthest.

2. Hot Asteroid. Play like Hot Potato.

3. Nuts and Bolts Hunt. Play like a Candy Hunt.

Later on, the children can use their findings for their robots and spaceships. Or let the children trade in what they found for candy.

OUTSIDE GAMES, NONCOMPETITIVE

1. Spaceman's Buff. Play like Blindman's Buff but make only spaceship sounds.

2. Miss, Miss, Hit. Play like Duck, Duck, Goose.

3. Freeze Tag

4. I Spy

OUTSIDE GAMES, COMPETITIVE

1. The Blob

2. Giant Steps

3. Red Rover. Pretend the runners are spaceships.

4. Relay Races. Each team can be a space team.