My 8yr old daughter wanted to have a cosmic bowling party at the local bowling alley. We decided intead of regular bowling we would do silly monster bowling. The alley provided for 12 kids to cosmic bowl" (shoe rental included) pizza & drinks plates & cups& napkins as well as balloon bouquet with a real pin for all the kids to sign as a birthday girl souviner.  INVITATIONS:We did bright colors to reflect the "cosmic" part of the bowling and each invite had a big bright bowling ball and a monster on the front. They consisted of bright colored card stock cut into squares slightly smaller than a cd sleeve and circles cut by using a cd as a template.  We used the hole inside the cd to make the three holes for the "bowling" ball.  We pasted the large cirle on the square then place three small circles to make a bowling ball.  We purchased "make your own monster" stickers from oriental trading and made a monster on each bowling ball.  Then we printed SPARE the time to STRIKE up some fun at (childs name) SILLY MONSTER BOWLING PARTY! On the back we printed all the information:Meet us at the Alley:location; Pin the date:date; Spare the time:time; get on track RSVP;number. We slipped each invite into a brightly colored cd sleeve.  DECORATIONS; are provided at our alley for the birthday child..but we got to pick the balloon color and added a couple mylar balloons.  We also purchased "Monster Bash" prefilled treat bags from oriental trading and they had the cutest little prizes inside like glasses with harry eyebrows and monster noses to transform each kid into a monster. I added a monster lollipop and monster fuzzy bookmark to each bag..also purchased at oriental trading.  Our alley provided drinks and pizza but I brought in 16 cupcakes that I decorated with bright icing preztel sticks and marshallows to look like monsters (candy corns made great fangs!). For the bowling the alley went cosmic and we transformed into silly monsters (with the help of our monster face party glasses) by bowling on one foot through our legs spin around roaring like monsters eyes closed tiptoe etc... The kids had a great time being monsters and this party was fun for the boys and the girls!"