Cakes (Nothing to disguise the yummy taste)
Robot Cake
Spaceship Cupcake Cake 

Decorations (Another division of your robot party headquarters)

Use silver and blue or silver and black for a color theme.

Make robots of varying styles to place around the party area.

Costumes/Dress up (Machine gear)
Paint brown paper bags (with head and arm holes cut out) with silver spray paint and decorate to look like robots.

Games and Activities (The automaton of the celebration)
Pin the Button on the Robot (ages 3-8)
Draw a robot on a posterboard with a blank spot for a button. Provide each guest with a button to put on the robot. Blindfold the guests, one at a time, spin around and have them try to put the button on the robot. The one closest to the correct spot wins. 

ROBOT Bingo (ages 3-12)
Play ROBOT Bingo. Print out as many cards as you need and print out the numbers to be drawn. Play as you would regular bingo. Give the guests beans or M&Ms to mark their cards. When a guest gets five in a row shout "Robot" and give them a prize.

Robot Freeze Dance (ages 3-16)
Instruct the guests to dance like robots with bent elbows and awkward steps, while you play music and to freeze in position when the music stops. Admire some of the frozen positions each time you stop the music. Play several rounds until you’ve had a chance to admire each guest’s frozen position at least once. This was a favorite at my son's robot party.

Robot Maze (ages 4-10)
Help the robot through the maze, collecting as many nuts and bolts as possible. Click here for this PDF file.

Robot Grab (ages 4-12)
Provide each guest with a hand extender that pinches. Have them pick up items off the floor using the hand extenders and put it in a pie tin. You may provide each guest with their own pie tin to keep what they pick up or place one pie tin centrally in the middle of the floor or on a table. Lay out small party favors and candies to be picked up.

Laser Aim (ages 4-16)
Cut marshmallow shooters from ½” PVC pipe in 5-10 inch increments. They’re basically blow darts. Spray paint silver and add a single stripe of color with electrical tape. Provide the guests with mini marshmallows. Explain they should put the marshmallow in the shooter and blow. Do not spit or the marshmallows will stick. Make a target or the guests may shoot each other. Play this game outside. The marshmallows get too sticky when squished under feet and in carpet.

Oil the Robot (ages 5-16)
Make this a relay race. Decorate two, empty, clean gallon milk jugs to look like robots, or robot faces. Have the guests split into two teams. Give the head of each team a large glass of apple juice (or oil and instructions to not drink it) and a ¼ cup measuring cup. For the race, the head of each team should fill their measuring cup and walk it over to the robot and pour it in the milk jug, being careful not to spill. Then the guest should run back to their team, pass the measuring cup to the next in line so they can carry apple juice to their team’s robot. Give the teams 4 minutes to fill their robot with as much “oil” as they can. The team with the most wins.

Junkyard Obstacle Course (ages 5-16)
Every robot movie seems to have a junkyard in it somewhere. So create one in your backyard or living room for your guests to go through. Use wastebaskets to go around, chairs to go under and even small swimming pools to go through. You can have the guests go through the obstacle course once as they are, and once as a robot on stilts. Make the stilts from clean, empty, upside down #10 cans (coffee or potato flakes). Use the triangle end of a bottle opener to punch 2 holes at the top of the can. String rope through the holes so the guests can hang on to the stilts and go through the obstacle course this way. Be sure you have a camera handy to catch all the Oops! moments at your robot party.

Three Legged Robot Race (ages 6-16)
Pair the guests off into teams of two. Tie the right leg of one guest to the left leg of another guest so they have to run the race together. Once each team is tied up begin the race. If they fall down they should get up and keep trying.

Robot Control (ages 8-16)
Pair the guests off into teams of two. Have the teams take turns with one guest being the robot and the other guest as the robot controller. The robot will be blindfolded and put his arms through two short pieces of dryer vent hose, and use kitchen tongs or chopsticks to pick up and move cotton balls from one bowl to another. A robot or any machine is only as good as it is programmed and controlled so the controller is supposed to give voice commands to the robot about picking up and moving the cotton balls. Would you rather be a robot or a robot controller? This is a great way to experience the difference at your robot party.

Crafts (The clever android creates at the robot party)
Make Your Own Robot (ages 3-7)
Make a robot with graham crackers, frosting and small candies for buttons or sugar cubes. You may also use marshmallows and pretzel sticks for building robots. This is a must with the younger guests at a robot party.

Spaceships at Your Robot Party (ages 3-12)
Turn an old record and Styrofoam ball into a space ship. Cut a Styrofoam ball in half and use hot glue to attach it to the center of the record. Give one to each guest, set out acrylic paints, glitter glue, sequins and pipe cleaners for decorating the spaceship.

Cosmic Solar System (ages 3-16)
Make a solar system with Styrofoam balls. Or make your own galaxy scene. Paint Styrofoam balls of varying sizes with acrylic paints to look like planets. Cut out a cereal box for a diorama; paint the inside black or line with black paper. Paint white and yellow stars, or decorate with cosmic stickers. Then add the already painted and dried planets with hot glue. Either make one large diorama with everyone’s involvement or let each guest create their own.

Refreshments (Robot party munchies)
Offer apple juice in cups labeled “machine oil.”

Serve a mixture of crackers, nuts, raisins and small candies in silver baking cups (cupcake liners).