Become a conductor like Leo! All that's needed is a few materials to make a baton and a CD full of classical music to conduct!

What you need:

• Styrofoam balls
• Unsharpened Pencils, chopsticks, or sticks from the yard (the straighter the better!)
• Glue
• Glitter, markers, paint, and felt

What to do:

1. Help the children make holes in the Styrofoam ball with the pencil. Remove the pencil and place a bit of glue into the hole. Insert the pencil again and let dry.
2. With the glitter, markers and paint, decorate the baton.
3. Once the batons are created, play a classical CD and have the children wave their batons to the music.

Have markers, glitter, and paint set up on a table. Have both blank paper and coloring books so children can create art. Once they have completed a project, hang it up in the party room so that your home becomes an "art museum."

What you need:

• Tape
• Printed pictures of each Little Einsteins character and musical instruments or notes with a number on each picture (equal to the number of children at the party)

How to Play:

1. Tape pictures to the floor in a big circle, with as many pictures as there are players.
2. Play up-tempo classical music and stop - just like musical chairs. Try Bach or Rachmaninoff or Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker.
3. When the music stops, the children must stand on a character.
4. Call out a number. Whoever is on that number receives a small prize (try a plastic toy instrument or a lollipop but call it a baton).
5. Remove the picture that the winner was on and give it to them.
6. Repeat until every child wins a prize!

How to Play:

1. Play some classical music by using a store-bought classical CD or by tuning in to a classical radio station. Make sure the CD has a variety of composers, tempos, rhythmic patterns, etc.
2. Encourage children to dance like June. Have them pretend to leap across the water on the backs of whales, for instance!
3. If you have long pieces of ribbon on hand, give each child a length of ribbon and let them do a ballet-ribbon dance.
4. To make the game more fun, ask the kids to dance like lions, elephants, mice, etc.

When the party is ending, have a fun farewell by having each child "blast off!" All you need to do is gather the children, ask them to pat their legs and say, "Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat" - growing louder each time. After the fifth pat yell, "Blast off!"