Paint the paper bowls with silver paint on the outside.
While the paint is still wet and to make the space craft sparkle sprinkle with a little glitter and shake it off.
Let the paper bowls dry.
Once dry provide a variety of different craft materials like pom poms, sequins and stickers and let them decorate the bowls.
Make your own pom pom maker with 2 cardboard tubes. Hold them together and then start to wrap your wool/yarn around the two tubes. You’re going to need around 100 turns if not more.
Take a shorter piece of wool and tie it between the two tubes around the wool that you have wrapped around them.
Slip it off the tubes and make sure it’s tied tightly in the centre. Now snip to create an even pompoms for your alien.
Add some eyes to your alien and another other features your child may want.
On one of your dry paper bowls cut out an opening in the top that is the same dimensions as the plastic cup so that it will fit snuggly inside.
Add you alien into the plastic cup and then glue the two parts of the UFO together.