I recently had a Science party. Our invites had a border of fizzing beakers and the famous picture of Einstein with his tongue sticking out which was actually taken at his
birthday. inside were the usual details for the information to the party with special instructions for everyone to wear white collared shirts.
I was able to borrow from a friend who is a teacher, beakers and petri dishes and test tubes which I used for props at the birthday table. I filled the beakers with various kinds of candies. powered sugar candies in various colors and those pop rocks from my youth. In the beakers I had various flavored jello. The cake was the center piece and it was made of cupcakes and shaped like a beaker. the kids thought it was super cool. In the back porch, we had all the supplies each child needed for their projects. Every child had thier own supplies, including safety google, face mask and project notebook and pencil. Every one of them performed thier own project. Noone was left out We performed over 10 projects in the 4 hour time period. The kids were having so much fun that they had to be pulled away from the experiments to have dinner. We went to Stevespangler.com to get all our sceince projects. He has so many wonderful ones listed there. Our guest make lava lamps, they loved watching the glop move through the tubes! They made glop! They loved it! It was stiff and hard when you made it but when you picked it up it oozed right out of your hands. We purchased magic sand for them too. It was cool how the sand was water repellant. They must have done this experiment over and over. Ofcourse, you can't have a science party without the coke explosion. We gave each child thier own diet coke 2 liter, thier own mentos and each took turns doing it. We measured whose shot up the highest! I also let them make snow from some polymer that I purchased on the web site! this was a favoite as well and the story behind how it was made was pretty cool too! I went to various other sites by just googling cool science projects and downloaded many others. My son's uncle works in the science field so he was able to explain the various reactions and reasons for reactions. they honestly had fun and learned too! It can't get better than that. Some of the boys even met requirements for boyscouts. Dinner was simple: sloppy joes, chips and rootbeer floats. I served the rootbeer floats in this science beakers that I received from my friend. I am not a science person person. never really understood it but even I learned and had fun! As they left, I gave them thier goody bags. My son's auntie works as a nurse and she was able to provide me with ziplock bags that read hazardous materials. Inside them I put three test tubes of science projects, instructions for science projects. They all got a package of mentos, a 2 liter of coke, sceince related candies, smarties (because they are no dummies), gummy brains, a container of snot ( for the boys) and jello brains (for the girls) and pop rocks! It was a sucessful party! How do I know? My 10 year old who loves science was apprehensive about having such a party. He was afraid his friends would not think it was cool. At the end of the night as the children got picked up I could hear all his friends saying. Thanks for inviting me, this was the best party ever!!! later than night my son said, mom thanks for giving me the best party ever! it was just 9 friends and him, since he was 10, it was fun! cost of science project $100.00 cost of goody bags: $200.00 since appreciation from my son................PRICELESS
