So the days when little Molly was happy making wands and Toby playing pirates are long gone, it’s time now to introduce a science party! Thrill them with an afternoon of fizzing experiments, explosions and mini eruptions and hear them scream with delight as rockets blast-off and chemicals gurgle!
Mad Science Party Invitations:
Write the party details on rubber gloves using permanent marker pens and pop these into white envelopes. Or why not curl colourful invitations into test tubes and hand deliver them to the guests.
Science Dressing up:
For this kind of party the dress code has to be ‘mad scientists’. Have some styling foam or gel on hand for arriving guests to spike up their hair and hand them some rubber gloves and plastic safety glasses. Let the explosive fun begin!
Mad Science Party Decorations:
You will probably need two large lab tables, one for the experiments and the other for the party tea. For the party tea, cover the table in a turquoise blue tablecloth and match with bright colourful cups and traditional party hats. For the experimenting table, use a plain blue cloth and fill this with a variety of glass jars and vases, filled with potions and powders (use baking soda and fizzy drinks to create fizz and food colouring to create exotic potions). Label each jar with scientific names, such as ‘magic powder’, ‘deadly poison’ and ‘potion 1’ ‘potion 2’ etc. Fill glowing illium balloons and hang at differing lengths using balloon weights and the backs of chairs.
Mad Science Party Food:
Fill green and pink jazzy bowls with crisps, green coloured popcorn and other explosive nibbles. Cut out sandwiches using a rocket cookie cutter and fill with colourful ingredients.
Prepare each guest with a bowl of butter cream frosting and bottle of food colouring. They can then whisk up a delicious potion to spread onto their cupcakes and decorate them with weird and wonderful sweeties such as fizzy bubblegum bottles, sour monsters and fizzy snakes. Arrange these on a blue or white cupcake stand and judge which is the best. A candyfloss maker is also a fun accessory at a science party and you can add powdered food colouring to caster sugar to transform it a brilliant colour.
Science Cake:
A personalised Rocket cake will go down a treat at a mad science party. Or why not try and make your own? It will make an impressive centrepiece for your party tea table – just remember to keep it out of reach of little fingers!
Science Party Bags:
Send the mad scientists home with a blue chemical party box filled with delights. Magic slates, magic bubbles, fizz wizz candy, gobstoppers, glow sticks and foam rockets are perfect party bag fillers. Or what about some slimey monster goo, perfect for little wizards.
Science Games & Activities
Experiment 1: Fill ¾ of plastic bottle with warm water; add a few drops of food colouring and ½ cup of vinegar. Quickly add heap of baking soda and watch the mixture fizz and overflow from bottle.
Experiment 2: Place some washing up liquid into a bowl and dip a toothpick into it. Then dip the toothpick into food colouring floating in milk and watch the colouring spread into a ring.
Experiment 3: Get each child to press a finger on to a pocket mirror. Cover with graphite dust by rubbing a soft pencil with sandpaper. Blow off the excess dust and stick a strip of tape to the print and slowly peel off. Attach to a piece of paper and reveal the finger print.
Experiment 4: Get minds spinning with a scientific version of charades. On some index cards write science words ie electricity, magnet, microscope, test tube and each guest has to take it in turns to act out the word to the others.
Clever Endeavour Science Parties have some more fantastical ideas for science party extravaganzas.
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