Weird Science

 

Invitation:

~ experiment written out in scientific method steps, delivered in a petri dish

Decor:

~ green and orange color scheme

~ modern science class based decorations as opposed to "mad scientist" scheme

~ "chalkboard" backdrop to buffet table set with different shapes and sizes of flasks with multicolored liquid and dry ice, connected with clear pvc tubing

~ 3 lab tables with activities covered with green tablecloths

Food:

~ fruit molecules (clementines and grapes with toothpick hydrogen bonds)

~ bunsen burner bagel bites

~ orange jell-o agar

~ sprite with food color mixing station served in test tubes(the kids went a little overboard creating their own compounds!)

~ brain cake, which later when dissected, showed to have a white cake interior with orange and green sprinkles

Activities:

~ 2 different slippery slimes

~ microscope viewing

~ make your own snow

~ after gift opening, the grand finale was a diet coke and mentos geyser

Favors:

~ lab coats

~ goggles

~ i.d. badges custom made for each child

~ a  test tube of mentos to take home and do their own coke experiment (or eat!)