Mad Scientist party
How to have a mad scientists birthday party for kids
He sometimes tests your patience. What's under his bed looks like a science project.
Yes, he's got fun down to a science. Your little experimenter will love a Mad Scientist
party. Put on your safety goggles, because with test tubes, petri dishes, and beakers
we've gathered some hair raising ideas for your mad science party:
Mad Scientist Invitations
Invite the fun. The little experimenters will love a Mad Scientist party. We've got the
fun down to a science when it comes to science parties. We'll get you started with
free invitations for an awesome mad science party or if you want to do it yourself,
we've got some fun wording ideas...
How to set up your lab
Resources for a Mad Scientist Party
A Science party is relatively inexpensive, it's always entertaining, and it's educational
to boot. Your best resource in books is "Einstein's Science Parties Easy Parties for
Curious Kids," by Shar Levine and Allison Grafton, left.
How can you give a party that will excite your kids, impress their friends, and stay
within your budget? say "Why hire a clown? Throw a science party instead!" And in
Einstein's Science Parties, they show how you can easily put together any number of
14 clever and inexpensive science theme parties. You'll need just a few hours of
preparation and regular household items to create unforgettable parties like, "Fossils
and Dinos," "I Spy," "Color Your World," and "Slime Time." All activities are kid-tested
and include clear-cut instructions, and easy-to-follow scripts. The book also includes
fun illustrated invitations that can be photocopied and personalized.
mix up intoxicating concoctions at Halloween parties too with this hilarious set. Pair it
with the polluted glass right. Makes a fun gift.
Here are some simple experiments you can perform at home:
Experiment #1: Floating Paper Clip
Scientists can perform magic! Kids can float a paper clip on water and here's how.
First sink a paper clip in water to demonstrate how it sinks naturally. Then float the
paper clip in water with the help of a small piece of paper towel (about one inch
square). This will spread the weight of the paperclip evenly over the surface of the
water. Now gently remove the paper towel with a skewer so the paper clip rests on
the water entirely on its own! This is much like a beetle skimming the across the
surface of a swimming pool without sinking.
Experiment #2 Wax Paper & Water magnifier
Use an eye dropper or basting dropper to scatter a few droplets of water onto a piece
of waxed paper, then slide the wax paper over a magazine page to make the type
appear larger. The smaller the drop of water the bigger the print will look.
Inflate a balloon without blowing into it. Pour four tablespoons of vinegar into a clean
bottle. Then using a funnel, fill a balloon with a two tablespoons baking soda. We
simply lift the bulb of baking soda into the bottle and (Voila!), the balloon will inflate
virtually all by itself.
Experiment # 4 How to Make Homemade Slime
Real Mad Scientist parties
Tell us about your real Mad Scientist party and share party ideas with us on Twitter.
We link toq auality Web sites for kids science party ideas.
How to have a mad scientists birthday party for kids
He sometimes tests your patience. What's under his bed looks like a science project.
Yes, he's got fun down to a science. Your little experimenter will love a Mad Scientist
party. Put on your safety goggles, because with test tubes, petri dishes, and beakers
we've gathered some hair raising ideas for your mad science party:
- Test some test tube ideas from YouTube. Fine Living's Mad Science party ideas.
You'll feel like an apprentice of Doctor Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde by watching the three
minute video. You'll soon be packing favors in a rubber dish glove; making
specimen decorations from kids toys inserting them into jars with food coloring:
and serving yummy vertebrae sandwiches and a blood worm gelatin for
dessert. The grand finale is a dry ice test tube decoration, which is a concoction
of dry ice, warm water in a long clear vase to look like a beaker. For added
effect, they drop a glow stick to really light up the party. The 20 minute video is
like going to Mad Scientist University:
- Make a vile discovery with a vial of Frankenstein's blood. Fill a beaker (or glass)
with a cup of white vinegar and a third cup liquid dishwashing soap. Add a drop
of green coloring. Set this "vial" aside. Fill a tall thin glass or bud vase half way
with baking soda, which will be the "sand." In a mad scientist's wig, lab coat or
costume, gather the crowds with a fiendish laugh and announce you have
Frankenstein's blood and you have an amazing discovery. Tell the audience
your discover is that "Frankenstein can never walk on the beach." Demonstrate
what happens if his foot were to get cut on a rock or broken glass. Pour the
"vial of blood" on the "sand" and watch a frothy mess bubble. Kids love this!
- Learn to make lab worms. SteveSpanglerScience.com provides an experiment for
your party that the kids won't soon forget. You can create the same fun with Be
Amazing Insta-Worms, available right.
- Looking for more kids science party ideas? Try a Yucky Science Party!
Mad Scientist Invitations
Invite the fun. The little experimenters will love a Mad Scientist party. We've got the
fun down to a science when it comes to science parties. We'll get you started with
free invitations for an awesome mad science party or if you want to do it yourself,
we've got some fun wording ideas...
- Mad Scientist party invitation wording ideas:
- You're invited to a party that's guaranteed to pop, fizzle, wiggle
- Ooze on over to Cray's eight birthday for a slimy experiment.
- Lab hours: Saturday, August 22 at 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.
- Wacky Laboratory: 123 Main Street
- RSVP: Chief Scientist Tiffany at 867-5309.
- Get mad with free Mad Scientist invitations. A graphic designer and mom of two
shares her Mad Scientist Secret Formula invitation, pictured left, along with mad
science party tips.
- Get testy with your invitations: An obvious choice for a mad scientist party is to
roll the invitation into a test tube. Be sure to get a plastic test tube, which are
available, pictured right. But for a monstrously mad invitation, make a fun
concoction for your test tube and hand deliver it. Create a glitter wand by filling
half the tube with vegetable oil and a drop of food coloring. Next, fill the tube
with an assortment of glitter, confetti and a tiny charm or plastic toy. Top off
with a bit of water and seal. Use a bit of gold elastic to affix the actual invitation
to the test tube. Martha Stewart uses spiders in her Mad Scientist's invitation
idea.
How to set up your lab
- Have kids scrub for the party. Start with a bubbles!
- Decorate your mad scientists with inexpensive props, such as safety goggles
which you can get for around a buck. You might also gel up their hair to look like
the famous Einstein.
- Sign up! Set up bio hazard and atomic waste signs. Make funny signs "Out of my
mind. Back in five minutes."
- Look for beakers, test tubes and petri dishes online. All are wonderful for
displaying sweets.* Use beakers for fun drinks, test tubes for jelly beans, and
petri dishes for ice cream, gelatin or pudding dessert creations.
- Get eerie with a fog machine or dry ice. Find dry ice at Liquor stores.
- Name your mad scientists for the party with a mad scientist name tag or
lanyard:
- Albert Mindstein
- Al Bright
- Brian Child
- Doctor Brainiac
- Doctor Gene Nius
- Doctor Smarty Pants
- Dr. E. Vil
- Dr. N. Telligent
- Dr. N. Sanity
- Dr. Y. S. Cracker
- Jeckyl and Hyde (siblings or twins)
- Guy Wise (Wise, Guy)
- Maxwell Smart
- Professor Anne Marianne (from Gilligan's Isle)
- Sir Thinksalot
- Simon Bar-Sinister
- Smart Alex, or Smart Alec
Resources for a Mad Scientist Party
A Science party is relatively inexpensive, it's always entertaining, and it's educational
to boot. Your best resource in books is "Einstein's Science Parties Easy Parties for
Curious Kids," by Shar Levine and Allison Grafton, left.
How can you give a party that will excite your kids, impress their friends, and stay
within your budget? say "Why hire a clown? Throw a science party instead!" And in
Einstein's Science Parties, they show how you can easily put together any number of
14 clever and inexpensive science theme parties. You'll need just a few hours of
preparation and regular household items to create unforgettable parties like, "Fossils
and Dinos," "I Spy," "Color Your World," and "Slime Time." All activities are kid-tested
and include clear-cut instructions, and easy-to-follow scripts. The book also includes
fun illustrated invitations that can be photocopied and personalized.
- From the Publisher: An innovative twist on kids' parties that are clever, easy to
put together, educational, inexpensive and fun. Features simple-to-follow
scripts, instructions for performing projects, tips on keeping the party rolling and
sidebars with additional ideas and tricks. Includes full page illustrated
invitations for each festivity that can be photocopied and colored.
- Cotton candy makes this Beaker cake look like an experiment in action.
- Get three slimy Mad Scientist project ideas from Cookie Magazine.
- Mad Scientists wraps, right, by Better Homes and Gardens, will have them
eating their veggies!
- Loose your appetite with beaker drinks and brain cake idea.
- Print a free RadioActive Sticker template for use on sandwiches, drinks, favors
and more. Requires Avery 5294 labels, found cheaper on Amazon, pictured right.
- Have a "fab" food lab with Jello Petri Dish recipe. The Petri Dishes, left are
sterile and also ready for any Science experiments you might have.
- Give them a yummy science lesson by building Gum Drop Molecules.
- Check out this cool Science Web site for kids and their parents.
- Plan some homemade experiments including, "Egg in a Bottle", "Alka Seltzer
Rockets," "Swimming Raisins" and more with ideas from Cookie Magazine.
- Having a super mad scientist party is not rocket science, but...
- *Here's an IMPORTANT Note of caution for a mad scientist party: With candy
in test tubes and drinks in beakers, and desserts in petri dishes it may be
difficult for kids to decipher what is edible and what is not, so be sure to
supervise all inedible laboratory experiments and decorations. It helps to
perform lab work in a room away from the food. When the experiments are
over, pack away the fun out of reach. Finally, keep the poison control number
handy in case of accidental ingestion.
mix up intoxicating concoctions at Halloween parties too with this hilarious set. Pair it
with the polluted glass right. Makes a fun gift.
Here are some simple experiments you can perform at home:
Experiment #1: Floating Paper Clip
Scientists can perform magic! Kids can float a paper clip on water and here's how.
First sink a paper clip in water to demonstrate how it sinks naturally. Then float the
paper clip in water with the help of a small piece of paper towel (about one inch
square). This will spread the weight of the paperclip evenly over the surface of the
water. Now gently remove the paper towel with a skewer so the paper clip rests on
the water entirely on its own! This is much like a beetle skimming the across the
surface of a swimming pool without sinking.
- Explanation of Experiment: Drops of water pull on one another. The pull creates
a tight skin at the surface. When you drop a paperclip in, it pushes through th
water's skin. But when you place it gently, it's weight is spread evenly acorss
the surace and the skin stays intact.
Experiment #2 Wax Paper & Water magnifier
Use an eye dropper or basting dropper to scatter a few droplets of water onto a piece
of waxed paper, then slide the wax paper over a magazine page to make the type
appear larger. The smaller the drop of water the bigger the print will look.
- Explanation of Experiment: A water droplet bulges like a magnifying glass,
stretchin an image seen throug it. The more cured the droplet is, the greater
the magnification of the image.
Inflate a balloon without blowing into it. Pour four tablespoons of vinegar into a clean
bottle. Then using a funnel, fill a balloon with a two tablespoons baking soda. We
simply lift the bulb of baking soda into the bottle and (Voila!), the balloon will inflate
virtually all by itself.
- Explanation of Experiment: When baking soda and vinegar come into contact,
they form carbon dioxide. This gas fills the bottle and can't escape, so it rushes
into the balloon to inflate it.
Experiment # 4 How to Make Homemade Slime
- Gather the Formulas for the experiment.
- You'll need:
1 cup water
1 tablespoon Borax (too much Borax and you'll have a harder substance)
1/4 cup White Glue
1/4 cup water
Food Coloring
Ziploc bag
- Mix the ingredients:
- 1. Borax is available in the laundry section of your local grocery store. Take a
cup of water and add to it 1 Tbs. of borax (approx 4% solution). Stir until
completely dissolved.
2. Make a 50% water 50% white glue solution. Take 1/4 cup of each and mix
thoroughly.
3. In a ziploc bag, add equal parts of the borax solution to equal parts of the
glue solution. 1/2 cup of each will make a cup of slime.
4. Add a couple drops of food coloring.
5. Seal bag and knead the mixture.
6. Dig in and have fun, but keep this slime away from pets and children under 5!
It will stain carpeting and clothing. Wash hands after use!
- Explanation of experiment: The borax is acting as the crosslinking agent or
"connector" for the glue (polyvinyl acetate) molecules. Once the glue molecules
join together they form even larger molecules called polymers, and you get a
thickened gel very similar to slime.
Real Mad Scientist parties
- Einstein Mad Scientists Party: No farting around at this Mad Scientists party,
which was educational to boot! Kids learned about gas with a balloon blowing
experiment (see directions below), and those little chemists also had a blast
with the diet soda and Mentos experiment (also below). Mom was a real
Einstein -- with her amazing graphic skills, she super imposed each child's
picture with an Einstein wig to create personalized Einstein drink labels. Kids
dined on clever cupcakes with body parts (plastic fingers and noses).
- Balloon Blowing Experiment: A classic Girl Scout experiment to teach kids about
gas, you'll need an unfilled balloon, 1/4 cup vinegar, a small plastic bottle, 2
tablespoons baking soda, and a funnel. Directions: Stretch the balloon mouth
over the funnel and pour baking soda directly into the balloon, remove the
funnel then set aside. Next, pour vinegar into the plastic bottle. Now place the
balloon mouth tightly over the plastic bottle. Hold the contents of the balloon
carefullhy, so as not to pre-maturely release any of the baking soda. Now the
kids are ready for the fun. Have them shake the balloon so that the baking
soda falls into the bottle. The gases will make the balloon "magically" rise.
- Mentos Experiment: Mentos candy combined with Coca Cola creates an intense
explosion. You can do this experiment at home easily. Watch the CBS video.
Here Bill Nye the Science Guy illustrates the Mentos experiment for Harry Smith.
It's worth the wait for the brief commercial while the video downloads.
Tell us about your real Mad Scientist party and share party ideas with us on Twitter.
We link toq auality Web sites for kids science party ideas.
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and party supplies. You get all the best ideas for a party on one page. Other sites list boring and unnecessary
details, while Cute Party Ideas give you all the details you need to host a great party on one page.
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