marc and michelle

Jackson's 5th Birthday Party
Science Party
June 24, 2011

Jackson has been planning this party for the last year.  He typically picks his new party idea, the day after (literally) his party for that year and really sticks with it.  So last year he decided that this party was going to be a Science Party.  I was a little nervous on how I would plan it, but is was a lot of fun and practically planned itself, once I decided to do a bunch of science experiments with the kids.  I was able to plan it on a day when Marc was going to be around to help and thank goodness for good friends, my friend Nancy, took pictures of the whole event so that I could just concentrate on the party and getting experiments ready.  Thank you Nancy!

When each "scientist" arrived we gave them their goggles, lab coats, and gloves.  They looked so cute!  It was hilarious how excited they were about everything going on.  Then we sat down at the table and got started with the experiments.

The List of Science Experiments:
-Cleaning Pennies with Hot Sauce
-Making Grape Soda from Grape Juice
-Slime
-Making Snow
-Finding Iron in Cereal with Magnets
-Ivory Soap in the Microwave
-Elephant's Toothpaste
-Magic Sand
-I know there were a few more, but I can't think of all of them.

For the cake, I decided to just make cupcakes and make them experiments too.  I made one "mad scientist" for the top of the cake and then on all the other cupcakes I put a little cup of pop rocks on top and the kids dumped them over their cupcakes and then ate the "exploding" cupcakes.  They thought this was great!  And I thought doing less work on a cake this year was great! ha.

Jackson had a blast!  In their party bags we gave them "test tubes" filled with Skittles, all their scientist apparel, their little bag of slime, and a jello and worms petri dish.  It was a really fun party and will definitely be convincing Bennett to do this party in the future.