Science Parties for Kids at Home
Looking for a science party at your place in and around Melbourne? You’ve come to the right place! We have heaps of great options for boys and girls wanting to celebrate their birthday with a science party. Hands-on, exciting, and super fun, our science parties are a great way to entertain the mini scientist in your family. And to top it off, we take all the mess with us!
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Kids science parties are a favourite , both for our team of Presenters and the kids they love to entertain and inspire. Science parties tick all the boxes for boys and girls parties with a bit of an edge. Every party has been designed and tweaked for many years to provide fantastic experience for everyone involved.
We are the science party experts and our Presenters are trained to provide the maximum amount of fun while still keeping everything under control. Fun and science all in one party! The kids may even learn a thing or two.
All Parties, Not Just Birthdays
Our kids science parties work equally well for other kids events too! Over the last decade we have modified our birthday parties to work fantastically well for events such as kindergarten visits, bar mitzvahs, christenings, family days, holiday programs and heaps more.
If you see a birthday party theme or experiment you like, please ask us and we would be more than happy to mould our party to be brilliant for any event you had in mind.
Social Distancing Parties at your place!
We’re excited to welcome you back, and bet you’re super excited about your party, but we need to do things a bit differently for now. We want to keep everyone safe at our parties over this tricky time. Here’s how our awesome social distancing safe parties work:
Planning your Experiment and Everything Parties:
Choose from three super fun themes:
- Lava Lamps
- Bath Bombs
- Bagooze Slime
At the party:
We will supply sanitiser to every guest, including adults, and ask that everyone uses it before starting.
Every party guest gets their own clean set of equipment, including a fresh labcoat and safety glasses.
Shared resources will be kept to a minimum, and everyone still gets to take their creations home!
We’re limiting the party to 15 guests including the birthday child and any siblings.
We will do our best to maintain a safe distance between our party host and guests, but keep the fun level to the max!
Hands on fun with TwistED Science will be different for a bit, but our aim is still for you to be curious, create and connect with your family and friends!
We look forward to celebrating the Best. Party. Ever. with you!
$395 for up to 15 kids
The Alpha Party
This is a 60 minute party which includes a Mini Science show followed by an Experiment of your choice with all of your guests clad in a Lab Coats and Safety Glasses.
The birthday child has an extra special role to play in the show and every child make something to take home.
The Alpha Party is perfect for the budding mini scientist. It is competitively priced at $395 for up to 20 children and $15/head for additional guests.
How does an Alpha Party work?
We start by getting the kids decked out in their lab coats and safety goggles before presenting a mini science show which includes a big happy birthday for the Birthday Child.
Now its Experiment time! The laboratory table will be stacked with pipettes, syringes, test tubes, stirrers, plates, cups and heaps more gear to “science” their take home creations to life. Every child has their own set and will fully partake in the experimenting action under the careful guidance of our Presenters.
The Scientwists are the party fun experts so every party will be a blast!
An Alpha Party Includes:
- Two highly trained and amazingly fun Scientwist Presenters
- 60 mins of hair-raising demos and hands-on science
- A take-home science creation
- Two trestle tables (you may need to supply extra depending on numbers)
- Microphone and small PA if needed
- Safety glasses and lab-coats to wear on the day
- A memorable and fantastic party experience!
Optional Extras:
- Party bags packed full of sciencey goodness
- Take-home versions of our labcoats
Choose one of our Alpha party themes
Whacky Worms
What's Included?
Recommended Ages 6 y.o. – 12 y.o.
1. Starts with a 20 min show to get the kids warmed up, go over some rules and say happy birthday!
2. 35 mins of polymer worm making using pipettes syringes and test tubes. The worms are made by combining a sodium alginate solution (that we make ourselves) with a calcium chloride solution. Watch as the contents of the syringe set into the shape of worms as they hit the calcium chloride solution! Can you make worm eggs? Who can make the longest worms?
Can you make multi-coloured worms?
3. A 5 min water rocket launch to finish!
Dazzling DNA Extraction
What's Included?
Recommended Ages 7 y.o – 12 y.o
1. Begin with a short science show to give you a taste of science fun and make sure everyone is ready to start the Experimenting. We also need to say a big happy birthday to the birthday child!
2. Then its time to extract some real strawberry DNA with methylated spirits and extraction fluid. Kids take home their DNA in a test tube when finished.
3. We finish with a rocket launch with the Birthday Child doing the launching.
Bubbleology
What's Included?
Recommended Ages 4 y.o.- 9 y.o.
1. A 10 min bubble show explaining why bubbles are round. We also go over some quick rules here and say a big happy birthday!
2. 20 mins of bubble making including bubbles in the air and bubbles on our bubble mats. Kids can make all sort of patterns and towers of bubbles. They can also experiment with rolling marbles through bubbles without popping them. They might even be able to make a square bubble!
3. 15 mins of making a bubbleator. This is the take-home bubble making machine that can make a huge tower of tiny bubbles.
4. 5 mins Finish with some giant bubble making using our awesome wandubbles and super bubble mix.
Slime and Bubble Double
What's Included?
Recommended Ages 7 y.o. – 12 y.o.
1. Starts with a 10min bubble show to get the kids warmed up, go over some rules and say happy birthday!
2. Swing into action with some cool bubble experiments and make a froth and bubble bubbleator!
3. After a quick reset, make your own oozy gooey Slime. It’s rad!
4. This Party gives you 2 great experiments to enjoy.
Radioactive/Glitter Slime
What's Included?
Recommended Ages 6 y.o. – 12 y.o.
1. Starts with a 20 min show to get the kids warmed up, go over some rules and say happy birthday!
2. 35 mins of the best slime making you’ve ever seen using pipettes syringes and test tubes. Slime comes in a variety of versions for you to choose. Make fantastic Radioactive Slime that glows under a UV light and is spookily cool or Glitter slime for those who like their slime with a bit of a bling!
Slime making is always a hit.
3. A 5 min water rocket launch to finish!
Bath Blitz
What's Included?
Recommended Ages 6 y.o – 12 y.o
1. Mix some Sodium bicarbonate with Citric acid to give that famous bath time fizz! Now to make it really fun, add water, essential oils and your choice of colours to make your bath bomb unique!
2. You’ll also make your own Bath Crystals. Great for a relaxing muscle soak after a big game or just for some chill out time.
3. Box up your bath products to take home.
Lava Lamps
What's Included?
Recommended Ages 5 y.o.- 11 y.o.
1. A 20 min show including some quick rules and a big happy birthday to the birthday child!
2. 35 mins of Lava Lamp preparation and activation. Choose your groovy lamp colour, add the oil and the bubble activating tablet to get the chemical reaction under way. Watch as the gas draws the coloured liquid to the top of the tube and drops it back again to start the whole process over again. A mini version of the lamps you’ll find in the shops!
3. Finish with 5 minutes of water rocket blst off action!
Rockets and Space
What's Included?
Recommended Ages 5 y.o – 12 y.o
- Make a small take home rocket and rocket launch pad out of a some straws, balloons, foam, and fins. After a practice with your rockets, have a play around with a bigger launcher to really make them fly far.
- We then play with centrifugal force and see if the kids can spin things like cups of water over their heads with out letting any fall out. Centrifugal force is explained and we talk about how a spinning spaceship can create fake gravity.
- We finish up with our famous water rocket.
The Beta Party
Just like the Alpha it also include labcoats and glasses for the kids, a birthday gift for the birthday child, a mini-science show to start, a water rocket to end and heaps of fun!
The Beta has been designed for one Scientwist presenter rather than the Alpha’s two. Still packed full of hands-on science it is great if you are having a party with us for the first time. Beta parties are $305 with a maximum of 15 kids.
How does the Beta Party work?
We start by getting the kids decked out in their lab coats and safety goggles before presenting a mini science show which includes a big happy birthday for the Birthday Child.
Then its time for the hands on experimenting part where you get to choose what you want.
The Party finishes with a real blast as we launch a water rocket into the beyond!
Recommended ages 5 – 12
Maximum of 15 participants.
A Beta Party includes:
- A Scientwist Presenter to lead and host your Party
- A science creation to take home
- Lab-coats and glasses to wear on the day
- 60 minutes of hands on action
- A gift for the birthday child
- Two trestle tables
- and NO mess (or at least none we don’t clean up)
Choose one of our Beta party themes
Lava Lamps
What's Included?
Recommended Ages 5 y.o.- 11 y.o.
1.Starts with a 20 min show to get the kids warmed up, go over some rules and say happy birthday!
2. 30 mins of take-home lava lamp making using oil, water and fizzy tablets. Choose your own colour of bubbling fun!
3. 5 mins of playing with our take-home lava lamps!
4. A 5 min water rocket launch to finish.
Bubbleology
What's Included?
Recommended Ages 4 y.o.- 9 y.o.
1. A 10 min bubble show explaining why bubbles are round. We also go over some quick rules here and say a big happy birthday!
2. 20 mins of bubble making including bubbles in the air and bubbles on our bubble mats. Kids can make all sort of patterns and towers of bubbles. They can also experiment with rolling marbles through bubbles without popping them. They might even be able to make a square bubble!
3. 15 mins of making a bubbleator. This is the take-home bubble making machine that can make a huge tower of tiny bubbles.
4. 5 mins Finish with some giant bubble making using our awesome wandubbles and super bubble mix.
Slime
What's Included?
Recommended ages 5 y.o. – 11 y.o.
1. Starts with a 20 min show
2. 30 min Slime making action including use of pipettes, syringes and test tubes – each child will use their own set. The slime is made from a PVA and water mix we cook ourselves and store bought Borax and is great at bouncing and stretching!
3. 5 mins of play with your take-home, glittery, glowey slime!
4. A water Rocket Launch to finish
Need Even more Science?
Ask us about adding a hands-on experiment to a science show, adding a second experiment to your Alpha party, or even throwing in one of our awesome holiday program sessions! It’s completely up to you! Great for kids 7 y.o. – 14 y.o. !