Happy 9th Birthday Anna!

Anna really wanted a Mad Scientist birthday party for her birthday and I was happy to comply.

Here is the picture I used on her invitation. Her invitation read:

CAUTION!!!

It's a Mad Scientist Birthday Party

for Doctor Anna Erickson

Testing Begins:

Friday September 7th 3:30 pm

Testing Concludes: 5:30 pm

At the Erickson Laboratory

To reserve a spot for an explosive good time please contact Anna's assistant.

Here is the Motley Crew ready for some experiments

I made sure all the kids had protective glasses, covers for their clothes, and the mandatory fake mustache.

I used dry ice in the punch,

filled the cupcakes with pop rocks,

and had a number of experiments.  We made our own ice cream, and slime.  We also did the Mentos in Cola fountains, which the kids loved.

And we got some Liquid Nitrogen (a lot easier to get than anticipated) to freeze some things.  We froze grapes, soda, a tennis ball, some toys and a unexpected item.

  I had put a hot dog in the pointer finger of Scott's glove so that it just looked like his normal hand.  While demonstrating the use of liquid nitrogen Scott repeatedly warned the kids to not let the liquid nitrogen on their skin and then he acted (very poorly) like he had accidentally stuck his finger in the liquid nitrogen and that it was frozen. 

at this point he picked up the hammer and proceeded to smash his "finger"

Anna was mortified.

As were my other girls-they were all pretty traumatized. 

Scott, on the other hand, was nothing short of proud of himself.  

Pretty disgusting!  So although the party was soooo fun with a lot of great activities all my kids will probably remember is that Scott tricked them and they were horrified by his "hot dog finger."