Weird Science

We are fortunate to have a science center museum here in town. The Washington Pavillion was originally a high school which has been converted into a science center, IMAX theater, an art museum and performing arts center.
Tonight the Kirby Science center turned into survivor island. There were 40 or so different stations where you got to do science experiments for spooky science night.
We started with tanagram puzzles and moved onto fishing on Mars. We had to balance rocks on a scale, then get camouflaged with getting our face painted. We raced an aluminum foil boat weighted down with rocks, went on a scavenger hunt that tested our short term memory before dropping parachutes from one floor to the next.
At Spooky Science Night, we had all sorts of firsts. Little Man would never allow his face to be painted before. He would allow his hand or arm to be done, but not his face.
Last night, that changed. We got a scary shark painted on our cheek.
We attempted to prevent mud from washing away our village in the mudslide tank.
We touched cow eyeballs, sheep intestines and other gooey, gross things.
We petted a real, live snake.
We conquered all sorts of sensory issues in one evening.
We shot a bow and arrow. My little architect built an earthquake proof house. We raced around to get supplies for our island on the obstacle course.
At the end of the night, we got candy (yay!) and little man got a bag of slime. We also earned 24 points each, since we visited almost all of the spooky science stations. As a result someone earned quite a few prizes.
It was a great night out-educational and fun!