Share the Sweetness

Who doesn’t like the sound of an Ice Cream Laboratory? Answer: Nobody. This is why I knew it was the perfect dessert idea for Cash’s 5^th Element-themed Science Birthday Party. We got clever with our sprinkles in test tubes and let our little mad scientists go crazy. Their Chocolate Reagents and Caramel Plasmas made quite the beakers full of sundaes. If you need a science-themed dessert activity for your event, this one is highly recommended!

Ice Cream Laboratory

So the best part is, I made a sign you can use! It’s available in the Science Birthday Party Download, on Etsy. Snag it HERE: Science Birthday Party Printables | Science Party Labels | 24 Pages

It outlines each step for the perfect concoction of ice cream and elements. I sprinkled in lots of jargon too, so you’re scientists feel legit in their own laboratory. The most fun part though was using all of the Graduated Cylinders, beakers, test tubes, and squeeze bottles. You can find them all and more on my Amazon List for this party:

Amazon | Science Party Supply List

Ice Cream Topping Ideas

The possibilities are endless, but here is a quick list of the food and candies I used:

Test Tubes: Filled with sprinkles of all shapes and sizes- Allotropes & Quarks
Mike & Ikes- Electrons
Nerds- Neurons
Sour Straws (cut)- Protons
Chocolate, Butterscotch & White Chips- Elements
Marshmallows- Elements
Apple Jacks Cereal- Cells
Gummie Life Savers- Cells
Champagne Berries- Binary Compounds
Cake Batter Chips- Binary Compounds
Pull N’ Peel Twizzlers- Binary Compounds
Chocolate, Carmel & Strawberry Syrup/Sauce- Plasma
Chocolate and Carmel Hard Shell Syrup- Reagent
Marshmallow Fluff- Insider the syringes
Blue & Orange Jell-O- Insider Syringes (Mostly because it was fun for the kids to squeeze it out!)

I made sure to get cups with lines on them so they looked like beakers in the laboratory. You can find those Ice Cream Beaker Cups on Amazon.

Quick Tips for a Successful Laboratory

The best thing we did was pre-fill the ice cream cups with one scoop and let them stay cold in our deep freezer. This saved us a lot of time because in the hot sun, everything melted pretty fast.

I highly recommend NOT setting your table out in the sun. Your supplies will most assuredly melt, and those chocolate chips were not fun to dig out of the cylinders.

I hope you enjoy your very own Ice Cream Laboratory soon and even pop around the rest of Cash’s 5^th Birthday Party Posts. You can shop Science Birthday Party themes and ideas on my Etsy Shop, links below. And of course, from my Amazon List.