Parties

DASEF Celebrations & Parties

Come to Us for a Birthday Party or Celebration!

Your selection of themed parties includes dinosaurs, space, butterflies, pirates, sounds & music, and underwater adventures. Enjoy lots of fun activities to make and take with you! Parties are for ages 4–10. The cost is $300 for up to 20 children. You are welcome to bring food and supplies for your party.

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Sound Like a Shindig

Sound Like Parties

You and your guests will use Boomwackers plastic tubes to discover changing pitches and make up songs, make and take home a rain stick, watch a movie about fantastic music machines, see a demonstration of vibrations in our Dancing Water Bowl, take the "Mystery Sounds" challenge, and play "Guess What's Shaking".

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Butterfly Bash

Butterfly Birthday Parties

You and your guests will go on a hunt around the grounds to find model butterflies and learn about protective coloration, assemble a Monarch butterfly puzzle, watch a movie about butterflies, use hand lenses for a close-up look at our butterfly and moth collections, and make a paper butterfly to take home.

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Dinosaur Do

Dinosaur Birthday Parties

You and your guests will assemble a dinosaur puzzle, watch a video about dinosaurs, hunt for and assemble the pieces of a life-sized skeleton model of "Protoceratops" (the first horn-faced dinosaur), make a prehistoric dinosaur scene, and make a fossil to take home.

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Space Spree

Space Adventure Birthday Parties

You and your guests will watch a video about space, assemble a planetary puzzle, build and launch a film canister/seltzer rocket (ages 5 to 7) or a soda bottle rocket (ages 8 to 10, for which each guest should bring a 2-liter soda bottle), and make a space magnet or picture frame to take home with you.

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Pirate Party

Pirate Birthday Parties

You and your guests will visit our life-sized model of a sailing scow to hear about local pirates, make a pirate hat and patch, go on a pirate treasure hunt, assemble a pirate puzzle, and see a pirate movie.

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Sea Life Splurge

Underseas Adventure Parties

You and your guests will make and take home a periscope and use it to decode secret messages hidden around the building, take the "Ship's Cargo Challenge" – problem-solving for young ship builders, see an animated ocean movie, assemble a puzzle about life under the sea, and make a bead sea creature to hang in your room.

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