Need Decorating Ideas

Updated on March 16, 2009
M.C. asks from Denton, TX
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I want to throw my son a mad science birthday party. I need cake ideas and decorating ideas. Snacks and whatever clever ideas you mommas have.

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I hired the Mad Scientist to come out. I made a sign calling it my son's lab and put it on the door outside. The grocery store made a cake with a volcano on it for me. The gift bags included prisms and fake bugs. It rained like cats and dogs that day. The kids did not really care how the place was decorated but did enjoy the scientist and making their own goo!

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J.C.

answers from El Paso on

Oh wow, I saw the neatest idea for a cake that I think would be perfect for your son's mad scientist party on a morning show of some type like Martha Stewart or the like, I just for the life of me can't remember whose show! Anyhow I think if I remember correctly it was made like this: You bake two round chocolate cakes, ice the top of the lower layer with frosting and then put the second one on top then frost the top of that layer, then you put a bunt cake on top of that layer and trim off the sides of the bunt cake so that it evens out to look like a volcano when all put together. Then she put a small glass inside the hole of the bundt cake, (opening of the volcano.) She then frosted it with a lighter color chocolate frosting and then crumbled pieces of the cake parts she had trimmed off the bundt cake all around the bottom and some on the sides of the mountain, then drizzled a red glaze type icing all over it then she placed a small chunk of dry ice inside the glass and voila! A cool looking volcano cake! I'm thinking you could get creative and go with a wild color frosting or glaze like lime green! She had so many other ideas like serving a weird color koolaid in glass beakers she picked up at some store and goggles, rubber gloves, and little white lab coats which i think you could look for long sleeve white t-shirts or sweatshirts probably on clearance somewhere and transform them into lab coats somehow if you are creative. anyways hope this helps and have fun!Connie S.

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T.B.

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That's a great idea for a theme. For the cake you could make the cake using a bunt cake pan frost it with some funky colors and use dry ice to create a fog coming out of the middle of the cake. Like a science project gone wrong...or a mutant birthday cake? It would be one to remember!

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V.P.

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Game/Activity:
Take a number of gooey items, and put one each in a bag or box, where no one can see what's inside. Then, pass the box around the kids, who are sitting in a circle, and have them feel what's inside. After everyone has had a chance to feel an item, have them guess what it was. We usually do 6-8 items. Ideas include cooked spagetti, olives, play doh, store-bought slime, "hairy" kiwis, etc. We usually keep a box of wipes handy for this one!
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K.K.

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I believe I read a recent article in Family Fun on this very topic....check out their website and see if it is in there....very cool.

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R.

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They have an entire party based on this exact theme at www.familyfun.com and it is really neat. Great ideas and the cutest cake, IMO. HTH

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