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Birthday Parties

Celebrate your child’s birthday at NYSCI with an exciting and educational experience! All of our parties are all-inclusive, with interactive activities, exhibit tours, demonstrations, food, and of course - Birthday Cake!

You and your guests can spend the rest of the day no matter what package you choose exploring over 450 exhibits, including a mechanical surfboard, real NASA rockets, and our very own giant spider web that you can climb!

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Book online today, or contact us at Birthdays@nysci.org or  718-699-0005 x353.

Bubble Trouble (TEST)

Ages 3 and older
Little scientists explore the wonder of bubbles, observe bubble sizes and colors, design and make their very own bubble blowing tools—and blow lots of bubbles!
Duration 3 Hours
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Birthday Party

Online Birthday Party
Duration 3 Hours
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Ooey Gooey Play-Dough Party! (TEST)

The Ooey Gooey Play-Dough Party at the New York Hall of Science is a fun-filled party involving science, sensory play and more! Your little ones will create play-dough from scratch and then shape, sculpt, pull, mash and build anything their scientific minds can imagine. A guessing game encourages kids to craft play-dough into specific objects and have others guess the shapes. The two-hour party features favors, music, cake, activities and tons of fun with play-dough!
Duration 3 Hours
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Magic and Science (TEST)

Ages 6 and older

Abracadabra!! Ever think about how magicians are able to perform all of their tricks?

Celebrate your child's birthday with a Magic and Science party, and learn the science behind the tricks as you watch a live magic and science demonstration, and create your very own optical illusion during a magic box activity.
Duration 3 Hours
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Space Ace (TEST)

Prepare for liftoff by putting on your own Flight Suit, then see our real NASA Rockets and learn how they work. Test your knowledge by launching your own stomp rocket, and see if you can launch it higher than your friends into space. Finally, splashdown (or complete your mission) in our Birthday Party Room to enjoy some out of this world lunch, cake and goodie bags.
Duration 3 Hours
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Gross Out (TEST)

Ages 8 and older
Explore the gross side of science while watching a real cow's eye dissection! Then, put your skills to the test by creating science slime to take home. This party is extra messy!
Duration 3 Hours
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Cool Chemist (TEST)

Ages 8 and older Sundays only. Become a junior chemist as you conduct hands-on experiments in the Pfizer Foundation Biochemistry Discovery Lab 1. See the amazing properties of liquid nitrogen in a chemistry demonstration.
Duration 3 Hours
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Science Playground Party (TEST)

Ages 4 and older
It’s 60,000 square feet of outdoor fun! Through dozens of playground elements like slides and our very own spider web that you can climb, partygoers explore the scientific principles of motion, balance, sound, sight and simple machines, as well as sun, wind and water. Afterwards, kids personalize a bouncing baseball to take home.
Duration 3 Hours
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Rocket Park Mini Golf Party (TEST)

Ages 7 and older
Here’s a chance to make your child’s birthday skyrocket! Have fun and learn while partygoers journey through space—from lift off to splash down—beneath NYSCI’s signature 1964 World’s Fair rockets. Kids and adults play a round, then make “flying saucers” to take home.
Duration 3 Hours
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