Science Museum Oklahoma’s Winter WonderLab Brings Hands-on Holiday Fun
November 20, 2024
(OKLAHOMA CITY: Nov. 18, 2024): Science Museum Oklahoma is debuting a new, hands-on holiday experience, Winter WonderLab, Dec. 21 through 23, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tickets are available now at smo.org/winterwonderlab.
At Winter WonderLab, guests can participate in holiday experiments and activities, including creating holiday-themed treats and gifts they can take home.
“The interactive experiments and activities in our new Winter WonderLab give families something out-of-the-ordinary to do indoors during the holidays, sparking curiosity and mixing science with festive fun,” said Sherry Marshall, Science Museum Oklahoma President and CEO.
Winter WonderLab activities include:
- Gravy Boat Regatta—a wind-powered race through the South’s favorite non-Newtonian fluid gravy
- Chimney Santa Drop—a holiday take on the classic egg drop contest, complete with chimney
- Indoor Snowball Fight—a snowball fight with safe, poof ball “snow” instead of the frozen water variety
- Cardboard Gingerbread Village—combines creativity, recycling and engineering to create a gingerbread village entirely from cardboard
- Peppermint Cotton Candy—crush up candy canes, feed them into a cotton candy machine, and out comes peppermint-flavored cotton candy
- Gum Drop Constellations—uses gumdrops to represent stars in the sky; combine them to make constellations
- Kinetic Art Holiday Cards—created with a mixture of paint and marbles in a container; a bit of vigorous shaking creates an original piece of holiday card art
- Holiday Photo Frames for the photo booth—an arts and crafts project where kids create a handmade frame for their holiday photo – perfect for the refrigerator!
- Marbling Prints—use water marbling techniques to transfer patterns floating on the surface of water to paper
Guests who participate in all activities receive a Holiday Angles STEM-based ornament construction kit.
Tickets for Winter WonderLab are $12 for members and $15 for non-members. There is no additional cost for the Love’s Planetarium. All activities take place within the east entrance of the building.