Parent/Child Workshop Agenda

Tea Party (2.5 hours)

During this workshop, participants experiment with measurement and volume, beginning with water volume and culminating with cupcakes made from basic ingredients found in the kitchen. Please note, an optional parental development session will require two facilitators.

Activity	Time (Minutes)
Introduction	10
May I Pour for You? Activity	40
Create Your Own Play Dough Activity (children) Who Is a scientist? (adults)	20
Book Search	20
Baking Chemistry Activity	50
Conclusion	10

Introduction (Parent/child pairs in circle)

When participants and facilitators introduce themselves to the group, encourage them to share their names and their favorite times of the day (because the mad tea party makes no sense of time). Brainstorm with the group everything they remember about this chapter of the story and fill in the gaps where needed.

May I Pour for You? Activity (Parent/child pairs)

In this activity, pairs of adults and children make predictions and comparisons between bottle shape and amount of liquid held by pouring "tea" from one container into another. Oddly shaped bottles and glasses make it challenging to determine which bottles will hold the most water and which containers might be of similar size.

Use the activity entitled May I Pour for You? from this site or on page 8 of the Family Science Night Activity Guide.

You will need the following materials for this activity:

• an assortment of small bottles, cups, and jars
• measuring cups
• water
• turkey basters
• trays
• colored pencils or crayons
• paper, to record predictions and observations

Create Your Own Play Dough Activity (Children only or parent/child pairs)

Participants experiment to create their own recipe. Practice combining three simple ingredients will help prepare the children for the Baking Chemistry activity that follows. Children predict a recipe, try it and observe the results and use their observations to make a play dough recipe.

Find the complete instructions under Create Your Own Play Dough from this site or on page 5 of the Activity Guide.

You will need the following materials:

• 2 recipe cards per child (see attached hand-out)
• pencils
• flour
• water
• salt
• 1 small bowl per child
• 1 teaspoon per child
• 3 tablespoons

Optional Parent Activity: Who Is a scientist?

The following activity can be conducted simultaneously to provide a brief parental development session. If you opt to skip this session, conduct the activity above with both parents and children.

This activity helps parents to think about the stereotypes that are associated with "science" and "scientist." Drawings of scientists by parents can be a springboard for talking about careers in science and encouraging science for boys and girls of all backgrounds every day, in and around the home.

You will need:

• markers or colored pencils
• paper

Book Search (Parent/child pairs in a circle)

What was going on at Alice's tea party? Who was there? What did they eat? Hand out various versions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and invite participants to look for illustrations of the Tea Party. Go around the circle, sharing the various illustrations and answers to the questions above.

Baking Chemistry Activity (Parent/child pairs)

Parents and children experiment with combining common baking ingredients to make their own cupcake recipe.

Find the complete instructions under Baking Chemistry from this site or on page 6 of the Activity Guide.
You will need the following ingredients and materials:

index cards 1-2 toaster oven(s) aluminum foil colored toothpicks cupcake liners cupcake tins plastic bowls plastic spoons six 1/8 teaspoons five tablespoons four ¼ cup scoops sugar brown sugar

flour powdered sugar eggs butter oil milk water baking powder baking soda salt vanilla cocoa cinnamon

Conclusion (Everyone in a circle)

Challenge parents and children to think about the other ways that they do science at home. Go around the circle and encourage participants to share their thoughts with the group.