Come to the Environmental Outpost for a Birthday Party!

Your selection of themed parties includes dinosaurs, space, butterflies or pirates. Enjoy lots of fun activities to make and take with you!

The fee for a 2-hour party is $200 for up to 14 guests; additional guests - $5 each, up to maximum of 20. For ages 4 to 9. You are welcome to bring food and supplies for your party. Pizza can be supplied for an additional fee.

To schedule, contact Lynne Bloom at dasef.outpost@verizon.net or call (302) 659-5003 or (302) 834-1978.

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); each make a prehistoric dinosaur scene, and make a fossil to take home. 

Space Adventure Birthday Parties

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

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; see a pirate movie.

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; each make a paper butterfly to take home.

Undersea Adventure Parties

You and your guests will make and take 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.

Sounds Like Parties

You and your guests will use Boomwackers plastic tubes to discover changing pitches and make up songs, make and take 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”.