LAC LA BICHE - Halloween came a couple of days early for those who attended the Spooktacular Mad Science event Sunday at Lac La Biche's Bold Centre. Many of these young families came dressed for the occasion.
But it wasn’t only the guests who arrived wearing a variety of colourful, zany and unique costumes. Lac La Biche County employees, many of whom were working at booths and tables at the carnival of wacky experiments and spooky Halloween fun, were disguised as mad scientists, and popular TV and movie characters, including the Ghostbusters.
The science show was designed to not only be a great time for kids, but also educational.
The Edmonton-based organization Mad Science provided an opportunity for children and their parents to engage in some very interested and hair-raising experiments (literally), such as testing how staticky their hair is by touching a Van de Graaff generator, a device that works by static electricity.
There were also demonstrations and workshops on smoke and slime making, a cotton candy factory, as well as a mystery pumpkin game. In the mystery pumpkin game, participants guessed the identity of such slimy and ghastly substances as vampire blood, mummy brains and vampire guts by placing their hands into carved pumpkins.