Join us during Thanksgiving Week as we show our appreciation for the humble potato! Explore potato science throughout the science center with special hands-on activities featuring this resilient and versatile tuber. Observe potato-eating invertebrates, go on a potato scavenger hunt, add your message to our gratitude garden, and more!

Potato Scavenger Hunt
Pick up a scavenger hunt from the Visitor Services Desk and search for hidden decorated potatoes throughout The Lawrence!

• Gratitude Garden
  What are you thankful for? Write or draw a special message to share your gratitude and add it to our gratitude garden.

• Potato Starch Oobleck
  Explore the states of matter in our Hands-on Biotech exhibit with a special slimy non-Newtonian fluid made using potato starch.

• Mini Mock Potato Catapult
  Flex your engineering muscles to design, build, and test a mock potato launcher in this special Ingenuity Challenge.

• Potato Preference
  Check in on our backyard zoo inhabitants and learn about their potato preferences. What kind of potato do you think they’ll like?

• Potato Play & Stories
  Our littlest scientists can play with potato stuffies in Playtopia Juegolandia and read potato-themed stories in yuutka.