Little Beakers, a hands-on science lab for kids ages 2-16, has published a parent’s guide to Open Lab, its founding program: reserved, self-guided family visits with 30+ real experiments, lab coats and safety glasses included, and no enrollment required.
-- Little Beakers owner Trevor Morgan has published a parent’s guide to Open Lab, the self-guided family visit the kids’ science lab was founded on. Morgan said Open Lab is the program parents ask him about most, and the guide covers how a visit works, what it costs a family’s Saturday and when another program would be a better fit. It is posted at https://littlebeakers.com/open-lab-explained/
Families book a time online before they come in. Lab coats and safety glasses are provided, in sizes small enough for preschoolers. Each location has more than 30 experiments at six stations, split among chemistry, physics and biology, with printed instructions and the materials laid out at each one. Kids mix reactions in real labware, wire simple circuits, test magnets, bend light with lenses and make polymers to take home. An adult has to stay and take part. According to the guide most families get through three to five experiments in an hour, although a few kids race through ten and some spend the whole visit on one.
Morgan describes Open Lab as neither a class nor a drop-off. There is no instructor-led lesson and no enrollment. In the guide he calls it “the self-serve aisle of the lab, deliberately.” Kids from 2 to 16 can come, and staff set the same experiment up in a simpler or harder version depending on age. Biology at Open Lab is limited to microscope observation. Dissections happen only in the lab’s guided classes.
Hours change week to week. Some days a lab is booked for a field trip of more than 100 students, which is why the guide tells families to reserve online or call ahead. Start times are flexible once a family has a slot.
Morgan’s guide cites two pieces of research for the format. The National Academies report Learning Science in Informal Environments found that people learn science in places like science centers, during family activities, and at school. A 2024 study of preschoolers, published through ERIC, found that hands-on science activities increased the children’s motivation to learn science.
The guide recommends paying per visit for the first two trips. Morgan’s rule of thumb is to look at a membership once kids start asking to go back without being prompted. Families who come a couple of times a month usually save with a membership, he wrote. Rates differ by location and are listed at https://littlebeakers.com/open-lab-memberships/
The Open Lab guide is part of a series of parent guides from Little Beakers. The series starts with the company’s guide to hands-on science for kids at https://littlebeakers.com/hands-on-science-for-kids/
Open Lab is offered at the Cypress, The Woodlands and Katy/Memorial labs in the Houston area and at the Sandy and Orem labs in Utah. Reservations can be made on the Little Beakers website or by phone at 1-833-KIDS-LAB (1-833-543-7522).
About Little Beakers: Little Beakers is a hands-on science lab for kids ages 2-16, founded by military and aerospace polymers chemist Dr. Cinttya Morgan so that any family could walk into a real lab for even one hour and get inspired. Its five labs in Texas and Utah offer Open Lab, classes, camps, birthday parties, field trips and evening events. More at https://littlebeakers.com/our-story/
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