For the past several years, the Carnegie Science Center has been hosting this fun event on the summer solstice. On the solstice, you can pay for your admission—in snow!
How to Pay for Your Science Center Admission with Snow
If you bring in a snowball on June 21, 2018, you get to name your own admission. This is a big deal as kids’ tickets are usually $11.95 and adults get in for $19.95. When you’re taking the whole family, those admission prices can really add up.
NOTE: If anyone in your household has an ACCESS card, whether it’s for Medicaid or SNAP benefits or cash benefits, you can get up to four tickets for just $3 each. This discount is available everyday of the year–not just on June 21st! You can check out other regularly occurring discounts here.
Prepping for Name-Your-Own-Price Day
If you’d like to take the family to the Science Center in June for cheap, here’s what you’ll need to do:
- Clear out room in your freezer to store the snowball.
- Make a snowball. Don’t make it silly big. Remember you need to store it for at least four months.
- Put it in your freezer until June.
- Bring it to the Science Center on June 21, 2018. Be sure to prep a cooler so your snowball doesn’t melt on your way in!
- Bring at least a tiny bit of money to pay for your admission. I don’t know that this is a requirement, but it is good form.
- Have a fun day at the Science Center! You’ll get to use a giant slingshot to propel your snowballs into the Ohio River.
❄️Make the most of today’s weather & prep for Snowball Day!❄️ All visitors who make a snowball this winter, save it in their freezer, & bring it to the Science Center on the 1st day of summer, June 21, will be able to choose what they pay for general admission that day. pic.twitter.com/9DbJ7OCbVd
— Carnegie Science Ctr (@CarnegieSciCtr) December 30, 2017
Learn More About the Event and Snow in General
What’s the best name-your-own-price promotion you’ve ever seen? Have you ever used snow as currency? Inquiring minds want to know! Leave your story in the comments.
How do you keep the snowball from not melting from the freezer to the museum? Interesting idea!
Pack up a cooler! 🙂
That’s a cute idea! You’d really have to want to do this to keep that snowball alive for 6 months.
True. I did it when I was a kid…had to give up my popsicle space for a few months. 🙂
That sounds like a fun and cute idea!
Doesn’t it?
Haha so cute!
Right?
You are way too creative! Cool idea…too cute!
Ooh I would do this! It’d be neat if they incorporated the snowballs into some science activity when you arrive 🙂
I think they teach you a bit about how snow is formed whenever they have you throw it into the Ohio river. 🙂 They have a ton of info in the link above, too!
that is awesome! Thank you for joining the Frugal Tuesday Tip.
This sounds like so much fun! I occasionally put snow in the freezer for my five year old to enjoy. xx
For extra fun, put a few dollars and some change in the middle of the snowball. Then your donation and the snowball come in one convenient package. The cashier will think it’s a hoot!