I found a wonderful post on Pinterest about making crystals using two simple ingredients- borax and boiling water. I was a little skeptical about whether or not this would work, but it worked wonderfully!
Each of the students shaped a pipe cleaner into a heart. Then the tied a string to their pipe cleaner and the other end to a Popsicle stick. In a large cup we mixes the solution of borax and boiling water. We used 3 TBS borax per cup of water. When the solution was mixed we places their hanging shapes into the cups. This is the best part- they only had to sit for one day! The next day the students ( and myself) were surprised at how many crystals had formed on their pipe cleaners! Our cups were not quite big enough to put the entire pipe cleaner into the solution, so each one is only partially covered with crystals.
Take a look out how they turned out!
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