Monday, March 3, 2014

Creating Crystal Snowflakes

 

Owen and I did another Kiwi Crate activity.  This time it was making Borax crystal snowflakes!

 

We started by making a pipecleaner snowflake, then supersaturated some boiling water with Borax, and dropped in the pipecleaner to sit overnight (so hard for a three year old!).

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The next day we grew crystals so big we had to crack some to get it out!

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Very cool experiment!

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