To make your own colorful creations, be sure to pick the brightest colors for your pipe cleaners! Boil water Take your pot and bring the water back up to boiling point. Feel free to add more if need be. Mix solution Add about Tbsp of Borax for every cup of water in your solution. Stir until the Borax dissolves in the water.
You want the water to be clear because if the water gets cloudy then your crystals will be cloudy. Pour into jars Once your solution is mixed, pour into the mason jars about three quarters of the way to the top. Suspend pipe cleaners Use the string to tie your pipe cleaners to the pencils.
Then place these pencils over the rim of each jar so that the pipe cleaners are suspended in the water. Be sure to thoroughly wash and dry hands. Leave overnight The submerged pipe cleaners should form crystals over the next hours.
The longer that you leave them then the bigger they will grow. Be sure that none of the pipe cleaners are touching each other or the sides of the jars so that they can grow as large as possible.
Remove and dry crystals The crystals should have grown around the colored pipe. Now, simply take them out of the jars and let them dry and marvel in your crystal creations! Now that you know how to make your own crystals, you can take your experiment to the next level! There are so many shapes and crafts to try with Borax crystals, below are just a few of our favorites.
Whether from the garden or a special occasion, dried flowers are often used in wreaths, garland, ornaments or dozens of other crafts. Looking for a fun, new way to celebrate the holidays? While you can look and touch them just about as soon as you remove them from the solution, they will be even more gorgeous if you allow them to dry. All you have to do is lay them out on paper towels and allow them to dry out completely. Your pipe cleaner crystals can now be displayed!
Remember, always use caution when doing any crafts with hot water. Find A Craft Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to primary sidebar Skip to footer Subscribe: for the latest crafts. Subscribe: for the latest crafts. Materials pipe cleaners in assorted colors Borax powder large glass dish hot water spoon chopsticks or pencil. Instructions Begin by warming your water up in the microwave so it is hot. Pour the hot water into a glass dish.
Glass works best and will keep the water warm longer. Subscribe to the newsletter for all the latest projects, activities, fun and more!
Browse Holiday Fun Slime Homeschooling. We made our jars in the morning at around am and by pm the crystals had formed, to the girls great excitement. Make sure the shapes are small enough to pull out of the jar withour bending plus a small amount of space either side for the crystals to grow. You can add two to a stick if there is space.
Make an iphone speaker from a paper roll and cup. These mini lid banjos make a soft strumming sound. Make a straw swing set or see saw for the toys to play on. Create a solar oven from a cardboard box. Make a balloon-powered sponge boat for the bath tub or for outdoor play. THis looks great! Borax can be hard to find sometimes we get it for our homemade laundry detergent! Thanks for sharing — they look so great!
I think our pipe cleaner shapes will resemble yours quite closely unless I get my thinking hat on!! Its so interesting to watch! They are so pretty, I keep meaning to try this with my day care kids so thanks for the inspiration!! Hi Denise, they are fairly fragile, more of an interesting experiment than a real crystal to keep forever.
They are pretty much just pipe cleaner shapes with crumbly dried crystals all over them. Did they really form so quickly? They are really so lovely though. I was surprised myself how quickly they formed. I tried the experiment with wide mouth quart jars, and we did not get crystallization.
Hope it works this time for you. Ours formed very quickly but elsewhere I have read to leave the experiment for 24 hours. How did you clean it up afterwards? I did this for my chemistry class and now have crystallized beakers. We did this a while ago but I think I threw the jars in the recycling, or the garbage for the ones we had to smash to remove the crystals from.
Would hot water clean your beakers and dissolve the crystals?
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