How to ... turn powder into crystals

Borax is our new fun-element!

The silly-putty is still keeping the Ls busy  and thank God, since it's been pissing rain like crazy :(
 ... YES, as you can tell I am SICK of it!!! ... you try being stuck in the house with two Ls who, by now, have a good case of severe cabin fever!

But this morning we have the honor of seeing the sun for a few minutes before the terantual downpour starts again and our latest project, using Borax, is sparkling in the sun and ready to be revealed.

How to ...

turn powder into crystals

Step 1

create shapes with pipe cleaners

  Papa working his creative engineering magic

Step 2

dissolve 1/2 cup of Borax ( here we have the POWDER form) in hot water (now you have a LIQUID form of Borax), add food coloring of your choice

Step 3

hang your pipe cleaner shapes (suspended on a string) in the liquid borax solution and now 

WAIT!!!!

and WAIT ...

... and WAIT some more ...

and about 24 hours later you'll see this ...

we turned powder into a liquid and then into crystals

guess who made this one ...

So sparky and pretty in the sun (if you are so lucky to see her!!!)

It's super easy and quite fun to watch, for the little people and the big ones ... our Papa was staring at these jars more than the Ls :)

Have fun tinkering!!!

Ta-ta for now ... I will spend the next 5 minutes roasting in the sun before this big, black cloud, on right of us, covers it and starts the dreadful rain AGAIN ....