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Materials
Materials
- 6 pieces jumbo craft sticks
- 1 cup Borax Essential for crystallization
- 3 cups hot water Adult supervision recommended
- 1 jar tall heat-safe jar
- as needed rainbow food coloring For coloring the crystals
- as needed pieces pipe cleaners To shape into pencil silhouettes
- as needed pieces clear pink and clear blue beads For added decoration
- as needed string For suspending the pencil shapes
Instructions
Preparation
- Begin by bending pipe cleaners into oversized pencil silhouettes.
- In a tall heat-safe jar, dissolve Borax in 3 cups of hot water, stirring until fully dissolved.
- Divide the solution into several smaller jars and tint each with different colors.
Crystallization
- Carefully suspend your pencil shapes in each colored solution, ensuring they are fully submerged.
- Leave them in the jars overnight to allow crystals to form.
Finishing
- After a day, carefully remove the pencils from the solutions and lay them out flat to dry.
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Tips & Notes:
If crystals appear rough, ensure the solution was saturated enough. For larger crystals, use more Borax and allow longer crystallization times.