by My girls love sparkly things, so making simple borax snowflakes was a not only a fun science experiment but also a great winter deoration!
Supplies for Sparkly Borax Snowflakes
- Pipe Cleaners
- Yarn
- Mason Jars
- Dowel Rod
- Clothespins
- Borax
Instructions for Borax Snowflake Decorations
We started with white pipe cleaners; any color will work, but the color will show through, so maybe choose wintery colors. The girls made them into all sorts of random shapes. Then we tied yarn to them in order to suspend them in our Borax solution
Boil your water and fill each pint size mason jar to the shoulders or a little less then dump in 1/3 C of Borax (per jar). The solution is really cloudy at first, but it clears up as the crystals form.
We used a dowel rod and clothespins to suspend the snowflakes in the solution over night.
A quick warning! A couple of our snowflakes didn't seem to crystallize at the top, so I thought I would add more water. Not the best idea since it dissolved the crystals that were already there! So we left those over night again before pulling them out.
You end up with crystals in the bottom of the jar too, and luckily they come out with hot water and a little downward pressure (I just used a butter knife to break them up).
After they were dry we hung them up on our light for some wintery sparkle!
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