Crystal growing has two benefits! The first is the sweetness for children, and the second is the study of chemistry, children will remember a cheerful, tasty, sweet, colorful chemical reaction for their whole lives.
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You will need
- - jars with a wide neck (or glasses);
- - wooden skewers;
- - clothes pegs;
- - food colorings;
- - flavorings;
- - a lot of sugar.
Instruction manual
1
It will take a proportion of 10 cups of sugar for 4 cups of water. Pour 4 cups of water into a saucepan and pour 4 cups of sugar, put on fire (note that our solution will increase in volume, take a larger pan), bring to a boil over medium heat and add the rest of the sugar, while stirring regularly. When all sugar has dissolved, set the pan aside for 15 minutes.
2
While our solution is cooling, prepare the sticks. Soak them in water, then put in sugar to start the formation of crystals, the sticks are wet - sugar will stick. After this, you must definitely allow the sticks with adhering sugar to dry completely, if the sticks are even slightly wet - you will not succeed when you put them in a hot sugar solution, all the sugar will crumble and there will be nothing for the new crystals to grow on.
3
Pour sugar syrup into glass jars or glasses, add food coloring. Slowly lower the sticks into the solution and secure with clothespins. Please note that the sticks do not touch either the bottom of the can or each other, there should be a distance between them for fouling with crystals. Put the jars in a warm or sunny place. The crystals will be ready in a week.