Recipe

Crystals Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Tuilelaith / All my dishes 2 years ago M: Science For All Seasons By: Sheila Blackwelder Prep:20m Servings:1	Tuilelaith
	crystal craft

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Ingredients

Aluminm pan or glass dish

coal or charcoal cracked open

spoon and bowl

4 Tablespoons salt

4 Tablespoons water

2 Tablespoons clear ammonia

4 Tablespoons laundry bluing

plasic bottles of food coloring

Directions

Place the cracked coal or charcoal in the pan or dish, rough side up

Mix the salt, water, ammonia, and bluing together in a bowl, stirring well to dissolve as much of the salt a possible.

NOTE: For safety reasons very young children should only help crack the charcoal and mix the salt and water.

Pour the mixture over the charcoal and add drops of food coloring in spots if colorful crystals are desired.

Place the dish where it will not be bumped.

Be sure to caution the children NOT to taste the mixture, as it may be quite harmful.

In a few hours, the crystals will begin to grow and will continue to grow as the liquid evaporates from the pan.

These crystals will more closly resemble sea coral then gems.

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Comments

invisiblechef 2 years ago said:
Do you have the Crystal recipe where you use a string in a glass? my son made it in class but can't remember the ingredients. Just this- there was a glass of liquid, a pencil and a string hanging of the pencil into the liquid mixture. The class had to wait seven weeks but I guess started growing within the first week, your sounds like it works right away.

mystic_river1 1 year, 11 months ago said:
Wonderful...had neighborhood kids come in and make em....fun.

rml 1 year, 11 months ago said:
I majored in Bio-Chemistry...Thanks for the creative, fun stuff...Love It!

brianna 1 year, 1 month ago said:
This sounds fasinating. Never mind for kids, I want to try it myself. Ha Ha. I've heard of it before but never knew how to do it. '5'

juels 12 months ago said:
This is really cool! Last year my husband bought our kids an expensive crystal growing kit, and they really enjoyed it. Who could have thought we could get the ingredients ourselves!

maywest 4 months, 2 weeks ago said:
I will try this next week when i baby sit my friends grandkids this should be fun. better than last time i thru dry ice in the pool and blew up a pop bottle for them. this seems much safer.thanks,

lor 2 months, 1 week ago said:
LOVE IT and HIGH 5+++++

shazam 2 months, 1 week ago said:
The fact that you are sharing so many craft ideas or recipes is really appreciated. Another 5 forks from me.

gapeach55 2 months ago said:
Sounds like a great idea! And amazing to watch how this happend.

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