Crystal Olympic Rings

Materials

• Boiling water

• Borax (you can buy here)

• 5 jars

• Pipe cleaners in red, yellow, blue, green & black

• String

• 5 popsicle sticks

Directions

1. Cut your pipe cleaners in half and shape them into circles

2. Use string to tie each ring to a popsicle stick

3. Add 2 cups boiling water and 1/2 cup borax to each jar. Stir very well.

4. Submerge one pipe cleaner into each jar, placing the popsicle stick across the top of the jar (the pipe cleaners should hang by the strings)

5. Watch the crystals form over the next 48 hours

Adopted from Laughing Kids Learn

adapted from Little Bins for Little Hands