Writing With Crystals

Here are some more of our Crystal science experiments.

This is me and Frankie writing down definitions of some the of science words we learned in this study.


Malachy and Madison playing with play-doh while we do homework.

To write with crystals we used table salt and sugar and mixed them both separately with water. We wrote on black and white paper with each and after 10 minutes we looked at them through a magnifying glass. I wrote the word happy and Frank wrote Frank. I did sugar and Frank did salt.

The sugar was glossy and the salt was crystally (there's millions of mom in these pictures, hehe).


A close up of Frank's salt crystals.

Crystal Jungle

These are pictures of us making our Crystal Jungle.


I'm putting together the lion made out of special paper that will absorbs liquid very fast.


Frankie putting the jungle together.


Me adding the liquid molecules.








The crystals are starting to grow.


Still growing.


The crystals are done growing. They are very soft crystals you touch them and they fall off.


Top view.

Our Finished Crystals

We mixed some white powder called Sodium Borate with hot water. This was a fun project!