I always love learning about crystals! It's so fascinating to watch them grow. We didn't make hot ice this time, sadly, because that's one of the best things to do. But we grew sugar crystals and left them in the solution for a lot longer than we've had the patience to before. So we got some nice big crystals.
They are so pretty!
We grew borax crystals too
Here we were attempting stalactites with epsom salts, but got more like…cave popcorn?
Still, lots of growth!
These are salt crystals (ideas for growing them here)
I love seeing the tiny cubes they make
And the pretty fern-like patterns!
We still have a lot of unbroken geodes from our last , so we broke one to see what crystals we could find inside!
The girls were very patient and didn't just smash the thing as we've done sometimes in the past, and it was worth it because it ended up splitting neatly in two:
like this!
Beautiful!
I love the group of big crystals within the matrix of tiny ones in this half of the geode!
