Amazing Rock Candy
|
You will need: 2 cups Water Stockpot 5 cups Sugar Plastic Cup and Spoon String Straw Plastic Paperclip Food coloring/flavoring Please have an adult's supervision for this activity. |
It can take a few days for
the sugar crystals to harden into rock candy.Make Supersaturated Sugar Solution by boiling 2 cups of water in a large stockpot. While stirring, slowly add sugar until no more sugar will dissolve (about 5 cups). You can make this an hour or two before you’d like to use it if you want. Using a plastic cup and spoon, a piece of string, a straw and a plastic paper clip. Fill your cup ¾ full with the sugar solution. If you want add some flavoring – vanilla or almond extract and some food color to make your "rocks" pretty and taste good. Tie your string to one end
of the paper clip. Tie the string to the middle of the
straw. Lay the straw over the cup so that the paper clip
is suspended in the sugar solution but doesn’t touch
the bottom of the cup. Keep checking the cup until the
sugar crystals have hardened around the string.
You will have made your own rock candy! |
|
Copyright Rogers Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Email Rogers Group |
  |