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FCL Learning Lab: Crystal Snowflakes
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Gather your supplies: glass jar, string, pipe cleaners, pencil, borax, and boiling water.
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Create a 6 sided snowflake by twisting your pipe cleaners and leave one side longer and make a hook on the top
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Test your snowflake and jar to make sure it doesn’t touch the sides or bottom of your jar.
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Add your boiling water and borax (about 4 Tbsp)
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This is how it should look before adding in your snowflake
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Add your snowflake and leave for about 24 hours
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About 2 hours later and we already had crystals forming
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By 6 we decided we already grew enough crystals to take it out
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Let your crystal snowflake drip dry and place on a paper towel
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Amazing! We will be making more of these and using them for winter decorations or maybe for Christmas next year!
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After drying overnight
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This is the vase after cleaning with hot water and a butter knife getting the crystals loose at the bottom!
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Thanks for joining FCL Learning Lab and making crystal snowflakes! Share what your doing with yours!
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