Making your own crystals

Science experiments can range from the elementary to the highly complicated. The best part about this variety is that there is some science project for every one to do. This one here is a simple experiment that even a three year old can do, with adult supervision of course.

What you will need are a glass jam jar, 50 ml of water, about a cup of sugar, a string and a pencil. We are going to make sugar crystals from these things. So to start with you need to heat the water. You can pop the water into the jam jar and bring it to a boil in the microwave.

While it is boiling cut some string and tie it to the pencil. You will need to measure the string so that it can hang right down to the bottom of the jam jar when the pencil is rested on the mouth of the jam jar. By now the water would be boiling so bring it out carefully from the microwave and set it down on your work space.

Now add the sugar and stir the water spoonful at a time. Make sure that the sugar dissolves before you add the next teaspoon. We are going to keep repeating this till the water is saturated and no more sugar can dissolve in it. Now place the pencil on the mouth of the jam jar with the string dipped in the sugar water.

Let is stand alone and undisturbed for a day. The next day you will find that the string is covered with crystals of sugar! Pretty cool isn’t it? Try out some more science projects from this website.