So pour your hot water, stir in the powder, and let nature do its slow, gorgeous work.
Tie your string to the pencil. If you’re using a pipe cleaner, twist it into a small star or heart shape (this gives the crystals more surface area to grab onto). Dangle the string/pipe cleaner into the jar so it hangs in the middle, not touching the sides or bottom.
Happy growing!
Let’s dig in. First, a tiny bit of science (I promise it’s fun). Crystals form when molecules of a substance arrange themselves in a repeating, ordered pattern. As a hot, saturated solution cools down or evaporates, the liquid can no longer hold onto all the dissolved solid. So the solid “falls out” of the solution and starts building tiny, perfect geometric structures.
