Overnight Crystals

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Overnight Crystals

Items Needed:

You will need chenille pipe cleaners, clear glue, food coloring, about 8 ounces of alum powder, string, several one-quart mason jars, an old watercolor paint brush, and items from your kitchen to act as dowels for hanging your crystals (like pencils or a wooden spoon)

Steps:

  1. In the morning, tie a length of string around the end of a chenille pipe cleaner.

  2. Wrap the chenille pipe cleaner around itself until it forms a little ball.

  3. Grab three more pipe cleaners and wrap those around the small ball. Make as many balls on strings as you would like to have crystals.

  4. Using your dowel from the kitchen, create a station where you can hang your chenille balls. In the next step, you will be covering them with glue, so you want your station ready to go so you can hang them. Make sure there is a paper towel and a plate under your dowel.

  5. Next, pour a little bit of glue into a disposable paper cup. Dip the chenille ball in the cup. Grab your paintbrush to coat the balls entirely.

  6. Hang your chenille glue balls from the hanging station you created.

  7. As the ball suspends over the paper towel and plate, sprinkle some alum powder over the balls until they are covered. Let it dry for the day.

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