Snowflake Science

Sorry for the late blog post. Science Monday's have been a little hectic with basketball season and Chritmas just around the corner. Last week we made our own snowflakes to hang on our tree (which is huge).

How we made snowflakes:

We used pipe cleaners and used three pieces of the same size and twisted them together in a six pointed shape and we tied a string to it, and taped the string to a pencil.

We then boiled water. For every cup of boiled water we added 4 tablespoons of borax.  Next we added just a little bit of blue dye to color them.

We dipped the snowflakes in the solution overnight.

And this is what happened!

The crystalized!

We learned that this happens because the hot water molecules move faster and allow more borax to dissolve. When the water cools, the water starts to evaporate, and leaving the crystals to form on the pipe
cleaners.

Some cool things we learned about snowflakes:

Jack: Snowflakes are made out of really cold ice. Cold, cold, coldity cold cold, cold, cold, wwwwaaaater.

Mina:  No two snowflakes are alike, but they all have six sides.

Anna: Snowflakes are cool, I can't wait for it to start snowing.

Science Fact: Smokers eat more sugar than non smokers.