Description
Create charming crystal snowman ornaments to bring winter joy into your home with this easy and fun craft.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup of borax
- 3 cups of water
- Pipe cleaners (various colors)
- Styrofoam balls (various sizes)
- String or thin ribbon
- A pot for boiling water
- Wooden spoon for stirring
- Scissors
- Pencil (optional for drawing shapes)
Instructions
- Boil water in a pot and bring 3 cups of water to a boil.
- Gradually add 1 cup of borax to the boiling water, stirring continuously until completely dissolved to create a saturated solution.
- Cut pipe cleaners into different lengths and bend them into snowman shapes, using smaller pieces for the head and larger ones for the body.
- Twist the body sections together to maintain their shape.
- Submerge the snowman into the bowl with the borax solution.
- Hang the snowman using string or ribbon, allowing it to hang freely in the solution.
- Let the snowman sit in the solution overnight.
- In the morning, check the snowman for crystal formation.
- Carefully take the snowman out and rinse it under cool water to remove excess borax, then allow it to dry.
- Use extra pipe cleaners or markers to add eyes, a nose, and a mouth.
Notes
Experiment with food coloring in the borax solution for colored crystals. Try different sizes and shapes to customize your snowmen.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 minute
- Category: Craft
- Method: Crafting
- Cuisine: N/A
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 ornament
- Calories: N/A
- Sugar: N/A
- Sodium: N/A
- Fat: N/A
- Saturated Fat: N/A
- Unsaturated Fat: N/A
- Trans Fat: N/A
- Carbohydrates: N/A
- Fiber: N/A
- Protein: N/A
- Cholesterol: N/A