As I have mentioned many times before, there is nothing like hands on learning. When we came back to school after Christmas break, we had a little fun in Kindergarten with penguins and snowflakes. On that Friday before we left for a very long and snowy weekend, we started an experiment growing our own "snowflakes". Through many great books, we learned a lot about snowflakes. We discovered that even though all snowflakes had 6 sides they were all unique and different. We also learned that snowflakes were made from water that turned to crystals due to the cold, cold air in the clouds. We decided how great would it be if we could make our own snowflakes from a different kind of crystal. We started with a basic snowflake shape made from a white pipe cleaner. We tied it to a Popsicle stick to help hold it in our jars.
We added one quarter cup of Borax laundry soap to the jars and some very very hot water. We carefully placed our snowflake forms into the water to let the crystals form onto the pipe cleaners.
We let them set through the weekend plus a couple of snow days. By Wednesday, we had some wonderful and unique snowflakes to take home and share with our families!
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