Sugar crystals are called rock candy because these hard crystals are edible.
Sugar rock crystals experiment.
Less sugar is not the answer.
It s easy to grow your own sugar crystals which are also known as rock candy because the crystallized sucrose also known as table sugar resembles rock crystals and you can eat your finished product.
By varying the amount of sugar the solution may become saturated or supersaturated.
You only need a few common kitchen materials for this crystal project.
Are your kids always in the kitchen looking for a snack.
Rock candy is easy to make at home it tastes great and it s a fun recipe to do with kids.
Complete this sugar crystal science fair project and learn all about it.
3 cups sugar sucrose.
That s so much it seems like a waste.
Sugar sucrose crystals are one of the few types of crystals you can grow and eat.
Most recipes recommend using about three times as much sugar as water.
How about next time they are looking for a sweet treat you add some fun learning to their snack request.
Having said that we ve just been doing a homeschool rock candy experiment.
To see if i could get away with less i ran another experiment.
A lot of sugar as i found out when i ran a rock candy experiment in 2018 and ran out of the sweet stuff.
Growing sugar crystals is a fun and easy science experiment for kids.
In this experiment sugar and hot water are stirred together to form a solution.
It s also an excellent opportunity to get creative in the kitchen because the color and flavoring combinations you can create are endless.
This is absolutely sweet science.
Grow sugar crystals and make homemade rock candy with this simple chemistry experiment.
You can eat the natural clear crystals or you can color and flavor them.
You may know sugar crystals by their other name rock candy or perhaps by their most common adjective delicious these take a little longer than the needle crystals to build but.
Rock candy crystals are a fantastic activity to add into homeschool science activities for preschool.
You can grow clear beautiful sugar crystals with sugar and water or you can add food coloring to get colored crystals.