Sugar Rock Crystals Experiment

Rock candy is easy to make at home it tastes great and it s a fun recipe to do with kids.

Sugar rock crystals experiment. 3 cups sugar sucrose. Sugar sucrose crystals are one of the few types of crystals you can grow and eat. I m going to show you the method i use to make sugar crystals into rock candy with your kids because i ve had my failures with growing crystals and we prefer our homeschool method which seems to work best. Complete this sugar crystal science fair project and learn all about it.

Rock candy crystals are a fantastic activity to add into homeschool science activities for preschool. Sugar crystals are called rock candy because these hard crystals are edible. That s so much it seems like a waste. It s also an excellent opportunity to get creative in the kitchen because the color and flavoring combinations you can create are endless.

Having said that we ve just been doing a homeschool rock candy experiment. Are your kids always in the kitchen looking for a snack. 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. 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. Grow sugar crystals and make homemade rock candy with this simple chemistry experiment. You only need a few common kitchen materials for this crystal project. You can grow clear beautiful sugar crystals with sugar and water or you can add food coloring to get colored crystals.

A lot of sugar as i found out when i ran a rock candy experiment in 2018 and ran out of the sweet stuff. Most recipes recommend using about three times as much sugar as water. To see if i could get away with less i ran another experiment. By varying the amount of sugar the solution may become saturated or supersaturated.

Make 5 crystal growing experiments at home including quick crystal cup gems rock candy sticks sparkly crystal ornaments and salt vs sugar. 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. This is absolutely sweet science. You can eat the natural clear crystals or you can color and flavor them.