Rock Candy Recipe

Rock Candy

4 cups sugar

1 cup water

Food Coloring

Clean glass jar

String, cut into 6-inch lengths

Pencil

In a medium saucepan, heat 2 cups of the sugar and the water. Do not boil!! Stir until the sugar is dissolved. Gradually add a few drops of the food coloring and the additional sugar, stirring until all the sugar is dissolved.

Pour the solution into clean glass jar and tie the pieces of string to the pencil and suspend them across the mouth so that the ends hang into the sugar water.

Crystals will form in an hour and continue for several days to a week.

Our crystals did not get much bigger from the pictures I posted earlier. I think the key is to not pull them out to look. I think if the kids left it alone the crystals would have been bigger. The kids still enjoyed eating and experimenting.