Our neighbors gave us a Mystical Garden that grows in ten hours. We began it on New Year's Eve day. I came down after Joe and the children had set up the paper "trees, grass, and mountain range" They added water to the bottom and the chemical packets that came with the toys. See it grow! Susie came down when the crystals were beginning to form and commented, "We just look at the flowers, right Mom? We can't pick the flowers!"
P.S. This crystal garden was very fragile! (You can see some of the cherry blossoms have fallen off). Build it in an out of the way place and leave it alone.
P.P.S. Several people mentioned making these out of goal (crystal gardens), "when I was a kid" (they would then get a faraway look in their eyes). Sure enough! You can search for goal crystal or salt crystal gardens and find lots of great ideas to do this at home with your children...some ideas are very inexpensive and fun--science at home in action!
P.P.P.S For some links to fun coal or salt garden ideas...try here. Or here. Also, here.
P.P.P.P.S Wow (I've never made that many postscripts). If you live near me, I have a bunch of "old fashion" chunks of coal (not the briquettes) that you are welcome to have to try this experiment at your house.
2 comments:
so cool. My boys would LOVE this.
Dear Vicki,
Yes, it's true--we had fun watching this garden grow and you can buy the kits quite afford affordably. I included some links to "make at home" cool stuff with crystals. the key is a blue laundry agent called, Mrs. Stewarts' Blueing (a laundry whitener made of Prussian Blue). t is essential you use this brand. Some of the recipes have a picture of what the product looked like. You can get it at some Wal-marts. Have a blast with crystals and your boys!
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