How to Make Crystal Snowflakes using Borax

Supplies:

Borax

Coffee Filters

Scissors

Water

Pan to boil water

Baking sheet with edges

ribbon

spoon

Instructions:

Make a supersaturated solution of Borax and water. Boil water and mix in teaspoons of Borax until no more will dissolve. Allow the solution to cool.

Fold coffee filters in half 2-3 times and snip the edges thinking about where the cuts will appear when you unfold it. You may want to practice on paper first and figure out where to cut to come up with a snowflake design that you're happy with.

Unfold your snowflakes and place them into a baking sheet and carefully pour the supersaturated Borax solution over the snowflake, making sure it's completely immersed.

Let the snowflake sit in the solution about an hour or until it's covered in crystals. Place it on paper towels to dry. You might need to use a toothpick to knock crystals out of the snowflake's holes.

Once it's dry, pull ribbon through the snowflake, tie the ends, and hang it on your tree or you can give it as a gift.

*You can add food coloring to solution if you want different colors

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The Great Salt Plains

What an awesome labor day! Today my husband and I took the girls to the salt plains. We had so much fun digging for crystals. What a fun way to learn, explore and play. I wish we had prepared a little better. Like bringing water to rinse our crystals and wash our hands. A towel would have been nice. My oldest daughter, even suggested a change of clothing, lol. We sure needed it. I guess when your digging in mud, your bound to get dirty. We drove to a near by town and cleaned the best we could. What a great day spent and all it cost us was a lil bit of gas. Can't beat that. :)  Also, the view of the salt plains is so beautiful. 


The Great Salt Plains in northwestern Oklahoma is the only place in the world
to find unique hourglass-shaped selenite crystals. These crystals attract rock enthusiasts from around the world.  The Area was closed for several years to clean the area of World War II training artifacts. The area is once again open for public digging from April 1-October 15. 


These hourglass selenite crystals have also been designated as Oklahoma’s State Crystal



Here are some great resources about the The Great Salt Plains. (Just click links below)


The Great Salt Plains

Let's Go Crystal Digging (Video)


Field Trip Cruiser - The Great Salt Plains

Selenite Crystals

Selenite Crystal Digging

History of GREAT SALT PLAINS

Map of The Great Salt Plains

Plan a Trip to The Great Salt Plains