St. Patrick's Day: Simple Experiment

We are EXCITED to share our St. Patrick’s Day Borax RAINBOW Experiment with everyone!  This is a super fun and easy experiment to explore a little science!  Always get parental permission before beginning any experiment.  Always use a towel over your workspace to avoid as much clean up later.

You will need:

-Rainbow colored pipe cleaners.

-A glass jar.

-Borax powder.  Use 3 tablespoonsfuls of borax powder/cup of boiling water.  We should note, that we used water run through our coffee pot instead to lessen the chances of getting burned.  The water doesn’t boil in a coffee pot, but comes close and from what we found, works the same as boiling water for this experiment.  Only adult should work with the boiling or hot water.

-String

-Popsicle stick

-Boiling, or very hot water as explained above.

Directions:

-Link pipe cleaners into rainbow shape, twisting ends together on both sides.

-Attach about 1 foot of string to popsicle stick.

-Attach rainbow to string.

-Suspend in glass jar with borax powder solution mixed as instructed above.

-***Make sure to leave the lid off the jar overnight.  The room air is needed to help the borax solution crystallize on the rainbow in the jar.

We hope you enjoyed our fun Borax RAINBOW experiment!  We look forward to working with you next time!