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November 12, 2022
Borax Crystals Christmas Tree Science Experiment

Borax Crystals Christmas Tree Science Experiment

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Kids will have fun growing their own borax crystals with this fun, hands on Christmas tree science activity for December. In this Christmas activity toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students will learn and explore with an easy science experiment for Christmas.

Kids will have fun growing their own borax crystals with this fun, hands on science activity for December. In this Christmas activity toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students will learn and explore with an easy science experiment for Christmas. 

Christmas Tree Science Experiment

I love activities with a purpose.  Christmas crafts decorate our homes so it looks pretty while giving children confidence creating something beautiful, learning to express themselves, and strengthening fine motor skills. Christmas activities are fun for the whole family and create great memories. Christmas science projects are a great way to sneak in a fun learning activity during the month of December. You’ve got to try this Christmas Tree Science Experiment. This is such an easy Christmas science project for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students.

Borax Crystals

First, you create a suspension of borax by mixing the hot water and borax.  By mixing the borax into hot water, the water can hold more borax and keep the borax suspended much longer. As the mixture cools, the water molecules slow down and move closer together. As the borax settles it bonds with other borax and begins to form seeds for further crystallization. Crystals come together in specific, repeated patterns due to the shape of the molecules forming them. You’ll see this crystallization on the bottom and sides of the container, on the string hanging from the pencil, and on the pipe cleaner. The borax continues to crystallize on until you pull it out of the water the next morning.

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Christmas Science Activities

You only need a few basic supplies to make this Christmas tree ornament decoration; I bet you have these materials already in your home!

  • 2 green pipe cleaners per tree
  • yellow pipe cleaner shaped into a star
  • red beads

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Pipe Cleaner Crafts

The beads are optional, but they look really pretty on the borax crystal Christmas trees. Attach one end of the green pipe cleaner around the yellow star. Then thread red bead onto green pipe cleaner (great for practicing fine motor skills). Next start going back and forth making the lines longer each time to form a Christmas tree shape. Don’t forget to add beads as you go.

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Borax Experiments

This is what your Christmas trees should look like for at this stage of this Christmas activity for kids.

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Christmas Crafts for Kids

If you like, you can make extras and use some of them at this stage as Christmas tree ornaments. Aren’t they so pretty!

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Now put a pencil through your Christmas tree to hold it in a tall jar or vase. It should not touch the bottom by several inches.

Christmas Activities for Preschoolers

Christmas Activities for Preschoolers

In a pan boil 4 cups of water. If you’d like to grow colored crystals, make sure to put the food coloring in at this point. You will want to add more food coloring than you think you’ll need!

When the water begins to boil, stir in 12 tablespoons of borax. Stir until the borax dissolves and then pour into your container.

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After just a few hours you will see the beautiful crystals start to form. Aren’t they beautiful! I suggest letting them grow overnight.

 

Christmas Science

Christmas Science

Here are the clear borax crystals we grew on our Christmas tree craft. Aren’t they so pretty. We were shocked by7 how quickly they grew!

Christmas Science Activites

These beautiful Borax Crystal Christmas Trees make such a cute Christmas ornament craft or decoration!

Kids are going to flip when they make they make their own spinning Christmas tree science project. This easy electronics project is perfect for December because it combines a Christmas craft and a Christmas science experiment to make one EPIC Christmas STEM project for kinderarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade students. This festive, holiday Christmas activity for kids is a must try this year! This fun Rudolph Race Game is both an outrageously fun Christmas game for kids and a chance to sneak in  Christmas STEM Activities! This easy-to-set-up Rudolph Races is a Christmas Activity for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students that teaches a little physics while having FUN! This Christmas science experiment is perfect for the whole family!  Want to add a little more magic into your Christmas holiday season this year? Your kids eyes will get wide with this fun Christmas science experiment. The best part? This Magic Melting peppermint science experiment takes literally 2 minutes to set it up! This Christmas science is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students to try in December.

Christmas Science Experiments for Kids

Looking for more fun Christmas science ideas? Check these out!

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Christmas Activities for Kids

Beth Gorden

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! She has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids ABCs, science, English grammar, history, math, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables – www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!

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