ROCK CANDY!!!!

So this week I decided that we could have fun and make something. So we decided to make some rock candy!!! The recipe seemed easy enough but again I decided to adapt it to make it user friendly with things that I have around the house. So here is what you need:

 2.5 - 3 cups Sugar
1 cup Water
Foil
Skewers or Lollipop Sticks
Food Coloring (Optional)

So I started my combining sugar and water in a sauce pan and brought to a boil to make sure that the sugar was mixed. Then I put it into 3 seperate glass cups. The kids added food coloring and mixed it together.

Now other directions say use clothes pins and tape blah blah blah....how about we use what we already have....So this is why I chose foil.

Here is our sugar water all mixed up and ready to begin

Cover the top of your cup with foil 

I poked holes with a metal skewer so I could but my candy sticks right inside

 I made sure that they were spaced out and away from the sides of the cup so that they would not be "stuck" when we were ready to eat them.

Poke the candy sticks right through the holes and then I folded back the foil so that it could breath and allow for quicker crystallization. Also make sure that they are not totally touching the bottom...they will get stuck (TRUST ME)

We are making Red, Orange and Blue rock candy....It's our goal for them to be done by the time my mom gets here to visit from California. We started them on Saturday, July 5.

                                 Here they are today making great progress (July 7)