Yay, now I have delicious rock candy as a special treat!

Rock candy

What you need:

• 1 cup water
• 2 ½ cups sugar
• Food coloring
• Flavor oil
• Sauce pan
• Tall narrow glass jar
• Clothes pin
• Short skewers (about 6 cm)

Method:

1. Wet the skewer and then coat it with sugar.  These will be the seed crystals for growing the bigger sugar crystals. Leave it to dry for a while.
2. While the sugar is still drying, place the water in your saucepan and turn it on to medium heat.
3. Slowly add in bits of sugar and keep stirring it until all the sugar has dissolved.
4. When it starts to boil, take the pan off the heat. The sugar has now turned into a syrup and it is ready when it is thick.
5. Add in the food colouring of your choice. If you are using regular food colouring, add 40 drops to make the colour look good in the crystals.
6. Pour the syrup into the jar and let it cool in room temperature. It will take an hour or more so keep a close eye on it. If you do not have time to let it cool, and put the skewer in the jar straight away for the sugar to dissolve.
7. When the syrup has cooled down, put the skewer into the jar. Clip a clothespin on the end of the skewer and put the sugar covered end into the syrup.
8. Let the sugar crystal form over a week.
9. Seven days later, pull the skewer from the jar and it should be covered in solid crystals.

Now, you have yummy rock candy as a special treat!

Learning Intention: We are learning to follow the correct structure of a procedure.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write down the tools and the steps for making sugar crystals.