Crystal Chemistry Garden
- Grades K-2
- Grades 3-5
Craft a colorful chemis-tree and garden using felt shapes and liquid watercolors. Then concoct a chemical solution that'll make your garden grow fun and funky crystals over two days. Learn about the science of crystals — how they're formed, and how they make up all sorts of things, like salt, snow, and sapphires!
Why it’s awesome
Garden design
Arrange the felt shapes to build your garden.
Crystals overnight
Just 1 night for hundreds of little crystals.
Grow in color
Watercolors swirl to create colorful crystal leaves.
What’s included?
Topics explored
Chemical solutions
Crystal formation
Creativity
From the desk of the product designer:
Behind the design
“Growing crystals is super fun, and the bonus chemistry angle makes it enriching too.”
- KiwiCo Product Designer
By the numbers
18
Garden plant shapes brainstormed
<24
Hours needed for crystal growth
1000s!
Number of potential garden layouts