Jealous? Here are the instructions. Dissolve borax in hot water in a wide-mouth container. Recipes I've seen on The Internet said about 3 tablespoons of Borax per cup of water, but we had trouble getting nearly that concentration. You can dye the solution if you want colored crystals, or you can use a colored pipe cleaner, which is what we did. We used a single pipe cleaner, cut into thirds, and twisted to the shape of approximately a snowflake, but really any shape will do as long as it can be totally submerged in your saturated borax solution. We used a piece of thread and a popsicle stick to suspend the snowflake in the liquid and waited over night (about 16 hours). Voilá!
Some brief research says that, while light exposure shouldn't burn your skin, you probably want to wash your hands thoroughly after you touch borax, including the crystals on your final snowflake. Interesting, considering this project is touted as safe for kids. I guess "well-supervised kids" are technically still kids...
