Pink Snow!

Its foggy and cold here this morning with no sign of snow - so we thought we'd make our own. Not only make snow, but we thought we'd keep in good Plush Folly tradition and make pink snow!

So here is our recipe for pink snowflakes.....

Ingredients:
Pipe cleaners or thin bendy wire
Very hot water
*Epsom Salts (how much you need depends upon the size of your glass jar)
Pink liquid soap colouring (food colouring will do)
Glass jar
A pencil or wooden stick
A 14 cms (6 inch) piece of string or ribbon

* you can use Borax instead of Epsom Salts if you wish

Method:

Cut your pipe cleaners in to a length of about 7cms (2.5 inches). You will need 4 pieces of pipe cleaner in total. Twist the pieces together to form an eight sided star shape. Tie your piece of string or ribbon to the very top of the snowflake.

Pour very hot (just boiled) water into the jar or glass container so that it is three quarters full. Add your Epsom salts and stir until dissolved. Keep adding more Epsom salts and stirring until you have saturated the liquid and no more can be dissolved. It is fine to have a few Epsom salt crystals lying on the bottom of the jar. Add a drop of colouring and stir into the water (add more if you want darker coloured crystals).

Place your snowflake shape into the liquid in the jar so that it is immersed completely. Tie the ribbon or string to the pencil (or stick) so that the snowflake is suspended in thte jar and not touching the bottom.

Leave somewhere for 24-48 hours and watch the crystals start to appear.

There we have it (well in a few hours anyway) - pink snow! Be sure to check back in a few days when we post the finished flake.