Rock Candy is a classic treat for kids. Â We have an easy and fun way to make rock candy at home…while also encouraging your child to drink water and eat fruit! Â Kids Activities Blog loves this cute recipe and we hope you do too!
Rock Candy
Do you try to encourage your kids to drink more water? Â In the heat of summer we love to offer the kids lightly flavored water – these rock candy stirrers add just a hint of flavor, make drinking water fun and colorful.
Here is what you need:
- Sugar
- Water
- Toothpicks
- Optional: Flavors (we used coffee syrups)
- Also Optional: Food Dye
Make Rock Candy
We made a simple sugar syrup using water and sugar and added flavoring to the sugar. Â We followed the directions at Glue Sticks and used one cup of sugar to one cup of boiling water. Â We added the sugar slowly – it still gummed the bottom of our pan – and added flavoring and food dye after the sugar water cooled.
We poured the sugar syrup into cups, poked toothpicks into a strip of cardboard (to hold the sticks stable) and balances the sticks into the syrup. Â We had fun watching the crystals of sugar grow on the sticks.
Rock Candy Recipe
Oh. Â How. Fun!
The kids love stirring and drinking with their mini skewers.
We stuffed our sticks into fruit and used them as stirrers in our water. Â We love adding slices of fruit to our water. Â The sticks made the fruit fun to stir. Â Lime added just a touch of sour to the sweet of the candy stick.
More Kids Activities
Who doesn’t love rock candy? Â With these cute mini skewers, your kids will love that they can make rock candy and have fun watching it form too. Â For more kids activities, you might enjoy these tasty ideas:
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