Making Rock Candy Science Experiment. The science behind making candy is surprisingly complex and involves challenging chemistry concepts. It’s science fair season around here, and these super fun candy science experiments would make totally cool science fair projects!
Did you know you can make your own at home with a few supplies to save yourself a trip to the candy store? In this science fair project you will make a saturated solution of sugar and water in order to grow your own rock candy sugar crystals. A lot of sugar, as i found out when i ran a rock candy experiment in 2018 (and ran out of the sweet stuff).
Our easy rock candy recipe lets kids observe the crystallization process firsthand while making some pretty delicious treats.
Every experiment starts with a hypothesis — a statement that can be tested. Having said that, we've just been doing a homeschool rock candy experiment. Here are our rock candies growing on day 2, the left & on day 3, the right. To test this hypothesis, i made two batches of rock candy.