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What You Need

 * 1 cup water
 * 3 cups table sugar (sucrose)
 * clean glass jar
 * pencil or butter knife
 * string
 * pan or bowl for boiling water and making solution
 * spoon or stirring rod

1. tie a piece of candy to string or yarn 2. attach the string to a popsicle stick 3. start boiling water 4. add in sugar one teaspoon at a time once water is boiling 5. after sugar is dissolved in the water pour into a glass jar 6. add food coloring if you want candy to have color 7. place the popsicle stick with the string and candy in the glass jar making sure the candy sinks to the bottom 8. place the jar somewhere it wont be disturbed 9. after a few days crystals will start forming on your string 10. the longer its in the solution the bigger the candy will be

crystals are structures formed by a regular repeated pattern of connected atoms. this process is called "nucleation" the particles contact eachother then connect. this process continues until crystals form causing it to fall out of the solution.