Borax Crystals

I found this on a homeschooling website. its like sugar formations, but this lab using Borax laundry soap.  In hot, boiling water you put a certain amount of borax laundry soap, the amount depending on the size of your container and volume of water.  What you are doing is forming a saturated solution of the borax crystals.  After we made the water, we tied a string around a pipe cleaner and tied the string to a pencil and then we hunt this into the solution. Before doing this, we made a star shape with a couple of pipe cleaners, so that we could make crystal stars.  This worked really neat. We still have them, but they are fragile and crystals fall off of them.