Gelatin Plastic Icicles

These icicles are made out of something you would never guess...

GELATIN!

I was inspired after seeing these super cute icicles 

made out of plastic packaging from

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Happy Hooligans

Here's how we made our icicles

Materials

Unflavored Gelatin

Water

--------Optional--------

Food Coloring

Plastic Wrap

How To

We've made this amazing plastic substance out of gelatin before to make 

colorful sun catchers

The process is very easy: 

Dissolve one envelope of unflavored gelatin into 3 tablespoons of boiling water

Pour the solution onto something nonstick for drying,

before we used disposable plastic plates

for the icicles I laid down crumpled up plastic wrap onto a baking sheet

I just poured uncolored and the blue gelatin solution over the plastic wrap

We used 4 envelopes of gelatin for this project

This project takes a few days to dry

You can tell it's dry by the edges starting to curl up and peel away from the surface

Always check the middle though to make sure it's fully dry before peeling all the way off

The plastic wrap created some amazing texture!

Miss C cut out icicle shapes

 We punched holes into the tops and strung them up with fishing line

creating a sort of garland of icicles hanging from our kitchen bar
The light makes them sparkle!

A wonderful winter addition to our 

melted wax snowflakes 

and our

  easy winter windows