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Helpful reminder that if you are experiencing super-cold temps, it's pretty important that you fill a balloon with water and food coloring and leave it outdoors overnight. frozen globe of water with weird blue splotches insidetwisty balloons that make ice that looks suspiciously like giant sperm
Also acceptable: decorative cake pans. Have some fun with your vortices, people! ice shaped like a sunflower (from a sunflower cake pan)
(It is worth doing this even if all you have is a simple pot or plastic bin! The food coloring freezes at a different temp than the water, so it makes cool tracks and gradients as they solidify.)
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