Borax Crystals!

It worked!  Pretty well.  They sparkle and are pink and turquoise--what's not to like?!  I read that if you use red pipe cleaners you get much more vivid pinks and reds, but they are pretty.

 

 

Mimi kept grabbing and pulling hers before we put it in the Borax solution, so it's a little skeewumpus. 

 

 

 

The girls all put them on their doorknobs--except Mac.  Hers is on the counter.