According to amercianoverlook:
Preheat your oven to 500°F and arrange your marbles on the baking sheet. Bake the marbles for 20 minutes and remove them carefully.
Prepare a bowl of extremely cold ice water. Now carefully dump the hot marbles into the freezing water. The extreme temperature shift will crack the insides of the marbles but won’t affect the smooth exteriors.
Now your marbles will look like crystals.
You can use them as beautiful beads by super-gluing a bead cap to it and putting it on a chain or earring post. You can use them to fill a vase. Let your imagination run with this…this is a stunning crystalized marble that will work with so many projects!
Tell us your ideas to use them!
Thanks to amercianoverlook for this awesome tip!
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We did that back in the 60’s.. Like Tie-dying
Yep made necklaces out of them.
Yes.. ‘Cat Eye’ Marbles in your favorite colors.
We did this 60yrs ago….not new!
Never heard this before. I’m 60. Maybe I’m to young . lol
We did this as kids
Fun to do and decorate woth
My sister did this in the 1960s. She called it “fried marbles.”
People did this in the 60’s and made jewelry with them
we did this back in the day
I did this and it works
We did this as kids in the 60’s. yeah she’s a genius at copying years past.lmao!
yep did that in the 70s
Use to do this when we were kids in the 60s and make jewelry.
We used to fry them.
My mom taught me this
Never heard of it!
Things always come back
Sara Fase, next time for crafting
My mom and I did this 50 years ago and made necklaces
Someone gave me a bracelet in elementary school that her DAD had made with cracked marbles. I loved it
My mother did this and made cute creatures.
Septima Parrish
We use to do This back on the 60,s,,,they turn out beautiful,,,
Amy Lynn Flores
I’ve heard of this but never knew what they ended up looking like. They look just like the crackle beads.
That’s why they looked familiar
Yeah, I think you only spent 3 hours picking through all my crackle beads the last time you were here. Jk Lol
I loved them lol I actually never heard of crackle beads until seeing yours. I’m looking up diy clay & crystal stuff for jewelry right now
I’m waiting to see what goodies the kids cousin is bringing me. She should be here in about an hour to get the kids. I’m excited!
Send me pics lol
If I get real good stuff I will text ya and you can come go thru it with me. If your not out on a stat call.
Sounds good! Im doing 1/2 a shift so im 5pm to 3am for GR..ugh lol
I use to do this long time ago.
Fried marbles
Popular in the ’60’s. I still have a red one made into a necklace.
Cool