How to Make Bismuth Crystals

Bisumth has a melting point of - as the video says at 0:20 - 520 degrees F (or about 260 C). That's a temperature easily reached on a stove top without significant investment in special equipment.

In the above video, NightHawkInLight uses a stovetop and a steel pan. That should be achievable in even the smallest science department budgets, and the crystals that are produced are absolutely gorgeous.

You do still have to get some bismuth (may I recommend rotometals?), but then you, too, can be making some gorgeous hopper crystals.