Cones, cones, everywhere

With our senior kindergartens, we looked at the cones from various evergreen trees. We noticed that some cones had opened up with the warm weather, and others were still tightly bundled up.

Some were big, some were small.

Some pine cones were soft, some were hard. Some had been eaten by a little critter!

We are conducting an experiment to see what happens when we put pine cones that are open (they open to release seeds once the weather turns warm) into the freezer. We wonder if they’ll close up!

When looking at the maple tree, we could see the scar from where it had been tapped last maple season.