In Forest schools this week, we looked carefully at a pine cone. We learned that they come from pine trees, and their job is to protect the seeds with their scales. We discovered that when a pine cone is wet, the scales close up!

Our task this week is to paint a pine cone green. This was a quite fiddly and we needed to hold the pine cone away from our clothes as we really didn’t want our clothes to be green. We did see some very green hands though!

We needed to ‘wiggle’ the paint brush right into the scales so that all the pine cone turned from brown to green!

This week was a cold week! But we still managed to work outside!

Here is a slideshow of our work this week. The pine cones will be decorated next week!