We can't just play with pumpkins, we turn everything into fun educational lessons. Here you see Sweet Son picking the seeds out of a very small pumpkin with many lines going down the side.
Here Sweet Daughter is pulling the seeds out of a larger (but still small) pumpkin without many well defined lines going down the sides.
After cleaning out both pumpkins we counted the seeds. It was a lot of counting, but the kids made an amazing discovery. They predicted the larger pumpkin would have more seeds. However, the seeds are attached to the vertical lines in the pumpkins. So the small pumpkin with the lines had more seeds than the large pumpkin without. Science, Math, and a mess - pretty much a perfect lesson.
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