Barb has a great blog Handbook of Nature Study, based off of Anna Comstock's book. She gives great ideas for Nature Study, calling them Outdoor Hour Challenges.
Outdoor Hour Challenge #30 ~ Weeds and Seeds has some good information about drying seeds, which was good timing as we had just seen a bunch of hollyhocks seeds in our neighbor's yard. So we gathered a few of the dry heads when we were over last week, checking on the garden.
Many were quite dry and just fell out:
"Yots and Yots of da seeds!"
Some of them were damp and still intact, not ready :
It started to rain, so we moved the operation indoors and looked closely at our seeds:
Dorothy Jo:
And, Erika and I got a couple drawings in our notebooks!!!!
