Pumpkin Experiment

We had such a great time carving our pumpkins but they were starting to get soft and a little smelly. What a great opportunity for some pumpkin science!  First we talked about what was happening to poor smelly pumpkin.  The kids told me that he was rotting and soon he would just be a pile of mush.  We filled our moldy, old pumpkin with garbage from today's snack.  I told them that we would be burying him in the dirt and digging him up in April (for Earth Day).  I asked them what they thought would happen to him.  They unanimously agreed that the pumpkin would be gone by then.  Most of the kids also guessed that the garbage would be gone too.   Sometimes science experiments take a long time ... we'll check back in April.