Maywood Conservation Parks invites homeschoolers for various events throughout the year...
about 3-4 per per season.
This one focused on lumberjacking and maple syrup making, taught by a former lumberjack.
It was fun and enlightening for all.
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| lumberjack presentation |
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| presenting the saw |
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| playing lumberjack games of lighting matches with a hatchet |
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| Eli getting his turn at the saw |
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| learning to use tools to move logs around |
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| Miles was the 2018 frying pan throwing contest champion! |
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| heading into the woods |
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| presentation on the history of tapping trees |
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| trying out the yoke for carrying buckets of sap |
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| peeking into sap buckets |
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| hand drilling tapping holes |
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| learning about which trees to tap |
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| trying out different kinds of syrup |
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