Making apple tarts, pies, and cakes is fun for the whole family, but what happens when you exhaust all of your favorite recipes and you still have more than 20 pounds of the shiny red fruit leftover?
If you are my neighbor, you invite a bunch of kids from the cul-de-sac to your home and let them go wild making every apple craft known to man, including some of my family’s favorites suitable for children of all ages (and an adult to supervise), such as:
APPLE CANDLEHOLDERS
Materials:
Large red apples
Candles
Waxed paper
Potato peeler
Apple corer
Lemon juice
Directions:
Use apple corer to make a hole about halfway through the middle of the apple, making sure that the hole is as straight as possible.
Remove the core and discard.
Insert candle into the hole. It should fit tightly; if the hole is too large, wrap waxed paper around the candle’s end.
Older kids can decorate the apples by carefully carving designs in the skins with the tip of a potato peeler.
Use lemon juice on apples to prevent them from turning brown.
Arrange the apple candleholders on a plate or tray and use them as a centerpiece on your table.
APPLE STAMP
Materials:
Apples
Butter knife or plastic knife for younger kids
White paint
Red paint
Your favorite color paint
Paintbrush
Glue
Construction paper in a variety of colors
Directions:
Cut apples in half.
Cut one apple in half vertically and one apple horizontally, then cut designs in each half to yield different patterns.
Younger kids can dip the apple into the paint and make apple prints on the construction paper.
Older kids can use a paintbrush and paint the middle of the apple white and outline the edges in red paint.
When you are done stamping you can embellish your design with glitter or sequins, or you can glue the seeds you got out of the apples on to the apple prints.
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