Apple Season
September is “Apple Month” at our house. We read books about them, do apple crafts, and create delicious things in the kitchen with them.
Last year we made these little apple yarn favors, and saved them to decorate with this year. Children love making these!
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Every year we try to check out a few new books from the library, but we also have a little stack of our own books that we read every year. Some of our favorites are:
- The Apple Pie That Papa Baked
- Apples: A True Book
- Ten Red Apples
- Apples
- The Apple Pie Tree
- We All Fall for Apples
- Apples, Apples, Apples
This is a very easy craft that I came up with this year. We traced apple shapes (found online) onto cardstock, cut little squares of tissue paper (red, green, and brown), crumpled them slightly, dipped them in glue, and filled the shapes with the tissue paper squares. All five children loved this!
There are so many wonderful things to cook up in the kitchen with apples. We almost always make apple crisp, apple pies (last year we made rustic apple pies), and baked apples. This is a great time to get your kids in the kitchen and teach some baking skills!
Here’s a recipe for Caramel Apples. We made ours a bit healthier with coconut oil and organic whole cane sugar.
And we’re all looking forward to making applesauce and apple butter again. Last year we made Oven Apple Butter, and it was really simple.
Here’s an easy recipe for Apple Dip that we’ve been making for years. It’s so simple that my children often mix it up themselves.
Apple Dip
1 (8 oz) package of cream cheese
1/2 cup brown sugar or Rapadura (organic whole cane sugar)
1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
In a medium-sized mixing bowl (large if you double the recipe like we do!), combine cream cheese, brown sugar, and vanilla. Mix well until all of the brown sugar has been blended into the cream cheese and vanilla. If the mixture isn’t thick enough, add a small amount of brown sugar to the mixture. If it’s too thick, add a small amount of vanilla extract. The dip should be mixed until it’s very smooth. Serve with apple slices.
Ummmm – boys can learn to bake as well. I have a little daycare boy that loves to cook and he makes banana breads, brownies, scrambled eggs and for some reason he seems to think he can’t make a PB&J!
True, boys (and men) can (and should) learn to bake as well as girls! 🙂 I originally wrote this post for a site focusing on daughters, so I think that’s why I focused on that in the post. I’ve just changed the post to include boys, too. Both of my boys LOVE to cook, and my husband regularly makes meals since he enjoys cooking so much! Thanks for stopping by, Tina!
Wish I had an apple tree… I'd be baking apple every day!
I'll go visit you on the raising homemakers blog!
See you there!
Hugs,
And have a fun week!
Sandy
We planted some apple trees last year, but one of them died. 🙁 Thanks for visiting, Sandy!
I love it. We do a lot with apples in September also.
Thank you! It's a lovely month.