1. Buy at least three different varieties of apples. Cut them into slices and take a poll as to which variety is the tastiest.
2. Sing an apple song.
3. Make an apple doll.
4. Make mini apple pies with canned biscuits and apple pie filling. Add a little filling to each biscuit and fold in half. Press the edges closed and bake according to the biscuit instructions.
5. Cut an apple in half, then into fourths, then into eighths. Talk about fractions and then eat an eighth.
6. Read Robert Frost’s poem “After Apple Picking.”
7. Write an apple acrostic poem.
8. Draw pictures of different varieties of apples, color, and label.
9. Do an apple craft project.
10. Eat an apple.
11. Take a trip to an apple orchard. (I wish we could do this; no apple orchards in South Texas.)
12. Go to an apple festival. (Again, none in Texas, but if you live north or east, you might be in luck.)
13. Or visit the National Apple Museum in Biglerville, PA.
14. Draw a cartoon sequence of the events that an apple passes through from blossom to grocery store.
15. Divide your paper into four parts, and draw an apple tree in each of the four seasons. Read The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree.
16. Look at Cezanne’s Still Life With Apples and Oranges and his Pommes et Biscuits. Set up your own still life and paint or draw.
17. Make an apple place mat. Cut a large piece of construction paper into an apple shape. Cut vertical slits in the paper, then weave in strips of a contrasting color.
18. Write ten words that describe how an apple tastes.
19. Make a list of products that are made from apples.
20. Find out how to prune an apple tree and how to graft an apple tree. Write a paragraph telling how to do these tasks in an apple orchard.
21. Make apple-shaped birthday cards for all your friends and relatives who have a birthday in September or October. Give the card with an apple for a birthday gift.
22. Drink hot apple cider.
23. Ask your friends and neighbors for their favorite apple recipe. Then invite them over for an apple party. Everyone brings his or her favorite apple apple dessert and a copy of the recipe. Make a booklet of apple recipes.
24. Make caramel apples.
25. Bob for apples.
26. How many words can you make out of the letters that spell “APPLESAUCE”?
27. Give each student an apple and a piece of poster board. Have students draw a picture of the apple in the center of the poster. Then make a poster by adding apple facts all around the apple. Measure the apple. Weigh it. Count the seeds. Put all this information on the poster.
28. Read the story of Snow White. Act it out, using a real but not poisoned apple, of course.
29. Cut an apple in half crosswise and look at the star in the center. Draw it.
30. Stand a bushel basket in the center of a table. Guess how many apples will fit in the basket. How much would the basket of apples weigh? How many books would fit in the same basket? When you’ve finished eating all the apples in the basket, fill it with books to find out.
31. Which two states claim the apple blossom as the state flower?
32. Try making an alphabet book with a picture of a different variety of apple for each letter of the alphabet: A is for Alexander and Arkansas Black, B is for Baldwin and Bailey Sweet, etc. Include pictures, either drawings or pictures from the internet.
33. Give an apple to a favorite teacher or to a neighbor.
34. Eat apples dipped in peanut butter or in honey.
35. Make an apple pie.
36. Tell the story of Atalanta from Greek mythology. Have a footrace and give the winner an apple.
37. Try to peel an apple in one continuous strip. See who can get the longest strip of unbroken peeling.
38. Read Henry David Thoreau’s essay, “Wild Apples”.
39. Make applesauce.
40. Use an apple corer and then cut the core in half to expose the “star” and then use that as a stamper in tempera paint to put stars on either an apple cutout or an apple tree.
41. Count the apple seeds inside an apple.
42. Burn an apple-scented candle to make the house smell all apple-y.
43. Collect a variety of round fruits such as an apple, peach, orange, nectarine, etc. Place the fruit in a bag. Choose a student to touch the fruit, describe it and guess its name. Repeat with each fruit, discussing the characteristics.
44. Give out an apple award.
45. Do your handwriting practice on apple lined paper or apple-shaped writing paper.
46. Find out why apples turn brown when you cut them. How can you keep them from turning?
47. Make some apple leather.
48. Read The Apple Doll by Elisa Kleven and then, make one. Reviewed at Becky’s Young Readers Blog.
49. Make an apple ornament.
50. Play the game Apples to Apples.
51. While eating an apple, locate the seeds and remnants of the flower’s calyx and stamens.
52. Apple Unit Ideas for Kindergarten and First Grade by Sallie Borrink.
53. Make some apple dumplings.
54. Find out which varieties of apple are best for cooking and which are best for eating raw. What makes each variety better for the given purpose?
55. Who was Granny Smith?
56. Read the book Ten Apples Up on Top by Theo LeSeig. Try to stack ten apples on top of someone’s head.
57. Plant an apple seed and see what happens.
58. Learn all about Johnny Appleseed.
59. Read some apple picture books.
60. Make an apple man.
61. Make some dried apple snacks.
62. Apple Word Search.
63. Try an apple art project.
64. Watch a funny movie: The Apple Dumpling Gang from 1975 starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts.
65. Sing another apple song.
66. Read the poem “Apple Pie and Cheese” by Eugene Field and then eat some.
67. Or try some apple pie a la mode —with ice cream on top.
68. Hand out red and green construction paper and see who can tear the paper into the closest approximation of an apple shape.
69. Who was Pomona? Define pomology.
70. Use these ideas for an apple unit study.
71. Read about an Apple family.
72. Enjoy an apple salad.
73. Learn a new/old hymn, Jesus Christ the Apple Tree.
74. Make apple crisp for breakfast.
75. Make Dawn’s Crafty Apple tote.
76. Try some apple pudding with caramel sauce.
77. Tell a Johnny Appleseed story.
78. Shoot an apple off someone’s head? Too dangerous. Use rubber-tipped arrows and shoot the apple off a doll’s head or off the top of a pole or a fence. Read about William Tell.
79. Illustrate an apple aphorism.
80. Memorize Psalm 17:8 or Proverbs 7:2. More apple verses here.
81. Find Kazakhstan on the map. This region is where the wild ancestor of the apple is thought to have originated.
82. Find out whether the story of Isaac Newton the falling apple is true or not. Watch an episode of the science series Newton’s Apple if you can find one at the library.
83. Take an apple quiz.
84. Bake some apples.
85. What city is called the Big Apple? Why?
Walking Off the Big Apple: a Strolling Guide to you-know-where.
86. Print out and color an apple coloring page. Or an apple numeral coloring page.
81. Look at some photos of apple trees.
82. Write a story or a poem about an apple or about an apple doll or about the Big Apple or something else related to apples.
83. Drink some apple juice.
84. A Is for apple: Ten Fall Apple Activities.
85. Host an Apple Party where you use some of the above activities to add to the festive apple fun.
86. Make Apple Dumplings.
87. Make an apple pencil holder.
88. Apple coloring pages.
89. Play Apple Corps (sort of like Mr. Potatohead).
90. Research the nutritional value of an apple and tell what each vitamin and mineral does for your body.
91. Read “The Little Red House With No Doors and No Windows and a Star Inside.”
92. Celebrate Apple Day or Apple Night.
93. Cook some more apple recipes: apple sausages, apple slaw, apples with caramel dip.
94. The Apple Pie That Papa Baked by Lauren Thompson.
95. One Bad Apple by Sheila Connolly, reviewed by Lesa. “One Bad Apple is an example of everything that is right with the cozy mystery. Her book has a likable heroine, an attractive small town setting, a slimy victim, and fascinating side elements.”
Also reviewed by Bookish Ruth. (for the adults)
96. A Shiny Red Apple by Patricia Karwatowicz techaes children that “God loves a cheerful giver.” Reviewed at Christian Children’s Book Reviews.
97. October 21st is Apple Day in England. Also check out
98. How about some Mint Flavor Apple Jelly?
99. Tricia shares her favorite apple (and pumpkin) books at The Miss Rumphius Effect.
100. All Semicolon Apple posts.
Enjoy your Apples!