Johnny Appleseed Day

The kids celebrated Johnny Appleseed Day at school on Monday with a party.  The grade parents for the class got together and decided on activities for the party.  We had an apple tasting, an apple craft, an apple story and homemade applesauce with ice cream.  I was in charge of the apple tasting.  My husband helped me with the tasting.  We brought in slices of Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Gala, Fuji and McIntosh along with a little information about each apple. 

I typed up the apple facts onto plain white sticker paper and printed them on my printer.  I found some cute apple print scrapbook paper at the craft store and used my paper punch to cut out a pretty shape which I then put the apple fact sticker onto.    I used a 3D-Dot to attach this onto to a piece of folded red card stock.  For those of you that do no know, which I did not know until the other day, a 3D-Dot it a piece of double sided adhesive tape cut into square.  It just raises whatever you are attaching to give it a 3D look.  You can also used a glue dot.  I found the 3D Dots at the craft store in the Scrapbooking section.     

The apple craft that the class made was a small paper plate that the kids used a glue stick to attach torn pieces of red construction paper to and then they glued on a green piece of construction paper to be the stem.  This craft was quick and easy.

The best part was the homemade crock pot applesauce.  Here is the recipe we used.

Ingredients:

• 3 lbs. apples
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1-1/2 Tbsp. lemon juice
• 1 tsp. cinnamon

Preparation:

Peel, core, and slice the apples. Combine in a 3-4 quart crock pot with the brown sugar and lemon juice. Cover and cook on high for 3-4 hours. Mash with a potato masher into the consistency you want. Stir in cinnamon and serve warm or cold.

 

We topped the applesauce with a little vanilla ice cream.  Yummy!!!

 

 

A little humor from one of my daughters....

 

When I picked the kids up from school that afternoon, I said to my daughter, "so what did Johnny Appleseed do?" to which she replied, "he didn't do anything, he's dead."