Apple Marshmallow Smiles

Ever tried making this treat?

All you need are mini marshmallows, peanut butter (or something like it) and red apples.

Use 2 apple slices, put peanut butter on one side of each, and sandwich the marshmallow "teeth" inbetween them. :)



This is a great way to make snack time more fun :)

Making Apple Crisp

Remember the Apple Sauce post and the Apple Juice post?
Yeah, we made apple crisp, too. ;)



Bought these little containers for freezing at a dollar store, added baking directions & stashed in the freezer. I'm thinking these will be very handy when we need a dessert or something to contribute & find ourselves short on time!

Nice to know there's always dessert on hand ;)

And you can see in that last photo our final harvest of all things apple from our apple day!

What's your favourite thing to make with apples?
Got a good recipe?
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I want to take a moment to welcome Barnwood4U back for another month of sponsorship this month and let you know that not only are they sellers of awesome vintage wood furniture & home decor items, but they're also selling jewellery now!

Isn't this set pretty? I like the earrings (plus I'm a sucker for amethyst & purple- my birthstone & favourite colour. :)

DIY Apple Juice

Last week I shared a tutorial on how to make your own apple sauce.
This week I wanted to tell you that we were even busier than you thought the day that we made apple sauce, cuz we made apple juice, too. (I should've taken a photo of all of the apples we bought- we were like a little apple factory over here!)

First we put water in the bottom of this contraption:

...and apples in the top. It heated up and the juice started coming out of that opening.


The girls were excited to watch while Ken let the juice escape into the jars. (We canned the juice)... don't mind everyone's PJs... we didn't bother to get ready before we got to work ;)


Here is our apple sauce & apple juice harvest.

It sure was nice to have those tools on hand (thanks to Ken's mom), and fun to learn how to make those things and to share it with the girls! Plus now we have some yummy homemade treats canned & waiting for us later- it always tastes better when you helped make it, right? :)

DIY Apple Sauce Tutorial

Ever wondered how to make your own apple sauce??



When I was little we had an apple tree on our property. One time my aunt Janice came to visit from the United States and while at our house, she suggested we make apple sauce. I can still remember how good it tasted! So, when Ken suggested we buy a bunch of apples because they were way on sale this fall, I went with it!

You guys- it is EASY!


Step 1: Boil
Put clean, whole apples in a pot of water & boil like crazy until they start coming apart & stuff.


Step 2: Mush
We used a hand cranked mill to squish the apples (I hear you can mush or mash or squish them in several other creative ways, but my mother in law had a hand mill, so we lucked out ;)


Step 3: Flavour
All we added to ours was some cinnamon (which I love!), but if you wanted, you could sweeten with sugar or whatever other spice you like.

We canned ours, with my mother in law's instructions. I didn't take pictures of that process though, because I was too busy with other things!

So yummy & the apple sauce totally brought back memories!

Now, what are you waiting for? Go, get yourself some apples, call your kids in to learn about the process, have some fun, make some mess, then have a treat! :)

Apple Pumpkin Stamps

I have seen this activity before but I can't remember where.

You just cut an apple in half, dip it in paint (or paint it with a paintbrush) and then use it as a stamp. We used them to make pumpkins.

We did the stamping in the evening, and since they used a lot of paint,we let them dry overnight before adding googly eyes & paper jack-o-lantern faces. (I cut out the pieces & Talia arranged them).