TAKE A BITE!

IT'S APPLE TIME!

I love this season! Whether you live where autumn brings lots of changes or only a few, it's still a great time for seasonal fun. So let's jump in and get started.

CHOMP!

There are thousands of kinds of apples. However, only the most popular are grown and harvested. Even that changes as new varieties emerge. Today, the top ten are most often listed as the following:

Pink Lady 

Honeycrisp

Fuji

Golden Delicious

McIntosh

Cox's Orange Pippin

Red Delicious

Gala

Jonasgold

Cortland

Collect samples of any three then compare. 
Do the apples look different? 

Check color. 
Shape. 
Size.

Now wash and slice. Then taste one sample. Rate it from 1 to 4 on crispness with 1 being the softest and 4 being the crispest.
Also rate it on sweetness with 1 being the least sweet and 4 being the sweetest.

It's estimated each person in the U.S. eats about 50 apples each year. So take a bite to be on your way to eating your fair share!

RIDDLE: What kind of fruit do ghosts like?
Boo-berries. 









RIDDLE: What's a vampire's favorite fruit?
Neck-tarines.



SNAP IT UP

To bob for apples, fill a large plastic storage tub or child's plastic wading pool nearly full of water. Wash the apples--one for each contestant. Set these afloat. To play each person, in turn, bends over the tub with their hands behind their back. Have someone time each person working to snatch an apple in their teeth. The fastest snatcher wins. Only each person wins a tasty apple snack.

*Write a short story about a bobbing-for-apples contest. 

RIDDLE: What kind of horses do ghosts ride?
Nightmares.