September 26: Johnny Appleseed was born (1774).

With several holidays yesterday which combined nicely for one major event, Johnny Appleseed’s birthday gets bumped a day. There’s plenty of activities you can do with apples. Here’s one:

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Apple Smiles

From the cooking card set available from Toolbox Training (activity D1). Adapted from familycorner.com.

Materials:

·         Apples (4-5)

·         Peanut butter

·         Miniature marshmallows (10-ounce bag)

·         Knife

Directions:

1.       Cut apples into wedges.

2.       Spread peanut butter on one side of an apple wedge.

3.       Place marshmallows on peanut butter to form teeth.

4.       Spread peanut on one side of a second apple wedge.

5.       Place on top of the marshmallows to create the other side of the mouth.

Also check out activities D3 (caramel apples – featured on the August 6 blog post), D4, E6, and I6 from the cooking card set available from Toolbox Training.  

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Other Holidays and Events Today:

• Crush-a Can-Day
  
  
  

Check out the full September calendar to see the month at a glance as well as floating holidays, specialty weeks, and themes for the month.

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September 26: Hold a pancake day for family members.

image from bargainbriana.com

If your program’s guidelines allow for cooking in your program, today is an excellent day for combining three different holidays into one event. Not only is today Pancake Day, but it is also Ancestor Appreciation Day and Food-Service Employees Day. Why not hold a pancake day where the kids serve as the food-service employees and serve family members? Depending on the ages of children, they may or may not be able to help actually cook, but consider having kids serve as hosts and hostesses as well as waiters and waitresses.

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Check out the full September calendar to see the month at a glance as well as floating holidays, specialty weeks, and themes for the month.

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