If you want to run an apple day in your school or at your farmers market, try enlisting the help of some local organisations.

Your could approach;

Your local orchard group

A local environmental charity

Your Health Promotion officers

Apple Juice producers from the area

There is more information about Apple Day on the Common Ground Website

Here are some activities we enjoyed;

Apple Tastings using named unusual local varieties of apples

Children are asked to vote for their favourite flavour and their favourite name

A display of named different varieties of apples for market customers at the market

Apple juice pressing at the market or school using windfalls brought along by customers/school children and tasters of the freshly pressed juice

Games - our favourites are "Pin the Maggot on the Apple" and "longest Apple Peel", using a mechanical peeler

Children involved in apple day activities can be invited along to their local farmers market as part of their home work.

Art works including;
Apple prints
An apple tree life cycle
Painting and printing activities

For loads more information on curriculum links, lead-in and follow-on activities, click here!

A Whole School Approach

School Dinners

"A Year In the Life of the Farmers' Market" project

Setting up a Junior Farmers Market

Junior Farmers Market case study

Setting up a Fruit Tuck Shop

A Children's debate on farmers' markets

Farm Visits         

Bees In The Curriculum

Wheat, Barley and Oats