INSPIRATIONS - apples

A collection of apple activities including simple recipes, campfire cooking and early years ideas to explore seasonal apples through outdoor learning and play.

Introduction

Make the most of apple season with this inspiring collection of outdoor activity ideas. From simple recipes and campfire cooking to early years exploration, these activities encourage children to engage with apples as a seasonal, natural resource.

This collection of activity ideas support hands-on learning through foraging awareness, food preparation and sensory exploration. Children can discover where food comes from while developing practical skills and confidence outdoors.

With links to community orchards and shared harvests, this resource also encourages connection to local environments, sustainability and appreciation of seasonal abundance.

What you'll need

apples

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Trail Disc - Apple Blossom

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Environmental Considerations

Consider the environmental impact of preparing, carrying out & completing this activity. Could this impact be reduced? Specific considerations for this activity could include:

seek land owners permission
compost rotten apples

Health & Safety Considerations

Follow your usual operating procedures and carry out appropriate risk benefit assessments.
Some considerations particular to this activity include:

wash apples before eating

Simply Apples

Collecting

Working together to collect apples is great fun. Sometimes windfalls are still okay to eat.

Counting & sorting

Once you have picked the apples you can count them and sort them. Are they different varieties/colours/shapes?

Exploring apples

Using magnifiers, have a really close look at the skin, pips and the details when an apple is cut in half. Observe the changes as the apple discolours.

Apple peeling machine

It’s so much fun to use this tool that turns an apple into a spiral apple and has the option to take the skin off too. It is a really fun way to eat an apple!

It's also a quick way to get process windfalls for stewing.

Cooking with apples

Campfire baked apples

Another tasty campfire cooking treat - and one of your 5 a day!

Other apple recipes

apple crumble
simply stewed - great with an autumn morning porridge (you can stew eating apples - they keep their shape and don’t mush like cookers)

Windfalls

Compost your windfalls or use them as a seasonal ingredient for your mud kitchen!

Oak apples/oak gall

Look out for oak apples; they look like little crab apples but the oak leaves help you with identifying it as an oak apple. Try making ink out of an oak apple - see activity below:

Making oak gall ink

A campfire craft activity making ink from earth (oak galls), air, wind and fire - who'd have thought?!

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Disclaimer: Muddy Faces cannot take any responsibility for accidents or damage that occurs as a result of following this activity.You are responsible for making sure the activity is conducted safely.