This is apple-picking time! October is National Apple Month. Apples grow in all fifty states of the U.S. 

God made apples special. We can bob for apples instead of bananas or pears because 25% of an apple’s volume is air so they always rise to the top. Apples are part of the rose family and Robert Frost wrote, “The rose is a rose, and was always a rose, but the theory now goes that the apple’s a rose.” 

            If you cut across the middle of one, crosswise, you will see five seeds that form a star. Inside every apple is a star. God made us each in His image and calls us the apple of his eye. We have God’s star quality in us!

            Have fun with apples this month:

• Cut them crosswise and dip in paint to make apple prints. 
• Find the apple’s star and talk about what God sees inside you.
• Have apple rolling contests to see who can roll the apple the farthest.
• Eat some apples and talk about the good foods God created.
• Make apple pies, apple pancakes, fritters, turnovers, bread, or applesauce. 
• Check out apples on Pinterest and you’ll find more ideas on cooking apples.
• Go apple picking if there’s a place to do that near you. Or check out all the types of apples at the store and try different varieties.
• Stick cloves all over an apple to make an apple pomander. Use a toothpick or skewer to help make holes for the cloves. 

Family DO-vo time

1. Proverbs 25:11 states that a word rightly spoken is like an apple in a silver setting. That’s a pretty picture. Our words should also paint pretty pictures. Practice saying beautiful words (compliments). One word for apple is tappuwach. The word also refers to fragrance so it means to be a sweet fragrance. The root word means to scatter or blow. Giving true compliments is like adding a sweet fragrance and also a way to sow or scatter seeds of love.

2. Read Zechariah 2:8 and Psalm 17:8. Think about what it means to be the apple of God’s eye. In Hebrew there are four words for apple. One word is ishon and it refers to the pupil. That means God is looking directly at you. He focuses on you. Look closely at someone and notice how they can be the only one you see. 

3. Read proverbs 7:2. God wants you to keep his words as the apple of your eye. How can you focus on God’s word and keep it in the center of your life? How does thinking and reading God’s word help you not follow things of the world? You keep God’s word as the apple of your eye if read it every day and memorize it.

4. Read Daniel 12:3 about stars and talk about how you can shine for God and be a star.

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