National Apple Museum



Biglerville, Pennsylvania

Follow-up Activities

Apple of my eye

After visiting the Yakima Valley Museum, have your students make their own items that demonstrate Yakima’s love affair with the apple. Design an apple hat with a slogan that advertises the Yakima apple. Make dried apple necklaces (dried apples can be purchased at the grocery or natural food stores).

One Rotten Apple Spoils the Whole Barrel

Rotten apples produce a gas called ethylene which can make other apples near them ripen more quickly. Have your class set up bowls of apples in different areas; one with a rotten apple, and one without. Watch to see when the other apples begin to get rotten. Also, try putting other fruits in with apples, such as pears, to see if what affect they may have.

Apple Jack-o-lanterns

Supplies
Red Delicious apples or other red apple
Plastic knives or butter knife
Lemon juice

A fun activity, when studying about apples, is to make jack-o-lanterns out of apples. Select apples with a red skin, and cut out sections just as you would a pumpkin. The white flesh of the apple is accented by the red skin. Use a little lemon juice on the apple to keep it from turning brown.

Planting the Seed

The Apple Box

The Apple Box contains:

Apple with worm puppet
Apple Labels
Apple picking bag
Guy Finley and the Lifeline to the Valley: The Yakima-Tieton Irrigation Project - A video completed for History Day 1989 by Stephanie Stephen, Rebekah Fish, Andrea Christenson, and Joel Lambertson.
Apple tray and packing pad

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