At the back of our house we have half an acre of grass and trees

Some Magnolia tree that everyone tells me is rare and amazing

And lots and lots of apple trees

Daddy is going to use the apples to make cider and apple juice

Cider mostly

We are going to use the apples for arts and crafts and play.

I have been busy collating ideas over on Pinterest.

Here is my Apple Board so far.

A few weeks ago when our apples were still small and first started falling from the trees

I decided to do some printing with them.

Esther and William collected some fallen apples in their little wheelbarrows. I got some poster paints and some old cardboard boxes to print on to.

I put splodges of paint on to the card and we carefully cut the apples in half, revealing the stars inside.

Esther and William got stuck in straight away. Dabbing and printing with apples.

I got some paper to make pictures that we might put up on the playroom wall. The printing was starting to look really promising and we talked about making caterpillars with our prints.

After not even five minutes of printing on paper, Esther and William decided it was far better fun to print on each other!

I was quite impressed with how carefully they painted each other and the results were really quite stunning, to start with!

In the end though they were both just covered in apple juice and paint.

But they had the most wonderful time

All finished off with a rinse in the ball filled paddling pool.

A magical messy apple filled day.