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Thursday, September 5, 2013

All 'descendants' of Johnny Appleseed

This is Miss Isabel Million of Knoxville, Tenn., April 15, 1917, who invented the dolls with the dried apple faces. She carves the face in an apple which is then dried and preserved by a secret process, so that all the lines of the human face become as real as they are on her models.

Left, Harve Hawkins and his old woman, Sairy Ann. He's the county's best known 'tater and melon fancier, and his income is pieced by Sairy Ann's quilting efficiency. Middle, Tobe Lemmons, of Smoky Cove, is "just po' white trash, with a misery in his chist which prevents him from making an honest living--just strong enough to peddle licker. Right, Old Poke Crouch of Greasy Cove, and his woman Cordie. They spend their time raising hawgs and orphans. Poke's official calling is that of a shoemaker, while Cordie is rated the *demon matchmaker of the the township.

Left, Rhody Guinn, who makes rag carpets, lye soap and gathers *"yarbs" for a living. She is saving up to buy *"store teeth." Middle, Laviney Rupe of Turkey Egg Cove. Note, please, her crafty expression--acquired from being ceaselessly on the lookout for revenue officers. Viney's old man is a * moonshiner. Right, Miss Susie Adams, the village seamstress, caught on her way to the First Presbyterian Church. She hasn't missed a Sunday, nor a funeral, in forty years.

Where the apple-doll models live. These cabin quarters on the right form the domicile of the real Harve Hawkins, whose daughter and granddaughter are seen in the midst of their week's wash. Photos and comments New York Tribune

* A "yarb" apparently was some variety of plant collected to make "home remedy" for cures. (medicinal purposes)
* A demon matchmaker forcasted love by witchcraft?
* Store teeth is a reference to dentures.
* A Moonshiner is a reference to one who makes Moonshine, white lightning, mountain dew, hooch, and Tennessee white whiskey are terms used to describe high-proof distilled spirits, generally produced illicitly. The word "moonshine" is believed to derive from the term "moonrakers" used for early English smugglers and the clandestine (i.e., by the light of the moon) nature of the operations of illegal Appalachian distillers who produced and distributed whiskey. Read more...

Read More About Miss Isabel Million of Knoxville, Tenn.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Links to More Than 100 Apple Crafts!

A worm, crafted from a paper chain, wiggles his way down the face of a vividly colored paper apple. With the
combination of several ordinary tools plus materials found at any grocery or drug store, your child can craft
fun and easy apple projects for fall displays and school assignments.

Above is one of many paper apple crafts posted at Thrifty Scissors. Here I have combined several craft methods used by early learning teachers to develop the small motor skills of their young students. You will need the following supplies to make the apple craft shown above.

a large white paper plate
green, red, black and pink markers
a pale or lime green paper
goggle eyes
pinking shears
regular scissors also
brown and green construction paper
white glue

Directions for the paper chain worm:

Students may cut strips of paper using the pinking shears. This will give their worms a ruffled look. The number of strips will determine the length of their worms. Of course, the more links they add to the worm, the more practice students get at manipulating paper. I made the above worm from small half inch wide strips and looped these together into a very tight chain fold because I liked the look. If your classroom glue is not very tacky, teachers may wish to ofter students transparent tape to hold the loops together.
Students must loop and paste each link into the previous link in order to craft a continuous linked chain.
When they have completed their worms to the desired length, instruct them to cut out a small round head for each worm and glue on the goggle eyes.
Draw smiles on the worm faces and then paste the paper heads to the last link on each chain.

Directions for crafting the paper apple:

I suggest cutting apple shapes from a large white paper plates for this particular paper project. I could have used a red paper plates but this would have eliminated the coloring practice that my students needed. Some of you who are working with very young children may opt for this strategy.
Suggest the coloring of the white paper plate either red, green or yellow. Depending upon the personal preferences of each student.
Then give each student brown and green scraps of construction paper to cut leaves and a stem for their paper apples. Attach these with school glue.
Attach the paper chain worm with glue as well.

Cutting, pasting, folding, coloring, and even twisting paper are the most popular and inexpensive practices included in this helpful listing for educators. Apple crafts and activities in during the Autumn months are quite common in classrooms all across the United States.

Crafting paper apples:

Crafting ceramic, clay and plastic apples:

Sewing/Knitting apple crafts:

Decorating with both fresh and dried apples :

Apple games, worksheets and activities:

Sweet Apple Treats:

An Apple for The Teacher:

Purchase unusual apple items:

The Apple in Literature:

Apple Facts:

Apples: History & Nutrition

Apple Themed Activities and Crafts for Early Learning Centers from pre-k teachers

Monday, September 2, 2013

Craft an Apple Lacing Card from A Paper Plate

Lacing cards needn't be expensive; just make your own from durable paper plates!

This apple themed lacing card is so easy to craft. The only supplies you will need: a durable paper plate, makers, some twine and a hole punch. Draw your apple outline onto the front side of your paper plate. Then punch holes around the apple and number each hole so that your child may use the activity as a counting exercise as well. Then color the apple bright red and the stem brown and the leaves a vivid green. Add a piece of twine that is long enough to string all of the way around the paper plate's circumference. I knotted a small plastic bead to one end of my twine and strung it through the first hole (1.) Then I taped the twine firmly in place with a transparent tape so that it would be held in the proper position for stringing.

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String a Wormy Apple Craft

String a wormy apple.

This little wormy apple is made with just a few simple materials you can purchase from a local grocery store. Here is a supply list:

small, durable paper bowls
red tissue paper
green and brown construction paper
a black marker
a shoe string (preferably white)
white glue
tape
scissors
one box of Kellogg's Froot Loops

Step-by-Step Directions:

With the pointed end of your scissors, punch a whole in the bottom of the paper bowl that is just big enough to push the end of your shoe string through to the backside of the bowl. Tape this end firmly to the back side so that your shoe string is permanently attached to the bowl.
Draw and color in a few tiny apple seeds on the inside bottom of your bowl. This will represent the core of your apple.
Now the bowl is ready for a small student to decorate with tissue and construction paper. At this point you could have your student(s) paint the bowl instead. I have chosen to use a layered torn paper method for the project in order to avoid the accidental consumption of paint. However there are many non-toxic and even edible paints on the market today that teachers could use alternatively for the craft project here without worry. The bowl is not intended for liquids to be poured into it; but the cereal worm might get a little paint on it before your student(s) ingest that part of their craft.
Layer red tissue with white school glue just around the edge of the bowl approximately one inch down the sides in order to suggest a bright red apple.
Then cut and paste a simple stem and two leaves to the top half of your apple bowl to further suggest the apple's realistic appearance.
Now empty the Kellogg's Froot Loops into a large bowl and place it in the center of your cleaned work table. Make sure the bowls have dried over night and that your students have very clean hands while they string their cereal worms.
Be prepared for much of the cereal to disappear into little hungry mouths! Knot the end of their worms and send the craft home.

On the far left, you can see how the shoe string looks when it has been poked through the backside of the paper bowl.
Center is a picture of the paper apple bowl before a student has strung their cereal worm. On the far right, is a picture
of the shoe string as it looks unraveled and ready for stringing.

Stringing small objects like Froot Loops or Cherrios can help
develop your child's small motor skills.

Because this craft activity is edible, teachers may wish to string
cereal worms during snack time at their preschool or kindergarten.

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

"Oats and Wild Apples," by Frank Asch

"Oats and Wild Apples," by Frank Asch is a charming little book about the afternoon adventures of a young calf and fawn. These two wander deep into the woods to eat wild apples and then calf introduces fawn to his barn and oats. Fawn and mother deer, calf and mother cow are finally reunited at the end of the day with great relief and affection.

Frank Asch (born August 6, 1946 in Somerville, New Jersey) is an American children's writer, best known for his Moonbear picture books. In 1968, Asch published his first picture book, George's Store. The following year he graduated from Cooper Union with a BFA. Since then he has taught at a public school in India, as well as at a Montessori school in the United States, conducted numerous creative workshops for children. He has written over 60 books, including Turtle Tale, Mooncake, I Can Blink and Happy Birthday Moon. In 1989 he wrote Here Comes the Cat! in collaboration with Vladimir Vagin. The book was awarded the Russian National Book Award and was considered the first Russian-American collaboration on a children's book.

Teachers and young students may visit his website
Fawn calling for it's mother (video)
Calf calling for it's mother (video)

"Ten Red Apples," by Pat Hutchins

"Ten Red Apples," by Pat Hutchins is a delightful little counting book. Every time one of the farmers animal friends visits the apple orchard, there are fewer apples to eat! Young students will love the playful little illustrations that Hutchins uses to illustrate the basic concept of subtraction. She also uses classic onomatopoeia that little folks are always entertained by.
Pat Hutchins (born 18 June 1942) is an English illustrator and writer of children's books. She won the 1974 Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognizing the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. The work was The Wind Blew, a picture book in rhyme which she also wrote. It shows how "a crowd of people anxiously chase their belongings" in the wind.

Hutchins is married to illustrator Laurence Hutchins, with two children. She has written books for early readers that he has illustrated.She was born 18 June 1942 in Yorkshire, the sixth of seven children.She won a scholarship to Darlington School of Art in 1958 and continued studying illustration at Leeds College of Art in 1960, graduating 1962. She worked for advertising agency in London to 1966 when she married Laurence Hutchins and moved to New York City for two years. There she worked on writing and illustrating her first picture book, Rosie's Walk, published in 1968 by The Bodley Head and Macmillan US. In the U.S. it was a runner up for the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and the librarians named it a 1968 ALA Notable Book. It remains her work most widely catalogued by WorldCat participating libraries. Pat Hutchins has written novels for early readers, some illustrated by husband Laurence, and more than two dozen picture books. Beside winning the 1974 Greenaway Medal, she was a commended runner up for One-Eyed Jack (1979), another book she wrote and illustrated.She also played the role of an artistic narrowboat owner in the British children's television series, Rosie and Jim. She was a presenter on the series and subsequently illustrated books for the franchise.

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Johnny Appleseed Praise and Worship

"Learn it. Live it. At least when you're walkin' the orchard!"

This song, sung by Dennis Day, was part of the short 1948 Disney classic,"Johnny Appleseed"; A retelling of the story of John Chapman, who spent his life roaming America and planting apple trees, thus earning his nickname. Then entire movie can be found on Youtube under "Johnny Appleseed Song".

Lyrics:

The Lord is good to me

and so I thank the Lord,

for givin' me the things I need,

the sun and rain and an appleseed,

Yes, He's been good to me.

I owe the Lord so much,

for everything I see,

I'm certain if it weren't for Him

there'd be no apples on this limb.

He's been good to me.

Oh, here am I 'neath the blue, blue sky,

A-doin' as I please!

Singin' with my feathered friends,

Hummin' with the bees.

I wake up every day,

As happy as can be

Because I know that with His care

My apple trees, they will still be there.

Oh the Lord is been good to me.

(Another verse I found online, but not in the Disney movie)

Every seed I sow will grow into a tree

and soon there'll be apples there

for everyone in the world to share.

The Lord is good to me.

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Who was Johnny Appleseed?

The Legend of Johnny Appleseed

Johnny Appleseed Plants Apple Seed.

Jonathan Chapman, known and loved in the wilderness as Johnny Appleseed and Appleseed Johnny, was born in the same year as the battle of Lexington, the capture of Ticonderoga, the appointment of Washington as commander-in-chief, the battle of Bunker Hill and the siege of Quebec. That a stork flew through the powder clouds and battle smoke to Boston, and the little baby boy was born, was nothing short of a miracle. He opened his infant eyes in those stirring times, and no doubt stared in wonder at the excited men he saw about him bent on killing each other. It may be that the bloody scenes of his boyhood made a lasting impression, or it may be that in later years thoughtful study of the writings of that great teacher, Emanuel Swedenborg, exerted a powerful influence upon him, or it may be that this pure-minded, forgotten hero was sent by heaven to teach the doctrine of peace; but whatever the cause, the fact remains that in the wilderness of the Ohio valley, where even the Quakers were fighters, the only disciple of peace was Jonathan Chapman of Boston. My own grandparents were among the pioneers of the Ohio valley, and many an evening have I sat by my grandmother’s knee watching her busy knitting needles and listening to the adventures of this great man, who not only planted every open glade of the wild forest with apple trees, but also planted the seeds of his new faith in the minds of the settlers.

With the courage equal to that of the great Daniel Boone or the famous Simon Kenton, Appleseed Johnny traversed the dark forests alone; but, unlike the other men, he went unarmed; think of that, boys, there was courage for you in days when the woods were full of natives and wild animals. Once he crawled into a hollow log for shelter, but finding it already occupied by two cub bears, rather than disturb the little animals, he crept out again and made his bed in the leaves beside the log. He was never known to purposely kill a living creature, and he himself subsisted on corn mush or porridge. The forests were infested with distrusting inhabitants but there was always a welcome for Johnny at their wigwam and village. The river banks were the resorts of desperate river pirates who lived by robbing flatboats and immigrants, but every robber’s den had a cozy corner for Johnny. The backwoodsmen’s cabins were small, one-roomed log buildings filled with children, but they were never so crowded that a hearty welcome and a place by the fireside were not ready for Appleseed Johnny, and a cot or buffalo robe ready for him when he chose to sleep under their roofs.

Appleseed Johnny was a highly educated and cultured gentleman, but he dressed in coffee sacking and a pasteboard cap. He did this not to be queer, but because when he had any clothes that were fit to wear, he gave them to some poor immigrant. Often he had shoes, but just as often he took them from his feet and gave them to some shoeless pioneer settler whom he met on the trail. It was clear that Johnny had money, because he always had a bunch of new ribbons for the little tow-headed girls who ran out to meet him from the log cabins in the dark forests.

Coming to a log house he would enter, throw himself on the floor by the fire, and pulling out some fragments of the works of his great religious teacher, would exclaim, “Listen to the last message from God!” and robber and honest settler alike listened to the pioneer teacher.

From the cider press in Pennsylvania or at Fort Pitt, where Pittsburg now stands, he secured bags of apple seed, with witch he loaded his dugout canoe, and with this strange cargo he paddled his lonely way down the Ohio, planting orchards wherever an opportunity offered, ministering to the sick, giving to the needy and living his life only for the good he could do.

The natives looked upon him with awe, because when his bare feet would be cut and torn with the brush and frozen mud, he would calmly seat himself by their campfire, heat an iron white hot and burn out the cuts and wounds, which then readily healed.

Quaint and weird as this young man of twenty-six must have appeared, in his ragged garments, bare feet and pasteboard cap, on one, not even the small boys, ever laughed or jeered at him; but he was universally treated with respect by bandit, native, ignorant squatter and refined, cultured officers of the revolutionary army who settled in the wilderness. He lived to be an old, old man, beloved by young and old, and passed over the great divide telling about the glory he saw beyond. Original text by Dan Beard (1907), edited by Grimm

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"The Appleseed Walk" an homage to the legacy of Johnny Appleseed
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Searching for Johnny Official movie site
"Johnny Appleseed Trail in North Central MA"
Donald Greyfield (Jan 01, 2001). "John 'Johnny Appleseed' Chapman". Folk Hero and Patriot. Find a Grave. Retrieved Aug 18, 2011.
The Swedenborgian Church of North America

Saturday, August 24, 2013

The "Act" of Tearing Develops Small Muscles

Sometimes the simplest of activities can be challenging for a young student. It took quite a while for this little one to tear her red construction paper into pieces in order to fill in an outline of an apple. She was so proud of her picture afterwards. The muscles in her hands are still developing but training such as this distracted her from the arduous nature of the task. Because art doesn't feel like work to the young, teacher's often use it to enhance child development.

The simple act of tearing construction paper may present a real challenge.

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Monday, April 29, 2013

Around The Apple Tub

No Halloween party is complete without the large tub filled with cold water, its surface crowded with the reddest of rosy checked apples. Some one should be selected as manager of the sports, as guests, in their excitement, need to be regulated and controlled, or they may tumble headlong into the tub!

A line should be formed, and each should kneel in turn and bob or duck their heads down into the water, trying to secure an apple with the teeth. Frequently the persisting apple has to be pursued to the very bottom of the tub, but this makes the game all the more exciting, although the clothes are apt to get utterly soaked.

To prevent this, the wise hostess will lay in a stock of water-proof bibs for the girls, while the men should remove collars, ties and coats.

Even horses love to bob for apples!

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