Halloween Warm-Up

I don't know where the notion came from -- perhaps it was the book Clifford's First Halloween, one can never be sure of these things -- but our kids got a bee in their collective bonnet about bobbing for apples. The day they first asked if they could do it, we were unfortunately out of apples. Because they asked so persistently (read: I wanted to make them STOP), I decided to let them try the cherries and blueberries I had in the fridge instead. The bad news: those fruits don't float, leading to a couple of near-drownings.

When next we got to the store, they helpfully reminded me to buy apples and asked me to get out the "bobbing bowl" before we were even out of the car. Because the specimens we had chosen were so huge, I cut them in half to ease the process. It was still pretty impossible for them, but nonetheless, they had a good time.