Today's question is a science question: if we put an apple in water, will it sink to the bottom or float on top? Most kids guess it will sink, because apples feel heavy. Then it floats, and they want to try everything in the kitchen.

Once you make applesauce at home, the jar from the store just isn't the same. It's also one of the best first cooking projects for little kids: they wash, they add, they stir and they mash. You handle the knife and the stove.

Two sisters watch the apple tree in their yard change with the seasons. In winter it's bare. In spring, leaves and blossoms come out, and a pair of robins builds a nest in its branches. The sisters watch the tree and the robins change together through summer. By fall, the apples are ready to pick, a

An apple makes a perfect paint stamp, and it comes with a surprise inside. Today your little one dips apple halves in paint and prints them onto paper. Cut one apple the "wrong" way, and a star appears.