I also usually made Friday Craft Day. The craft might be an art project, or it might include baking something creative together. I remember making popcorn balls one Friday in the fall. Here are a few other suggestions of things you could do:

• Paint with an apple – Cut an apple in half, paint it with red acrylic paint, then blot it once on a paper towel. Then stamp the apple on a note card. A stack of cards like this would make great Christmas gifts for Grandma! After the red or green paint dries, the child can go back and use a marker to add the apple seeds to the middle of the apple print.
• Make microwave caramel popcorn
• Make Caramel apples – The caramel wraps make this a cinch if you don’t want to melt the candies down. If you do melt caramel, provide toppings for the apples – nuts or crushed M&M’s.
• Make paper Jack O’ Lanterns – Cut two matching pumpkins out of orange construction paper. Cut out the face of the Jack O’ Lantern (both at the same time), then put red tissue paper, cut the same size as the pumpkin, between the two pumpkins and glue in place. Hang the Jack O’ Lantern in the window – it will look like the pumpkin is lit up.
• Make Apple Napkin Rings
• Make Leaf Print Placemats
• Make Apple Sauce Muffins
• Go outside and collect fall leaves – iron them between sheets of waxed paper to keep them supple,then hang them on the window or refrigerator.
• Make After-School Apple Cake

Adults need a change in routine – children need it even more! Why not make today a Fun Friday?

Tell me and the other home schooling moms who will read this what you do to keep the school week from getting in a rut.