Visit urbanext.illinois.edu for more fun facts about apples.

For an easy way to make your house smell deliciously fall-like, try making homemade applesauce. We just use apples, sugar, and water in our applesauce. It can sit on the stove for a couple of hours, or in a crock-pot all day (and it’s delicious warm!).

What’s your favorite apple craft or recipe?

- Davonne Parks

Let’s thank God that now, 94 years later, we don’t have to fight for our voices to be heard, and let’s strive to use that privilege to glorify Him.

What privilege are you the most thankful to have?

- Davonne Parks

And the largest pumpkin pie weighed 2,020 pounds, and had to be baked in a custom-made oven for five hours. (Go here for more details.)

For fun ideas on how to use a pumpkin (including turning it into a vase!), read this article.

What is your favorite pumpkin craft or recipe?

- Davonne Parks

For more facts about leaves, visit ncnatural.com.

Craft idea: take a nature hike with your kids and gather a few different shaped leaves, then use paper and crayons to make leaf rubbings using these instructions. You can even find 8×10 frames from the dollar store to frame the finished product! (We have three that sit on our mantle every fall.)

What fun activities have you done with leaves?

- Davonne Parks

Air popped popcorn only has 31 calories per cup and is a member of the grass family. Most U.S. popcorn is grown in the Midwest, including kernels that can pop up to three feet high!

Go here to read more fun facts about popcorn. Activities about popcorn, including coloring sheets and worksheets, can be found here.

If you’d like to try to make popcorn (other than the store-bought, microwave type), browse some of these recipes. I personally love traditional popcorn balls and old fashioned popcorn!

What’s your favorite way to make popcorn?

- Davonne Parks

If you could visit any museum in the world, which would it be and why?

- Davonne Parks

Play-Doh started out at one color (off-white) in a 1.5-pound can. By 1983, there were eight colors, and in 2006, Play-Doh’s 50th anniversary was celebrated with 50 different colors of Play-Doh!

If your play-doh starts to dry out, there’s hope in reviving it! Just wrap it in a damp paper towel and return it to its container overnight. Or, you can knead water, one drop at a time, into the play-doh until it returns to its original state.

For more fun facts about Play-Doh, visit hasbro.com/playdoh.

Go here to browse play-doh recipes you can make at home. You can also look through this page for ideas on making your own play-doh creations (I love the cupcake!).

What’s your favorite thing about play-doh?

- Davonne Parks

For more information, visit infoplease.com, wikipedia.org, or answers.yahoo.com.

Go here for free Bible-based printable school worksheets.

What is your favorite back-to-school activity or tradition?

- Davonne Parks

Visit americaslibrary.gov for more details.

Craft idea: Ask your children what they want to be when they grow up, then google for “(insert occupation name here) coloring sheet” and print it for them to color, or simply allow them to draw their desired occupation. Tell them what you wanted to be when you grew up, and talk about different jobs people do to provide for their families. Make sure to hang up their art when they’re finished!

How does your family celebrate Labor Day?

- Davonne Parks

We hope that you don’t just read the posts, though. We’re going to include a question at the end of each fact, and we’d love for you be involved in our Fun Fact Fridays by leaving a comment or linking to a post you’ve written that answers the question. Hopefully we’ll all learn several interesting facts, and gather many activity ideas to share with our families.

Check back soon for our first ever Fun Fact Friday!

- Davonne Parks