Recipe: Apple Sausage Stuffing Bites

I saved this Weelicious recipe in a text document a year and a half ago and finally made it! I made a few changes - so I figured I'd share my version of this yummy kid-friendly meal here.

Ingredients
4 cups of cubed day-old sourdough bread
1 cup cooked sausage with sage
1 chopped medium apple
1 cup chopped red onion
1 cup water (I'll probably use chicken stock next time though)
2 beaten eggs
1 tsp olive oil
Spices to taste (thyme, salt, etc.)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Heat oil in a frying pan. Add the sausage, apple, red onion and spices. Heat about 5 minutes until everything is hot and the apple and onion is getting soft.
3. In a large bowl, mix sausage mixture, bread, water, and eggs.
4. Spoon the mixture into a greased muffin tin (we got 14 out of our mix).
5. Bake for 45 minutes.
6. Enjoy!

A Glittery Pumpkin

Activity completed October 13, 2015.

We did a very simple painting activity today. I cut out the shape of a pumpkin on cardstock and we painted with glitter and black paints. We had fun watching the glitter show up, and when we added some black paint to the purple glitter paint, we got black glitter paint! So pretty and a wonderful addition to the "punkin wall."

I also helped Tripp write his name and the year on the bottom of the pumpkin. He held the pen and I put my hand around his so he could feel the shapes of the letters as we wrote together. When his daddy asked what his favorite part of the picture was, he pointed to his name.

 

Silly Little Pumpkins (Sensory Fun)

October Activity

One of my favorite things about fall is the silly pumpkins at the store - not the huge round orange ones, although I like those too, but the misshapen, striped, bumpy, warty pumpkins.

Last year I bought a few of these funny pumpkins for Tripp to check out. He was just over a year old. He had a lot of fun looking at them, feeling the bumps and ridges, and rolling them around. Since it was so fun, I did it again this year. This will probably be a yearly thing and maybe next year he'll want to pick his own silly pumpkins out at the grocery store.

There's so much to talk about with pumpkins: size, shape, color, texture, etc.

Just for fun, here's a comparison of last year and this year...

Pumpkin Sticker Fun

Activity completed October 6, 2015

This was another simple activity, but a fun one that occupied Tripp for quite awhile. I cut out a jack o'lantern from construction paper and set out stickers for Tripp to decorate it with.

He surprised me by wanting to group all of the stickers of the same type together. He decided to do this entirely on his own as he'd peel off a sticker, place it and look for "more more" on the sticker sheet. After awhile, he started defining each sticker as baby, mommy, and sometimes daddy. He also learned some Halloween vocabulary: witch, pumpkin, and bat.