ill give you the step by step, by the way I love these when I haev to use something homemade: 1)pull the stem off 2)take a pen and make a hole from the top where the stem was about half way down the apple 3) use the pen and make a hole from the side of the apple connecting to the hole from the top 4)clean out both of the holes on the top and bottom 5)(if you want to) take the pen you used and take it apart so u just have the hollow case and attach it to the side of the apple and use that to breathe through 6)put your grass in the top where the stem was, it makes a perfect bowl its cool 7)light up