Jelly Bean Theme/Unit - Printables, Lessons, Ideas & More

Jelly Bean Fun

Create a "Jelly Belly Line" on the table. Students measure the line. Then state a certain number of jelly beans to pull out of the line for the students to eat. Now have the students measure again!

Do YOU know how many jelly beans it takes, end to end, to create a yard of jelly beans?

Write all About It!
I WOULD MAKE A JELLY BEAN THAT TASTES LIKE........
MY FAVORITE JELLY BEAN FLAVOR IS.....
IF IT RAINED JELLY BEANS.....

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What about doing a probability lesson? Take a small brown lunch bag and put 7 jelly beans in it. Use only 2 colors of jellybeans. After drawing a jellybean 10 times, (they put the one they drew back each time), have them predict how many of each color is in the bag. You can do it with one bag and the whole class first and then have them work in partners after that. - dkandtm@aol.com

Click here for A Jellybean Sort PDF - Here is a jellybean sorting sheet I created to help sort jellybeans for graphing by color. By Kimberly @ luv2tch@gmail.com

Also by Kimberly... A Jelly Bean Graphing Sheet. Click here to download.

Some Ideas From Our CDROM # 3
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Look at how much fun your student can have learning with Jelly Beans.
Grab some jelly beans and these activities and watch you kids love learning!

1.) Jelly Bean Adding - student activity - (1-2)

2.) Jelly Bean Frations - student uses jelly beans to answer questions (2-3)
Click above to use and print!!!

3.) Jelly Bean Graph - student graphs jelly beans by color (k-3)

4.)Jelly Bean Sort - student sorts jelly beans by color (k-3)

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My Favorite Jelly Bean Poems

Jelly Bean Countdown
(Use real jelly beans 5 colors)
5 little jelly beans I wish I had more! I'll eat the (color) one
Now there are four!
4 little jelly beans Tasty as can be I'll eat the (color) one
Now there are 3!
3 little jelly beans Only a few. I'll eat the (color) one
Now there are 2.
2 little jelly beans Eating them is fun I'll eat the (color) one
Now there is one.
1 little jelly bean The last one for me I'll eat the (color) one
I'm as happy as can be!

Jelly Beans

"I like white ones."
"Here are two."
"I like black."
"But there are so few."
"I want pink ones."
"Two for you."
"I like orange."
"WHAT shall we do-
there isn't an orange,
I've looked them through."

"Awwww."

"Wait! here's a red,
and a yellow too-
THAT'LL make orange
when you get through."

Aileen Fisher

Jelly Bean Countdown

(Use real jelly beans 5 colors)

5 little jelly beans I wish I had more! I'll eat the (color) one
Now there are four!
4 little jelly beans Tasty as can be I'll eat the (color) one
Now there are 3!
3 little jelly beans Only a few. I'll eat the (color) one
Now there are 2.
2 little jelly beans Eating them is fun I'll eat the (color) one
Now there is one.
1 little jelly bean The last one for me I'll eat the (color) one
I'm as happy as can be!

In a bag of jelly beans you have many different jelly beans.

Each jelly bean has something special which makes
it different from the others.
A bag of jelly beans wouldn't be
attractive if they were identical.
You don't know exactly
what a jelly bean is like unless you taste it and see.

Jelly beans are just like people--
you've got to get to know them.
Each person brings something special and worthwile
to the group, but it is
not always evident on the outside.
Thanks for being such a wonderful jelly bean!

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