Happy Jelly Bean Day! Making jelly beans is much more involved than I realized. Jelly beans were first made popular during the Civil War and were the first candies to be sold by the pound.
I think your student will find this video very interesting.
Here are some fun things for school that you can do when working with jelly beans.
- Create a graph to determine what is everyone’s favorite traditional flavor.
- Guess how many jelly beans are in a pound. (400)
- Write a story that begins with the following: If I were a jelly bean, I would..
- There is a fun science experiment to do with the picture shown below. Click HERE to go to the website. A science lab sheet is included as well.
Have a great week! ~Lisa~