Now that the egg hunt is over and you have oodles of jelly beans, what do you do with all those colorful candies? Whether you’re looking to add a touch of sweetness to your math or science activities or simply love jelly beans, these activities are perfect for you. After all, who can resist a candy with a sugary shell and a squishy jelly center?
These activities are adaptable for any age. For younger kids, simplify by using a smaller variety of 5-7 flavors and a handful of beans. You can even remove the black and white ones and stick with the rainbow colors. For a real challenge, dive into the big Jelly Belly 4-pound, 49-flavor mix!
How many math or science activities can you think of with jelly beans?
- Estimating: Guess the total number in a jar or which color is most common. Make your predictions—any guesses on which color or flavor will dominate?
- Sorting Colors: Organize the beans by color.
- Counting: Practice basic math skills.
- Adding & Subtracting: Use jelly beans for simple equations.
- Patterning: Create color patterns like ABAB, ABBABB, or ABCABC. Can someone else repeat your pattern?
- Art: Get creative with design patterns. Start with geometric shapes, then try making a flower, a chick, or anything else your imagination conjures.
- Graphing & Statistics: Organize your data to visualize results. Did anything surprise you?
- Probability: What’s the chance of picking a specific color or flavor? Rate scenarios as impossible, unlikely, even chance, likely, or certain. Start simple and gradually increase complexity.
- Taste Testing: Conduct a blind taste test (Jelly Belly beans work best for this) to see how well your taste buds can distinguish between flavors like juicy pear vs pineapple. For a real challenge can you identify sour cherry vs very cherry just by taste?
- Color Experimentation: Dissolve different colors next to each other and observe how they blend.
- Baking: Incorporate jelly beans into treats like rice crispy nests with jelly bean eggs or as cupcake toppers. What other delicious creations can you invent?
With the extensive Jelly Belly brand flavor and color range, there’s even more to explore:
- Sorting & Categorizing: Some flavors look similar. Can you distinguish between tangerine and cantaloupe? I always disliked getting a cantaloupe by mistake! What about very cherry, red apple, and cinnamon? We found them hard to tell apart based on color, so they ended up grouped together.
- Taste Survey: Our family’s most and least loved flavor is buttered popcorn. Half of us love it, while the other half can’t stand it. We are a house divided when it comes to the buttered popcorn flavor! Here are just a few of our family participant preferences:
- Wondering: What’s the difference between berry blue and blueberry? Or sizzling cinnamon and regular cinnamon? Taste and evaluate . . .
Have a jelly good time as a family with unlimited serious and silly ideas to make the most of your jelly beans while they are plentiful! We’d love to hear what clever or goofy ideas you come up with using jelly beans to learn and play together as a family. Drop us a comment.
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