A bag of jelly beans is about a dollar. This is an easy activity to do at the kitchen table. Give your child some jelly beans and sort the jelly beans by color. Your child can put the jelly beans in piles or line them up like a bar graph. Use words like greatest, most, least, fewest and equal. Count the jelly beans.
We also create patterns with the jelly beans. We work on the AB, AAB, ABB and ABC pattern but you can get really creative with your child. The jelly beans make fun colorful patterns. One of the children created a pink, white, black pattern with the jelly beans that was really pretty. Have fun with it!
See if your child can count out ten jelly beans. Challenge them to count out twelve or twenty.
We still have a lot of wet rainy weather ahead so this would provide some yummy indoor fun!
