Jelly Bean Addition

Who doesn’t love Easter treats? Jelly beans are one of my weaknesses, so that’s probably what inspired this activity.  Jelly Bean Addition is fun for hitting multiple skills and sweetening up the day! Printable jelly beans graphics are also included if giving children candy isn’t your thing. Here are a few skills that this free activity focuses on:

• Sorting objects by color
• Reading color words
• Counting and naming a quantity
• Number writing
• Addition

 Jelly Bean Addition Directions:

1. Print the Jelly Bean Addition activity. Instantly download it HERE. Prepare the jelly beans. You can use either real jelly beans (just be sure the bag contains purple, green, yellow and pink jelly beans) or print the provided jelly bean cards. If you are using real jelly beans, give each child completing the activity an appropriate number of jelly beans. I would say no more than 10 of each color.You could even give them zero of one color to practice addition with a zero. 
2. Students will sort the jelly beans or cards by color.
3. Students will color the jelly beans on the printable page by reading the color above them. 
4. Students will write the corresponding number next to each jelly bean and to create the addition problem. This is a great time to focus on numeral writing. 
5. Students will solve the addition problem!

I hope your littles ones have fun learning with this activity! It could easily be used at any time during the year, not just Easter! I’ll happily enjoy eating jelly beans any time!  Looking for more spring learning activities? Check out my other posts Easter Egg Graph and CVC Word Egg Hunt.   Have fun learning with your students!