Peanut Butter Candy

FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES:

VOCABULARY

• peanut
• butter
• candy

MATH

• Peanut Counting
• Spin a spinner with number sections labeled 1 - 5
• Count out the number of peanuts that shows up on the spinner
• Continue play
• Count the total

SCIENCE

• Observe A Peanut
• Discuss parts:
• Hull/Shell
• Seed Coat (brown, papery skin)
• Kernel/Seed (usually 2 inside)
• Embryo (if you split the seed in half, you can observe a small plant)

• Pine Cone Peanut Butter Bird Feeder
• Roll pine cone in peanut butter
• Hang outside

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Have your child create a peanut person (see ART below)
• Have your child tell you a story about their peanut person
• You can give them situations:
• "Your peanut person and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich"
• "Your peanut person meets an elephant"

• Phonics:
• Alliteration - have your child fill-in the blanks:
• "Peanut person picks pink ______"
• "Peanut person polishes _____"
• "Peanut person pushes _____"
• "Peanut person practices _____"

• After creating the peanut butter candy, you can sing this song with your child:
  "A peanut sat on a railroad track"
  "His heart was all a flutter"
  "Along came the railroad train"
  "Choo, choo...peanut butter"

ART

• Peanut Butter People
• Have your child create peanut people
• Use markers to draw on a peanut
• Attach googly eyes, yarn, etc.