Easter Tradition: Magic Jelly Beans

Planting magic jelly beans which magically grow into lollipops is a fun Easter tradition we started years ago. My kids, nieces and nephews have always gotten so excited over them. Try it and I can almost guarantee your kids, well maybe just the younger ones, will be giddy over the magical transformation.

Magic Jelly Beans

Start with the jelly beans. You can go as simple or as elaborate as you want with these. I just used plain jelly beans that I picked up at the grocery store. To add even more magic, you can use pretty speckled jelly beans.

Packaging:

Again, you can go as simple or elaborate as you want. You can put your magic jelly beans in a Ziplock bag, a small box or inside an Easter egg marked Magic Jelly Beans. You can get super creative, if you have the time and that’s your jam, and make the bag or tag really cute. I’m adding glitter to the bag this year but don’t always.

You can add directions or just tell the kids what to do with them. I created a free printable of directions you can include with your magic jelly beans at the bottom of this page. You can print it or copy the wording to make your own.

Once they receive these magical beans, they’ll want to ”plant” them. If it’s still cold around Easter where you live and ants and bugs have not begun crawling, you can simply just have them put them on the grass or in a flower bed (if you don’t use pesticides). You can also put them on top of the soil of a flower pot, in a houseplant, wherever! Then when the kids aren’t looking, replace the magic jellybeans with lollipops. Wa la! Magic!

Magic Lollipop Flowers

The lollipops: Again, you can go simple here with just the lollipops themselves, whatever you find at the grocery store, which I’ve totally done with equal excitement from my kids. You can purchase special shaped lollipops like these Peeps pops, these Easter Egg lollipops, these rainbow swirl lollipops, these Easter shaped lollipops, or these sunflower lollipops.

Paper Flowers

Another option to take these magic lollipops up a notch is you can put them inside of paper flowers made using construction paper, tissue paper, cupcake liners, whatever you have on hand.

If you use cupcake liners like pictured, 3 liners per flower is a good amount.

Take a stack of 3 liners, cut slits along the side edge of the cups every half inch or so and then cut one of the slits all the way into the center of the bottom of the cup.

Place the lollipop stick through the center of the slit of the first cup then wrap it around and secure with tape or glue or glue dots. Continue the same process with the other two cups. You can add leaves or not. No need to go for perfection here, kids will be impressed either way!

Even easier than wrapping regular cupcake liners, you could snag these flower cupcake liners from Amazon and quickly put the lollipop through the middle.

Magic Jelly Bean Free Printable:

I hope your kids love this magic jelly bean Easter tradition as much as mine do! Have a magical Easter!

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