The Jelly Bean Story
Introducing Coach Pickles and the Jelly Bean Sports Team
Excerpts from the Childern's Story Written by Brad Kayden
eople say he is crazy. He wears polka dots on the toes of his shoes. He wears polka dots on the toes of his shoes. Red-treaded soles, green uppers that glow, his sneakers have a feature that everybody knows. They come with polka dots, polka dots on the toes of his shoes. He wears polka dots on the toes of his shoes!
And so the legend began four jelly beans and one curly-haired man. After they named him, he became high in demand. Coach Pickles he became, a name jelly beans brought to fame continually returning to him to learn sports, fun and games.
By now you may be wondering, who are these four colorful treats that come with hard candy coatings and jelly centers so sweet. Fun, sporty, and neat, they are no ordinary Easter Basket treats. Small and petite, the jelly beans come complete with one nose, and two arms, two hands, and two feet. Alive and ready to play, no matter the sport, no matter the day. If you want to know their names, here is how they go! Last name Jelly Bean, first names:
FLO JELLY BEAN is the powder pink lil’ kicker that looks so nice and sweet. However, Flo scores so many goals that she makes the goalies want to weep. Flo likes soccer; a game played by kissing the soccer ball with your feet—Big kisses, little kisses, big kicks, little kicks. Round and round, the soccer ball goes, little kisses make it go slow and big kisses make it go fast. Flo helps Coach Pickles teach children how to dribble, shoot and pass. She will even teach you how to score a goal and celebrate with class. The only girl in the group, she is a lovely treat. Flo dislikes rainy days, pushing and people who like to cheat.
JIMBO JELLY BEAN, he jumps high and Jimbo, he jumps low. Jumping is the way that Jimbo loves to go! Yellow, long and lean, Jimbo has the most energy of all the jelly beans. This fiery jelly bean’s favorite color is red, like the color of the uniform that covers everything but his arms, legs and head. Jimbo helps Coach Pickles teach kids how to run to and fro. In basketball, you must run fast, and in basketball you must run slow. Running side-to-side kissing your feet shoelace-to-shoelace, is still another way to go. And, if you want to run backwards here is a secret even Moms and Dads don’t know. It starts with your belly-button and one finger in the air. Take that finger near your hair, put it on your belly-button, and push to create air. When you do make this sound…shh! shh! shh! and as you do look down. Congratulations, you are blowing up your tippie-toes that raise your feet up off the ground! Before running backwards, Jimbo knows to blow up his tippie-toes so he doesn’t fall down.
Last but not least there is MO JELLY BEAN. He, quite obviously, is green. Simple, tall and sweet, his personality is amazingly upbeat. Cuddly as a teddy bear, strong as an ox, on the football field Mo will teach you how to throw and catch a football; Mo will even teach you how to block. In the game of football, there is a lot of stop and go. When the whistle blows twice everyone stops, and when it blows once everyone goes. Mo wears the number five on his shirt. He helps Coach Pickles teach kids flag football in a way that nobody gets hurt. Mo knows flag football. Stick with Mo and you will too.
