24th January Peanut Butter Day

It is  Peanut Butter Day. Have you ever wondered where does peanut butter comes from? Well - it dates back to the Aztecs and Incas around 1000 BC. When it's homemade, peanut butter is a great source of vitamin E, B6, niacin, calcium, potassium and iron! It also contains protein and healthy monounsaturated fat. It is healthiest with no added sugar or salt.

There are so many children's books which have peanut butter in the title, but often it is a name for a character and not the spread. Also it often appears with Jelly as this is a favourite american combination.

If your students are curious about how peanut butter is made there are books to help 

 

Want to make a peanut butter sandwich?

Want to have fun with the silly peanut butter rhyme?

Peanut Butter and Jelly  by Nadine Bernard Westcott

Terry Border has fun with Peanut Butter toast as a character in his food series

Now looking at the connection between peanut butter and jelly...

24th January Peanut Butter Day

It's Peanut Butter Day. Peanut butter isn't as popular now as it was when I was a child and every child had a peanut butter or vegemite sandwich for lunch. In fact at the school I teach at you cannot have a peanut butter sandwich for lunch as we have so many children who are allergic to peanut products. So today you may not be able to eat peanut butter, but you can read and enjoy this book, Peanut Butter and Cupcake! by Terry Border. Here Peanut Butter goes in search of a friend...


"But sometimes friends are hard to come by, especially when Hamburger has to walk his (hot) dogs, Cupcake is too busy building castles in her sprinkle box, and Egg laughs so hard he starts to crack up! Does Peanut Butter have a soulmate? Young readers will know the answer long before Peanut Butter does and laugh along with each mismatched pairing.
In a story that pairs silliness with poignancy, and friendship with anthropomorphic food, Terry Border, the photography mastermind behind the Bent Objects project, makes a triumphant entrance into the children's book world. Complete with a rhyming refrain, this is sure to be a favorite family read-aloud--and laugh-aloud."