Uppercase J, lowercase j, and a jar filled with jellybeans for alphabet coloring

Letter J with a Jellybean Jar

A bold uppercase J and lowercase j stand beside a lidded jar packed with jellybeans and a bean label.

🎨 How to color it

Color the uppercase J sky blue, the lowercase j sunny yellow, and the jellybean jar with a silver lid and rainbow beans inside. Use chunky crayons or markers for the wide letter shapes, then switch to a sharper pencil or crayon point for the small curved jellybeans. Try making the bean on the jar label one special color, like bright cherry red, so it looks like the secret favorite.

The story behind this coloring page

Jovie’s Secret Dot — In the moon-dim pantry, Jovie made up a game called Jellybean Jump. Read the full story →

In the moon-dim pantry, Jovie made up a game called Jellybean Jump. If she could flip one jellybean into the glass jar with a plink, she would earn a grand dot, just like the round moon spot on the wall. Big J watched from the flour sack, tall and quiet. Jovie bent her tail, ready to spring her last bean.

Then came a tiny scratch-scratch behind the cracker tin. A pantry beetle peeked out, sniffing the sugar smell. Jovie did not call Big J. She rolled her only jellybean into the dark. “For you,” she whispered. Plink! The jar glowed, and a round sweet spot floated up and settled over Jovie forever. That is why every little j has a dot, marking the gift nobody saw—can you find the jar where it began?