Happy Jump for Jelly Beans Day

Today is actually Jump for Jelly Bean Day. Who knew? In honor of this auspicious day, I found some fun jelly bean facts from the Fun Facts About Jelly Belly site:

1. The first jelly bean was created by an unknown American candy maker in the 1800s.

2. An 1861 advertisement recommended sending jelly beans to soldiers fighting in the Civil War.

3. Jelly Belly donated 288,000 jelly beans in 47 different flavors for the world's first jelly bean stop-motion animation music video "In Your Arms" by Kina Grannis; released November 2011. It's AMAZING! Have you seen it (see it below)?

4. Americans consume 16 billion jelly beans at Easter, many of them hidden in baskets. If all the Easter jellybeans were lined end to end, they would circle the globe nearly three times (according to FactMonster).

That's a lot of jelly beans! They are a popular candy, so of course, jelly beans make for good promotions. Here are three of my favorite jelly bean promotions:

The fake-prescription bottle promotion:

Fill a Personalized Pill Bottle with Jelly Beans

These pill bottles are a giveaway with a sense of humor. Printing your logo on these large bottles gives a good laugh--and laughing makes logos memorable.

Put the jelly bean candy into a custom printed champagne bottle:

Fill a Champagne bottle with Jelly Beans

Fill a champagne bottle with jelly beans, for Jelly Bean "Bubbly!"

And the classiest jelly bean promotion, the custom firebranded Beech Notepad holder with Jelly Belly Jelly Beans (which is the most well-known company making jelly beans).

Jelly Beans with Notepad and Beechwood Holder

I like how this promotion is triple layered: first, eat the candy, second, use the notepad, third, refill the notepad because the beechwood holder lasts practically forever.

Do you like jelly beans?