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Frankie and her dog give us instructions for how to make a jelly sandwich. First, we need to get bread. Then, we need to open the jelly and apply it. Next, the sandwich must be assembled, and finally it must be cut. Of course, those are just the basic steps, laid out in the way that my children were taught to write instructions in elementary school. (I could always tell which of my students also attended that school because their use of transitional words was so predictable!)

There are several twists that make this more interesting. Instead of purchasing bread, we are going to disguise ourselves as ducks with the strategic use of traffic cones and flippers in order to scam bread from people feeding the ducks. To open the jelly, we shall entice an elephant onto a playground merry-go-round while we hold the lid. A nice, clean dog can apply the jelly by wagging his tail, and a jousting tournament is an easy way to assemble the sandwich. Cutting the sandwich is the trickiest bit, since training hamsters to ride unicycles across the bread is necessary. Of course, these are not the only ways to make a jelly sandwich, and Frankie offers several different options for some of the steps.