Banana Fun Facts Printable Booklet

This three-page booklet has a “My Banana Book” cover with a name line and eight banana facts, one per page, each with a banana picture. Students cut the pages apart and staple them together.

Instructions: Print and clip pages. Secure with a staple or brad. Includes these facts:  (You can use some or all pages.)

• Bananas are a yellow fruit.
• Bananas grow in clusters called a hand.
• An average person eats 27 pounds of bananas each year.
• There are more than 400 types of bananas.
• Bananas are the fourth largest fruit crop in the world.
• Individual bananas are called fingers.
• Bananas grow on an herb plant that looks like a tree.
• Banana peels are edible.

Print in color or black & white:

• Printable Banana Fun Facts Booklet (Color)
• Printable Banana Fun Facts Booklet (Black & White)

Ways to use it

• Read the booklet together during a fruit, plant or nutrition lesson.
• Have students color the black and white version before stapling.
• Use only the pages that fit your group, since some facts are harder than others.
• Ask students to share which fact surprised them most.
• Serve a banana snack and have students check the facts they can see, such as the peel and the bunch.
• Send the finished booklet home for students to read to their families.