Teacher Covers Herself in Peanut Butter During Class in Viral Video

A teacher in Idaho is teaching her kids an important, albeit messy, lesson about creative writing.

In a recent TikTok clip, Kayleigh Sloan, 28, who is a first and second grade looping teacher, filmed herself teaching her class the importance of accuracy when describing how to make a classic peanut butter and jelly sandwich.,

Sloan began the clip, which has now been watched 54.5 million times, by telling the kids, “I’m going to read some of your responses on how to make a PB&J, and then I am going to copy exactly what your writing says.”

“So, the first one says, ‘You get bread, you get peanut butter and you get jelly,’ ” Sloan said, holding all the items in her arms, asking, “Did I make it?” as the kids insisted, “No!”

“That’s what it said to do,” Sloan replied. “I got my bread, I got my peanut butter and I got my jelly — so it’s done.”

“That’s not how you make it!” one student yelled out, as Sloan moved on to another student’s suggestion.

“Put the bread flat,” Sloan told the class, pressing firmly on the bread. “Alright, it’s pretty flat. I feel like that’s good.”

“Spread jelly and jam on the bread,” she read aloud, spreading the jelly on one side and peanut butter on the other, while the bread was still in the plastic.

“Like this?” Sloan questioned, adding, “Is it ready to eat?” much to the students’ disgust.

One kid insisted, “That’s not how you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich!”

“That’s what it said to do!” Sloan responded before moving on to another student’s list.

“You need to get out the — Ooooh! Get out the bread. First, I get out the bread,” Sloan said, grabbing a piece of bread.

“Get out some jelly. Perfect!” she continued, throwing the item on the table, before following it up with some peanut butter. 

“Okay, it’s ready,” Sloan told the kids, insisting, “That’s what it said to do.”

Things then got even messier, as she told the students, “Let’s try another one: First, you must put on the jelly. Then, you must put on peanut butter,” asking, “Wait — I need to put it on? What?”

Sloan proceeded to rub the peanut butter and jelly all over her arms, as the students screamed.

“You’re doing it wrong!” one kid said, as Sloan questioned, “Okay, it’s on — am I done?” 

The class yelled “No!” as the teacher pointed out, “But you told me to put it on. Like a T-shirt?”

She then explained the importance of the lesson she was trying to teach, telling the kids, “So, we just did a whole lesson on adding detail to our writing. Do we understand why you have to have detail? Did anybody ever mention a plate or a knife?” asking, “Did we even use these?” while holding them up.

“All I did was exactly what you told me to do,” Sloan continued to tell the class. “So, do we see how important it is to include all the correct steps? … So, if we were to redo this, what could our first step be?” before they yelled out suggestions on how to be more descriptive to make sure the sandwich got made correctly.

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Sloan told Today.com that the kids “were mind-blown” following the class, adding to the outlet that she’d seen the peanut butter and jelly sandwich experiment on TikTok five years ago.

She told the publication she now teaches the “hilarious” lesson every year.  

“The point of the lesson is to add detail and be descriptive in writing,” Sloan said. “Words are so important and can easily change the meaning of what we’re saying. That’s why I was so literal with the instructions.”

Sloan didn’t immediately respond when contacted by PEOPLE for comment on the viral clip.