Just Grace Activity Kit

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Activity Kit!
Here are some things you will find in this kit:
1. Fun activities based on the Just Grace books to do with your friends or by yourself
2. How to make Grace’s 100 percent favorite breakfast food
3. Superheroes (Well, not actual real ones like Batman and Wonder Woman, but Not-So-Super
(But Still Good) heroes you make up your very own self)
Here are some things you will not find in this kit:
1. Tips on the care and feeding of hermit crabs
2. Hairstyling dos and don’ts
3. How to build a really cool three-story tree house
T
HE JUST GRACE BOOKS by Charise Mericle Harper chronicle the life of Grace Stewart, her
best friend Mimi, and their friends Sammy and Max. Miss Lois, their third-grade teacher,
gave Grace the horrible classroom name “Just Grace” so it won’t be so confusing with the four
Graces in her class. Grace has a teeny-tiny superpower—she can always tell when someone is
unhappy, and then she has to do something to help that person. So what kinds of adventures does
a sort-of superhero with a fabulous downstairs French neighbor get herself into? Read all the Just
Grace books to find out!
“Fans of Amber Brown, Clementine, and Judy Moody will love her.”
—School Library Journal
★ “She’s a hero through and through.”

—Booklist, starred review
www.JustGraceBooks.com
Learn more about the author at
www.ChariseHarper.com
Illustrations copyright © 2012 by Charise Mericle Harper. All rights reserved.

Postcard
Grace and Mimi make fabulous postcards featuring Mrs. Luther’s cat, Crinkles.
Make your own postcard and send it to a friend.
Instructions:
1. Print this page on cardstock.
2. Cut out the postcard.
3. Write your message on the left side of the card.
4. Add the name and mailing address of your friend on the lines.
5. Put a postcard stamp in the stamp box.
6. Turn the card over and draw a comic or illustration on the front side of
your card, or glue on a 4x6 photo the way Grace and Mimi did on their
postcards for Mrs. Luther.
7. Mail your card!
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Just Grace Activity Kit Illustrations copyright © 2012 by Charise Mericle Harper. All rights reserved. This page may be photocopied for free distribution.
Your Superhero
In Just Grace Goes Green, Grace’s class learns about ways to protect the environment. Miss Lois asks the students
to draw their own superheroes of conservation. Grace draws two:
In the space below, create your own superhero persona, complete with costume. What will your superpowers be? Will
you save the earth? Or help cheer people up when they are sad? Or be the world’s greatest dog or cat sitter? Or . . .
Draw
your
superhero
here.
French Toast
Whenever Grace has a big day of empathy superpower work ahead of her, she likes to eat French toast for
breakfast. With an adult’s help, make your own French toast. Do you think Augustine Dupre loves it since France
is 100 percent her favorite country?
Ingredients:
2 eggs
⁄
¹ ³ cup milk
A pinch of sugar
A pinch of salt
½ tsp cinnamon
½ tsp nutmeg
Cooking spray or butter
Bread
Crack the eggs into a pie plate or other shallow bowl. Add milk and beat
with a fork. Mix in the sugar, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Heat a skillet or frying pan (be sure an adult does this part!). Spray the
pan with cooking spray or melt butter or margarine across the surface. Dip
the bread into the egg mixture; turn it over and dip the other side. Gently
place the bread onto the hot skillet. Cook 3-4 minutes per side or until
browned. Experiment with different types of breads (wheat, sourdough,
croissant, etc.) until you find your favorite.
Top each piece of French toast with cut-up fruit and/or your favorite jam
or syrup.
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Bookmarks
There are so many fabulous Just Grace books. How will you keep track of the ones you’ve read? How will you save
your place as you’re reading? With these bookmarks, of course!
Print this page on cardstock using a color printer. Cut out the bookmarks below and never lose your place
again! You’ll be the superhero of book place remembering!
How many
Just Grace books
Just Grace
have you read? will
Keep trac
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k remember
❑ Just Grace
❑ Still Just Grace
your
❑ Just Grace Walks the Dog place!
❑ Just Grace Goes Green
❑ Just Grace and the
Snack Attack
Terrible Tutu
Double Surprise
Flower Girl Power
❑ Just Grace, Star on Stage
Trouble with Cupcakes
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Just Grace Activity Kit Illustrations copyright © 2012, 2013 by Charise Mericle Harper. All rights reserved. This page may be photocopied for free distribution.
Comic Power
Grace loves to draw comics. Drawing can help her feel better when she has
a problem. She also draws comics just for fun. Create your own comic in the
panels below. Add speech bubbles to show what your characters are saying.
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Cats and Dogs
Are you a cat person like Augustine Dupre? A dog person like Mimi (who is 100 percent not a cat person
because she is completely allergic to them)? A cat person and a dog person like Grace? Or a not-a-cat-or-a-dog
person like Sammy?
Crinkles Mr. Scruffers (a girl dog with a boy name)

Things I like about cats: Things I like about dogs:
__________ __________
__________ __________
__________ __________
__________ __________
__________ __________
Things I don’t like about cats: Things I don’t like about dogs:
__________ __________
__________ __________
__________ __________
__________ __________
__________ __________
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Make a Zine! Augustine Dupre shows Grace how to make a zine, a tiny little
comic book. Follow the instructions below to make your own zine!
Email a scan of your zine to childrens_publicity@hmhco.com. It might make the Zine Gallery at www.JustGraceBooks.com!
Cupcake Fun
Who doesn’t love a glittery sparkly decorated cupcake? Make your very own cupcake to hang in your room.
Don’t eat this one! Ask your mom or dad to help you make the eating kind of cupcakes once they see how cool
this paper one turns out. (Great recipe on next page!)
HOW TO MAKE A STUFFED CUPCAKE

Supplies needed: Construction paper, scissors, stapler, markers, newspaper for crumpling, string
for hanging, plus anything glittery and glue if you want to make your cupcakes sparkly!
Cupcake Recipe
CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES
Makes 16 standard cupcakes or 12 standard and 12 mini cupcakes
1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour ¾ cup lightly packed brown sugar

¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder 2 large eggs
¾ teaspoon baking soda 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted
½ teaspoon baking powder 1 cup buttermilk
½ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 ½ sticks (12 tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened
1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line the muffin cups with paper liners.
2. Whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a medium
bowl. In another medium bowl, with an electric mixer on high, beat the butter and sugar
until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
3. Add the eggs, one at a time, to the butter-sugar mixture, beating well after each
addition. Beat in the melted chocolate. Reduce the speed to low and add the flour mixture
alternately with the buttermilk in batches, beginning and ending with the flour mixture
and beating just until blended. Stir in the vanilla.
4. Spoon half of the batter into a ziplock bag. Snip a ¼-inch corner from the bag and fill the
paper liners two-thirds full. Repeat with the remaining batter. Bake until set and
a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes.
Remove the cupcakes from the baking pan, place on a wire rack,
and allow to cool completely.
Recipe reprinted with permission from Hello, Cupcake!: Irresistibly Playful Creations Anyone Can Make
by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson. Find lots more cupcake fun in this great book!
Frosting Recipe
ALMOST-HOMEMADE VANILLA BUTTERCREAM
Makes 3 ½ cups
1 container (16 ounces) Marshmallow Fluff

3 sticks (3/4 pound) unsalted butter, softened and cut into 1-inch pieces
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup confectioners’ sugar, plus additional sugar if necessary
Spoon the Marshmallow Fluff into a large bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on low.
Gradually add the butter pieces, beating well after each addition, until smooth. Add the
vanilla extract and the ½ cup confectioners’ sugar. Scrape the bowl well to incorporate.
Add more confectioners’ sugar, if necessary, to adjust the texture.
Recipe reprinted with permission from Hello, Cupcake!: Irresistibly Playful Creations Anyone Can Make
by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson. Find lots more cupcake fun in this great book!
Emotion Commotion
In Just Grace and the Trouble with Cupcakes, Grace discovers that it’s not easy having two different feelings
in your body at the same time. She makes up new words to describe the combined emotions. Try creating
your own new-feeling words.
SAD + MAD = SMAD
AFRAID + EXCITED = _______________________
MAD + CONFUSED = _______________________
HAPPY + NERVOUS = _______________________
ANNOYED + IMPATIENT = _______________________
EMBARRASSED + ANXIOUS = _______________________
CALM + CONFIDENT = _______________________
SURPRISED + GLAD = _______________________
WORRIED + JEALOUS = _______________________

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s t G ra c e

★ “She’s a hero through and through.”

Illustrations copyright © 2012 by Charise Mericle Harper. All rights reserved.

Keep going. You’re al

Crinkles Mr. Scruffers (a girl dog with a boy name)

HOW TO MAKE A STUFFED CUPCAKE

Makes 16 standard cupcakes or 12 standard and 12 mini cupcakes

1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour ¾ cup lightly packed brown sugar

1 container (16 ounces) Marshmallow Fluff

SAD + MAD = SMAD

AFRAID + EXCITED = _______________________

MAD + CONFUSED = _______________________

HAPPY + NERVOUS = _______________________

ANNOYED + IMPATIENT = _______________________

EMBARRASSED + ANXIOUS = _______________________

CALM + CONFIDENT = _______________________

SURPRISED + GLAD = _______________________

WORRIED + JEALOUS = _______________________

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