Learn About Baking and Business With Grace Thomas

 "Grace Stirs Up Success" movie

       Grace Thomas is the thirteenth Girl Of The Year, released in 2015. An avid baker from the fictional town of Bentwick, Massachusetts, her story centers around her dreams of being an aspiring entrepreneur, with her trip to Paris as a key plot point. Grace made her debut on Good Morning America on January 1, 2015.

       The Grace doll has light skin with freckles across the bridge of her nose, light blue eyes, and medium brown hair with side bangs. She comes with a white print T-shirt with "Paris, Je T'aime" written in cursive script, a pink skirt with a black bow, and dark gray boots with bows. Her face mold is the Josefina mold. Some of her unique features are highlights, side bangs and permanent lip gloss. Tying in with the Grace doll is a television film based on her stories entitled Grace Stirs Up Success, starring Olivia Rodrigo as the title character, and the mobile app Grace's Sweet Shop for iOS and Android.

• Author Mary Casanova
• A Learning Guide to Grace's World

Our Artifacts for American Girl Doll, Grace Thomas:

• DIY Patriotic Pinwheel Cookies for American Girl Dolls
• DIY Doll Cupcakes for Valentine's Day
• Craft a Cupcake Stand Using Wooden Spools 
• The Paris Doll
• Collecting Furniture for Grace's French Bakery: Faux Wrought Iron
• DIY a Shabby Chic Bakery Display for Dolls
• DIY Doll Sized Candy Apples
• Craft Halloween Cupcakes for a Doll Bakery
• DIY A Bakery Kitchen Unit from A Box
• Bakery & Deli Food Clip Art 
• A Printable Poster for a Doll's Bakery
• What kind of sweets are in Grace's bakery?
• Eiffel Tower Print - for the French Bakery 
• Templates for Bakery Boxes - Both Barbie and American Girl sizes 
• Craft a doll sized rolling pin and dough
  

Online Research for Themes Found in Grace Thomas Books:

The City of Paris:

• The Eiffel Tower
• Louvre Museum
• Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris
• Avenue des Champs-Élysées
• Musée d'Orsay
• Palais Garnier, Opéra National de Paris
• Place de la Concorde
• Arc de Triomphe
• Oui in France YouTube Channel

It's Good for Business!

• Teaching kids to be entrepreneurs
• Kid Entrepreneur: Chandler's New Business
• 11-year-old CEO and entrepreneur from Detroit
• Kid Entrepreneur Curious Katherine
• Jalen bakes at age eight to buy a house
• Florida Brothers Design and Sell 70,000 Socks for Charity

Kids Can Cook:

• Kid chef cooks at the White House
• Extraordinary Teen Prodigy Chef: Greg Grossman
• Cooking with Chef Estie Kung
• Little Big Shots - Little Chef Kicha
• Four-year-old cooks Hilsa Fish Eggs
• How to make a fruit salad
• How to make a dark chocolate cake
• Lets Bake Cookies!
• 2-year-old creates spooky popcorn and rice crispy treats

American Girl Books About Grace Thomas:

• Grace
• Grace Stirs It Up
• Grace Makes It Great
• Grace and Sylvie: A Recipe for Family

Fan Video/Crafts for American Girl Doll Grace Thomas:

• Big Moon Opens Grace's French Bakery
• My Food Rules! - American Girl
• DIY American Girl Doll Grace's French Bakery
• DIY How to Build and Set Up a Bakery For American Girl Doll
• Bakery Vlog by ag4liife

Advancing The Read: 

• Clean Romance for Teens by Sandra Byrd - all about love and cake: Let Them Eat Cake, Bon Appetit, Piece de Resistance