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The Christmas Quiet Book

Activity Kit

By Deborah Underwood Illustrated by Renata Liwska

The holidays are filled with joyful noise! But some Christmas moments come wrapped in quiet:

Searching for presents quiet Hoping for a snow day quiet

Cocoa quiet

Deborah Underwood and Renata Liwska, creators of the bestsellers The Quiet Book and The Loud Book!, celebrate all kinds of Christmas quiets in this magical ode for readers to savor while snuggling up by the fire or settling in for a long winter's nap.

The activities in this kit will help calm the bustle of the holidays and help young ones appreciate the quiet joys of the season.

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A Note to Santa

Dear SaNta,

Love,

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My Quiet Christmas

What kind of quiet is your Christmas?

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Christmas Ornaments

Print this page on cardstock with a color printer. With scissors, carefully cut out the front and back sides of the ornaments below.

Cut two 4-inch lengths of ribbon to create hangers for your ornaments. After putting your ornaments back pieces picture-side down, tape a loop of ribbon on each ornament back so that the ribbon extends an inch or so above the ornament piece. Rub a glue stick around the edge of the plain sides of the ornament backs. Carefully place the plain side of the ornament fronts over the backs and press to seal.

Hang your ornaments on your Christmas tree, or give them to friends as a holiday gift!

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The Christmas Quiet Book By Deborah Underwood

Illustrated by Renata Liwska

Illustrations ? 2012 by Renata Liwska. All rights reserved.

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The Christmas Quiet Book

By Deborah Underwood Illustrated by Renata Liwska

Illustrations ? 2012 by Renata Liwska. All rights reserved.

Illustrations ? 2012 by Renata Liwska from The Christmas Quiet Book. All rights reserved. This page may be photocopied for free distribution. quietloudbooks

Christmas Card Fold

Print this page on white paper using a color printer. Cut on the dotted line below and fold as indicated to create your card.

Cut here

Fold

Wishing you the quiet joys

of the holiday season.

The Christmas Quiet Book

By Deborah Underwood Illustrated by Renata Liwska

Illustrations ? 2012 by Renata Liwska. All rights reserved. quietloudbooks

Christmas Gifts

Give your friends the gift of "cocoa quiet" this holiday season with this fun recipe to make and share!

Cocoa INgredieNts:

2 cups powdered sugar 1 cup baking cocoa 3 cups nonfat powdered milk 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons cornstarch 1 cup semi-sweet mini chocolate chips

Also Needed:

3 wide-mouth pint-size canning jars with lids Ribbon, colored construction paper, hole punch, glue stick, scissors

With an adult's help, combine all of the cocoa ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix thoroughly. Divide your cocoa mix evenly into the three wide-mouth canning jars. Seal tightly with jar lids.

Print this page on white paper using a color printer. Carefully cut out the gift tags below. Cut a piece of construction paper that is slightly larger than the tags. Glue the tags to both sides of the construction paper and punch a hole in the upper left corner of the front side of the tag. Use the ribbon to tie the tag to your jar lid. Create tags for each jar.

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Cocoa Mix

Enjoy a "cocoa quiet" moment with a steaming mug

of hot chocolate!

Fill a mug one-third to one-half full with cocoa mix. Add very hot water or milk and stir until mix is dissolved and chocolate chips are melted. Add marshmallows or

whipped cream if desired.

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About the Author and Illustrator

Deborah UNderwood grew up in Walla Walla, Washington. "One of my best Christmas moments," she says, "was coming downstairs and seeing the huge teddy bear I'd desperately wanted sitting under the tree waiting for me. Since I was interested in astronomy, I named him Ursa Major. My sister Judith got a smaller version, Ursa Minor. I still say hello to them when I go visit my dad; they've aged very well!" Deborah currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area.



Deborah (left) and her sister, Judith, with their

ReNata Liwska was raised in

brand-new Christmas bears.

Warsaw, Poland. "When I was very

little I had a pair of training skates,"

she says. "The kind with double blades that were meant to help you learn to

skate but did the opposite. When I got a pair of real skates for Christmas one

year, it was a wonderful surprise! I finally had skates like the ones the figure

skaters on TV wore. I couldn't wait to get started, so I put on my new skates

right away. As you can imagine, it didn't go so well. It takes more than skates

to do all those fancy moves. But that wasn't the problem--I was trying to

figure skate in the living room!" Renata now lives (and skates) in Canada.



Baby Renata with her Christmas elephant.

Also by Deborah Underwood and Renata Liwska

The Quiet Book

An ALA Notable Children's Book

A New York Times bestseller

A Parents magazine Best Book of the Year

A New York Times Notable Children's Book

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

A BookPage Best Children's Book of the Year

A Huffington Post Best Picture Book of the Year

"A delightful and enchanting choice

The Loud Book!

for storytime or sharing one-on-one."

A New York Times bestseller

--School Library Journal, starred review

"The Quiet Book is a delightful little blanket of a book!" --Peter Reynolds, New York Times

best-selling author and illustrator

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year Summer 2011 Kids IndieNext list selection Junior Library Guild selection

"Fans of the first book will be delighted to extend their bedtime reading time with the second, and they'll welcome the chance to pump up the volume."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

"The complete opposite of the delightful The Quiet Book, this deliciously worthy companion title earns `applause loud.' . . . Act out a few of these moments during

storytime for a joyous romp."--School Library Journal, starred review

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