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Christmas Book Advent Calendar

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December 2, 2012 · Karen · 3 Comments

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Advent calendars are a fun way to count the days until Christmas. We have done the little chocolate ones in the past but this year I came across a different idea, perfect to encourage my little readers! Our new Christmas tradition is a Christmas book advent calendar.

Christmas Book Advent Calendar

It’s a simple tradition to start, you just need to wrap 24 Christmas/Holiday/Winter themed books. I started by scavenging the boys current book collection and came up with 10 books that fit the Christmas/winter theme. Then I hit up thrift stores and Bookmans (local used book store) to round out our collection.

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After wrapping each book you could label them 1-24, and count down the days that way. I knew my boys would love to pick out the book each night, so I decided to just stack them up. They look pretty stacked up on the chair!

Christmas Book Advent Calendar

I did pick out an especially fun book for day 1, Mickey’s Christmas Carol and also saved The Night Before Christmas for December 24th. I stuck a Christmas sticker on those two books so I could keep track of them. The boys will take turns picking a book to open for days 2-23.

Christmas Advent Book Calendar Reading

Last night was a hit! The boys enjoyed opening their “new” book and then reading it with daddy!

This year I included a couple Christmas board books we already owned but I think the boys will be too old for them next year. So I plan on updating the books with a few new ones each year.

Do you do Advent Calendars? What type do you use?

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  1. Patty says

    December 2, 2012 at 10:05 am

    what a great idea!! Love it, I’m a little late to start this year, but will plan on it for next year! Thanks!!

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  2. Jenn Scott says

    December 2, 2012 at 1:33 pm

    This is such a good idea!! Hopefully I’m not too late to get going on it. =)

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