Christmas Book Countdown

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I love the Christmas season! While there are so many things to do this time of year, we still make it a reading a priority. Today I’m sharing with you a FUN way to countdown to Christmas with books!

To set this up, I gather our Christmas books and check out books from the library. Then I wrap them up with paper from the Dollar Store. I place them in no particular order by the tree for the kids to see.

My kids LOVE to find 25 wrapped books next to our Christmas tree. Even though most of them are library books, they still think it’s so much fun to open 1 book each day to read. They enjoy the unwrapping part and finding out which mystery book we will read that day! It’s truly a wonderful activity and I love that it brings them so much excitement. They just wish they could open up 5 every day!

Here are the 25 Christmas books we will be reading this month:

1. The Little Drummer Mouse

2. Silent Night

3. Llama Llama Holiday Drama

4. The Nutquacker

5. Christmas Is Coming

6. Christmas Cricket

7. The Berenstain Bears’ Old-Fashioned Christmas

8. Merry Christmas, Old Armadillo

9. Click, Clack, Ho! Ho! Ho!

10. The Not Very Merry Pout-Pout Fish

11. Bear Stays Up for Christmas

12. Splat the Cat: Christmas Countdown

13. The Berenstain Bears’ Christmas Tree

14. Merry Christmas, Ollie!

15. Elmer’s Christmas

16. The Polar Express

17. Rudolph to the Rescue

18. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

19. Mother Hubbard’s Christmas

20. The Night Before Christmas

21. Musical Christmas Board Book

22. The Story of Baby Jesus

23. Musical Nativity

24. Merry Christmas, Mouse!

25. The Berenstain Bears and the Joy of Giving

Even if you can’t do all 25 this year, you can join in a little late! Or pin this idea to save for next year.

Make this Christmas Book Countdown a tradition your kids will look forward to every year! Merry Christmas!

P.S. If you’re looking for more Christmas traditions, check out this great post!