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Christmas Book Countdown

by Angela Thayer 5 Comments

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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!

Christmas Book Countdown Pin

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.

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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!

Christmas Book Countdown

Here are some of our favorite Christmas books:

1. The Little Drummer Mouse

2. Silent Night

3. Llama Llama Holiday Drama

4. Pete the Cat Saves Christmas

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. Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree

24. Merry Christmas, Mouse!

25. The Berenstain Bears and the Joy of Giving

26. Moosteltoe

27. The Most Perfect Snowman

28. Humphrey’s First Christmas

29. Olivia Helps With Christmas

30. God Gave Us Christmas

book stack

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!

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  1. Andrea says

    December 16, 2019 at 7:50 am

    Thank you for all the fabulous giveaways! I would use the gift card for the new preschool classroom we are building.

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  2. Harley says

    December 9, 2019 at 11:30 am

    This is the best Christmas activity. I look forward to it every year because my students enjoy it so much. I forget what books I wrap up, so it’s exciting for me too!
    It’s a great way to share my favorite Christmas stories, and introduce holidays they might know about.

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  3. Rebecca A Husson says

    December 5, 2019 at 1:24 pm

    We have been doing this for a few years. This year I didn’t have time to wrap but sent the box full off to the grandchildren to pick from. The 8 year had asked his Mom when the box of Christmas books were coming..

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  4. Lauren M. says

    November 29, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    Library books! Oh my goodness … I never did this bc we are already overrun with books, and the cost of them can add up quickly — but wrapped library books is genius! It never occurred to me before! Thank you <3

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  5. Adventures of Adam says

    December 2, 2015 at 10:21 am

    I love how you have used different wrapping paper for all of the books! Can’t beat a book-a-day advent!
    Adventures of Adam recently posted…Wonderful Wednesday Blog Hop #152My Profile

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