Christmas Book Advent Calendar

We have a lot of advent calendars in our house. I know. But they are all so different I can’t choose just one. Yesterday I shared our list of advent activities for this year, which is fun, but sometimes a little time consuming. This next idea is so easy, anyone can do it.

All you do is wrap up 24 Christmas books, and number them 1 – 24. Then the kiddos get to unwrap a book every night leading up to Christmas. I am sure most of you already read a few stories with your kids before bed, so this is so easy to fit into your day. You might be thinking that you can’t do it because you don’t have 24 Christmas books. Neither do we! Over half of our books this year came from the public library (our favorite place). With a 21 day lending period, I just made sure that the books from the library are toward the beginning of the month. They can be opened and enjoyed for a few weeks and still make it back before they are due. Last year, we didn’t have access to a library, so we just wrapped up some non-holiday books along with our Christmas books and it worked just as well.

Do you need some ideas to get you started finding some books? Below is the list of titles in our line-up this year. There are actually 27 because the library had too many great books and I couldn’t narrow it down.

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