25 Books of Christmas
Christmas is one of my favorite holidays and I’ve always wanted to pair it with another favorite in my life; children’s books. So last year we tested out a new holiday tradition - A Christmas Book Advent Calendar! We ended up coining the tradition; 25 Books of Christmas. Trust me when I say that, homemade countdowns are incredibly easy to pull off but have a huge impact. So if you’re into holiday children’s books and looking for a new tradition to build excitement check out my TAKE on creating your own advent calendar.
Creating your own advent calendar just may be the simplest thing you do all year. With the help of my husband and mother-in-law we wrapped 25 of our hardcover Christmas children’s books in kraft paper. I then used red printable labels from Paper Source to showcase the number. Our printer wasn’t working at the time so I drew the numbers on with a Gold Sharpie marker. I then displayed the books on our fireplace mantle and we read one each night. It was so fun, the kids loved it and it made me so happy to repurpose books from our existing holiday collection. All of the books we read last year are listed below: Numbers 8, 13, 14, 17, 19, 23 and 25 are my absolute favorite.
This year I’m trying a new tradition but we’ve gotten all of our holidays books out and I plan to re-create 25 Books of Christmas another year. If you want to follow along and watch as this years’ tradition unfolds I’ll be posting to my Instagram stories every night from December 1st - 25th.
25 Books of Christmas