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Christmas Book Advent – Holiday Tradition Idea

Create a Christmas Book Advent to celebrate the season this year and create a new favorite tradition in your family! Every night unwrap and read a different storybook. Ideas for wrapping and list of recommended books. This post contains affiliate links, which help to support this blog. Thank you!
Christmas Book Advent - a fun holiday tradition. Ideas for wrapping and a list of books to get you started

 One of my very favorite holiday traditions is our Christmas book advent. This is still a new tradition in our home. Last year was the first year we did it, but our kids loved it. We are bringing it back this year with a little twist, and I’m even more excited about it!

Here’s the general idea: Every day leading up to Christmas, the kids get to open up one wrapped Christmas story that we will read together before bedtime. The final book that we open on Christmas Eve is the Bible from which we read the Christmas story together. I wrap up all the books with numbered tags, so we know which one to open each day, and then tuck them into a basket under the tree.

Christmas Book Advent - a fun holiday tradition. Ideas for wrapping and a list of books to get you started

To make your own Christmas book advent, you will need 24 Christmas, holiday, or winter-y books. If you are building your book collection you could even start by doing the 12 days leading up to Christmas. We do NOT buy all new books every year. The first year we already had a fairly good collection of Christmas books, but I think I still had to buy about eight new books. If that is too much of an upfront expense, you may want to look for books at thrift stores or borrow books from your local library.

This year I bought three new books to throw into the mix, but the other books are all books we already had in our collection. If you are looking for books for your Christmas advent, here are some of our favorites you may want to check out:

Our favorite Christmas storybooks - perfect for planning out your Christmas book advent


Once you have collected your books, you will need to wrap them up. This year I used plain white paper and cut number tags out of cardstock using my Silhouette.
Christmas Book Advent - a fun holiday tradition. Ideas for wrapping and a list of books to get you started
This year I’m adding the little twist that when we unwrap each gift we will take the numbered tag off and add it to a ribbon as another Christmas countdown.
By Christmas Eve the ribbon will be all filled up! My kids have been asking me every day for the past week when we get to open our first book. Today’s the day!
Happy Holidays and Happy Making!

xoxoalexis1



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Christmas Book Advent - a fun holiday tradition. Ideas for wrapping and a list of books to get you started

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  1. Rachel H says

    December 1, 2014 at 3:49 pm

    I love this idea! It is so easy to incorporate into your normal routine, but by still making it a little extra special. {and that's a great list of books!}

  6. Kylie Rose says

    December 1, 2014 at 9:24 pm

    Oh, Alexis, I LOVE this idea! Seriously, precious. I can&#39;t wait to have a family to celebrate something as fun as this! What a cute mama you are.<br /><br />xo,<br />Kylie

  13. Shannon says

    December 2, 2014 at 11:12 pm

    Well yours is way more stylish than mine, but we love the Christmas book advent too! The kids take turns picking a wrapped book from our basket each night. It&#39;s a fun tradition and the boys remember their favorites and try to find them. 🙂