25 Books of Christmas

I love Christmas time and this year I was looking for a new family tradition to start. I was hunting on Pinterest and came upon this idea. I must say I am pretty excited about this one!

This year I started a christmas book advent calendar.  I bought 25 christmas/winter books and wrapped them. Everynight once Jameson goes down Sophie picks a book from the basket, opens it, and we read them.

So far we did this the past two nights and she seems to really like it. She loves books and I figured this also gives her a chance to practice  unwrapping presents :)

Now when I first decided to do this I knew there is no way I could purchase 25 brand new Christmas books it would cost a fortune so on a whim I decided to check eBay and scored on a lot of 23 Christmas/winter books for $32.99 so if you are interested in starting this in your house I definitely recommend starting there.  You could also check them out at a library just don't forget to renew!

I figure every year I will  incorporate a couple new books and since they are wrapped it is a surprise as to which ones are new. Wrapping also keeps the favorites from being chosen all at the beginning!

I still haven't decided whether after a book has been read if we should keep it out in case she wants to look at it again before Christmas or if they should be put up to avoid destruction.  With the age of my kids we will probably be putting away all books that are not the cardboard type, but with older kids it may be good to leave them out so they can be read all day not just at bedtime. 

Hopefully the kids continue to enjoy it as much as I do!

Happy reading!
Karen