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Christmas Book Countdown

simple Christmas tradition for kids

Doing a Christmas Book Countdown is a fun family Christmas Tradition that everyone will look forward to each December.

 

This Countdown to Christmas with books can be done starting December 1st,  December 20th OR anything in-between. 

 

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purpose

  • Family Christmas Tradition

  • Explore new holiday books

  • Screen-free fun

Shop Christmas Books

directions

Christmas Book Countdown

Decide how many days you want to include in your Countdown to Christmas with Books. 

You can do all 25 days of December starting Dec 1st, you can do 10 days or even 5 days.

Print or create Countdown Number Cards to place on each book

Wrap the books in Christmas wrapping paper.

Tie a ribbon around the books and add a number tags to each book

Stack books and display them somewhere in the house.

Each day during the Countdown, read the designated book for that day! 

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