I saw this idea last year at The Shafer Family Blog. Each year she buys a new book to add to the collection and countdown. Even if you only have 5 books to wrap up, it is still a fun way to countdown to Christmas! You could also check out books from the library to use and then they would all be new.
I'm excited to do this too....I'm not wrapping the books up but our little "christmas message" each day tells us whaty books we'll be reading :-)
ReplyDeleteHeaps of fun!!!!
Michelle
http://thoughtsofesme.blogspot.com/2010/11/traditions.html
We do this too! Its so much fun :) I purchased all our holiday books from library book sale and didn't pay more than .50 cents per book!
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What a fantastic idea!!
ReplyDeleteI started doing this when my son was born (he's 3 now), and just got my books ready today. I wrote about it on my blog today as well! This is the first year I've got 25 books, wahoo! Love this tradition!
ReplyDeleteI have thought of doing this in the past because we have a huge collection of Christmas books, but we haven't done it yet. I typically let them choose a few Christmas books each day. Maybe we will do this for the last two weeks before Christmas or something.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to do it the last years - but never had enough books. This year finally there are enough - and I even managed to get them all wrapped up before the 1st of December! My daughter loves them - even little man got quite excited, even though he is not getting the whole idea of opening one each day yet ... ;-)
ReplyDeleteI blogged about it today if you want to check it out
http://muffinsnmore.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-book-advent-calender.html
What a great idea!
ReplyDeleteThanks. Love your blog!
Grace
Teena