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Christmas Book Advent Calendar

November 16, 2018

After asking many of you your Christmas traditions, one suggest a Christmas Book Advent Calendar. I LOVED this idea, and my kiddos love books, so today I’m sharing with you how I did it AND I have a cute little Advent tag printable for you!

Connecticut life and style blogger Lauren McBride shares her Christmas Book Advent Calendar complete with free printable numbered Advent gift tags available for immediate download.

(Before I start, I’m going to admit that this can be a bit time consuming. I say that because I don’t want you to be up until midnight watching Hallmark movies while wrapping books and cursing me in the process 😉 Granted, I was rushing to get this up for you, so I suggest doing it over the course of a few days so you’re not feeling a little crazy like I did hahahaha).

 Connecticut life and style blogger Lauren McBride shares her Christmas Book Advent Calendar complete with free printable numbered Advent gift tags available for immediate download.

I wrapped each book individually and attached a gift tag with the day it will be opened. I saved The Night Before Christmas for the 24th, which is fitting 😉 My plan is to have each child alternate a day opening the gift to hopefully avoid any arguments (cause you know how that goes!). They’re pretty good about this, as we do it with other things, too (like who feeds the dog, haha)

Connecticut life and style blogger Lauren McBride shares her Christmas Book Advent Calendar complete with free printable numbered Advent gift tags available for immediate download.

25 books might seem like a lot, but my plan is to read them once and pack it away for next year. Every year I might switch out a couple, especially as they get older, but for now my kiddos will enjoy the ones I purchased for a few years! 

I listed all of the books I purchased below for you, and I have a downloadable gift tag printable if you want to do the same! We left them neutral so you can print them on whatever color paper you want. If you do this for your kiddos, tag me on Instagram so I can see what you came up with! 

Connecticut life and style blogger Lauren McBride shares her Christmas Book Advent Calendar complete with free printable numbered Advent gift tags available for immediate download.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE GIFT TAG PRINTABLE

The Little Christmas Elf by Nikki Shannon Smith

The Story of the Nutcracker Ballet by Deborah Hautzig

Charlie and the Christmas Kitty by Ree Drummond

The Littlest Elf by Brandi Dougherty

The Twelve Days of Christmas by Britta Teckentrup

A Wish to be a Christmas Tree by Colleen Monroe

Olive, the other Reindeer by Vivian Walsh

The Legend of the Candy Cane by Lori Walburg

A Very Merry Christmas Prayer by Bonnie Rickner Jensen

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

A Birthday Party for Jesus by Susan Jones

The Night Before Christmas by Charles Santore

Song of the Stars by Sally-Lloyd Jones

How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Suess

Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree by Robert Barry

Littlest Angel by Charles Tazewell

The Spirit of Christmas by Nancy Tillman

Snowmen at Christmas by Caralyn Buehner

Little Blue Truck’s Christmas by Alice Schertle

The Jolly Christmas Postman by Allan Ahlberg

The Christmas Wish by Lori Evert

Jesus Calling: The Story of Christmas by Sarah Young

The Not Very Merry Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen

Tractor Mac Saves Christmas by Billy Steers

Mortimer’s Christmas Manger by Karma Wilson

 

Connecticut life and style blogger Lauren McBride shares her Christmas Book Advent Calendar complete with free printable numbered Advent gift tags available for immediate download. Connecticut life and style blogger Lauren McBride shares her Christmas Book Advent Calendar complete with free printable numbered Advent gift tags available for immediate download.

Connecticut life and style blogger Lauren McBride shares her Christmas Book Advent Calendar complete with free printable numbered Advent gift tags available for immediate download.

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  1. Taylor says

    November 16, 2018 at 11:43 am

    I was so excited for this post!! Love it. And the tags! ????????

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  2. Sherry says

    November 17, 2018 at 11:24 am

    What a great idea. I’m going to do this for my niece.

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  3. Nedsa says

    November 17, 2018 at 8:22 pm

    This is such a great idea! Tha ks. I am definitely doing this.

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    • Lauren McBride says

      November 19, 2018 at 4:58 pm

      You’re welcome!

      Reply
  4. Mateo Pedersen says

    July 5, 2019 at 4:00 am

    Thank you so much for sharing. I am putting it on our weekend list (all be it half way through advent! Classic in our house!) In case you are needing a weekend activity I popover to my blog and check out my Winter 2018 Free Coloring (wait y’all use a U in coloring in UK, correct?) or Colouring Book. I draw a one every year for my family and friends and this year I decided to make it available for all! I try to have drawings for every age to entice a total family colouring session! Thanks for stopping by and also for this great site!

    Reply
  5. Tammy says

    November 4, 2020 at 3:35 pm

    Lovely post and great list of books to read. Thank you for the numbers! My husband and I are empty nesters, so this year we will have an advent calendar just for us, with things we enjoy and do each day before Christmas. He loves chocolate, so each pocket/day will have a unique wrapped chocolate in it for him to eat. Gotta spoil the big boys too.

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