In our family we only had 3 specific dates, that had specific titles....
the 12th of Dec was Elf on a Shelf...and the children opened the box that night...and Mr. Elf, became part of our family for 12 days, creating mischief and chaos and fun....but more on him later.
We have a beautiful Twas the Night Before book, that I saved for of coarse the night before:) and then we read all together our book The Very First Christmas, before we opened our gifts.
Here's our list...
Silent night
Snowy day
Baboushka
Millions of Snowflakes
Winter Fun
Snowy Winter Day
The Mice Before Christmas
Roseblossoms first Christmas
Curious George's Snowy Day
Nutcracker Ballet
Rudolph
The Nutcracker
The Snow Bear
The Snowy Day
A Magical Crhistmas
An Angel came to Nazereth
The Very First Christmas
Elf on the Shelf
How the Grinch stole Christmas
The Mitten
The Hat
Christmas Tree
Snowmen at night
Little Polar Bear
Santa Claus
Xmas
The Night Before Christmas
Each book had a note inside that we would do that day. Each child took turns throughout the month to open the book before we leave for school, and when we came home we focused on the activity, and before bed read the book.
Our activities were not at all time consuming or cost much...I came up with a list of 24 things we normally do during the holiday season;
cookie making, movie watching, sibling shopping, mom/dad shopping, light decorating, cookie decorating...I added some RAK's for the the children to do also...
Leave Christmas candy canes around town, purchase items for food pantry with their allowance, neighborhood door drops...the ideas could be endless!
It was really fun this year to do this, to start this tradition. Our children have to read so many books/hours a week so having these books, wrapped under the tree helps make the reading even that much better!
Till another time....
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