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Christmas Books and Activities

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We have more Christmas books in our house than any other holiday!  We also tend to do lots of literacy activities related to the holiday too.

Here is your one stop shop for all of our Christmas books and activities to help your kids develop their literacy skills during the holiday season.

Christmas books and literacy activities for a season full of fun and literacy learning. Reading games, writing activities, book lists, Elf on the Shelf, family time ideas and more!

Christmas Book and Activity Ideas

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BOOK LISTS

Book-A-Day Advent Calendar

Create a book a day advent calendar to ensure lots of great reading through the season.

Christmas Books for Toddlers

Board book favorites for little ones.

New Christmas Favorites

Add a few new books to your reading list this season.

Traveling Home for the Holidays

If you are traveling somewhere over the holidays, these books are for you.

LITERACY FUN

A fun alphabet game to play with one child or a whole class! Reindeer alphabet bingo is a great literacy activity to use at Christmas parties to work on letter recognition and letter sounds.Reindeer Alphabet Bingo

A fun way to practice letter recognition and letter sounds.

alphabet activities: reindeer roll game is a wonderful game to work on gross motor skill and letter recognition with a holiday twist from growingbookbybook.com

Reindeer  Roll

A fun alphabet activity for learning letters and sounds!

beginning sound reading game

Christmas Muffin Tin Reading Games

Use a common household item to create three games to practice beginning sounds, sight words and vocabulary.

A fun and playful alphabet activity that is a perfect compliment to Pete the Cat Saves Christmas. Toddlers and preschoolers will learn their ABCs with this Christmas themed learning idea.

ABC Chimney Drop

Read Pete the Cat Saves Christmas and then practice letter recognition with this ABC Chimney Drop game.

Christmas SyllablesA Christmas activity to work on syllable counting to build phonological awareness.

A fun sorting game to build phonological awareness.

ELF ON THE SHELF

Elf on the Shelf 

A collection of 25 different books and scene ideas for your little mischievous elf!

You Have Elf Mail

Two fun delivery systems for delivering elf mail!

COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS

ABC Your Way to Christmas

Literacy activities for Christmas: 26 books and family fun ideas from growingbookbybook.com

For 26 days you will read a holiday book and complete a family fun activity .  Ideas will include helping others, learning about the true meaning of Christmas, exploring nature and being thankful.  Start here with part 1 of ABC Your Way to Christmas and then finish the last two weeks with part 2 of ABC Your Way to Christmas.

BOOK  EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

Make a gingerbread man to compliment the book, The Gingerbread Man Loose at Christmas

The Gingerbread Man Loose at Christmas inspired this gingerbread salt dough ornament complete with dipped books just like in the story.  Recipe included!

The Legend of the Poinsettia

legend of the poinsettia

This The Legend of the Poinsettiais one of our favorites!  We made these super neat pointillism poinsettia gift tags to adorn our holiday packages.

You can also create a beautiful poinsettia craft for your tree.

COOKING WITH KIDS

Cooking and baking with kids is a great way to build literacy skills!

Christmas Fruit Salad

WRITING ACTIVITIES

Thank You Letter to Santa

Writing a thank you letter to Santa (free printables) from growingbookbybook.com

After the presents are open, it’s time to have the kids write a thank you letter to the jolly gift giver!

Colored Lights

Create a book with kids to work on color word recognition.

LITERACY GIFT GUIDES

Each year I share some of my favorite games, activities, and toys that promote literacy skills.  They are timeless suggestions. Check out the guides below for all your holiday shopping.

Something to Read for the Whole Family (includes a free printable shopping list)

Literacy Stocking Stuffers

Literacy Gift Guide 1

Literacy Gift Guide 2

Literacy Gift Guide 3

Literacy Gift Guide 4

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