2017 Christmas Card – Christmas Books
My kids love books. It probably helps that I am a teacher and want them to love reading like me. My kids have always loved snuggling up to me and reading with me (… and I love it too). This year my 2nd grader was reading chapter books and everything else, my pre-schooler reads pretty good for not being in school yet and my just turned 2 two year old loves to read with everyone who will let her crawl into their lap and read to her. So this year, I decided to use some teacher points from Scholastics Book Club and buy $1-3 books to give to my neighbors.
We took a family picture of us reading a book together and then I took individual pictures of each of my kids with a book that was connected to their favorites.
My oldest son is really big into Legos, so I found him a LEGO Christmas book for his picture.
My middle kiddo LOVES – IS OBSESSED with DINOSAURS, so I found a darling book about how dinosaurs used to pull Santa’s sleigh. I really love this book. The story is cute and the pictures are even better!
My daughter’s daughter’s book was OK, but the best part about it was that it had DOG pictures! She is in love with dogs and this book was perfect with cute doggies on the front.
Christmas Card: Family picture and individual with Christmas books that has something they love.
Neighbor Books: A Christmas book from Scholastics.
Books I chose to give to my neighbors:
Moostletoe: Seriously one of my favorite Christmas books. I think this book is absolutely darling in showing how much us parents do to make Christmas wonderful by seeing everything the dad moose is getting ready so the holiday is Perfectly Perfect. I use this book in my classroom every year. I added a note telling the families I hoped their Christmas was perfectly perfect.
How to Catch an Elf: This was the $1 book this Christmas from Scholastics. I bought one for each of my students and made a week full of activities for my class to do as a keepsake for them. It was an ok book, but I thought it would be fun for families with kids who would enjoy a fun challenge of making a trap to get an elf at their house. (That’s what their note said to do.)
Homemade Christmas: This was much cuter of an idea than I thought initially, so I only bought a few of these. This book was about a family who makes their Christmas gifts for each other and how one member finally comes up with the absolute best idea. This book had a great lesson in how presents aren’t really what is most important. A family discovers that the best present is a present for the entire family focused on family time. I added a note in this book that recommend the families make their own family time present.
For the neighbors and friends that do not have kids at home and wouldn’t really use the picture book, I gave them a card and a bag of popcorn that says to “Pop open a good Christmas book.”
I can’t do this idea every year, but I felt it was absolutely perfectly perfect for the year where all 3 of my kiddos were obsessed and great at reading.
