A Christmas tradition that is Christ-centered, fun for the kids, AND promotes reading? It’s like a homeschool mom’s dream come true! A Christmas book countdown is a fantastic way to create memories with your kids this holiday season. I’ve got a fun printable that combines this tradition with a Bible reading plan so you can focus on Christ AND enjoy fun read-alouds!
*** Hey! There’s not only a FREEBIE in this post but a 2-winner, $500 cash giveaway you can enter! Scroll down to find out more. ***
For the book-loving family, this is a simple and meaningful activity that your kids will remember for a lifetime. Collect some Christmas books and wrap up 25 of them! Print the tags and label each gift. Every day, the kids can unwrap a book to read!
Snuggle up on the couch together with your Bible and the day’s book. Read the scripture passage together and discuss, and say a prayer of thanks, praying the scripture over your children. Then have fun reading the Christmas book they unwrapped!
Don’t have enough books? No problem. Here are some ideas.
- Audiobooks to listen to during a meal, during quiet time, or in the car
- Fold and staple card stock together into a booklet and make a Christmas book together
- Use digital books by taping the title of the ebook (or a copy of the ebook cover) to the front of another book or an envelope and wrapping that
- Buy some great Christmas books to add to your stash (we get a few a year – here’s a list to start with or you can find Christian kids Christmas books on Amazon)
Download the Christmas Book Countdown & Bible Reading Plan
I hope you enjoy this Christmas book countdown and Bible reading plan! Check out more great Christmas and advent resources here.
Download the Christmas Book Countdown & Bible Reading Plan
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{GIVEAWAY! 2 Winners Get $500 in Cash!}
It’s hard to believe that Christmas is upon us once again. 2018 has flown right by and the holiday season is in full swing. With Christmas being the season of giving, I’ve gotten together with some pretty awesome bloggers to give TWO families some CASH in the 5th annual Christmas Blessings Giveaway – $500 cash (delivered via Paypal).
We hope that the prize will be a blessing to the winning families and help them to fulfill their kids’ Christmas wishes, pay off some bills, or to save for a rainy day. Whatever the money ends up being used for, our prayer is that it helps to lessen any financial burden and/or fills a specific need.
There are lots of entry options in the Rafflecopter form below – the more you enter, the better your chance of winning! I know it can seem tedious and time consuming to go through all the entries, but isn’t a chance at $500 worth it? I think it is! Plus, all of these generous bloggers donated their own money toward the cash prizes and this giveaway wouldn’t be possible without them. So I hope you’ll take the time to check out each one. Who knows, maybe you will find your new favorite blog.
The giveaway will run from Monday, November 12th through Wednesday, November 21st (ends at 11:59pm EST). Winner will be notified by email shortly after the giveaway ends and will have 48 hours to respond to claim the prize or another winner will be drawn. You must have a Paypal account to win. Please be sure to read the Rafflecopter terms and conditions upon entering.
by Stephanie, The Multi Taskin' Mom
This Post Has 51 Comments
Michelle
13 Nov 2017This is great! I entered to win, but pray that whomever needs it the most, gets it!
Tauna Meyer
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Jamie R.
12 Nov 2018If I had the blessing of winning the 500 dollars. I will definitely finish paying off my Family’s Christmas. This year we were stretched a bit thin so this would be a Amazing opportunity.
Tanya McGaffey
12 Nov 2018Thanks for this opportunity. God Bless!!
Kellie H.
13 Nov 2018So are some! I can’t wait to Download the Christmas Book Countdown & Bible Reading Plan! Thank you for that. And thank you for the sweepstakes to try to win $500 bucks! Merry Christmas!!
RACHEL MEURER
13 Nov 2018What would I do with 500? Probably put it towards our mortgage. Hubby has been out of work since June and savings are gone
Wendy Clark
13 Nov 2018I would use this money for Christmas presents.
Mariah Nelson
13 Nov 2018If I was to win the $500 it would be a tremendous blessing to my family. We are a family of soon to be 4 living off of my husband’s income. And this Christmas will be the first Christmas without my sweet mama, she unexpectedly passed away last month. So things are tight right now and it would be a blessing to win. Thanks for this opportunity!
Katie
13 Nov 2018I will use the money to buy a new dryer.
Tammy Thompson
14 Nov 2018This looks great!
CyndeeLue
14 Nov 2018Wow…what a lot of work that was to get so many entries into this contest! lol.
BUT WOW! I have so many more new fun resources to check out!! I’ll be a busy mamma for sure. Thanks for throwing the contest!!
Katie
14 Nov 2018What a blessing this would be
Carla White
14 Nov 2018Thank you so much for this opportunity, but not only that, thank you for all of the time and effort spent in creating a place for creative, inspirational ideas (and sometimes a place to vent)! It helps so much to know you’re not alone in the world, because so often it can seem as if you are. Merry Christmas!!
Tauna Meyer
21 Nov 2018I’m so glad it’s been a blessing Carla! 🙂 Thank you so much for being with us. It DEFINITELY helps to know we’re not alone!
Stacy Lynn Herbert White
14 Nov 2018Thank you so much for everything that you have shared with us!
T5iJenn
14 Nov 2018Honestly, there’s a new tattoo I’ve been wanting, and it’s about $500.00. I’ve been saving up, but if I won this money, I could use what I’ve been saving and put it towards Christmas gifts for my family.
Katie Waller
14 Nov 2018I would love to win the giveaway but am not sure what I would do with the money yet! Maybe buy a kitchen appliance!
Sarah Smith
14 Nov 2018I am loving all of your content, resources, and printables! The Christmas giveaway is also such a great opportunity to connect with additional blog sites, and the $500 prize would be a HUGE blessing to pay for all our holiday expenses for this year. Thank you!
Cherie
14 Nov 2018$500 would help us buy gifts for our sons, pay off a debt, and give to special projects at church.
Melissa K.
14 Nov 2018My family has been displaced due to the Paradise, California fire and they believe they have lost their homes. If I won the $500, I would send the money to them. I know it is not much relative to what they have lost, but it might help a little bit, especially around the holidays.
RG
14 Nov 2018This would bless my family greatly as our income is slowed at this more weather insecure time of year.
Jessica Hoffman
14 Nov 2018We could really use Christmas money this year. My boys are getting bigger and hand me downs are all getting worn out. They could use some new clothes. My oldest could use a new coat his doesn’t zip up. They all need new socks and underwear. To whom ever is giving THANk YOU!! To whomever receives bless these wonderful people and count your many blessings
Jenelle
14 Nov 2018Money is incredibly tight for our family this year. For most of the year my husband has been out of work. This money would allow us to buy our kids Christmas presents and get the Christmas Feast that they are used to. It would be such a Christmas Blessing for us.
Sarah Cool
14 Nov 2018If I win I would buy my mom and my niece and nephew some awesome gifts and it would help with the food as well. I hate how broke I always get around the holidays
Shauna Coulson
14 Nov 2018Getting $500 right before Christmas would be a dream. We would use it for gifts, curriculum and to be able to do more than one child from our tree of hope through church.
Julia C
14 Nov 2018This would be such a blessing!
Alicia Hewitt
14 Nov 2018If I won I would put it in my daughter’s college fund.
Kathryn Kabara
14 Nov 2018This is really cool! I love Christmas ideas and extra money would be wonderful!
Justine
14 Nov 2018$500 would be a huge blessing, as we are expecting our 4th “blessing” (child) shortly after Christmas. We would probably use part of it for Christmas gifts, some to share with folks in need at our church, and maybe some for meals out once baby arrives!
Briana
14 Nov 2018Hi Tuana! I just want to thank you so much for sharing your tips and wisdom on organizing homeschool and homemaking life. I was able to catch one of your sessions on loop scheduling in the online conference this past summer and It’s been a real game changer in my home this year. Honestly, I felt like I was just trudging along through homeschooling these past couple years and then, to top it off, we welcomed our 5th baby to the bunch in July. There were days before starting school this year that I just cried because I had know idea how it was all supposed to work with a newborn. Anyway, with the the help of your encouragement and tips, it’s been a year of break through for me. I’m still trying to tailor this “loop idea” to our specific needs, but it’s a beautiful thing to finally have a strategy in place that makes sense for my brain. So, Anyway, thank you for taking the time, out of your busy life, to share and encourage other moms like me.
Tauna Meyer
21 Nov 2018Hi Briana! I am SO incredibly blessed to hear it has helped you as much as it has helped me! Hope you have a wonderful homeschool year. 🙂
Katrina K.
15 Nov 2018We’ve had so many unexpected emergencies this year so our Christmas fund is non existent. I would use this for making my boys’ and friends’ Christmas a little brighter.
Kathleen P.
15 Nov 2018I would like to use it to purchase gifts, food, and winter clothing for a family in need. My daughter is a school teacher, and she has a student in her class with 2 siblings and they are being raised by their grandmother. I would like to help them.
I love reading!
15 Nov 2018I love reading! The free giveaway of money would be helpful too, but the list of Christmas Book Countdown is what brought me to this page. Thnak you!
Terri
16 Nov 2018With an extra $500 I would buy something special for the family and use the rest to help with holiday food.
bethany
16 Nov 2018I’d like to use part of it to give others in anonymous ways.
Some I’d probably save back.
Dawn Snodgrass
18 Nov 2018Thanks for this fun opportunity to not only win a prize, but be introduced to some new resources!
Michelle Hanna
18 Nov 2018I’d love to be blessed with this so that we may bless others this holiday season.
Karen
18 Nov 2018If I won the $500, I would use it to give to a local charity.
Heather Lindsey
19 Nov 2018Thank you for offering this awesome give away! It would be such a blessing to my family, my husband recently started his own business and $500 would be a God send by helping to provide Christmas presents for our 5 children.
Erika Winkle
19 Nov 2018If I was blessed with $500 I would give to further the gospel and buy some more plexus supplements to share with my family and friends who need them because they have been life changing for me and I wanna help others.
bannsmith
19 Nov 2018We currently have our house for sale and are finishing the updates on the fixer upper home we already bought. We would use the $500 to help with Christmas costs, food to bring for family gatherings, and bills for our fixer upper! 🙂
Angela P
19 Nov 2018Love this idea! Thank you for the printable. That money would certainly bless us and we would use some of it to bless my parents this holiday season!
Mia
19 Nov 2018We would use the cash to buy a large bookcase for our homeschool, therapy tools/toys for our daughter, and pool passes for our family! Thank you for chance to dream a bit about such a generous cash prize!
Marci Endres
20 Nov 2018Thanks for your post!
Marci Endres
20 Nov 2018It would help with Christmas expenses, if I were to win!
Eden
20 Nov 2018We are planning a home birth at the end of January, and $500 would help greatly with costs!
rana durham
20 Nov 2018i would pay off bills with it.
Natalie Holland
21 Nov 2018I would really like to win. I have 4 children and we are very tight with money. Thank you