As we all know, the holidays can quickly become one of the busiest times of the year. Plan ahead so you can relax and enjoy spending time with your loved ones, and skip being “stressed out,” “frustrated” or just “too busy.” Consider how Usborne Books & More can help.
Shop Early – Shop for the best selection of new Usborne and Kane Miller Christmas titles for your family, not to mention mention…they make wonderful gifts. View All Christmas & Holiday titles. Better yet – host an Usborne Books & More show and get all your books free! Contact me right away so you can get your preferred date!
Decorate with Books! 
–The Usborne Advent Calendar to Color, Usborne Advent Nativity Book and My Christmas Tree make great interactive holiday decorations the whole family will enjoy.
Do you have rain gutter bookshelves up in your home yet? They are a wonderful child-friendly way to entice kids to read more books by showing them the fronts of the covers, but keep them tidy and help beautify you walls all at the same time. Plus, they are an inexpensive DIY project! There are also other samples of this type of shelving here and I have found examples of using IKEA spice racks in this fashion as well.
You can change out the books to match the holiday decor and keep all the holiday books and cook books at the ready. I also love the idea of wrapping them and opening them on various days of Advent! Perhaps you can plan ahead to bake cookies on a particular day, so wrap the cook book you’ll be using in fun paper, put it on the rain gutter bookshelf as a decoration and mark it with that date. Then open it and make the cookies that day!
Take Christmas cards off your list – Let your children add a personal touch to your Christmas cards this year with Usborne’s 20 Pop-Up Christmas Cards to Color and 20 Christmas Cards to Color You can color and send or send uncolored with a note to the recipient that they get to color it and send you a photo.
I’ll be sharing loads more fun ideas like this in the weeks to come!
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