Monthly Stories for Kids

Our monthly stories for kids calendars have been HUGELY popular! These make spending intentional time reading a good book with your kids easy as we’ve picked books and simple activities based on special days, themes, and holidays. See for yourself! Pick the month coming up from our list at the bottom of the post, pop over to the post – scroll to the bottom and click on the TEXT LINK under the terms of use to download that month’s FREE stories for kids calendar. You’ll have to drop us a comment and let us know what children stories are your favorite!

Book Activities

Easy, Low Prep, Intentional Family Fun
FREE – we’ve done the work so you just print, grab books/supplies, and have fun with your kids.
Printable Book & Activity Calendar – to take to the library to get your books and hang on your fridge to reference daily
Recommended Stories for Kids – we recommend several really good books you will love reading with your kids – each days are based on the special day, holiday, or seasonal theme.
FUN Activities – each day we recommend (and give instructions for) several creative, fun, and unique crafts and activities based on the book (s) you read together.
We’ve triple checked that the books are available at most public libraries AND included an alternative or two just in case you can’t get a hold of a copy.
Perfect for the whole family – from toddler through elementary age kids and more!

Monthly Activity Calendar Printable

Scroll through to find the month and you can print the book calendar filled with delightful stories for kids and FUN activities to go along with each day!

Book Craft Ideas

Use books to extend your learning of a wide variety of topics, subjects, and themes! When my kids were little I loved using 5 in a Row curriculum that used a classic book as the springboard for math, language arts, history, science, music, art, and more! Here are some of the fun book based learning you may want to enjoy with your kiddos too!