Activities to celebrate Book Day as a family

How to encourage reading in children

Literature should be part of children's lives from his earliest childhood. Books are those magical manuals with which you can live adventures, meet other civilizations, fantastic animals and all kinds of magical beings. All this together with the incredible imagination of children, make reading a life subject. For this reason, it is so important that children learn to love books, instead of seeing them as just another obligation.

With the celebration of Book Day, we have the great opportunity to introduce children into the wonderful world of reading. Always from the game and from the leisure activities, so that the little ones become passionate about books and reading becomes a habit of life. For this reason, we propose these activities to celebrate Book Day as a family.

Make a story

How to make a story with children

Crafts are perfect for working with children many of their skills, concentration, motor skills or waiting, for example. But they are also the perfect activity for the little ones develop all their creativity.

Making a personalized story is a perfect craft for this Book Day. Children can invent their own story, illustrate their story with their drawings, write it by hand if they already know how to do it, and even bind and decorate it to fully personalize it. In the link, you will find some tips for create a completely handmade story with the kids.

Make a bookmark

Every self-respecting reader needs to have some bookmarks for their books. At some point you have to stop reading and so as not to lose the exact point where you left the reading, you need a bookmark. Any object can be used for this purpose, a business card, a napkin or a photograph for example. But if you have a beautiful and decorative bookmark, you will want to use it much more, especially children.

You can make a bookmark in many ways, it is a simple and easy object to do. Then we leave you some ideas:

  • With ice cream sticks, eva rubber, paints and colored buttons
  • Cutout cards with animal shapes or your favorite character
  • T-shirt yarn tapes braided

The possibilities are endless, but if you need some inspiration in the link you will find some ideas de how to make a bookmark for children.

Visit a library

Visit a library with the children

Since new technologies came into our lives, we stopped practicing such common activities as visiting the library. Nowadays it is easy to have any book on hand, you can buy it online and receive it comfortably at home or in your e-book. But although it is still a convenience and a breakthrough for many, is not the same as visiting a bookstore or library.


Visiting a place full of books, touching them with your hands, smelling their pages, seeing the illustrations or images on the covers, are wonderful stimuli that promote the habit of reading. This is something that is completely lost when buying online and most kids don't know that feeling.

Take the opportunity to visit a library in your city with your children, they are wonderful spaces worth visiting frequently. You can also go to a bookstore where children can see the books, touch them and even enjoy a storytelling. Surely the experience will be very positive and you will be asked to repeat on more than one occasion.

Do not forget to read with your children every day, it is not necessary that you do it for hours or that you have a lot of time available. You just need to dedicate ten minutes a day to read for a while with them, read them a good night story or an adventure on rainy days. Children must become familiar with books and for this, they need the example of those who are their references, their parents, their grandparents, their cousins ​​and those closest to them.

Finally, although it is the most repeated and common activity on Book Day, do not miss the opportunity to give a book to another person. It's a great way to promote this wonderful habit.


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