Favorite Christmas & New Years Songs for Your Children

Many years ago family groups and church choirs would bundle up for winter weather with song books in hand and go door-to-door singing Christmas carols. Delighted residents would bring out coffee, hot chocolate and cookies, making cold weather singing much more rewarding.

Although times have changed, children can still sing these favorite Christmas carols at family gatherings and for Sunday school holiday fun. The words and music for all of our favorites below can be found online. I wanted to list them in case you had forgotten them and would like to teach them to your kids.

1. "Away in a Manger"
2. "Silent Night"
3. "Deck the Halls"
4. "Jingle Bells"
5. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
6. "Santa Clause is coming to Town"
7. "Little Drummer Boy"
8. "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"
9. "Hark! The Harold Angels Sing"
10. "We Three Kings"
11. "Angels We Have Heard on High"
12. "Frosty the Snowman"
13. "O' Christmas Tree"
14. "White Christmas"
15. "The First Noel"
16. "What Child is this?"
17. "Feliz Navidad"
18. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
19. "Silver Bells"
20. "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas"
21. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
22. "It's The Most Wonderful Time of The Year"
23. "Joy to the World"
24. "Let it Snow"
25. "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
26. "Oh Come All Ye Faithful"
27. "Oh Come Let Us Adore Him"
28. "Up On the Housetop"
29. "Go Tell It on the Mountain"
30. "Auld Lange Syne"

Pick your personal favorites, search them online and print out the lyrics and music to share at your family Christmas gatherings, church nativity production or New Year's Eve parties. Children love to sing and you will find that singing is one of the most inexpensive holiday activities in which everyone can easily participate.

Why not throw a Christmas tree-trimming party for your kids and their friends with hot chocolate, popcorn and Christmas carols? Then have a tree take-down New Year's Eve party with hot apple cider, popcorn and several rounds of "Auld Lange Syne" on the side!

I guarantee parties will make your holiday tree-trimming easier for you and more fun for your kids with Christmas carols. Teach your children these fun Christmas and New Year's songs, as singing them together as a family will become an endearing holiday tradition for you as well as your children. Feliz Navidad!