A recent Facebook asked for help finding a cute song for K-3 students. In this article, I’m giving suggestions for easy and cute holiday concert ideas for your primary (PreK-Grade 3) students. If you choose a song that is already familiar to the students it will be quicker and easier to learn. Some of the ones that most will have heard before include those in the K-3 Christmas Concert Idea Book.
K-3 Christmas Concert Idea Book
* The Bells on the Sleigh (new words to Wheels on the Bus) Watch a performance on YouTube – this is fun and easy for kids to learn! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHqpE8tEjRU
* He’ll be Comin’ down the Chimney – fun and easy! See a performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDlcOY8qQeg
* And Santa is his name (BINGO with Santa words)
* Jingle Bells (song and dance)
* Up on a Housetop
AND 20+ more songs, poems, fingerplays – see complete contents at the link
We have nice recordings of ALL of these in K-3 Christmas Concert Ideas.
Don’t have time to wait for a book/CD to come by mail? No problem – all of our Christmas collections are available as downloads. In the download you get the pdf file of the book and a folder with all of the MP3s of performance and accompaniment. There are also poems for choral reading, a reader’s theatre of “The Elves and the Shoemaker”, a mini-play, “No Cookies for Santa” a Nativity scene, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Ribbon dance, finger plays, and more! This is a great deal – $18 download for the whole collection — many single song kits are $15 for one song.
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Kinder Christmas Collection
Another favourite familiar song for your primary students is Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. We recorded a performance and accompaniment track for Rudolph in Kinder Christmas collection. Another familiar song in this collection is “There was a Little Baby” – the song that was recorded on the Raffi Christmas album. We’ve included an accompaniment track so your kids voices will be heard without Raffi in the background. $20 Book/CD
The collection includes these songs:
* Feliz Navidad, Joyeux Noel
* Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer
* Reindeer Love to Boogie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJx2I9h7hRk
* There Was a Little Baby (with acc. track)
* Tap, Tap, Tap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih6hetJ_qzI
* Let’s Be Jolly
* Chris tmas ABC (American)
* Christmas ABC (Canadian)
* Gingerbread
* Teddy Bear Twist
* I Hear the Bells
* Ten Little Angels
* Christmas Dance
* Rock Around the Christmas Tree
* Play the Bells to Celebrate
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Christmas Favorites Collection
Santa Claus is Cominʼ to Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ_HvB0nvZI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYvMCH5KZ1k
Jolly Jolly Santa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X6z5zYyNv4
Snowflakes (partner with Jingle Bells)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjdIWz4Csbs
Christmas at the Hop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4NXd30vP5s
Other Songs in the Collection are:
* I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
* Do You Hear What I Hear?
*Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
* Christmas Candles
* Follow the Star
* What Child is This?
Optional Biblical Readings
* Starry Night
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Christmas Concert Idea Book
Makin’ Christmas Cookies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2DUeSKmhP8
* Shine a Light for Peace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mbqi83icc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCEsJyha1Tc
* AND 10 More songs! Includes a Nativity for Catholic or Christian schools:
*Christmas is my Favorite Time of Year
* Time to Pack the Sleigh
* Santa’s Computer
* Christmas Spirit
* Presents
* The Road to Bethlehem
* Little Star
* Glory to God in the Highest
* The Colors of Christmas
* Christmas Time is Here
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Christmas Music Lessons
This is a collection of lessons and activities based on nine familiar Christmas carols. Each song is notated for vocals, soprano recorder in two parts, Boomwhackers in two parts, a variety of percussion instruments, and with chords provided for ukulele (or guitar). All parts can be used together and also work in any combination. Each song comes with a vocal track and an orchestrated accompaniment track. A slower accompaniment track is given for Boomwhacker play alongs. Reproducible and Projectable lyrics are included so the songs could be used in a performance or a school holiday sing along. The activities include naming notes, writing notes, recognizing rhythms, creating new melodies, as well as fun games and word puzzles based on the lyrics of the carols and the song information.
* African Noel
* Jolly Old St. Nicholas
* Up on the Housetop
* Joy to the World
* Jingle Bells
* Christmas Chopsticks
* D’où viens-tu bergère?
* Over the River and Through the Wood
* O Come Little Children
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Themes & Variations publishes many more Holiday and Christmas collections and there are many holiday songs in the Musicplay PreK – Grade 6 curriculum. Visit http://musicplay.ca/ to see our complete Christmas section.