Christmas Nursery Rhymes & Carols for Children
Start with a familiar chorus, find a gentle carol for Christmas Eve, or choose a song to learn together in class.
For a family singalong: Start with Jingle Bells. Let children shake imaginary bells through the chorus. Finish with one quiet verse of Silent Night.
For a class: Read Christmas Is Coming together, then split the class into a verse group and a chorus group for Deck the Halls. Swap after the first verse.
Start singing
Easy choruses
Begin with a refrain everyone can learn by ear.
Quiet carols
Gentle songs for the end of a class or a quiet Christmas Eve.
Traditional carols
Carols for a nativity, concert or family singalong.
Songs around the world
Explore Christmas songs in other languages and follow familiar carols back to their original words.
Festive favourites
Winter songs, comic rhymes and festive stories.
Full Christmas song collection
- 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
- All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
- Angels We Have Heard on High
- Away in a Manger
- Children, Go Where I Send Thee
- Christmas Comes But Once a Year
- Christmas Is Coming
- Dame, Get Up and Bake Your Pies
- Deck the Halls
- Ding Dong Merrily on High
- Do You Hear What I Hear?
- Feliz Navidad
- Frosty the Snowman
- Go Tell It On The Mountain
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- Good King Wenceslas
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- Here We Come A-Caroling
- I Saw Three Ships
- I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
- Il est né, le divin Enfant
- In the Bleak Midwinter
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
- Jingle Bells
- Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
- Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
- Joy to the World
- Let It Snow!
- O Christmas Tree
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- O Holy Night
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- O Tannenbaum
- Once in Royal David's City
- Over the River and Through the Wood
- Silent Night
- Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
- The First Noel
- The Friendly Beasts
- The Holly and the Ivy
- The Little Drummer Boy
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Tu scendi dalle stelle
- Up on the Housetop
- We Three Kings
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- What Child Is This?
- Winter Wonderland