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The best Christmas songs for your children’s choir holiday concert!

If you’re looking for repertoire ideas for your upcoming winter concert, here are some of my students’ and my favorites over the years.

Dancing Tips for Children’s Choir Directors

Here’s how to choose movements that are quick to learn, easy to memorize, look great from the audience, and highlight your choir’s voices.

Doggie Doggie, Where’s Your Bone?

This activity is a music class and summer camp FAVORITE for grades 1-5.

Disco Medley and Disco Bingo Party Game Bundle

This 5-song Disco Medley is full of favorites that will engage and delight your students!

The Fun Way to Teach Recorder

Free recorder printables and sheet music! Using pop songs in our Recorder Karate unit has been wonderfully engaging. Students are excited to learn songs that are relevant to them with color-coded sheet music and fingering charts.

Music Library

Sheet Music, Lyric Sheets, Accompaniment Tracks, and Dance Videos tailored especially to Children’s Choirs ages 4-14.

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Ding Dong Merrily On High

This version is inspired by Celtic Woman and was performed by an all-girls’ choir. It is delicate, floating, and moving – and the students loved the beautiful, melismatic challenge.

Recommended for grades 3-5.

Ring Those Bells

This song will have your Kinders twirling (and parents swooning!).

Recommended for grades TK-K.

Do You Hear What I Hear?

This rockin’ version of the nativity story will have your students dancing in no time!

Recommended for grades 1-3.

The Bell That Couldn’t Jingle

This lesser known Burt Bacharach tune is delightfully sweet!

Recommended for grades 4-5.

Candy Cane Lane

This pop hit from Sia’s “Everyday Is Christmas” album has been transposed to a comfortable key for junior high students. Beware that once introduced, this song will get stuck in everyone’s heads for awhile!

Recommended for grades 5-8.

Alfie the Elf

This sweet story song from Wee Sing Christmas by Susan Nipp is delightfully silly for young students.

Recommended for grades K-2.

Santa Puppy

This playful, child-appropriate version of Santa Baby, renamed “Santa Puppy,” will keep your young singers giggling this holiday season. “Santa Puppy, you’re sweet and cuddly but don't be fooled, it’s cruel when you drench me in drool. Santa Puppy, so go back up the chimney tonight!”

Recommended for grades 1-3.

Christmas Fa-La-La

This upbeat, Beatles-esque, catchy Christmas song will have you dancing and singing along this holiday season! I am always on the hunt for uptempo, sacred Christmas selections where my students will have fun dancing along – so I thought I’d compose one for them.

Recommended for grades K-4.

Disco Medley

I love a genre-based medley for exposing students to multiple songs and to give them a general sense of 1970s music. Not to mention, arranging a mash-up allows me to cherry pick my favorite parts and leave out any bits with an extreme vocal range, inappropriate lyrics, or are too challenging for young voices. My students loved performing this medley, and parents have reported that their kids were singing on repeat at home. Yay!

Recommended for grades K-4.

A Marshmallow World

This upbeat, secular, and visually imaginative classic is definitely a fan-favorite for holiday concerts.

Recommended for grades 3-5.

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Disco Bingo Party Game Bundle

25 Unique Cards for a 1970s Costume Party!

Play by swapping the normal Bingo letters for D-I-S-C-O. Most importantly, whenever we have a winner, everyone celebrates by grooving to 1970s disco hits! Add costumes and a disco ball and you have a groovy night ahead. Fun for all ages!

Solfege Posters

Use these printables to create a colorful and functional “Solfege Wall” in your classroom or musical home. Each poster features a Kodály solfege syllable, hand sign, and background graphics to match the “Do Re Mi” song from The Sound of Music. There are so many possibilities with this open-ended teaching tool – we use our Solfege Wall for vocal warm-ups, sight-singing, and other music games & activities!

Welcome! I’m Lucy, aka Mrs. Stewart

I have been teaching music privately and in the classroom since 2012 and am inspired by my students’ musicality, creativity, and hilarity every day.

My goal as an educator? For my students to experience the joy of music and creation. My teaching style is supportive and energetic, and our activities range from dancing, drumming, and making music videos to rehearsing for larger-than-life events like Disco Bingo.

I stepped back from classroom teaching in 2022, and now focus on raising my young family, directing after-school Songbird Choir, and developing digital resources for fellow music educators. I love designing my own curriculum with attention to quality, detail, and exploration. And as I’m sure you’ll agree, there’s no better motivator than seeing our students’ eyes light up with glee and inspiration!

Here you’ll find ideas, activities, and repertoire that are as fun for students to learn as they are fun for educators to teach. I hope you find inspiration, and then feel free to tailor to your own unique teaching style.

You’ve got this, because music teachers ROCK!

Lucy Stewart has taught music in Seattle and New York, and has been based in Los Angeles since 2018. She earned her degree magna cum laude in Music Education from the University of Washington and is licensed through the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing with a Single Subject Teaching Credential in General Music, Choir, Band, and Orchestra.