Often the more popular Christmas songs such as Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Jingle Bells can be a little tricky for young children or toddlers to pick up.
So here are some very short christmas action songs with simple piggyback tunes which are ideal for 2-4 year olds.
These are popular playgroup songs about Christmas Crackers and Christmas Puddings (which are typical Christmas traditions here in the UK!) and are brilliant for getting everyone to join in!
Short Christmas Action Song #1: Christmas Pudding
Christmas Pudding, Christmas Pudding, (hold an imaginary bowl)
Nice and Hot (blow) nice and hot, (blow) (blow on the hot pudding!)
Sprinkle on the sugar, sprinkle on the sugar, (sprinkle imaginary sugar)
Eat the lot! Eat the lot! (pretend to eat it & rub your tummy!)
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Christmas cracker, Christmas cracker, (hold an imaginary cracker)
In your hand, In your hand! (hold an imaginary cracker)
Hurry up and pull one, hurry up and pull one, (mime an exaggerated pull!)
It goes BANG! It goes BANG! (clap hands loudly and shout BANG!)
(sung to the tune of Frere Jacques or I Hear Thunder)
Short Christmas Action Song #2: Christmas Day is Coming Soon
Christmas Day is coming soon,
Santa’s on his way!
Bringing toys for girls and boys,
(hold hands in pairs facing each other, just like in Row Row, but pretend to be in sledges whooshing through the snow!)
These short Christmas action songs for 2-4 year olds are perfect to sing in a little group, great at parties or playgroups where you want to get everyone joining in and having some fun.
They borrow their tunes from other well known songs so they can be picked up quickly and easily remembered. Ask the children to choose a partner as these songs work well in pairs. This is so good for confidence building and learning teamwork.
Sing the first two songs sitting facing each other, as they can pretend to pull a cracker together, and then they hold hands and whoosh through the snow on their magic sleighs!
What Christmas songs do you sing with toddlers in your home or classroom? I would love for you to share the ones that you and your kids love in the comments below.
If you’re a nursery school teacher or planning a christmas party for toddlers check out my Christmas lesson plan for lots more festive musical fun!
Lovely little Christmas action song Sara! Just perfect for my little English learners here in France. Thank-you so much.
Thanks Polly! I bet they’ll sound lovely singing them too! Glad you find the site helpful 🙂
This is an amazing app
Thanks Tamera!
I have been looking for the lyrics to a song my son sang in preschool. Has anyone heard it? It is called “We Are Christmas Lights” and from the research that I did I was able to narrow it down to the tune of “We Are Santas Elves”
Here are some of the lyrics and they might be mixed up. It has been almost 7 years since his preschool days.
“We blink Red, we blink blue we blink at christmas time just for you”
Sorry folks that’s all I can remember, I think the other verse uses yellow and green but can’t remember the rhyme
Any help would be appreciated, I have been Googling it over and over and all I get are dead ends. I was trying to contact his pre-k teacher, but she either got married or is no longer in that district.
Hi Amanda,
Not sure about this one i’m afraid! But maybe someone else here can help?
Hope you find it!
Sara
Hi Amanda – I think I found the song you may be looking for.
“We Are Christmas Lights” (to the tune of Jingle Bells)
Verse:
We are Christmas lights,
And you know it’s true,
We blink red and green,
And sometimes white and blue!
We decorate your tree
To make your spirits bright.
Just look at all our colors
When we sparkle every night!
Chorus:
We blink red; we blink green;
We blink white and blue!
Yes we blink at Christmastime: we do it just for you!
Oh, we blink red; we blink green;
We blink white and blue!
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year too!
Hope this is what you were looking for!
Thanks so much for pitching in Thomas!
I’ve been looking for some Christmas songs just like this for my girls, thanks so much for sharing! #LinkandLearn
These are great! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for stopping by our FB Playful Preschool Share day. What great ways to get young kids moving and singing. I have shared a link back to this post here http://theeducatorsspinonit.blogspot.com/2013/12/preschool-reindeer-crafts-and-learning.html
Thanks Amanda! And thanks for inviting us over to share!
You’re welcome! Come visit us anytime!!!