How to Have a Christmas Caroling Party
Help Kids Spread Christmas Cheer with Christmas Songs
Dec 14, 2007
As the weather cools and the snow starts to fall everyone looks forward to Christmas. Spread holiday cheer in your neighborhood this year by hosting a Christmas caroling party. Invite the young or the young at heart and sing your way through the holiday season!
Christmas Caroling Party Invitations
A caroling party is a casual affair so there is no need for a mailed invite. Call or email your guests to let them know the details of the party. If you do want to host a more formal event you can use an electronic invitation system such as Evite or make your own paper invitations.
To decorate paper invitations buy red and green stamp pads and a music note stamp. Stamp the invitations with the music notes and remind your guests to bring flashlights.
Make Your Own Christmas Caroling Songbooks
Before your guests arrive create Christmas songbooks for them to use while caroling. Depending on the age and number of your guests you can create a songbook for each guest or enough for two or three people to share. Design a colorful cover for the songbooks. Make copies of the lyrics to your favorite Christmas carols.
Place the carols in the order they will be sung, set the cover on top and staple the left side of the sheets to form a booklet. To dress up the songbooks you can punch two holes in the top of the books and tie a ribbon bow through the holes instead of stapling the sides.
Fun Food to Serve at a Christmas Caroling Party
Keep the food simple since singing is the focus of the party. Serve slices of pizza with celery, carrot sticks and ranch dressing. Provide plenty of water and lemonade to prepare everyone’s vocal chords for the singing that will follow. After the caroling is completed invite your guests back inside to warm up with a hot chocolate bar. Boil plenty of hot water and set out packets of hot chocolate in a variety of flavors.
Place bowls of whipped cream, sprinkles, shaved chocolate, marshmallows, crushed candy canes and crushed cookies on a table and invite everyone to top their mugs with treats. Set out platters of Christmas cookies and mini-donuts for a sweet snack.
The best time to go caroling is from 7:00pm until 8:00pm. Most people will be home from work and have eaten dinner by then and small children will still be awake to enjoy the carols. Before your group sets out to perform for the neighbors practice the songs at your home. Remember to stay on the sidewalks while walking and carry flashlights to illuminate the songbooks and make walking in the dark easier. Or create glow stick favors by purchasing glow sticks from the hunting department of any major retail store. Tie red ribbon to the glow sticks to form necklaces.
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