Nursery Rhyme Nativity

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Enhance all your festive seasonal activities by adding these lovely nursery Christmas songs. Each one is presented as a beautifully illustrated lyric sheet to help remind you and your children of the words. Keep a few copies around the room once you have practised them together, to help remind children to return to them throughout the day. Using early years Christmas songs, like these, even the shyest of children can be gently nurtured to sing in front of crowds, strengthen their vocal cords, and project their voice. This makes these early years Christmas songs an excellent choice for Expressive Arts and Design learning in early years over the festive period. Based in the UK and the USA, we’ve been serving the online theatre community since the last century. We’re primarily a family-run business and several of us also work in professional theatre.

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As well as teaching traditional carols and other early years Christmas songs to your children, why not share the magic of Christmas with some of our original lyrics, set to the tunes of well-known nursery rhymes? These catchy alternative lyrics make great group or circle-time activities and are lots of fun to sing together! Engaging with the singing aspect in Expressive Arts and Design can be much more productive at Christmastime, since everybody’s in the Christmas spirit! Christmas often brings people together, so even the shyest of children may be seen joining in with a little sing along or two! Our Christmas nursery rhymes with lyrics can guide children to project their voice in front of an audience, which is great for confidence building. This range of Christmas nursery rhymes with lyrics sheets has all your planning and prep needs sorted. Use this lovely nursery rhyme theme to cover a broad range of teaching outcomes within your adult-led and continuous provision! Words for Life is created by the National Literacy Trust and supported by UK publishers with funding for its creation from the DfE and Kindred 2.We also have a selection of Nativity Nursery Rhymes which are great for supporting your teaching of The Christmas Story for EYFS. This collection of Christmas rhymes takes some classic, well-known tunes and give them a Christmas spin, making them perfect for getting your Nursery and Reception classes in the spirit of the festive season. Nursery rhymes often make up an integral of early years’ development. They are children's first insights into poetry, rhyming, patterns, and open them up to a world of imaginative characters, settings, and storylines! Here's an extract of one of our favourite early years Christmas songs below, to get you in the mood!:

Early Years Nativity Nursery Rhymes | Nativity Songs - Twinkl

Our lovely Christmas songs for early years children can also be used as inspiration for creative design activities. Why not sing I'm A Christmas Angel before making your own Paper Christmas Angels? Browse our lovely collection of Christmas music and early years Christmas songs resources that can be used throughout the month of December to bring the festive spirit into your setting. Singing songs together is a great way to bring a lovely festive feel to your setting. As well as encouraging children to practice speech sounds, these nursery Christmas songs make great memorable mini-topics to help you teach children about festive traditions. Here are some ideas for ways of including songs in your teaching:

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On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: Six geese a-laying, five golden rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. Challenge children to create their own movement routine or add actions to these rhymes to encourage motor development. The act of singing a rhyme or engaging with it through physical actions, encourages children to express themselves in a creative way and to find their own personal 'voice'. Lots of our Christmas nursery rhymes with lyrics involve some lovely festive action songs. Here’s one of our favourites, below!

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Singing a nursery rhyme is a great way to bond with your little one and support their language development. Our Christmas nursery rhymes with lyrics come with lovely, engaging illustrations, hand-drawn by our team of illustrators. Print off as many times as you like so that each child can have one of their own. The vibrant colours and friendly images will help them to feel comforted and at ease to follow along to the words in the song. Learning about the nativity can be a brilliant way to teach your children about different cultural celebrations. The famous bible story is celebrated by lots of peoples across the world. Teaching children about why for many people this time of year is so important can help them to celebrate the diversity of their community. Singing nursery songs can also be an engaging way to communicate the story of the nativity. This is a simple nativity story with songs changed from original nursery rhymes to fit in with the story of the first christmas. This Nativity was just right for our children. It was simple, easy to learn and the children just loved it! The parents were so enthusiastic too, and everyone declared it the best Nativity they have ever seen. I look forward to all new titles that Golden Apple produces!’The wonderful thing about learning a nursery rhyme nativity script is there is an opportunity for some English education too. Kids can learn new vocabulary and literary devices such as alliteration. Print out some of the songs to improve their phonological awareness. You can work together on your child's pronunciation of the words. Singing words in a group will make kids feel less shy when they make a pronunciation error.

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On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: Five golden rings, four calling birds, three French hens, Two turtle doves And a partridge in a pear tree. With lots of mice, animals and a popular nativity ending,'An Easy Cheesy Nativity' solves those Early Years Nativity worries, with an easy-to-remember format, simple songs, plenty of fun and humour - all securely led by your own teacher-narrator. Bethlehem mice are disturbed one night when lots of animal visitors appear in their barn, looking for 'someone special'. The mice become very excited with all the talk and promise of lots of cheese ! The children love singing to the familiar songs and is preparing them for their nursery nativity performance.’ For more seasonal singing suggestions, see our Nursery Christmas Songs collection. Why should I use these Nativity nursery rhymes with my class?

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Get children excited for making Christmas decorations with our Christmas Lights Song, sung to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. The songs are very easy for young children to learn. Possible to add musical instruments if wished. Opportunities for a solo. Children loved it!’