Looking for Christmas concert themes for your elementary school? Here are some ideas for Christmas program themes that are simple to put together, yet are interesting and original.
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Why choose A Christmas concert theme?
When you don’t choose a theme for your Christmas concert, it ends up being a mish-mash of songs and skits that don’t go together – and often, the same songs end up getting used over and over.
A great Christmas concert theme helps you choose songs that will go together well, makes decorating easier, and creates a more thoughtful and cohesive presentation for your parents.
What to do with these Christmas concert ideas?
You don’t have to have students sing a song in order to use it as part of your Christmas concert theme. Play instruments, create a dance, pantomime skit, magic, or even a fashion show. Personally, I love a more “variety show” style concert that puts together a lot of different skills and talents. Use your creativity to incorporate these song ideas in different ways and you’ll have a Christmas concert that holds your parents’ attention!
Christmas In The Movies & TV Specials
There are a number of wonderful Christmas songs that either originated in or were made famous by movies or TV specials. Here are some song suggestions for a “Christmas at the Movies” concert theme:
- Where Are You Christmas? (from How The Grinch Stole Christmas)
- You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch (from How The Grinch Stole Christmas)
- White Christmas (Holiday Inn)
- One More Sleep ‘Til Christmas (A Muppets Christmas Carol)
- Frosty The Snowman (from Frosty The Snowman)
- Rudolph The Rednosed Reindeer (from Rudolph The Rednosed Reindeer)
- Christmas Time Is Here (from A Charlie Brown Christmas)
- Making Christmas (from The Nightmare Before Christmas)
- Somewhere In My Memory (from Home Alone)
- Believe (from Polar Express)
Holiday Songs with a Snow Theme
A snow theme is a great choice if you need a more inclusive, non-religious holiday theme, but if you want to you can easily get some Christmas songs in there too if you want them!
- Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
- Winter Wonderland
- Frosty The Snowman
- Snowman (The Barenaked Ladies)
- Footprints (The Barenaked Ladies)
- If It Doesn’t Snow on Christmas (Gene Autry)
“Christmas Gift” Concert Theme
- The Christmas Song by the Chipmunks
- 12 Days of Christmas
- I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas
- We Three Kings (Traditional)
Songs About Elves
- The Happy Elf (Harry Connick Jr)
- Elf’s Lament (The Barenaked Ladies)
- We Are Santa’s Elves (from Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer)
- Cheer for the Elves (Gwen Stefani)
Christmas Songs with a Toy Theme
- Toyland
- Take Me Back To Toyland
- March Of The Toys
- Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
- The Marvelous Toy
Songs About Reindeer & Other Animals
- Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
- Rudolph The Rednosed Reindeer
- Run Run Rudolph
- I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas
Christmas on Broadway Theme
A review of Christmas songs from various Broadway musicals. This could be made up of solos or groups, or both. This theme would work well for older students or experienced singers – probably not younger elementary.
- White Christmas (Holiday Inn)
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Meet Me In St Louis)
- A New Deal For Christmas (Annie)
- We Need A Little Christmas (Mame)
- Merry Almost Christmas (A Year With Frog and Toad)
- Twelve Days to Christmas (She Loves Me)
- Christmas Carol (The Streets of New York)
- Be A Santa (Subways Are for Sleeping)
- Christmas Lullaby (Songs for a New World)
- Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher (Billy Elliot)
Themed Scripts for Elementary Christmas Concerts
Looking for a concert that will really impress your administration and parents? These ready-to-use scripts weave Christmas songs right into the storyline for a cohesive performance. All are originally written and school-tested!
Santa’s Time Machine Concert Script
Two of Santa’s elf trainees touch something they shouldn’t – and are lost in time. Can Santa, with the help of his analyst and communications officers, find them and bring them home before they alter the timeline?
The show is approximately 30 – 45 minutes in length, depending on the number of scenes & songs used.
1940s Radio New Year Broadcast Concert Script
This original script for an 1940s radio broadcast seamlessly weaves songs into one cohesive story for a entertaining concert your parents will enjoy watching.
This story takes place at a 1940s radio station during their New Year’s Eve broadcast. Things start going awry when not everyone arrives in time for the show, and the program director is left to get someone – ANYone – to fill the roles.
There is also a Christmas Eve version of this script.
The Colours of Christmas
The Colours of Christmas is the story of Santa’s “new look”. The head elf hires an image consultant to give Santa a makeover, but this proves to be more difficult than it might seem! The image consultant and his/her assistants come up with a number of new outfits in different colours for Santa to try. (Accompanied by a Christmas song featuring that colour).
The show is approximately 30 – 45 minutes in length and showcases two students who have genuine acting ability and comic timing while also providing smaller, manageable parts for other students.
Tracking Santa Christmas Concert Script
Tracking Santa is a mock news broadcast script, as *your country*’s space agency has discovered a way to use satellites to track Santa’s progress around the world. Each country that Santa visits is accompanied by a Christmas song from that country.
The show is approximately 30-35 minutes in length. Most of the parts do not actually have to be memorized.
The Colours of Christmas
The Colours of Christmas is the story of Santa’s “new look”. The head elf hires an image consultant to give Santa a makeover, but this proves to be more difficult than it might seem! The image consultant and his/her assistants come up with a number of new outfits in different colours for Santa to try. (Accompanied by a Christmas song featuring that colour).
The show is approximately 30 – 45 minutes in length and showcases two students who have genuine acting ability and comic timing while also providing smaller, manageable parts for other students.
THe Christmas Cafe Concert Script
The story takes place in a curiously-themed restaurant, “The Christmas Café”, in which all the menu items are inspired by lyrics from Christmas songs. On Christmas Eve the traffic is slow due to the weather, and the waiter is impatient to close up for the night. Just when the Manager gets ready to give in, a customer enters… and that’s where our story of second chances really begins.
The show is approximately 30 minutes in length. Small cast of spoken characters and 5 songs. There is also a religious concert or pageant version.
Christmas Countdown Concert Script
Christmas Countdown is a mock TV “Countdown Special” that highlights 12 common (but often comical!) aspects of the season. For each number in the countdown there is a song and/or vignette for the students to perform. This script is great for letting lots of kids have a moment to shine, whether singing, acting, dancing, or even physical comedy.
The Gift – Christmas Concert script
What do you get the child who has everything? Tinsel the elf likes everything neat, organized, and by the book, so they don’t know what to do when the North Pole receives a letter that doesn’t fit the usual rules. What do you give a child who has everything? Luckily, some elf friends help Tinsel to get creative, and the result is a gift that will last much longer than a toy.
This Christmas concert script is short (30 min) and sweet, with speaking parts for 8 characters and 6 songs that can be performed by a choir or separate classroom groups.
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