Part of our yearly Christmas traditions is spending Christmas Eve singing carols together as an extended family. Years and years ago, my mom made each member of our family a printable Christmas Songbook.
It was perfect to have a book for each family member so we could sign along and participate. Over the years, we’ve slowly lost our books and we’ve also realized which songs our family always skips past.
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I decided it was time to create my own free pdf printable Christmas Songbook! That way, I would always have a copy of the book easy to print when we inevitably lose our copies or for when our family grows in size.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find free Christmas sheet music to use, but I actually prefer just the popular Christmas songs lyrics.
Christmas Songbook Song List
This songbook includes 36 Christmas songs broken down into three categories so you can easily find the songs you want for your group: kids favorites, songs of the season, and Christ centered carols.
The 12 Kids favorite songs coordinate with a smaller Christmas Songs for Kids songbook I created last year with the same page numbers. The kids Christmas songbook has coloring images on most the pages and keeps kids interested and involved.
Kids Favorites
- Away in a Manger
- Deck the Halls
- Frosty the Snowman
- Here Comes Santa Claus
- I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
- Jingle Bells
- Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
- Let It Snow
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Santa Claus is Coming to Town
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Up on the Housetop
Songs of the Season
- A Holly Jolly Christmas
- Feliz Navidad
- Grandma Got Ranover by a Reindeer
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
- It’s Beginning to look a lot like Christmas
- It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
- Silver Bells
- The Christmas Song
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Christ Centered Carols
- Angels We Have Heard on High
- Do You Hear What I Hear?
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
- Joy to the World
- Little Drummer Boy
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- O Holy Night
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Silent Night
- The First Noel
- We Three Kings
- What Child is This
How to Print & Assemble the Christmas Songbook
The free printable songbook is set up to easily print front to back. If you are able to print both pages front to back with your printer, just open the document and it’s ready to print! Place a sheet of colored cardstock at the top of your paper tray to print your cover with that stronger paper.
If you can’t print front to back, print all the odd pages, then reload your printer tray with the printed pages paying attention to which side and direction your printer prints from.
Print the even pages, allowing them to print to the back of your odd pages.
After your pages have printed, leave them in the order they print, and quickly flip through to ensure your pages are still in the correct order.
Then, just stack all the pages, crease down the center, and use a long neck stapler to reach the center.
Continue below to grab the free printable songbooks!
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In fact, I just printed another 10 copies of our new large format updated version!
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Printable Christmas Sing-Along Songbook PDF
This free Christmas music hymn book is available for personal use. The file is not to be shared in any way. If you want to share this songbook – just send your friends and family to our post for them to grab their own copy of the pdf files.
This helps to protect our copywrite and ensure they have all the pertinent information that goes along with this free download file. You can print limited copies for your own personal use such as in small group caroling settings.
Just click on the link below to save or print your preferred copy of this free PDF printable Christmas songbook!
Christmas Songbook Condensed
NEW! Updated in December 2021, we now have an improved version with few pages — condensed down to 16 page (8 double-sided pages). It still includes all the same songs, but with improved formatting.
This option will be best if you’re limited in your ability to print or simply need to conserve paper or ink such as when making a ton of copies.
This version uses size 14 font in general throughout the file, with some variation as needed. Notice the font size and spacing differences between the two pictures to decide which one is right for you!
Free Christmas Songbook – Condensed Version PDF
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NEW! Large Print Christmas Songbook!
We’ve also created a brand new large format version with 22 pages (11 double-sided pages). The bigger font option is perfect for kids, seniors, and visually impaired. But it’s also just really nice to utilize when singing carols in low lighting!
Both copies still perfectly coordinate with or original printable songbook, so you can keep older copies and use the newer and improved formatting when expanding your collection.
The large print version uses size 18 font or larger for most songs. A few have size 16 font when they just wouldn’t fit larger. You can compare the font sizes with this picture and the one above when trying to decide which one to print!
Free Christmas Songbook – Large Print PDF
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Kids Coloring Christmas Songbook
We also have another free printable, our Kids songbook, which includes just the first 12 songs of the adult songbook. For kids with short attention spans you can start with the fun kid songs, then continue through the rest of the songbook.
The kids songbook even has coloring spots on the pages to keep them entertained. Head over here to grab that printable songbook.
L. E. Mastilock
Thursday 18th of December 2014
This is great! Thank you so much for sharing this for free!
elenor
Tuesday 16th of December 2014
Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas from Austria!
elenor
Tuesday 16th of December 2014
Thanks for sharing! Merry Christmas from Austria.
Brandy
Monday 15th of December 2014
This is perfect for us, we love music. Thanks for sharing this with me!
Kimberly Lewis
Monday 15th of December 2014
I'm totally in love with this! What a great idea.Pinned and tweeted. We appreciate you being a part of our party, and I hope to see you on tonight at 7 pm. We love partying with you! Happy Monday! Lou Lou Girls