Where To Find Christmas Plays For Children?

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In just a few weeks, we’ll be starting our Christmas Children’s choir to prepare for the annual Christmas pageant. The holiday season is a coming soon and having the kids perform is one of our church’s favorite Christmas activities. But first, we need to find the right Christmas program for our smaller church.

Four Free Christmas Programs

Christmas in Genesis? – free program for Christmas
“A Super Christmas” script -A group of famous super heroes who discover that while Baby Jesus did come to save the world, he won’t be stealing their jobs!
The Birth of Jesus – a free Christmas play
Christmas Hope play for Children
Faith Baptist Church shared their program online (Doc version or PDF)
“Who’s This All About” Christmas Script & Family Experience

Need more help? Use these Bible verses about Christmas to make your own play.

I started my research on Google, and soon discovered there were very few free Christmas plays for kids choirs. It looks like many churches simply mix together Christmas poems, Bible verses and Christmas songs music to create a short 30-minute Kids Christmas program. This is what we’ve done in past years, but this year we’re going for something a little larger than a Children’s Christmas skit. I’m looking for music and drama that features Christmas stories. Some biblical costumes would be fun too, and it must come with a complete play script.

Professionally Published Christmas Programs

God’s Kids Worship has a split track DVD of Christmas music that makes it super easy for any church to produce a kids choir event for Christmas.
I searched Christmas play on Amazon.com I love these because all the customer reviews available for each program for Christmas. You can also listen to some of the Christmas songs online.
LifeWay sells hundreds of musical programs, you can browse or search to find a Christmas pageant for children. They specialize in religious Christmas programs that would work well for a kids musical at church.

Independent Christmas Pageants For Children

Fools for Christ has some biblical drama scripts.
Cathy’s Music offers several Christmas Musicals for children. This site has over 15 plays for Christmas. You should be able to find the right program for small children’s choirs here.
Taylor Made Productions has Christmas plays. One major benefit of using an independently published church musical is you can contact the people who wrote the program. This website has pictures from their pageant for Christmas, and hints from the original director.
Guiding Light Video sells complete kits to host a kids Christmas paly
Pioneer Drama Services also sells a large selection of Children’s Christmas programs. This site sells a large selection of kids musicals for Christmas.

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Meketa September 10, 2009 at 1:48 pm

Does anyone out there write there own. We usually write our own Christmas plays and add our music,this works great for your budget, you can spend your money on decorations and such. We include our puppets with puppets songs. Sometimes we add our angels dancing. One year the puppets were the lead characters in telling the Christmas story, one of our best. I would love to hear about other original pieces, and the music you added. Sometimes the music is the hard part.

Susanne September 18, 2009 at 1:05 am

Maketa, It’s getting really late in the year but could you send some of your plays to me to read through for this years Christmas. We could use puppets in our play as well. thanks so much, Susanne

Meketa September 18, 2009 at 11:00 am: Susanne
Happy Friday!
If you will send me your email, I will email the two I have now.
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John Meyer August 31, 2009 at 5:51 pm

I highly reccomend “Carriers of the Light”. It’s at Christianbooks.com. We did it last year and was our most sucessfull Christmas play ever!

Denine Hicks August 31, 2009 at 3:56 pm

We also performed “All I Want for Christmas” in 12/08 and it was a huge hit. The songs were good (I shortened a few of them to move things along) and the message was terrific — Christmas is NOT all about “getting” stuff!

april October 22, 2009 at 11:27 pm

I am looking for a play for kids ranging from ages 6 to 13 and I only have around 6-8 kids. Will this play “All I Want for Christmas” work for this amount of kids? Thanks.

Barbie October 23, 2009 at 7:53 am

We are in the exact same situation. Please let me know if this would be an option. Thank you.

Denine Hicks October 23, 2009 at 1:13 pm: This is a GREAT musical, but pulling it off with only 6-8 kids and starting at the end of October might be VERY difficult. You’d need to be practicing many hours between now and the performance. If you have some adults to play the parts of the sales clerk and the Mom, a VERY strong actress/singer for Lindsay (who has a TON of lines and a solo), 4 kids to play the toys, a boy to play Jeremy and cut out some of the minor parts, it *might* be possible. I don’t mean to discourage you, but I’m trying to be realistic. One of the things I found most helpful was to give every child a CD of the play/music to learn with at home. I told the parents to put the CD in the car and play it until they were sick of it! :-) Best of luck to you!

Please feel free to contact me if you have other questions: deninehicks@gmail.com

Melody White August 24, 2009 at 5:51 pm

We did “The Best Little Christmas Pageant Ever” last year in our church. We bought it from Samuelfrench.com. We absolutely loved it. It was cross generational and lasted about 40 minutes. It was so fabulous I’m having a hard time coming up with a play for this year. iIcan’t imagine anything being as good as last year’s. Any suggestions? I really prefer comedies.

Olivia Sinclair August 9, 2009 at 10:31 pm

Last year we did Kathy Hills “Dr. Newheart’s Christmas Cure” Not only is it cute and clever, but it is so well written as she has a history in music theatre, I mean the characters are well developed, the songs are well written and orchestrated and they flow easily with the dialogue. Instead of a very bland narrative, then Christmas song, the sons actually propel the story along and the hilarious characters add a lot of density. Not, to mention the theology is very sound. This play has been around since about 1990.. I was in it as a kid and then directed it and the style really has stood the test of time. you guys need to check it out. Kathiehillmusic.com

Donna May 6, 2009 at 4:02 pm

If anyone is looking for a Christmas play for 2009, I highly recommend “All I Want For Christmas”! Our children had so much fun doing this musical and the audience loved it. You can watch our performance and see how we decorated the stage at http://www.theriverishere.com . Go to ministries, and click on children’s ministry and then Children’s Christmas Dinner Theatre to watch. It is a story of a bratty little girl who wants everything that she sees for Christmas and loses the true meaning. After falling asleep in the toy dept of a store, she has a dream in which the toys come to life and she teaches them the true meaning of Christmas.

The First Leon is also a wonderful play! We did it the year before! I’d be glad to answer any more questions!

Melanie February 7, 2009 at 1:16 pm

Anyone out there happen to find an accompaniment track for A Star is Born? I’m in desperate need (it’s spring I know). Would love to borrow, buy, or rent your copy.

diana January 16, 2009 at 12:11 am

I’m looking for a book titled ’1 Rehersal Christmas Plays (or Programs), my mom thought it was put out by cook ministries but I haven’t found it, can anyone help? Thanky

Dora December 30, 2008 at 9:32 pm

I am very interested in your plays. I have a small group of children that would love to do an Easter play.
Please send me some copies of your Easter plays. Thank you and may the Lord Bless You!:)

Nancy December 22, 2008 at 11:38 pm

We just had our Christmas Play this past weekend and it was Awesome! We did a play called “A new home for Christmas” and added our own music. The story centered around 2 little boys who’s mom had just passed 3 months prior and they found themselves in an orphanage for Christmas. It was truly a wonderful program. We added our own music which included: To know him is to love him; Stand by Me; I’m a Believer; Turn, Turn, Turn; I will follow him (Sister Act version); Put a little love in your heart – all songs on the Halleluiah Hop CD. It was awesome. If you want any additional info, email me!

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