We Wish You a Merry Christmas is a traditional, favourite Christmas song that children and adults love to sing! It’s a perfect song to sing at your Christmas concert, school assemblies, family gatherings and of course at home!
Millions of people around the world love our musical arrangement featuring our choir and our instrumental version of We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Over 4 million people have watched on YouTube.
Check out our variety of video versions:
Love to Sing – We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Little Action Kids – We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Lyric version – We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Instrumental version – We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Fun Activities for We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Music
Feel the beat! Sing and clap your hands in time to the beat (the steady pulse) of the song. Play the song again, this time, clap your hands to the rhythm (short and long sounds that fit over an underlining beat).
Challenge: Sing along to the instrumental version also great for concerts and performances!
Social Studies
Find out how Christmas is celebrated in lots of different countries and cultures around the world?
Home Science
Bake a Figgie pudding – yum!
Literacy
Sing and read along to the YouTube song to achieve multi-sensory learning “Do it, see it and hear it!”
Print out the song PDF
Read the song lyrics – ask children a variety of questions.
Re-read the song lyrics and ask children to join in.
Recognise and use a variety of punctuation when reading. “ ” ! ? . ,
Look at print and conventions (bold, italics).
Talk about interesting/challenging words and discuss what they mean.
Word study – phonic knowledge, compound words, rhyming word, contractions etc.
Lyrics for We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Download the Beautiful Lyric Sheet
We wish you a merry Christmas,
We wish you a merry Christmas,
We wish you a merry Christmas
And a happy New Year!
Chorus:
Good tidings we bring to you and your kin.
We wish you a merry Christmas
And a happy New Year!
Oh, bring us some figgy pudding, x3
And bring it right here!
Repeat chorus
We won’t go until we get some, x3
So bring it right here!
Repeat chorus
We all like our figgy pudding, x3
With all its good cheer!
Repeat chorus
Repeat 1st Verse
We wish you a merry Christmas
And a happy New Year!