A Treasury of Christmas Carols in Manuscript to Trace and Color

This large-print manuscript penmanship book with its richly colored, lavish illustrations focused on the story of Jesus’ birth is a delightful way for kids to practice their handwriting while focusing on Christmas. We created this book as a way to draw the family together during the Christmas season. Our kids loved to make Christmas last, from the first of December to the new year. Why not combine Christmas celebration and handwriting practice as your kids learn the words to multiple verses of favorite Christmas carols by tracing or copying them in manuscript printing?

For each of 14 Christmas carols, we provide each verse of each carol in large-size (32-point) dotted manuscript printing cursive to trace, plus the same verse in solid print for kids to copy using the 11 decorated lined pages, in 5 line sizes, at the back of the book. Includes 2 bonus carols in solid print for copying (these do include 2 of the verses each to trace). We also include coloring pages depicting scenes from the story of the birth of Jesus, as well as pictures to color of families celebrating Christmas around the world. You are allowed to print out the pages for all family members in your same household year after year.

We suggest putting the finished carol pages in a notebook and using it to sing the Christmas carols, either just as a family or with guests. Let this book be a jump off point to instill in your children a love for singing and a special place in your family schedule for singing Christmas carols every year at Christmas time.

You can also purchase our Christmas music CD, Christmas Carols, Sweet and Clear (available on this site), which includes 10 of the carols that are in this book, for your children to listen to while they do the handwriting practice on these pages, or to provide the accompaniment as they sing along with it.

The 16 songs included in this book are:

• O Little Town of Bethlehem
• What Child is This?
• Angels We Have Heard on High
• While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night
• The First Noel
• Silent Night
• Away in a Manger
• O Come All Ye Faithful
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• Joy to the World
• It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
• O Holy Night
• In the Bleak Midwinter
• Of the Father’s Love Begotten

Our coloring pages include many different views of the Nativity scene, manger animals, angels, Jesus blessing the children, Jesus triumphant entry, black folk leaving slavery behind, men and horses working in a barn, the Mexican tradition of Las Posadas, children caroling, children gazing at nativity scenes, magnificent Mount Shasta, and a waterfall scene near Mount Ranier. All coloring pictures are relevant to one or another verses in the Christmas carols.

The professional handwriting font set used in our penmanship books is used by public schools across the U.S. This book is reproducible for all students living in the same home as the book’s owner.