How to Organize a Christmas Caroling Party

Get into the spirit of the Christmas season with a Christmas caroling party for your friends. Delight your neighbors by singing carols at their doorstep or just gather around a piano in the family room if you prefer.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Christmas Carol Lyric Books
• Christmas Tree Ornaments
• Christmas Trees
• Candles
• Tree Stands
• Eggnog
• Finger Foods
• Hot Chocolates
• Nonalcoholic Punch
• Sodas
• Paper Plates
• Punch Bowls
• Punch
• Punch
• Paper plates
• Candles

1. Invite friends who really enjoy singing ' on key, that is. Members of a church choir or other singing group would be perfect.

2. Invite other friends who can't hold a tune. Tell them they can help decorate your tree, so they won't feel they have to sing. Chances are they'll join in the caroling anyway.

3. Ask guests to bring their favorite scarves, hats and mittens to get the right look.

4. Buy books of Christmas carols for your guests. Make sure everyone will have a copy since many people do not know every verse to every carol.

5. Make candle holders by poking holes into paper plates if you plan to carol outside. Slide the candles through the paper plate. These candles will provide light so people can read the lyrics.

6. Plan to have a variety of finger foods, cold and warm, and a variety of drinks, including hot chocolate to warm up the carolers after their singing adventures in the cold.

Tips & Warnings

• You can find lyrics for Christmas carols online or at a local music store.
• A good rule of thumb is to give your neighbors five minutes to answer the door before you move on to the next house. You might want to call your neighbors ahead of time so they can make sure to be home when you arrive.
• Many people are self-conscious about their singing so keep wisecracks to a minimum.

Resources

• Letter From Santa
• Christmas Recipes

[genealogy-janet]

on 12/3/2008 Our youth group collected 2 grocery carts full of food for the needy at last night's caroling outing. We filled 4 wagons to overflowing. We were grateful for the food drop-off at a local grocery store. With all the excitement the children couldn't help but to ring house bells so that the residents could be sung to and thanked in person. Leaders commented afterward a disire to visit a larger area next year. It was fun for all and left us with a warm feeling. I so enjoyed the delighted faces of those we sang to.

[genealogy-janet]

on 12/2/2008 Our 8-12 year old youth groups (boy scouts and activity day girls) will go caroling for food in lieu of their annual Christmas parties. We will meet at the church at 6:30 p.m. to practice the carols and hand out our Christmas gift to them, gloves stuffed with candy. We will walk the 4 blocks squaring around the chuch to sing our carols while pulling wagons to pick up bags of food for the local food bank. The neighborhood residents will be notified the day of the event and invited to contribute nonperishable food to the partially preloaded and labeled brown paper grocery sacks in front of their homes. No bell ringing or waiting, but the residents will be welcomed to come out and listen or join in as we sing carols and collect food for the needy this Christmas season. The children will return to the church for hot chocolate and biscotti, after loading the thirtysome bags of food

[carolersunited]

on 11/25/2008 This website has absolutely INSPIRED ME into the caroling party/holiday spirit. However, I threw such a bazaar last year, and several off-key carolers who seemed to have a little too much confidence in their own ability spoiled the second verse of silent night. This RUINED the entire event. Next year, I am requiring audition tapes in advance. Any applicants who are deemed untalented will be not only invited by obligated to decorate the treeS. I will be preparing two punches as suggested, (I will eliminate the costs of nonalcoholic in this economic turmoil by making one of the aforementioned two punchi nonalcoholic itself.) one warning I would add to the list is that you should refrain from lighting the candles until they are placed inside the paper plate appararatusi. At last year's disaster, one of the trees burned down and my home was condemned due to the fire spreading from the torche

[MOONCHILD]

on 12/3/2006 I've been throwing a Christmas Caroling Party every year since 1990. Instead of knocking yourself out with serving food ask your guests to bring along a favorite holiday treat and you can provide the tasty beverages.
Beware Easton!

on 11/22/2005 I think it's nice to go to the local nursing homes or high rises. The elderly enjoy it, you stay warm and if you let them know ahead of time you're coming, they make you really good baked goods and hot cocoa.