How to Make Your Own Caroling Songbook

In order to throw a great Caroling Party, you'll need to provide all of your guests with a book of lyrics for each of the songs you want to sing. If you have a lot of people coming, that can get quite expensive. An inexpensive alternative to buying multiple songbooks is to spend a little time and make your own. Follow these simple steps for How to Make Your Own Caroling Songbook and you'll have everyone singing in no time.

In order to throw a great Caroling Party, you'll need to provide all of your guests with a book of lyrics for each of the songs you want to sing. If you have a lot of people coming, that can get quite expensive. An inexpensive alternative to buying multiple songbooks is to spend a little time and make your own. Follow these simple steps for How to Make Your Own Caroling Songbook and you'll have everyone singing in no time. </note>
Introduction
- If you have a large number of people coming to your caroling party, it can be quite expensive to purchase a separate Christmas carol songbook for each of your guests. Apart from having your guests share songbooks, you can always spend an hour or so and make a batch of your own custom caroling songbooks. With the wealth of free Christmas sheet music available online, you should have no problem finding and downloading your favorite carols. All you need is a Computer, a Printer and an Internet connection. Here's how:
Making Your Caroling Songbooks
- Step 1: Figure out exactly how many people will be attending your caroling party.
- Step 2: Make a list of all of your favorite Christmas Carols.
- Step 3: Browse through the various online resources available for Christmas carol sheet music and lyrics (see below) and find a good copy of each of the carols you want to include.
- Step 4: When you find a good song page (such as this one for Silent Night), print out enough copies for each guest to get one. Set them aside in a separate pile.
- Step 5: Repeat this process for all of the songs that you want to include in your songbook. Make sure to look through the lists of carols to see if there are any that you missed when you first made your list.
- Step 6: Use a Word Processing program and create a unique cover page for your songbook. Print off as many copies as needed.
- Step 7: Take one copy of each song and stack them up together. Put your cover page on the top and staple or bind all of the pages together.
- Step 8: Take a pen and number each of the pages.
- Step 9: Repeat steps 7 - 8 for as many songbooks as you need. Make sure that you put the songs in the same order for each book.
- Step 10: Decorate your songbooks as much or as little as you like.
Caroling Sheet Music & Lyrics
- ChristmasSongbook.net: Online Christmas Songbook
- Nevada.edu: Christmas Song Lyrics
- Biblical Proportions: Favorite Christmas Carols
- ChristmasCarolMusic.org: Free Carol Sheet Music
- All Things Christmas: Christmas Carol Lyrics