Kiddos composing Christmas Songs
November 22, 2010
Preparing for the K-1 Christmas program, a Kindergartener suggested that we make up our own Christmas songs this year. Brilliant! I have had marginal success, but what is more interesting are the pitfalls that come up:
-if you sing a song before you try to come up with words, there is no escaping that song and variants
-a surprising number of kids stare at you blankly and continually suggest traditional favorites
-much of what you get is a corruption things already out there, although you may not realize it – I thought one girl actually made up the line “Christmas is coming to town”; I would accept this from a Kindergartener, but it turns out that it is actually a real Christmas song. Also get lots of baby polar bears, baby tigers, baby penguins playing in the snow.
Corrupted Christmas motives combine into marginally cute songs: children are postmodern filters.
