Star Bright (Estrella de Luz) sheet music with Guitar Chords by Lorin F. Wheelwright

Christmas music is my favorite kind of music to teach children and adults alike.  One of the first Christmas songs that I remember singing a harmony part with my mother was Star Bright (or Estrella de Luz) by Lorin F. Wheelwright, a beautiful song with 2 part harmony and verses in Spanish as well as English.  Not only that, but she played it on her guitar which made it even more wonderful.

I found the sheet music for Star Bright published in the LDS Instructor Magazine in October 1959.  The online copy I found is so discolored that I decided to fix it with my photo editing software and I added the guitar chords to it.  No flipchart for this one, I just wanted a place to share this copy of the sheet music for anyone looking for a sweet Christmas song other than what is in the Hymn book or Children's Songbook.

You can download it here:  Star Bright

Have a Very Merry Christmas

Another fun Christmas song I taught the primary children last year from the Children's Songbook is "Have a Very Merry Christmas."  It's upbeat and easy to learn.  It was the song the kids sang at our Ward Christmas Party.  I gave several of the children props or pictures to hold up during the song. 

You can find my flipchart here:  Have a Very Merry Christmas

Could I Hold the Baby

A couple of years ago I heard about the sweet Christmas song, "Could I Hold the Baby" by Rachel M Goates and totally fell in love with it!  It is listed as submitted music for children on lds.org.  It was my first Christmas as Primary Chorister and it felt late in the year for me.  I previously had been the Ward Music Director and was used to preparing for Christmas in August!  But here it was almost November, so I was frantically looking for a flipchart and ideas on how to teach this song.  None of the flipcharts I found were quite to my taste, but as I looked for pictures to go with the words, I found exactly what my heart was looking for in the pictures of the Children's Songbook.  I found digital versions of those pictures on lds.org as well and the whole thing just fell into place.

My first version was without words (I prefer to teach without words especially for the little ones who can't read anyway), but I realized that I needed the words on the pictures for those kids who just come to church at Christmas time, visitors, and also for future use as it would be months before we would use it again.

The flipchart can be found here:  Could I Hold the Baby (with words)