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Friday Fun Thread for December 1, 2023

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Update on singing Christmas carols with kids.

First, thanks for all the recommendations! There were some I had never heard before and that I plan to sing.

I ended up printing off some songs from A Collection of Christmas Carols, a site that has PDF of a few hundred Christmas songs along with free midis and even a GitHub repo so you can create something of your own with the material. Really cool resource!

So far, we've learned The Twelve Days of Christmas, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Gaudete, and We Three Kings. Today we started on the Sussex Carol, which is a little trickier for kids.

The kids are enjoying all of them a lot. Twelve Days of Christmas is fun because each one gets their own item in the list for a solo (baby gets to say "partridge in a pear tree!"). They love shouting the chorus of Gaudete and We Three Kings. And my daughter has started trying to harmonize on our own during We Three Kings, which is extra exciting because part of the reason I wanted to do this was to trick them into learning to enjoy singing!

Overall, great experience so far. 10/10, would recommend if you've got small kids.

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