10 Christmas Poems For Kids To Enjoy This Holiday Season

One of the best ways to enjoy the holiday season is by creating special family traditions leading up to Christmas and New Year’s. For instance, decorating can become a family affair, when you all spend an evening putting the Christmas tree together. Or better yet, cook up a batch of handsome gingerbread men and women, and sugar cookies, and spend an evening decorating them with lots of icing and candy.

You can also make nightly reading time a part of your bedtime routine with kiddos. Take this opportunity to share a daily tradition of reading a Christmas poem together. To make things easier, we have gathered plenty of Christmas poems for kids that have fun-loving and whimsical verses and are great for early readers. After reading them, your tots will surely go to bed having visions of Santa Claus, reindeer, and a dozen other fanciful holiday images that will fill them up with the spirit of the season.

10 Fun Christmas Poems For Kids

Christmas Stars

The golden Christmas stars shine down,

With a cheerful Christmas glow, 

And twinkle a Yuletide message

To the busy world below,

They tell of the peace and goodwill,

The Christmas time brings to earth,

The peace and good will all should feel

At this season of joy and mirth.

By Marie Irish

A Visit From St. Nicholas

‘Twas the night before Christmas

When all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas would soon be there;

The children were all snuggled snug in their beds

While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads;

And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,

Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap…

By Clement Clarke Morre

I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day

I heard the bells on Christmas Day,

Their old, familiar carols play,

And wild and sweet 

The words repeat

Of peace on earth, good will to men!

By Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

A Chubby Little Snowman

A chubby little snowman

Had a carrot nose.

Along came a bunny

And what o you suppose?

That hungry little bunny

Looking for some lunch,

Grabbed the snowman’s nose,

Nibble, nibble, crunch!

By Anonymous

A Christmas Angel

Oh, I wish I was an angel on the tree,

Oh, I wish I was an angel on the tree

I’d give every girl and boy

Lots of Christmas peace and joy

Oh, I wish I was an angel on the tree

By Denise Burke

Five Little Reindeer

Five little reindeer playing in the snow

The first one said, “Can you see my nose glow?”

The second one said, “Listen to me sing!”

The third one said, “I can hear the bells ring.”

The fourth one said, “Let’s eat the pie!”

The fifth one said, “I am ready to fly!”

Then clomp went their hooves 

And the snow fell white

As the five little reindeer flew out of sight!

By Author Unknown

Snowball

I made myself a snowball

As perfect as it could be

I thought I’d keep it as a pet,

And let it sleep with me.

I made it some pyjamas

And a pillow for its head.

Then last night it ran away

But first it wet the bed.

By Shel Silverstein

Christmas Dog

Tonight’s my first night as a watchdog,

And here it is Christmas Eve.

The children are sleeping all cosy upstairs,

While I am guardin’ the stockings and the tree!

By Anonymous

The Day Before Christmas

We have been helping with the cake,

And licking out the pan

And wrapping up our packages,

As neatly as we can

We have hung our stockings up

Besides the open grate.

And now there’s nothing more to do,

Except

To

Wait.

By Author Unknown

Mom Is Making Christmas

Cookies baking in the kitchen

The smell floats through the air;

Mom is making Christmas

With her usual merry flair

The house she gaily decorated

Each gift she stitched with love,

And we will gather around the Christmas tree

For an evening of old-fashioned fun.

This evening she will sin a carol for us

With her angel voice.

Yes, Mom is making Christmas

A true reason to rejoice

By Vicky A. Luong

These Christmas poems for kids are an absolute delight and as you sing them along with your little ones, they will fill your house with laughter and holiday spirit. Choose one poem each night and recite them to your kids so that they can pick up the fun verses and sing them with you. Happy holidays!

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