You’ll be counting your blessings with this delightful nativity musical that has 8 simple songs and a great script, easily adaptable for any performance. Let the Christmas countdown begin! Available with Words on Screen™.
A brilliantly inventive new musical nativity for young children – a 20 minute masterpiece of thoughtful fun!
John Dabell Teach Primary Magazine
An Annual Performance Licence is required to perform this title. For more information, please click here.
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About Christmas Counts
- Ideal for ages 3-6 – includes a very simple script and easy-to-learn songs that are especially suitable for younger children
- Available with Words on Screen™/span> allowing you to display song lyrics on any whiteboard, computer screen, television or interactive touchscreen. The lyrics synchronize with the music as it plays making them easy to teach and easy to learn!
An Annual Performance Licence is required to perform this nativity.
An editable script is available for this product when you purchase a package that includes an eSongbook.
view character list and staging ideas
There are 12 speaking parts and at least 20 non-speaking parts. The speaking parts can easily be increased if the narrator’s part is split between lots of children, the census-takers’ lines are split between more than four census-takers; and you have two innkeepers instead of one, dividing the lines equally between them. The cast size can be reduced to a minimum of 18 parts, is song 4 is skipped, this reduced cast size would only be suitable if you are singing this year.
Total length of music: 14 minutes approx
Performance duration: 7 minutes approx
A brilliantly inventive new musical nativity for young children – a 20 minute masterpiece of thoughtful fun!
John Dabell – Teach Primary Magazine
Licence Information
Annual Performance Licence Information - What You Need To Know
- A current Annual Performance Licence is required to perform a musical or nativity to an audience (other than to pupils & staff), including an online audience, and irrespective of whether admission charges are made.
- It is more cost effective to purchase an Annual Performance Licence as part of a complete product pack.
- An Annual Performance Licence covers any number of performances of a particular musical or nativity within 12 months of the date of ordering. A separate Annual Performance Licence is required for each product title.
- To renew your Annual Peformance Licence, log into your account if you have one and go to your My Licences section.
Find out more about what your Annual Performance Licence will legally cover you to do.
All of our eSongbooks come with a Single User Licence
- This means you can install our Words on Screen™ software onto ONE computer only, or it can be streamed by a single user.
- If you would like to install this software onto your network server and/or two or more computers, or allow multiple users to stream Words on Screen™ songs, this will be covered by your Annual Performance Licence which includes extended digital rights. For more information, click here.
The following items are available for this product:
Teacher's Book
- Character List
- Fun curriculum links
- Simple script
- Music score and song lyric sheets for 8 songs (Piano music score, melody and chords)
- Percussion ideas for some of the songs
- Licence and copyright details
Audio CD
- Vocal tracks sung by children
- Professional backing tracks
Words on Screen™ eSongbook
- An online Words on Screen™ product to stream or download
- Extractable MP3s, printable lyrics, scores, scripts, & additional resources
- Words on Screen™ versions of songs so that you can display song lyrics on any whiteboard, computer screen, television or interactive touchscreen. The lyrics synchronize with the music as it plays making them easy to teach and easy to learn
- Flexibility to create an expandable library of Words on Screen™ song collections, nativities and musicals in your Out of the Ark online account
- Enhanced operation features including ‘double-click’ to hear and teach a single line
- Words on Screen™ user guide
- Single-User licence (Please note a Performance Licence is still required to perform this musical)
- Licence & copyright details
Annual Performance Licence
An Annual Performance Licence covers any number of performances of a particular musical or nativity within 12 months of the date of ordering. A separate Annual Performance Licence is required for each product title.
Find out more about what your Annual Performance Licence will legally cover you to do.
Rehearsal CDs
- Vocal tracks sung by children
- Professional backing tracks
- Available in packs of 5, 10 or 20
I love this play
This was my daughter's first nativity play so it's very clear in my mind. I absolutely loved watching my daughter's class perform this. It's a very cute and fun play the songs are so catchy and easy for young children to perform. My daughter's usually very shy and this play really built up her confidence! Out of the ark music is a fantastic source for teachers to use and everybody enjoys the plays and song books that this site has to offer. 5 stars from me!
Brilliant!
Fantastic catchy songs that retell the true meaning of the Christmas Story. Lines are taken from the songs for speaking parts. Would definitely recommend!
Teach Primary
"A brilliantly inventive new musical nativity for young children – a 20 minute masterpiece of thoughtful fun!"
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