Christmas Freebies
Welcome to our annual Christmas Freebies category. This year we've got some fantastic new Christmas freebies lined up, including MP3s, downloads, graphics, games, competitions, wallpaper, clipart, fonts and tons of other great free stuff. Now is the time to decorate your computer desktop with some festive wallpaper, or upload a Christmas ring tone to your mobile phone. If you're feeling lucky, how about entering one of our free Christmas competitions? Or if you're in need of some light entertainment, check out some of the free games we've included. If you happen to stumble across an outdated link, we'd very much appreciate it if you could report it. If you would like to suggest another Christmas freebie to add to our collection, we'd very much appreciate it. Thanks!
123Greetings Christmas Electronic Greeting Cards
Here's another selection of free Christmas e-cards. 123Greetings offers over 40 Christmas-themed greeting cards to send to your friends and family. What's more, each card has been rated and reviewed by contributors, so you can see the level of impact each card made before you go to send. The cards are high quality and can be customised with a personal greeting message.
Bogblocker Mildly Insulting Christmas E-cards
The Christmas greetings section of Bogblocker.com includes a small but entertaining selection of insulting Christmas e-cards. Don't worry, they are not too offensive, but may raise a wry smile on your chosen recipient's face. Choose from "Gotcha Fatty!", "Smelly Christmas", "Who's Eaten All The Reindeer?", along with others.
Free Christmas MIDI Files
It's difficult to find good MIDI sites on the Net nowadays, particularly as other sound-formats such as MP3 are getting easier to acquire. With this in mind, FreebieList.com has took great care to find a quality collection, and here it is! Lockergnome.com (provider of some interesting tech-email newsletters) has Jingle Bells, Silent Night and many more.
Free Christmas E-cards at Regards.com
This site serves up a varied selection of free Christmas-themed digital greeting cards, the majority of which are animated and based on Macromedia Flash (so you'll require the Macromedia Flash plug-in to view these). Preview pictures of each card are provided, so you can get the feel of how they look before you send them to your friends and family. Your own personal message can be added to the card, along with a background sound of your choice.
Caroling Corner
Open this page and you'll be greeted with a short rendition of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", but there are many more Christmas songs and carols here. For example, you can view the entire lyrics to Away In A Manger, Holly And The Ivy, Once In Royal David's City, O Come All Ye Faithful, amongst many others. To read them, just select the carol with your mouse.
Christmas Holiday Village
If you're planning on adding your own personal touch to Christmas by creating your own cards, be sure to check out this site for some free clipart images. Holiday Village contains a small but interesting collection of Christmas images, including snowmen, Santa Claus, and also traditional imagery, such as the "Away In A Manger" scene or images of stars and biblical scenes.
Online Christmas Games
A fantastic festive Web site, full of free games to play online. FreeChristmasGames.com offers around ten "slider" type games to play through your Web browser, including the Slider Puzzle and Memory Puzzle Game. Although they're not full of action, they do require some thought. Instructions are available with each game. Requires JavaScript enabled.
Free Christmas Screensavers
One of the best quality collections of Christmas screensavers on the Internet. The "Free Christmas Screen Savers" site is fast loading and offers information such as file sizes, the author of the screensaver and operating system platform they run on. Be sure to view their second page of listings, there is a small link at the footer of the page which will take you there.
Free Christmas Animated Gifs
At this site, you'll find a selection of free animated Christmas GIF files on six pages. Christmas stockings, candles, trees, chimneys and nativity scenes are all featured here, along with a plethora of animated images that are not specifically Christmas-related but still great for sprucing up your Web site's pages.
Santa Land
This site claims to be the first Christmas Web site on the Internet and offers a fantastic free Christmas clipart round-up, together with Christmas carol lyrics, recipes, stories and details on how to make your own Christmas ornaments. Additionally, at this site, you will find a "kids corner", where children can play online games and participate in activities.
Free Printable Christmas Gift Tags
If you want to skimp on buying Christmas gift tags this year, this site has eight free printable ones to choose from. The tags you'll find here are also in black and white, so you can colour them in yourself. Printing these tags is simple as well, since they all appear on one single page. One the site loads up, just press the "print" button on your browser.
Free Christmas Fonts
The few fonts that are on offer here are worth downloading if you're planning on creating a Christmas card or something similar. Fonts resembling Christmas trees or fonts with ice on top can all be found here, and they're provided in .zip files, so you can download them quickly. Their main page also contains many more Christmas goodies, such as party ideas.
Free Christmas Sheet Music
This site serves up a selection of free Christmas music sheets for various carols, including Once in Royal David's City, Away in a Manger, Good King Wenceslas, Silent Night, We Three Kings, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, etc. Along with this, they also include a rating of how difficult each carol is to play and the most suitable instruments to use.
Free Christmas Ring Tones
At Mr. Tones, you can enter into the mood of the festive season by getting your hands on free Christmas ring tones for your mobile phone. The free tones available here are in the key-press format, although for a small fee, you can have them sent directly to your phone. Nokia, Siemens, Ericsson, Motorola and Panasonic phones are compatible with this service.
Free Comedy Sheep Christmas MP3s
Back by popular demand, these entertaining Christmas MP3 downloads, courtesy of Cumbria Tourism, gained international publicity a year ago thanks to the quirky and talanted lead-singer, "Baarmy Sheep". Two Christmas-themed songs are featured here: the Christmas Megamix and Jingle Bells. This MP3 download can also be used as a festive mobile phone ring tone. In fact, it is the "must have" fashion accessory this Christmas!