How to Do the Christmas Dance Trend: Every Move in Order

The trio take is here; a mother and daughter danced it in their kitchen. The song, where it came from and the carol inside it: the Christmas dance trend song.

1. Open a Christmas dance trend post on TikTok, tap the sound name at the bottom and save the sound, so you can practise with it.
2. Learn it in three parts: the opening and the sways, the knee lifts and hands to the face, then the arm rolls and the spin. Run each part a few times before you put them together.
3. Prop the phone upright at about waist height, far enough back that your feet stay in frame when you lift your knees.
4. Stand close, side by side; the dance looks best when you move as a pair.
5. Film in one take with the sound playing, and keep your faces straight: the deadpan is the joke.
6. Post it with the sound, and add the caption the trend uses or your own version of it.

The Christmas dance AI effect on RapVideo follows the take above move by move, with the two of you dancing in it: your faces, hair and clothes come from your photos, and the song is on the finished clip. 15 seconds for 7 credits at 480p, 12 at 720p or 24 at 1080p.

1. Pick one clear photo of each of you, facing the camera, full-body if you have them.
2. Open the Christmas dance AI page; the editor opens on the Christmas Dance effect.
3. Add photo 1 (dances on the left) and photo 2 (on the right).
4. Pick 480p, 720p or 1080p and press Make the effect.
5. Download the 15-second MP4 with the song on it.

We tested it on 9 November 2026 with photos of two AI-made people at 480p: both kept their own faces, hair and clothes for all 15 seconds, and every move of the dance landed on the beat. Whatever you wear in your photos is what you dance in, so matching pajamas in both photos give you the matching look.

• Tag it: on 8 November 2026 #christmasdancetrend had 863 videos and 12.5 million views.
• Post it soon: of the 182 Christmas dance posts we sampled on 8 November 2026, by 154 different creators, 79 were from the previous 24 hours.
• Use the sound itself rather than a copy, so your post shows up on the sound’s page with everyone else’s.
• Make one with someone unexpected: a parent, a grandparent or a roommate who said yes.
• Label the AI version as AI. The rules are in does TikTok allow AI videos?.

Christmas duo dances are not new on TikTok: one from 30 November 2025 had 4.2 million plays by November 2026. This year’s routine goes back to 2 November 2026, the earliest post of it we found, early enough to be a joke about the season itself. Other Christmas dances go around too, to other songs such as Last Christmas mashups; this guide is about the deadpan duo to the Deck the Halls mashup.