My son is turning five next month and we are hosting his birthday party at a local playground. I've been racking my brain with party favor ideas and have finally decided upon giving the guests a personalized cd. So here's where I need help... can anyone please suggest a song/songs that your 5-ish year old really likes that I can add to the playlist? Thanks for your help!
Thank you to each and every one of you for all of your wonderful ideas. Your suggestions really helped me organize my thoughts on what to do. My son LOVES to sing and dance, so we put together "Songs that Rock" (a compilation of all his favorite dance songs and a few from of his favorite movies). We bought the songs from iTunes (searched for children's songs so that the lyrics were all appropriate.
Here's the song list....
Happy Birthday (Ting Tings)
Life Is a Highway
Jump Jump (Choo Choo Soul)
I Like to Move It
Celebration
Walking On Sunshine
Who Let the Dogs Out
(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty
Upside Down
Let's Dance (Choo Choo Soul)
Everybody have fun tonight
U Can't Touch This
All Star
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Gonna Make you Sweat
You've Got a Friend In Me
PS... All of the moms loved the idea and the cd and are more than happy to play it in the car because it's music they like too!
My 4 y/o grandson LOVES They Might Be Giants - both the ABC's and 123 cds. Have fun...
Hi D.,
My son is 5 and he really enjoys listening to the theme song for Disney's Cars movie REAL GONE. He loves this song and even listens to it at bedtime. So if your son enjoys race cars or this movie, this is the perfect song!
Try using the theme songs from some of his favorite movies or cartoons, like maybe, Cars, transformers, batman, whatever he is into. You can also try low rider. Good luck
What an awesome idea!
A few that my kiddo especially loves:
Amsterdam - Peter Bjorn & John
Did you evah? - Spoon
Mr. Tough - Yo La Tengo
Happy mixing!
H.
Hi D.,
What a cool idea for a party favor! My sons (6 and 3) love the song Celebration from the album Celebrate! by Kool and the Gang.
Hope your son has fun at his party!
L.
My kids and I LOVE They Might Be Giants! All three of their kids albums have wonderful songs. Both Here Come the 123's and Here Come the ABCs won Grammy Awards. You can preview the songs on Amazon or watch videos on youtube. Some of my favorires are The Alphabet Lost and Found, Who put the Alphabet in Alphabetical Order, Fake _believe, High Five and Seven Days of the Week. We also really enjoy the Imagination Movers. 2 songs we all like are My Favorite Snack and What's in the Fridge.
I love the idea of using theme music. That would be really fun.
My five year old loves going to the library and borrowing music Cd's. I know our library has lots of Disney ones, like Cars-Fast Tracks, and other movie music.
Another idea if you needed filler would be adding an audio book. The Thomas the Tank Audio books are fun to listen to with or without the book, we sometimes take those in the car instead of music. John Lithgow has quite a few, like the Run-a-Way Pancake, and I'm a Manitee.
If you decided just to do a collection of music: some good kids artists are
Raffi
The Wiggles
Laurie Berkner
They might be Giants
The Biscuit Brothers
Going Quakers a mickey mouse one
Elizabeth Mitchell
Veggie Tales
Or you could look for Cd's that all have to do with birthdays-- It's my party and i'll cry if i want to, There is one that just sticks in your head --Come to my party today is my special day, come to my party today is my Birthday, ugggg i'll be hearing that all night now.
You could also do just regular kids dance music like the Hokey pokey, the chicken dance, I'm a little tea pot
If your son goes to preschool or kindergarten another good resource would be his teacher.
This is such an awesome idea, I'm sure the kids and mom's will love it- no candy or little junky toys and lots of fun music instead.
Have an awesome time!
Have you ever heard of Veggie Tales? They are animated Vegetables that sing silly songs and also Sunday school songs..they have DVDs too. My kids absolutely love them and they are wholesome, you dont have to worry about the profanity or sexual content that fills so much of our music today.. Check them out on the web, just Google Veggie Tales.
'the ants go marching 1 by 1'
great song to pretend you are a bunch of bugs !!!!!!!
and of course;
if you do not offend anyone ...
every kid loves 'christmas favorites'!!!!!! you will get a giggle if 'frosty the snowman'[etc] is mixed in with the pirate songs !!!!!
just made one for my son
"Who Let The Dogs Out?"
"Put The Lime In The Coconut"
"Life is a Highway"
"Limbo Rock"
"Yo Ho Ho A Pirate's Life For ME"
After reading the below ideas be aware that a 5 yr old may think a lot of the suggestions below are too babyish-especially the girls! We were huge fans of Laurie Berkner, Wiggles, etc..and just recently my son is turning the music off and saying it is too babyish...most of the 5 yr old girls love High School Musical, Jonas Brothers, Camp Rock - They DO grow Up to Fast!
Hi There! Not to change your mind on the party favors (CD's are a GREAT idea) but I just wanted to give you an idea what I have been doing for my girls favors and they re a hit! Dunkin Donuts Gift Cards. You could do $2, $3, etc. We do $2 becasue we have 20 kids every year at least. Just wanted to share. Good LUck!
My son likes "I Like To Move It" from Madagascar. And (of course) anything from the Cars movie soundtrack.
We have a Laurie Berkner Band CD-- Whaddya Think of That? It has some fun songs on it, a few are ones you can move along too. Now my girls are only 1 and 2, but my 4 year old niece enjoys it too. BTW--that is a good favor idea, I may use it in the future!
My kids are now into the Alvin and the Chipmunks CD that I bought awhile back. My 3 yo loves the main theme song, he dances like crazy in his carseat.
My kids (3 1/2 and 4 1/2) really like Laurie Berkner songs (Victor Vito, We are the Dinosaurs, Telephone, I'm Gonna Catch You, etc)and Wiggles songs (Hot Potato, Rock a Bye Your Bear, Wiggly Safari songs, etc). They also like the song from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog...).
Kids like top 40 music that they hear on the radio, and as annoying as the commercials are, KIDS BOP cd's are really great! They have the music they like to hear, but change the words to appropriate ones.
also, I have seen "mixed" cd's of Disney, Nick, etc...in the kids section at Walmart.
Good idea on the favor, I may just use that myself!
who let the dogs out
I would go with songs from favorite characters like Dora, Diego, Handy Manny, etc.
K. B
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D.,
No problem just make a cd of 10 or 12 song that your son likes.
S.
My girls like when I mix old school songs like,
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
That's Amore
It's a Wonderful World
Lot's of Dean Martin like Are We Havin Any Fun
in with their stuff.
ralph covert! awesome for kids and not bad for adults, the lyrics are easy for my 2 and a half year old to sing and meaningfull and cute too!
I second Laurie Berkner and they might be giants, also Joel Frankel, Dan Zanes and Trout fishing in America.
hokey pokey, chicken dance, songs that they can jump around and dance to - even praise worhip songs - light energetic ones is always a good choice. - like the ones they learn in vbs.
When my step daughter was 5 her favorite song was "We will rock you" by Queen. She called it the Duh duh song- we actually got a cd as a favor from a birthday party that had that song on it, we still have it and play it in the car 4 years later!
do realize that doing that violates copywrite laws
One song all the kids seem to like(adults as well)
the theme song to sponge bob square pants and dora the explorer- my twins love both songs-I have a boy and a girl
My boys love everything by the Dirty Sock Funtime Band, but their favoirtes are Blame Mr Clown, 100,000 clowns Catching Waves Day and The Clowna Nageila. They also have two songs they perform on Noggin that are great and many kids may recognize.
Great party idea!
