Does your concert have a theme? This GROWING database currently has songs categorized by subject and includes animals, food, geography, numbers, positivity, and The 80s. Many more coming soon!
Current Subjects: animals, Black History Month, bugs, colors, food, geography, love/valentines, numbers, places/travel, positivity, The 80s, westerns/cowboy, World Music.
Theme & Title Ideas Below
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What are your favorite winter and spring concert songs for kindergarten?
This great question had me going back through Dropbox, Google Drive, and old computer drives looking for answers.
My Song Criteria for Kindergarten Concerts
- Repetitive
- Could add motions
- Popular classics, current hits, written for that age group (MusicK8)
- I could successfully stretch out the song to at least 2 minutes
- Sometimes that meant rearranging by creating new verses or repeats.
- Easy if using acoustic accompaniment
- For mp3s, I’d put them into Soundtrap and arrange
Winter
Kinderpolka (dance)
Little Wheel A-Turnin’ In My Heart
Mousie In the Snow (MK8)
Dreidel (traditional)
Snow is Falling Today (MK8)
Mr. SnowRap (MK8)
Snowman Jump (MK8)
Frosty the Snowman (traditional)
Do You Want to Build a Snowman (Frozen)
Nutcracker March (movement)
This Little Light of Mine (traditional)
Peace Like a River (traditional)
(While I did Christmas music years ago, I eventually got away from any song referencing Christmas, except the occasional Rudolph.)
Christmas/Santa Songs
Mary Had a Baby
Must Be Santa
Rudolph
Children Go Where I Send Thee (LOVE this song…)
Spring
“A” You’re Adorable (traditional)
Going Over the Sea (traditional)
She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain (traditional)
It’s a Small World (traditional)
Skinnamarink (traditional)
Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends (traditional)
Take Me Out to the Ballgame (traditional)
A Sailor Went to Sea (traditional)
Mi Chacra (Argentina)
This Old Man (traditional)
Puff the Magic Dragon (soloist on verses)
Concert Theme Ideas & Titles
- Use a “National Day of…” as your theme. For example, April is National Kite (kites, flying), Frog (frogs, amphibians), and Literature Month (children’s book or books). Also in April, Bell Bottoms Day (70s & 80s music), National Wildlife Week (animal songs), Pajama Day (wear PJs, songs about dreaming, sleeping), National Dance Week, and LOTS more!
- Broadway
- Decades (50s, 70s, etc)
- Patriotic
- Candyland (candy and treats)
- Colors
- Seasons “One Spring Day”, “Time and Seasons”,
- Water
- Worksongs
- Spirituals & Freedom Songs
- Jazz “And All That Jazz”,
- Connections (songs about other school subjects)
- Emotions “If You’re Happy and You Know It”
- Ocean “Octopus’ Garden”, “Under the Sea”, “Songs of Land and Sea”
- Movies “A Night at the Movies”, “Pass the Popcorn”
- Global “Around the World in Song”, “The Global Beat”,
- Animals “We’re Going to the Zoo”, “Creatures of the Earth”, “I Went to the Animal Fair”
- Boy Bands
- Space “Out of this World”, “Journey to the Moon”, “Big Blue Ball”,
- Journeys/Road Trip/Geography/Travel “Where’s Waldo?”,
- Music (songs with music in the title) “
- Silly Songs (songs with nonsense words)
Love it!!
Thank you, Maria! I hope it gives teachers some ideas and saves them time!
How do you access the complete Google Sheet song database?
Jessica, put your cursor in the middle of the database and it will then allow you to scroll up/down and right/left. Once it starts to move, you will see a guide on the right side too which will move up and down too. If your cursor isn’t on the database, it will continue to just scroll the entire page and not the database.