Discover how you can create a meaningful and joyous celebration that embraces the spirit of Grandparent’s Day with the best engaging songs, skits, scripts, classroom activities, and program ideas. Find a new song or idea to make this year’s program fabulous.
The Playlist
Classroom Activities
Some of these special days let grandparents and special persons follow the child’s schedule which means you’re going to have guests in your room. Have seating ready for them.
Singing, dancing, and playing activities provide a great experience. Two great options are
- letting the guests watch the students in these activities
- or joining in with them
I always went for the joining in!
Do a favorite dance, rhythm stick play along, or singing game. My absolute FAVORITE is “I Let Her Go Go.” This partner changing game allows kids without a special person to interact with those very special guests.
Grandparent’s Day Songs By Theme
Thinking out loud here. According to Google 🤣, the average age to become a grandparent is in your 50s and 60s. If your grandchild is 5-12 years old, that makes grandparents in the 55-72 year range.
In 2025, it means those grandparents were born in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. If high school (16 years old) was a prime music genre era for most, that means music from the 60s, 70s, and 80s would really resonate with most of them. Here are some script ideas!
Beatles’ Songs
- When I’m 64
- Yellow Submarine
- Octopus’s Garden
- Love Me Do
- With a Little Help From My Friends
- All You Need Is Love
70’s Songs
- I Just Called to Say I Love You
- Rainbow Connection
- Lean On Me
- ABC
- Joy to the World
- Top of the World
- Love Will Keep Us Together
- I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing
- Rockin’ Robin
- Rapper’s Delight (the first couple of verses only)
- Greatest Love of All
- Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
80’s Songs
- Walking On Sunshine
- I’m Still Standing (wordy so you could have solos on the verses and then everyone come in on the chorus)
- Celebration
- Footloose
- We Are the World
- Up Where We Belong
- True Colors
Find more great songs by subject/theme/year in the
BIG Song Database!
Songs With Instruments for Your Special Person Day
- THE BEAT OF LIFE (Grades 3-6) With its descending bass line reminiscent of the 60s and 70s rock anthems, your students will WOW with this fun Orff arrangement that your grandparents and special persons will TOTALLY relate to! For barred instruments and optional ukulele, recorder, and Boomwhacker parts.
- GIVE THANKS (K-3) This beautiful, lyrical, easy-to-learn song has a B section that you can personalize to the special persons in attendance. The easy Orff arrangement enhances the sound of those beautiful children’s voices.
- LOVE SOMEBODY (K-3) This classic song with new B section is heartwarming when performed with heart props. The simple melody, supporting and easy Orff arrangement, and heartfelt sentiment is perfect for the special people in our lives. For barred instruments and optional ukulele.
Grandparent’s Day Songs – Singles
Music K8 has LOTS of songs written about grandparents. Some teacher favorites are Happy Grandparent’s Day, So Glad to See You, A Song for Grandparent’s Day, Family Reunion, Blessings On This Day, We Love Our Grandparents, Happy Grandparent’s Day, What Do You Call Your Grandma/Grandpa? and more.
- “A” You’re Adorable-Here’s sheet music and a karaoke video.
- You Are My Sunshine
- Grandma and Grandpa (from Musicplay)
- A Bushel and a Peck
- Skinnamarink
- My Girl/My Guy by Smoky Robinson changed to Grandma/Grandpa
- Grandma’s Hands by Bill Withers
- Grandpa (Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Old Days) by The Judds
- Re-write of All About That Bass
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Grandparent’s Day Skits
Here are links to some fun skits! Pair a skit with several songs for a meaningful program for those very special people!
- “Skits and Stuff” Grandparents Skit
- Grandparents: The REAL Superheroes!-this AI-generated script outlines the super hero qualities of these special people.
- Scripts With Music Themes
