Music to Their Ears

One of our favorite things to do around the Den is play songs for the kids. YouTube is a veritable treasure box of educational and fun songs that bring smiles to the kids' faces. Over the past couple of years we've found some specific favorites, and so we thought we'd compile together a list and share it with you.

A YouTube channel that contains a lot of songs that we love is called Super Simple Songs. You can view a playlist of our favorites by clicking here. (Please note that we avoid the Santa song and "Go Away, Big Green Monster" because they're our least favorite.)

We also like to play Sesame Street videos. Some of our favorites include: Outdoors, the Alphabet with Elmo, Elmo's Ducks, and 1, 2, 3, 4.

Another favorite is King of the Jungle. Dolphin especially liked that one and we can't hear it without thinking of her.

On the more educational side of things, we sometimes like to play songs from a YouTube channel called KidsTV123. One we play a lot is The Animal Sounds song, as well as Phonics song 2.

We also like to play a lot of kids' worship songs, and this one is the current favorite. Brown Bear likes to point his fingers in the air in a repeated fashion while we're playing it.

We've found a band called Go Fish that sings fun worship songs for younger kids. One song that has been a major favorite for many of our children is this one--I'm A Soldier In the Army of the Lord. Lately Meerkat has been walking around saying, "Yes, sir!" Go Fish also put out our favorite version of Jesus Loves Me. It's very calming and well done.

And last but certainly not least is In the Jungle, a song that Canary absolutely loved during her time here. We still enjoy the song and look forward to playing it for the kids to come.

These are the songs we play most often, but in addition to all of this, we put Praise Baby on during the morning for the babies. The other morning, Miss Karen couldn't get the DVD player to work and they were miserable. Fortunately, she was able to wake up Lion and he got it back in working order. Crisis averted!

Music is something we love at Lion's Pride. It's one of the things that has helped the kids learn and interact and have fun. We've been amazed at how quickly they pick up on words through music, and interact with facial expressions and hand motions to the songs.

For those of you who have said goodbye to us, this list is especially for you so that you can continue to play these songs for your little ones.