10 Songs That Will Make Your Kids Dance

by Jan 6, 2020Music

Kids love to dance! They especially love it when they’re in a group of other dancing kids. These are the songs you’ll find your kids the most likely to dance to. If you find your kids don’t like to dance, try getting them into a big group, and watch their shyness melt away.

If you’re interested in more than just dancing songs, check out our article on 30 Songs Kids Actually Like.

1. Freeze Dance

Freeze Dance is a song that allows you to be flexible and lets the children dance any way they like. Not only that, the song teaches children to follow the action words, such as hop, jump, and skip. 

Why It Makes Kids Dance

This song is fun and enjoyable for the children. Children love dancing in their own world and when they hear the word freeze, they will freeze in the funniest position ever. You can use this song to entice and motivate the children to complete a task. For example, if you’re reading a child with your book and they are getting restless, you can tell them you will play this since if they are able to finish the book. You will be amazed at how fast the children are willing to finish their work so that they can dance.

Modifications

Try using instruments to make it more enjoyable for the students.

2. The Cool Bear Hunt

The Cool Bear Hunt is a great song for children to pretend to be someone looking for a bear. This song is fantastic, especially if you are teaching your children about different animals living in the forest, on mountains, or at the zoo.

Why It Makes Kids Dance

Children love to pretend searching for scary animals. Why not choose this one? This song will teach your children some of the characteristics of a bear. Not only that, it will teach your children prepositions and how to keep going even if it is difficult. Let the children walk around the room or walk in a circle. But mostly, kids will want to dance because pretending to navigate through nature and escaping angry bears is a ton of fun!

Modifications

You can do this while sitting down instead of walking around. There are also many different versions of this song on Youtube, so surprise your kids by changing things up!

3. Sleeping Bunny

Sleeping Bunny is a simple song that allow children to be bunnies. This song can be used to calm the children and get ready for the next activity. It also teaches children action words as words such as hop and sleep. 

Why It Makes Kids Dance

This song is a great way for children to relax. It allows the children to pretend to be bunnies as they enjoy hopping around. Not only that, they love pretending to sleep and waiting for the word “hop” so they can wake themselves up and start hopping around. Children usually ask for this song when they are tired and need a break prior to transitioning to a new activity.

Modifications

You can play this song to get the children’s attention.

4. Chicken Dance

Chick Chick Chick! Wake up and start being a chicken! What a fun way to get your children to dance as they are pretending to be a chicken. They will be embarrassed at first, but after playing a couple of times, they will start requesting for it more! So be prepared!

Why It Makes Kids Dance

This is a fun song that allows children to be chickens. There are no words to this song, but only music and dancing! So start dancing like a chicken!

Modifications

Let the children make a mask that looks like a chicken and wear it while playing this song.

5. We Are the Dinosaur

Do you want to be a dinosaur? Play this song for your children and let them be dinosaurs. Just like the Cool Bear Hunt, children love to pretend to be different animals. Go ahead and see if the children want to pretend to be a dinosaur

Why It Makes Kids Dance

Children like to march around pretending to be humongous animals like a dinosaur. They get to march, eat, sleep, and roar loud like a dinosaur. Enjoyable and fun for the children to be something that they have never seen alive before.

Modifications

Put on a dinosaur costume and have fun! Go on ahead and create a mask and wear it during the song!

6. If You’re Happy and You Know It

What a great way to teach children about feelings and how feelings can be expressed. Not only that, it also allows the children to perform actions such as clap, stomp, shout, and so on.

Why It Makes Kids Dance

Children like to imitate each other. Why not do so in front of others? Children will be making their own dances, facial expressions, and noises according to the song’s instructions.

Modifications

This song can be done while sitting down and it is as much fun as standing up. There are so many different versions of this song on YouTube. Find the one you like that will fit for your children and have fun with it!

7. Baby Shark

This is one of the newer songs for children that is really basic and simple. Baby Shark is a cute and fun attracting song for young children. Children enjoy being sharks using their fingers

Why It Makes Kids Dance

There is not a lot to say about this attention-seeking song. Children love this song and ask for this song every single day. They love being sharks, especially since they can be the baby, mommy, daddy, grandma, and grandpa. Not just that, they can go hunt and run away. Children get to dance, perform the actions, and sing along with the song. They are not just swimming around in the ocean, but being silly and enjoying themselves with or without their peers.

Modifications

Use puppets to identify which is the baby, mommy, daddy, grandma,and grandpa shark. They will have fun and will want to have their own sharks’ puppets for the song! Get ready to make lots of sharks!

8. Hokey Pokey

This old-school song never gets old as everyone likes to shake it all about every once in a while.

Why It Makes Kids Dance

The Hokey Pokey starts off slow and gets kids warmed up and following the instructions properly. This is great for kids that have a hard time following along. Everyone is going super fast by the end of the song and hopefully everyone is still keeping up! Even if they’re not, this song, and others that speed up and slow down, are a ton of fun for the kids.

Modifications

You may find it interesting to sing this song and change the lyrics. For example, you put your whole bottom in, you take your whole bottom out, and so on. If you’re brave, have your kids make up the instructions and try following what they say!

9. Shake Your Sillies Out

Shake Your Sillies Out feels is a cross between Hokey Pokey and The Gummy Bear Song. It has an old-school feel to it, but the kids eventually end up teasing and playing around with each other.

Why It Makes Kids Dance

Children love shaking their bodies, hands, legs, and anything they want to this song! They like to be goofy and have fun along with the action words. They are not just shaking, clapping, jumping, jogging, stretching, or yawning to the song, they are also dancing, laughing and enjoying the song. Children get to be flexible and dance to this song.

Modifications

Try making your own rhythm and yell out instructions instead of playing the song. Better yet, see if the kids can remember the song’s instructions and have them yell it out while they do it!

10. The Gummy Bear

The Gummy Bear song lets children be free and dance around their environment. There is not much to this song, however, the children love dancing to this song.

Why It Makes Kids Dance

As mentioned earlier, children love dancing to this song. They are constantly requesting for this song not even pretending to be bears. They enjoy imitating each other and showing off their move to each other. All they do is jump around and tease each other. They just want to dance all day long.

Don’t Forget to Dance With Your Kids!

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