Childcare: Today's recommended fun songs

Hallelujah Roo-yayokoyama daisuke

Daisuke Yokoyama 'Hallelujahlujah' Music Video ★ Single included on the album 'Utabukuro'

This song stands out for its bright, lively melody and lyrics filled with hope.

It warmly portrays the courage to take on something for the first time and how chance encounters blossom into wonderful miracles.

Daisuke Yokoyama, beloved as the “Uta no Onii-san,” lends his gentle voice to make the positive message shine even more.

Released in June 2019, the track was featured as the opening theme for the TV anime Puzzle & Dragons.

It’s a perfect choice for moments of meeting new friends, such as entrance ceremonies or welcome parties.

Sing and dance along with children, and it will naturally become a delightful memory filled with smiles.

Good morning!Fukuda Sho

[Morning Greeting Song] Good Morning! (With Mother) ★Popular at Preschools★Learn Animals★Children’s Song

This song captivates with a bright melody and an energetic vibe, like morning light streaming in.

Created by Sho Fukuda, drawing on his experience in early childhood education, it features playful exchanges between animals and cheerful calls that make it great fun.

It was broadcast in February 2018 as the “Song of the Month” on NHK E-TV’s Okaasan to Issho and included on the album Tomodachi no Hana.

When sung together at morning gatherings, entrance ceremonies, and other occasions where children take their first steps forward, it brings hearts together and naturally fills everyone with smiles—a truly wonderful piece.

Mickey Mouse MarchSakushi / Sakkyoku: Jimī Dotto

[Song/Dance] Mickey Mouse March (with lyrics) — Sweet Singer Ai, the singing big sister

Mickey Mouse is a beloved character popular with children all around the world.

His theme song is the Mickey Mouse March.

As the title suggests, it’s a march, arranged with a brassy sound that lifts your spirits.

Because of that, it’s often used as background music for marches at school sports days and entrance ceremonies.

The lyrics repeatedly praise Mickey Mouse’s name, making them easy to remember.

Be sure to enjoy it along with choreography that imitates Mickey Mouse, too.

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Gather round! Fun, fun, funsakushi: Ide Takao / sakkyoku: Koshibe Nobuyoshi

Gather ’Round! Fun Fun Fun (Okaasan to Issho) / Osamu Sakata & Yuko Kanzaki

Let’s all sing this bright and lively song together.

Written by Takao Ide, the lyrics start with the idea that the Earth is running low on energy, and the theme is traveling around the world with friends to get it moving again.

The lyrics repeat fun phrases and feel uplifting, so children will likely find themselves humming along.

Released in October 1989 as the theme song for NHK’s “Okaasan to Issho,” it has been beloved for many years.

With its energetic vibe, it’s a perfect song for three-year-olds!

Teacher and friendsSakushi: Yoshioka Osamu / Sakkyoku: Koshibe Nobuyoshi

Sensei and Friends by Himawari 🌻 / With Lyrics | Children's Song for Starting School and Moving Up a Grade | Sensei to Otomodachi | Let’s Make Friends with Your Teacher

It’s a perfect song for energetic three-year-olds.

It gently portrays how children get used to a new environment through interactions with their teacher and friends.

With simple lyrics and a rhythmic melody, it’s easy for kids to remember and fun to sing.

During the season of starting preschool or moving up a grade, singing it together while holding hands and greeting each other will naturally bring out smiles and create a warm, friendly classroom atmosphere.

It’s a song that stays close to the feelings of children who have both excitement and anxiety about new encounters, giving them a sense of reassurance.

It’s fun.sakushi: yamauchi kazuko / sakkyoku: terashima naohiko

[Children’s Song] “It’s Fun!” Let’s sing and dance together♪

When you’re singing it, you can’t help but clap along or sway to the beat—That’s Fun.

Its message, “It’s so much fun when everyone claps and sings together!” is perfect for a children’s chorus.

It encourages noticing things you can only experience in group singing: comparing the sound of clapping your own right and left hands with the sound when you clap hands with a friend, and singing while listening closely to the voices around you.

Look at your friends and teacher as you sing, add some movement, and have fun together.

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aye-ayeSakushi: Aida Hiromi / Sakkyoku: Uno Seiichirou

Ai Ai (with hand motions)

Ai Ai is a song about a little monkey, a character that often appears in children’s favorite picture books.

Lyricist Hiromi Aida wrote the lyrics after being asked to create a cute animal song and coming across the aye-aye, which lives on Madagascar, in an illustrated encyclopedia.

It’s perfect not only as a choral piece but also for school plays where a monkey character appears! To help children enjoy singing it even more with choreography, it might be nice to show them photos or illustrations and say, “This is the kind of monkey the song is about.”

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