Help with Ideas for Cd Party Favor for 5 Year Olds

My son is turning five next month and we are hosting his birthday party at a local playground. I've been racking my brain with party favor ideas and have finally decided upon giving the guests a personalized cd. So here's where I need help... can anyone please suggest a song/songs that your 5-ish year old really likes that I can add to the playlist? Thanks for your help!

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Thank you to each and every one of you for all of your wonderful ideas. Your suggestions really helped me organize my thoughts on what to do. My son LOVES to sing and dance, so we put together "Songs that Rock" (a compilation of all his favorite dance songs and a few from of his favorite movies). We bought the songs from iTunes (searched for children's songs so that the lyrics were all appropriate.

Here's the song list....
Happy Birthday (Ting Tings)
Life Is a Highway
Jump Jump (Choo Choo Soul)
I Like to Move It
Celebration
Walking On Sunshine
Who Let the Dogs Out
(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty
Upside Down
Let's Dance (Choo Choo Soul)
Everybody have fun tonight
U Can't Touch This
All Star
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Gonna Make you Sweat
You've Got a Friend In Me

PS... All of the moms loved the idea and the cd and are more than happy to play it in the car because it's music they like too!

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T.M. answers from Philadelphia on March 19, 2009

who let the dogs out

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L.T. answers from Pittsburgh on March 19, 2009

My kids (3 1/2 and 4 1/2) really like Laurie Berkner songs (Victor Vito, We are the Dinosaurs, Telephone, I'm Gonna Catch You, etc)and Wiggles songs (Hot Potato, Rock a Bye Your Bear, Wiggly Safari songs, etc). They also like the song from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog...).

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D.P. answers from Pittsburgh on March 19, 2009

My son likes "I Like To Move It" from Madagascar. And (of course) anything from the Cars movie soundtrack.

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K.K. answers from Erie on March 19, 2009

I love the idea of using theme music. That would be really fun.

My five year old loves going to the library and borrowing music Cd's. I know our library has lots of Disney ones, like Cars-Fast Tracks, and other movie music.

Another idea if you needed filler would be adding an audio book. The Thomas the Tank Audio books are fun to listen to with or without the book, we sometimes take those in the car instead of music. John Lithgow has quite a few, like the Run-a-Way Pancake, and I'm a Manitee.

If you decided just to do a collection of music: some good kids artists are
Raffi
The Wiggles
Laurie Berkner
They might be Giants
The Biscuit Brothers
Going Quakers a mickey mouse one
Elizabeth Mitchell
Veggie Tales

Or you could look for Cd's that all have to do with birthdays-- It's my party and i'll cry if i want to, There is one that just sticks in your head --Come to my party today is my special day, come to my party today is my Birthday, ugggg i'll be hearing that all night now.
You could also do just regular kids dance music like the Hokey pokey, the chicken dance, I'm a little tea pot

If your son goes to preschool or kindergarten another good resource would be his teacher.

This is such an awesome idea, I'm sure the kids and mom's will love it- no candy or little junky toys and lots of fun music instead.
Have an awesome time!

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A. answers from Philadelphia on March 19, 2009

Try using the theme songs from some of his favorite movies or cartoons, like maybe, Cars, transformers, batman, whatever he is into. You can also try low rider. Good luck

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