Auditions Songs

   Trying to finding auditions songs can be tough for any age! I made a list for younger kids, and a list by voice range, feel free to use this list to find a perfect audition song for yourself! If you have any other suggestions, please put it in the comments below! :)

Young Girls:

• Maybe from Annie
• Tomorrow from Annie
• Castle on a Cloud from Les Miserables
• I Know Things Now from Into The Woods
• When You Wish Upon A Star from Pinocchio
• Just Around the River Bend from Pocahontas
• Let's Go Fly A Kite from Mary Poppins
• Part Of Your World from Little Mermaid
• My New Philosophy from You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
• I Want It Now from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Shy from Once Upon A Mattress
• I Know It's Today from Shrek

Young Boys:

• I Just Can't Wait To Be King from Lion King
• Gary, Indiana from The Music Man
• Giants in the Sky from Into The Woods
• Not While I'm Around from Sweeney Todd
• Happiness from Good Man Charlie Brown
• The Kite from Good Man Charlie Brown
• King Of New York from Newsies
• Think Positive from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Young Unisex: 

• I Won't Grow Up from Peter Pan
• Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile from Annie
• Alone in the Universe from Seussical the Musical
• Green Eggs and Ham from Seussical the Musical
• It's Possible from Seussical the Musical
• Pure Imagination from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Sopranos (The higher notes for girls):

• My New Philosophy from You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
• Home from Beauty and the Beast
• In My Own Little Corner from Cinderella
• Ten Minutes Ago from Cinderella
• Far from the Home I Love from Fiddler on the Roof
• On the Steps of the Palace from Into the Woods
• In My Life from Les Miserables (SOPRANO 1 SONG)
• Goodnight, My Someone from The Music Man
• Green Finch and Linnet Bird from Sweeney Todd (SOPRANO 1 SONG)
• I Feel Pretty from West Side Story
• It Might As Well Be Spring from State Fair
• Jimmy from Thoroughly Modern Millie

Altos (the lower notes for girls):

• Shy from Once Upon A Mattress
• Season of Love from RENT
• 'Til There Was You from The Music Man
• Good Morning Baltimore from Hairspray
• How Lovely to Be A Women from Bye Bye Birdie
• Human Stuff from Little Mermaid
• Colors of The Wind from Pocahontas
• I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables
• Adelaide's Lament from Guys and Dolls
• I Gotta Crow from Peter Pan
• By The Sea from Sweeney Todd
• Poor Unfortunate Souls from Little Mermaid

Tenor (the higher notes for guys):

• Miracle Of Miracles from Fiddler on the Roof
• Sit Down, You're Rockin' The Boat from Guys and Dolls
• Empty Chairs At Empty Tables from Les Miserables
• Santa Fe from Newsies
• Corner of the Sky from Pippin
• Maria from West Side Story
• Make 'Em Laugh from Singing in the Rain
• Johanna from Sweeney Todd
• What Do I Need With Love? from Thoroughly Modern Millie
• Suppertime from You're A Good Man Charlie Brown

Baritone (the middle notes for guys):

• Something Was Missing from Annie
• If I Can't Love Her from Beauty and the Beast
• Put On A Happy Face from Bye Bye Birdie
• Honestly Sincere from Bye Bye Birdie
• Do I Love You Because You Are Beautiful? from Cinderella
• If I Were A Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof
• 76 Trombones from The Music Man
• Singin' in the Rain from Singin' in the Rain
• The Kite from Good Man Charlie Brown
• When Words Fail from Shrek
• Build A Wall from Shrek
• Proud of Your Boy from Aladdin

-Outgoing Redhead

After School Care Field Week

     

For the last week of school, one of my co-workers, at an after school care program thought we should have a field week competition for the kids. We talked to our boss about it, and she loved the idea! My co-worker, Erin, and I started thinking more about what we should for the field week. We thought about splitting the kids up into teams, with equal amounts of each grade on every team, and thought of a couple game they could do. Since I am a planner, I wrote down all the kids and organized them into teams of 9.

     Since the field week was going to be a week (4 school days), I thought of events they could do each day. We wanted some games to be like a competition, but didn't want all of them to be competitive. (C) means competitive game, (NC) means non-competitive game 

Monday:

(C) Marble Pickup

With marbles in a kiddie pool, kids pick up marble with their toes, and puts it into a bucket. Whichever team gets the most marbles wins.

(C) Three Legged Race

(NC) Duck, Duck, Splash!

Normal Duck, Duck, Goose, but when child A goes to say goose, water balloon must pop over child B’s head to show that s/he is goose.

(NC) Crab Walk Races
(NC) Water Balloon Pick Up

Pick up the broken pieces of water balloon, most collect pieces wins

Tuesday:

(C) Egg and Spoon Race

Each team gets a plastic egg, and has to race to the cone and back. Once EVERYONE has raced down and back with the egg, that team wins.

Mummified Race

(C) Mummified Race

One person on each team gets wrapped up like a mummy and has to TRY to walk to race down, around a cone, and back to their teammates.

(C) Tug O’ War

With a rope, or two or three jumpropes tied together, and a kiddie pool in the middle, kids must try to pull the other team into the kiddie pool

(NC) Water Balloon Toss

Children pair up with partner and tosses balloon to partner, and partner is suppose to catch balloon, and the pair takes a step back, and repeat till water balloon pops.

(NC) Water Balloon Pick Up

Pick up the broken pieces of water balloon, most collect pieces wins

Wednesday (BIG WATER DAY!):

(C) Sponge Race

Two buckets at each end, one filled with water, and the other empty, with kids lined up in the middle. Sponge must be dunked into the bucket filled with water, passed down the line to the empty bucket. The sponge must be squeezed out, and whoever squeezed

(C) Tic-Tac-Toe Relay

9 hula hoops are laid out in a tic tac toe board, 2 teams compete against each other, in a line, behind a cone. Each team gets 3 colors of sponges/t shirts. Kids will race down to tic- tac-toe board against the other team, once the shirt gets placed in a hula hoop, team member must go back. Next team member will do the same as the first, the third will do the same as the second. If Tic-Tac-Toe is not made all t shirts are gone, the tshirt can be picked up by next team member and throw it into a empty spot, do this till Tic- Tac- Toe is made.

(NC) Water Balloon Musical Chairs

Normal Musical Chairs, but with water balloons in chairs

(NC) Water Balloon Pick Up

Pick up the broken pieces of water balloon, most collect pieces wins

Thursday:

(C) Penguin Walk

Each team has a balloon and has to put the balloon between his/her legs, and race to the cone and back to their teammates, and pass the balloon to their teammates. Once EVERYONE has raced down and back, that team wins.

(C) Water Relay

Exactly like Sponge Race but with cups.

(NC) Water Limbo

Use a watering hose as the stick, and kids have to limbo under the water shooting out of the hose

(NC) Water Balloon Pick Up

Pick up the broken pieces of water balloon, most collect pieces wins

---ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS!---

Watching movies inside while it rained

      Of course, it rained on Monday and Thursday, so we had to stay inside sadly, but the kids got to watch a movie, play with legos, bingo, and a game my boss taught me when I was little called "Find My Nametag".

  At the end of each competitive game, we marked off which team won that game, and the winning team got Spirit Stick, and could hold that title of the Spirit Stick winners till next year. This year team blue won the spirit stick!

I tried to take as much photos as possible, but I forgot (oops!), and most of the games were water games, and didn't want the change to get it wet.

Feel free to use this as an outline for your field day, or field week, or even a family competition during the summer!

-Outgoing Redhead