The Kids Car Playlist

*This post originally was posted as a guest post for Kera over at Nugget on a Budget. I really enjoyed writing this post and wanted to post it here for my readers to check out, comment and add their comments!

One thing I never considered when I was pregnant was what we would listen to in the car when I was driving with the baby. I always listened to all types of genres, and some were admittedly worse than others, but it just wasn't something I considered until one day I saw my son dancing in the back seat to Katy Perry.
And that's when I began to REALLY listen to the lyrics.

Music nowadays just isn't kid friendly, so I began a semi-crazy hunt to find and create a playlist for him. Desperate I turned on Radio Disney, and was disappointed to find out that they played the EXACT same (and unedited music) my Top 40 station played. That's not the radio Disney I remember!

The decision was final... we needed to create the baby a CD for the car, and one that wasn't about to drive us completely crazy! After some tweaking, testing, and learning from a few commutes with the kiddo, here is our playlist.

1. Circle of Life - Lion King 

2. Under the Sea - Little Mermaid

3. Hercules - Go the Distance

4. Beauty and the Beast - Beauty and the Beast

5. Chunky - Madagascar 2 - Will.i.am

6. Mulan - I'll Make a Man Out of You

7. Kung Fu Fighting - Cee Lo Green

8. Aladdin - A Whole New World

9. Muppet Movie - Rainbow Connection

10. The Hairbrush Song - Veggie Tales

11. The Pirates who Don't do Anything - Veggie Tales

12. Kiss the Girl - Ashley Tisdale

13. Rio - I want to Party

14. Ester Dean - Celebrate the World - From the Lorax

15. Shrek - I'm a Believer

16. Muppets - Bohemian Rhapsody

17. Jungle Book - Bare Necessities 

18. Banana - Despicable Me - (Minons)

19. Brave - Sara Barreilles 

20. Veggie Tales - Endangered Love

21. Mary Poppins - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

22. Tangled - I See the Light

As you can tell, we have a young one, so this playlist is for those younger ages. A LOT of these suggestions came from my husband and I, and we tested each song with our little guy to see how much he liked each one. If he didn't dance or at least smile, it didn't make the cut.

Hopefully this playlist will provide some inspiration or ideas as to what you could add to your playlist! I'd love to hear what you suggest, we'd love to expand our playlist!