Baby Songs is a video series aimed at babies, toddlers, and preschoolers, featuring the highly interactive and appealing songs of Hap Palmer. This version, Baby Songs Animals, is recommended for ages infant to 6 years and focuses on kids and animals.
All of the Baby Songs videos are totally mesmerizing for young kids. But they go beyond mesmerizing — they are interactive. Hap Palmer's songs are superb. They are easygoing, yet fun, and they encourage kids to participate. In fact, our kid testers all were singing along, even dancing. Never did we see kids simply glued to the set as when we play most children's videos. The Baby Songs series is superb.
This particular video is no exception. It features live-action videos for each song, with cartoon intermissions that introduce each of the 9 songs to little viewers. Scenes of favorite animals like horses, cats, cows, and more, as well as real children playing and dancing along, are featured and young children love them. The songs include classic animal songs like "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" (with some fresh lyrics), "BINGO", and "Itsy Bitsy Spider". "I'm Glad I'm Me" features children who each need to go to the store for their father, but who wish they were different animals so they could fly, jump, or gallop to the store. At the end of the song, however, they decide that walking is just fine, and that they are glad they are themselves.
Different concepts are explored in the songs as well — BINGO features children holding up large alphabet blocks and each letter of the dog's name Bingo is associated with a word that starts with that letter (for example, "N" is for nap). "The Elephant" introduces children to the concepts of "slow", "big", and "heavy" and kids love to sing along to the long, drawn-out lyrics: "the elephant moves very slooooowly" and watch as kids imitate the elephant's walking and trumpeting. Contrasting is explored in "What's Bigger than a Bear" with lyrics that include words like big, small, loud, soft, bright, and dim.
