WAG Music ideas for 7 year old moving to optionals.

[momofthreegirls]

My 7.5 year old DD needs to pick music for her level 6 floor routine. The gym allows girls to pick their own music (HC gives final approval). DD has no idea what she wants. She is by far the baby of the team (most of her teammates are middle school age) and I think she needs something cute but not too babyish.

She is small, with a long lean body type and has done well with the compulsory floor because the dance elements just seem to "fit" her well. She is a pretty powerful tumbler, but you would never guess it by looking at her. So any tempo music would work.

Thanks for any ideas. I would love to have a few different things for her to listen to get started on the process. After all these years of compulsory music, I think I am more excited than she is!

 

[Quadqueen]

I have always liked the music from the movie "Up" for floor music for a younger girl.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...undtrack&rh=n:163856011,k:UP+soundtrack&ajr=0

 

[raenndrops]

Bear Necessities or Jump in the Line or Do You Wanna Build a Snowman could be cute

 

[Gymmonkeymomma]

My DD had the Linus song from Charlie brown.

 

[Azgymmiemom]

My dd was in the youngest age category for levels 7&8. Her routine for those two years was to the Muppets. It was fun and bouncy and suited her well. In fact, she wanted more dramatic music this year and her coach told her no, that she had to stay with cute and bouncy bc she's still little and can get away with it. She chose Elvis's bossa nova baby. It's still fun and bouncy, but not as little kiddish. I definitely think music should be age appropriate, and I think the judges like that, too.

 

[wandrewsjr]

My favorite from the younger optionals days...

 

[AlexsGymmyMom]

A little girl last year had Hey Mickey for her music. It was really fun and bouncy. She also scored really well with it, like 9.5 or better every comp we saw her at!

 

[sce]

Another fun one is rockin robin

 

[sce]

This suite from the movie Enchanted sounds good

 

[sce]

Under The Sea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL4470E06E6F7FE654&v=Sds8vgkZykc

 

[sce]

Be Our Guest

 

[sce]

I really like this one:
Friend Like Me

 

[Pea'sMom]

The 'baby' in Pea's group is using the Wizard of Oz. We also have a girl who uses the angry birds song. I personally like the Madagascar instrumental as it's powerful but not too grown up.

 

[gymgal]

My DD had the Linus song from Charlie brown.

dd had this as well. it was cute and bouncy so it worked well.

 

[munchkin3]

Alice in Wonderland?

 

[pinkmonkeygirl]

My DD has used the Muppets and it was cute but I saw another young girl at the state meet do her floor routine to a polka song and it was fantastic - fun and upbeat

 

[profmom]

Chattanooga Choo Choo! One of DD's teammates did that for two years and it was great.

 

[sce]

The entertainer is a fun song: http://www.energymmusic.com/catalog/jazzy/272

Or something more classical, Music Box Dancer:

 

[htimcj]

I second the Little Mermaid piece. Cute but my now almost 12 DD can still use it.

 

[GYM0M]

I love little bitty pretty one! That's what we selected for our 8 year old!