Kids can be quite a handful, especially if you do not know how to deal with them. Parents, teachers, and caregivers must keep them engaged with various activities so that they won’t feel bored. And these activities should not only keep them preoccupied but should also develop their foundations in life. One activity we recommend is telling tongue twisters for kids. Kids will enjoy this activity, and it will also help improve their speech and communication skills.
What Are Tongue Twisters?
Tongue twisters are phrases or sentences with repeated consonantal sounds, making them hard to articulate, especially when repeatedly spoken or verbalized quickly.
Why are Tongue Twisters Important for Kids?
Tongue Twisters for kids are essential exercises to help with articulation and speech. It is a good way for kids to improve their pronunciation and fluency. Tongue twisters are often used in speech therapies as a language development tool. It also helps children improve their diction, and promote a better flow of speech.
Additionally, tongue twisters for kids are known to improve reading and memory skills. It also promotes better communication among peers and other people. Now, here’s our ultimate list of funny tongue twisters for kids, including short tongue twisters and hard tongue twisters.
Easy Tongue Twisters for Kids
- Greek grapes, Greek grapes, Greek grapes.
- Zebras zig and zag.
- Red lorry, yellow lorry.
- The bluebird blinks.
- Lucky rabbits like to cause a ruckus.
- Spread it thick, say it quick.
- Five fine fresh fish for you.
- He threw three balls.
- She sees cheese.
- Selfish shellfish.
- Cooks cook cupcakes quickly
- Four furious friends fought for the phone.
- Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
- We shall see the sunshine soon.
- Truly rural.
Medium Tongue Twisters for Kids
- I scream, you scream. We all scream for ice cream!
- Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
- Ted fed Fred bread and Fred fed Ted bread.
- Four frantic frogs fled from forty fierce fishes.
- Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.
- A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym.
- If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.
- Any noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more.
- If a black bug bleeds black blood, what color blood does a blue bug bleed?
- Thin sticks, thick bricks, thin sticks, thick bricks, thin sticks, thick bricks.
- Fresh fried fish, fish fresh fried, fried fish fresh, fish fried fresh.
- If ten witches were watching ten watches, which witch would watch which watch?
- The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
- Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
Hard Tongue Twisters for Kids
- Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked?
- Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?
- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if the woodchuck could chuck wood? He would chuck, he would, as much as he could. And chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
- If one doctor doctors another doctor, then which doctor is doctoring the doctored doctor? Does the doctor who doctors the doctor, doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does he doctor the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?
- Betty Botter bought a bit of butter but the bit of butter’s bitter. But a bit of better butter in butter might make the bit of bitter butter better. So, Betty bought a bit of better butter to make her bitter butter better.
- How much ground would a groundhog hog if a groundhog could hog a ground? A groundhog would hog all the ground he could hog if a groundhog could hog ground.
- Chester cheetah chews a chunk of cheap cheddar cheese. If the chunk of cheese chunked Chester cheetah, what would Chester cheetah chew and chunk on?
- All I want is a proper cup of coffee made in a proper copper coffee pot. I may be off my dot, but I want a cup of coffee from a proper coffee pot. Tin coffee pots and iron coffee pots, they’re no use to me. If I can’t have a proper cup of coffee in a proper copper coffee pot, I’ll have a cup of tea.
- She sells seashells on the seashore. The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure. And if she sells seashells on the seashore, then I’m sure she sells seashore shells.
- Denise sees the fleece, Denise sees the fleas. At least, Denise could sneeze and feed and freeze the fleas.
- Why do you cry, Willy? Why, Willy? Why, why, why? Why do you cry? Willy, Willy! Willy cry, why you cry, Willy?
- How much dew does a dewdrop drop if dewdrops do drop dew? As do dewdrops drop if dewdrops do drop dew.
- To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a prickly pot with a lifelong lock, playing with bees that give you short, sharp shocks.
Can You Write Your Own Tongue Twister for Kids?
While they appear challenging to say, tongue twisters are easier to make! Writing a tongue twister is almost the same as writing a poem that rhymes – though with a detailed process. It is best to practice writing easy and shorter tongue twisters for kids before making long and complicated ones.
To write a tongue twister for kids, here is a quick list of the things to do:
Pick your consonants
Most people – even adults – often confuse consonants like p and b, t and k, s and f when pronouncing them. Since kids are just still kids, do not pick difficult consonants unless you want to create a rather tricky tongue twister.
List your words
As soon as you pick your consonant or pair of consonants, jot down words that contain the consonants twice.
Create your phrase or sentence/s
As soon as you have a word collection, make a sentence out of them to come up with unique and enjoyable tongue twisters for kids.
Focus on pronunciation, rhythm, and structure if you want to create a complicated tongue twister. Using words with a slight difference in consonants, such as shed and shred, can be confusing to some readers. Using words that mirror each other such as ‘selfish,’ and ‘shellfish’ makes more challenging tongue twisters for kids.
Conclusion
Tongue twisters are fun ways to encourage kids to practice speech and language development. Starting from simple and easy tongue twisters and progressing to more complicated, longer, and complex ones increase fluency and diction. So, encourage children to play with words and make tongue twisters a fun experience for them!
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