115 Best Tongue Twisters for Kids in 2023

Tongue twisters for kids are one of the most fun ways to help them improve their fluency, vocabulary and language skills. If you’re looking for a way to bring your kids’ speaking skills up a notch, tongue twisters are the way forward. And of course, while you’re on that, we’ve curated a list of some easy, hard, famous, short, long and hilarious tongue twisters for children along with its definition and advantages for you!

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What are Tongue Twisters?

Traditionally, tongue twisters are defined as a language tool composed of rhyming words and sound repetition. They can be alliterations or palindromic phrases and they play a huge role in improving pronunciation and fluency. Tongue twisters are not just helpful for children but are also used by adults to perfect their speech. 

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5 Advantages of Tongue Twisters for Children

These seemingly random words might sound gibberish but have a lot of advantages for kids. According to a study by Camford.org, tongue twisters can help kids to learn the right pronunciation and improve focus among other advantages. Here are some other advantages of tongue twisters:

1. Tongue twisters can help kids to clear their pronunciation and speech patterns by stretching the muscles that are necessary for speech.
2. Kids’ tongue twisters can help strengthen the brain-muscle connection that is responsible for helping us learn to connect the sounds we make to specific muscle movements. 
3. As tongue twisters enable kids to have better language and speech skills, it also indirectly helps them increase confidence and as a result, they’re more likely to ask questions and take leadership roles later on in their lives.
4. Kids’ tongue twisters are also a great way to help them learn the words’ meanings. You can use them to help them learn different aspects of language like synonyms, antonyms, rhyming words, etc.
5. Tongue twisters can help kids increase concentration and better their listening as well. This is because tongue twisters require them to pay attention, slow down, repeat certain words and speak precisely. 

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115 Best Tongue Twisters for Kids

Have you ever tried saying a phrase so fast that your tongue feels like it’s doing cartwheels? Well, get ready for a whirlwind of wordplay, because we’ve compiled a list of the best tongue twisters for kids! These delightful and challenging phrases are like tongue gymnastics, guaranteed to bring laughter and fun to your language practice.

Funny Tongue Twisters for Kids

1. Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye. If cows could fly I’d have a cow pie in my eye.
2. A big bug bit the little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back.
3. How many yaks could a yak pack, pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?
4. Double bubble gum, bubbles double.
5. Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr Thurber on Thursday.
6. Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.
7. The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
8. A big black bear sat on a big black rug.
9. If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
10. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose? 
11. I saw a saw that could saw out any other saw I ever saw.
12. Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
13. How much ground would a groundhog hog, if a groundhog could hog ground? A groundhog would hog all the ground he could hog if a groundhog could hog ground.
14. 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.
15. Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, ’tis the peanut-butter picky people pick.
16. Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons—balancing them badly.
17. Babbling baby boys blurted boldly.
18. I’m a mother pheasant plucker; I pluck mother pheasants.
19. The two-toed tree-toad tried to win the three-toed she-toad’s heart

Short Tongue Twisters for Kids

20. Proper copper coffee pot
21. Zebras zig and zebras zag
22. Specific Pacific
23. Willie’s really weary
24. Octopus ocular optics
25. Red leather, yellow leather
26. Bad money, mad bunny
27. Freshly-fried flying fish
28. Tommy Tucker tried to tie
29. Red lorry, yellow lorry
30. Fresh French fried fly fritters
31. Red Brick, blue Bick
32. Flashy fish massage
33. Selfish shellfish
34. Greet with glee
35. Ed had edited it
36. She threw three balls
37. Flash place
38. Sheena leads, Sheila needs
39. Russian Rob runs
40. Santa’s short suit shrunk
41. Pirates’ private plank
42. Rudder valve reversals
43. Argyle gargoyle
44. Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward
45. Dark dusty disks.

Easy Tongue Twisters for Kids

46. She sees cheese
47. The blue bluebird blinks
48. He threw three free throws
49. Eleven benevolent elephants
50. Nine nimble noblemen nibbling nuts
51. Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar
52. Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread?
53. Really leery, rarely Larry
54. Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle
55. Kitty caught the kitten in the kitchen
56. Clean clams crammed in clean cans
57. Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes
58. Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses
59. Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards
60. The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes
61. Busy buzzing bumblebees
62. Friendly fleas and fireflies
63. Splish, splash, splosh, went the dog in the wash
64. Two tried and true tridents
65. Great glass globes glow greenly
66. Rubber rudders bounce
67. A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped
68. Six sticky skeletons

Hard Tongue Twisters for Kids

69. Fresh fried fish, fish fresh fried, fried fish fresh, fish fried fresh
70. Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie
71. Send toast to ten tense stout saints’ ten tall tents
72. Rory’s lawn rake rarely rakes really right
73. Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep
74. Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery
75. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk
76. On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser
77. Many mumbling mice are making merry music in the moonlight
78. These sheep shouldn’t sleep in a shack; Sheep should sleep in a shed
79. Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better
80. The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick
81. To begin to toboggan first buy a toboggan, but don’t buy too big a toboggan. Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan
82. Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
83. Supposed to be pink pistachio, supposed to be pistachio pink
84. Seven sleazy shysters in sharkskin suits sold sheared sealskins to seasick sailors
85. Shut up the shutters and sit in the shop

Long Tongue Twisters for Children

86. Kenny the anemone met twenty enemies when he mentioned the many men he sees. “Again,” said the enemy anemones, “again he mentions the many men he sees.” Now Kenny the enemy anemone has twenty new frenemies.
87. Lions lie and liars lie. Lions lie limply alive and liars lie liberally alive. Lions likely lie liberally but liars are likely liable for liking lying and light libel.
88. Sue the sushi chef sued Sue the sous chef. So Sue the sous chef soon sued Sue the sushi chef. She sued so she should share her sushi.
89. Twins twist tweed twine twice. The tweed twangs and twitches as the twins twist. It twinkles and twists as two twins twiddle and tweeze the twirling twine.
90. Chris crosses the crisscrossed crews on the crystal cruise. He caresses cress crosses and crosses the crystal crews at the crux of the crossed cruise.
91. Sing a single synonym for cinnamon since cinnamon synonyms are simply singable. Singing cinnamon sounds like singing cymbals; singing synonyms sends sinewy symbols to singles.
92. 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 Peter Piper picked?
93. Why do you cry, Willy? Why, Willy? Why why why? Why do you cry? Willy, Willy! Willy cry, why you cry, Willy?
94. If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
95. If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I’m perfectly practised and practically perfect.
96. Luke’s Luck likes lakes. Luke’s duck likes lakes. Luke’s Luck licks lakes. Luck’s duck licks lakes.
97. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?
98. Betty Botter bought some butter but, she said, this butter’s bitter; if I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. But, a bit of better butter will make my batter better.
99. Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thick, say it quick! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thicker, say it quicker! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Don’t eat until you are spreading it like a spread. 
100. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop. Where she shines, she sits, and where she sits, she shines. 
101. She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure. So if she sells seashells on the seashore, Then I’m sure she sells seashore shells.

Famous Tongue Twisters for children

102. Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
103. I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet, I sit.
104. Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
105. Denise sees the fleece, Denise sees the fleas. At least Denise could sneeze and feed and freeze the fleas.
106. A tutor who tooted the flute tried to teach two young tooters to toot. Said the two to the tutor, “Is it harder to toot, or to tutor two tooters to toot?”
107. If you must cross a coarse cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
108. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
109. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
110. Whether the weather be fine or whether the weather be not, whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot, we’ll weather the weather whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.
111. Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran
112. And when they battle in a puddle, it’s a tweetle beetle puddle battle.
113. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
114. She sold six shabby-sheared sheep on ship. 
115. The top cop saw a cop top.

That’s about it! We hope this extensive list of fun tongue twisters for kids helps you introduce a fun element in your class or at home for your kids!

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