Child tongue twisters

52 Incredibly Fun Tongue Twisters For Kids To Try

She sells seasells…

No, no… She sells seashells on the seasore…

Uh ho! Sounds a bit difficult, doesn’t it?

A bit silly, perhaps?

But, what if we told these silly string of words could improve your child’s language?

Wouldn’t you want to give them a try?

Then, this article about tongue twisters for kids is just the right place for you!

We will tell you what tongue twisters are, how they help your child, and also give a massive list for you and your little one to try!

But, first, let’s understand what a tongue twister means!

A tongue twister is defined as “a sequence of words or sounds, typically of an alliterative kind, that are difficult to pronounce quickly and correctly.” (Oxford Dictionary)

Benefits of Tongue Twisters

Tongue twisters may not make a lot of sense, but they aid language development.

Often, these random sounds, strung together, aid in speech therapy.

Not to mention, they are quite fun to recite!

So, what happens when your child is introduced to tongue twisters?

Here are a few benefits:

• Improved pronunciation and enunciation
• Better flow of speech and improved diction
• Improved memory
• Better communication
• Improved reading

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So, get ready for a jolly good time with the tongue twisters that your child would love to repeat again and again.

We recommend that you start with the short tongue twisters. Let your child repeat them at varying speed and without making a mistake!

Allow your child to memorise the longer ones. They may start with a line at first and then repeat entirely.

Read on for our must-try list of tongue twisters in English for kids!

Short tongue twisters

1) Red lorry, yellow lorry.

2) Sheep should sleep in a shed.

3) She sees cheese.

4) Zebras zig and zebras zag.

5) The blue bluebird blinks.

6) Four fine fresh fish for you.

7) He threw three balls.

8) Greek grapes, Greek grapes, Greek grapes.

9) Lucky rabbits like to cause a ruckus.

10) Cooks cook cupcakes quickly.

11) A big black bear sat on a big black rug.

12) Rory’s lawn rake rarely rakes really right.

13) Kitty caught the kitten in the kitchen.

14) We surely shall see the sunshine soon.

15) Six slimy snails slid slowly seaward

16) Four furious friends fought for the phone.

17) Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?

18) Seventy-seven benevolent elephants.

19) Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards.

20) Betty’s big bunny bobbled by the blueberry bush.

No-so short ones for kids

21) I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

22) I looked right at Larry’s rally and left in a hurry.

23) Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes.

24) If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?

25) No need to light a night-light on a light night like tonight.

26) If you want to buy, buy, if you don’t want to buy, bye-bye!

27) The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes.

28) Fresh fried fish, fish fresh fried, fried fish fresh, fish fried fresh.

29) Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.

30) Any noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more.

31) Kindly kittens knitting mittens keep kazooing in the king’s kitchen.

32) How many yaks could a yak pack, pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?

33) If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

34) If a black bug bleeds black blood, what colour blood does a blue bug bleed?

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Long tongue twisters

35) Swan swam over the sea, swim, swan, swim!
Swan swam back again well swum, swan!

36) A sailor went to sea to see what he could see.
And all he could see was sea, sea, sea.

37) I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop.
Where she shines, she sits, and where she sits, she shines.

38) Whether the weather is warm, whether the weather is hot, we have to put up with the weather, whether we like it or not.

39) If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.

40) Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair,
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?

41) A tutor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor, “Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?”

42) I thought a thought but the thought I thought, wasn’t the thought you thought I thought.
If the thought I thought, had been the thought I thought, I wouldn’t have thought I thought.

43) 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?

44) 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.

45) 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 is doctoring doctors?

46) 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?

47) How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a 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.

48) How much dew does a dewdrop drop
If dewdrops do drop dew?
As do dewdrops drop
If dewdrops do drop dew.

49) Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.
“But,” she said, “this bit of butter’s bitter,
But a bit of better butter mixed with this butter might just make my bit of bitter butter better.”
So, Betty bought a bit of better butter to make her bitter butter better.

50) 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!

Hold on!

We have a little challenge for you.

Well, give them a try then!

Oh-so hard ones for kids

Here are a couple of tongue twisters that have been voted as the hardest ones in the world!

51) The sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick.

52) Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.

We hope your child and you had a lot of fun trying our list of challenging and funny tongue twisters for kids!

What were your favourite tongue twisters as a child? Surely, a few of them would have popped into your head. Go ahead and leave a comment below.

55+ of the Best Tongue Twisters For Kids, Ranging from Easy to Impossible

Entertainment

Because watching a parent repeatedly trip over their words is hilarious.

Updated: July 26, 2022

Originally Published: Jan. 14, 2021

Most people think of tongue twisters as a trivial activity for kids, full of gibberish and phrases that are equally fun and frustrating. But really, these seemingly random constructions of alliterative words and palindromic phrases are a surefire way to improve fluency and pronunciation. And it’s a great way to get your kid’s speaking skills up to par. In fact, Natalie Portman dedicated an entire section in her acting MasterClass to the tongue-twisters she uses before going on set to perfect her speech. Politicians and news anchors are also known to practice tongue twisters before going on air.

Of course, these deliberately difficult expressions can be the opposite of fun for kids who are still learning to speak, so it’s important to find that balance between challenging tongue twisters and downright impossible ones. We’ve compiled a list of the best easy-to-memorize tongue twisters that will give your kid (and you) instant satisfaction when they finally get them right.

1. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn’t have thought so much.
2. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop where she shines, she sits, and where she sits, she shines.
3. A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose.
4. Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward.
5. Whether the weather is warm, whether the weather is hot, we have to put up with the weather, whether we like it or not.
6. The bottom of the butter bucket is the buttered bucket bottom.
7. A sailor went to sea to see what he could see. And all he could see was sea, sea, sea.
8. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
9. Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes.
10. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?
11. If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I’m perfectly practiced and practically perfect.
12. Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.
13. I saw a saw that could saw out any other saw I ever saw.
14. Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
15. I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.
16. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
17. Any noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more.
18. Four furious friends fought for the phone.
19. Chester Cheetah chews a chunk of cheap cheddar cheese.
20. Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
21. We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
22. Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.
23. Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.
24. Betty Botter bought some butter; “But,” said she, “The 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 bitter batter better. So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter, Put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better.
25. Birdie birdie in the sky, laid a turdie in my eye. If cows could fly, I’d have a cow pie in my eye.
26. 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.
27. “Surely Sylvia swims!” shrieked Sammy, surprised. “Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink.”
28. The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
29. Can you can a canned can into an un-canned can like a canner can can a canned can into an un-canned can?
30. Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry.
31. Thin sticks, thick bricks, thin sticks, thick bricks, thin sticks, thick bricks.
32. Stupid superstition, stupid superstition, stupid superstition.
33. Two tried and true tridents, two tried and true tridents, two tried and true tridents.
34. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a 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.
35. 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?
36. When a doctor doctors a doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored, or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?
37. If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
38. If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.
39. If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
40. Something in a 30-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered, threatening the 3D thoughts of Matthew — although, theatrically, it was the 13,000 thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the 30-year-old thought of that morning.
41. 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.
42. Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards.
43. Willie’s really weary.
44. He threw three free throws.
45. Denise sees the fleece, Denise sees the fleas. At least Denise could sneeze and feed and freeze the fleas.
46. These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue.
47. Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.
48. Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, 'tis the peanut-butter picky people pick.
49. Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons—balancing them badly.
50. Six sticky skeletons.
51. Each Easter, Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
52. Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards.
53. Cooks cook cupcakes quickly.
54. Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
55. Six Czech cricket critics.
56. Babbling baby boys blurted boldly.
57. Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
58. I’m a mother pheasant plucker; I pluck mother pheasants.
59. The two-toed tree-toad tried to win. The three-toed she-toad’s heart,

This article was originally published on Jan. 14, 2021

Tongue twisters for children

Collection of children's tongue twisters for speech development, diction improvement and entertainment. You need to read tongue twisters from childhood, because reading tongue twisters and memorizing them help to form a beautiful smooth speech, they teach you to pronounce all the letters without skipping them and not “swallowing”.

Tongue twisters for children on this page are divided into several categories. The most important tongue twisters for improving diction are, of course, “with the letter R” and hissing consonants. Reading complex tongue twisters will help to consolidate skills, and funny children's tongue twisters will help you learn while playing.

Tongue twisters for the letter R

Tongue twisters for the letter R for children. Children's tongue twisters in R improve the child's diction and help develop correct speech.

Grass in the yard

Grass in the yard, firewood on the grass
Do not cut firewood on the grass in the yard.

Carl from Clara

Carl stole corals from Clara,
Clara stole the clarinet from Carl.

Ships tacked

Ships tacked, tacked, but did not catch.

Shopping tongue twister

Tell us about your purchases,
What kind of purchases?
About purchases, about purchases,
About my purchases.

A tongue twister about an otter

An otter dived into a bucket from an otter.
An otter drowned in a bucket of water.

A Greek rode across a river

A Greek rode across a river,
He sees a Greek - cancer in the river.
Threw the Greek hand into the river,
Cancer for the hand of the Greek - tsap!

An otter in the tundra

In the depths of the tundra
Otters in spats
They dig into buckets
Kernels of cedars!

Otter from an otter
Gaiters in the tundra
Wipe an otter with cedar kernels
Wipe an otter's muzzle with a spatula
Kernels into buckets
Otter into the tundra!

Patter with hissing sounds

Patter with hissing sounds - the most popular tongue twisters for children with complex hissing consonants.

Patter with the letter Zh

The bear cub was frightened
Hedgehog with a hedgehog and with a hedgehog,
Swift with a shear and a haircut.

Tongue twister with the letter H

Four turtles have four baby turtles.

Four little imps

Four black, grimy little imps
Draw a drawing in black ink.

Patter with the letter Ш

At the edge of the hut
Old chatterboxes live.
Each old woman has a basket,
Each basket has a cat,
Cats in baskets sew boots for old women.

Sasha sewed

Sasha sewed a hat for Sasha,
Sasha knocked a bump off his hat.

Sasha walked along Highway

Sasha was walking along the highway and sucking dry food.

In a hut

Rustling silks in a hut
Yellow dervish from Algeria
And, juggling with knives,
Shtuka is eating a fig.

Hooded cuckoo

Cuckoo bought a hood.
Cuckoo put on a hood.
How funny he is in the hood!

Patter with the letter Щ

Two puppies, cheek to cheek,
Pinch the brush in the corner.

Funny tongue twisters

Simple funny tongue twisters - rhyming rhymes for young children for speech development and entertainment.

Mouse

Mouse climbed under the lid,
To gnaw a crumb under the lid,
Probably the lid for the mouse -
The mouse forgot about the cat!

Koschei

Skinny, weak Koschei
Carrying a box of vegetables.

Forty forty

Cunning magpie to catch trouble,
And forty forty - forty trouble.

Parrot

The parrot said to the parrot:
I'll parrot you, parrot.
The parrot answers him:
Parrot, parrot, parrot!

Karasenok

Carp once crucian
Gave a coloring book.
And Karas said:
"Color, Karasyonok, a fairy tale!"
On the coloring page of the Karasyonka -
Three funny pigs:
The Karasyonka repainted the piglets into crucians!

Complex tongue twisters

The most difficult tongue twisters for children. Known tongue twisters for the development of diction, which you need to try to learn by heart and pronounce without hesitation.

Patter about the Chinese

Once upon a time there were three Chinese - Yak, Yak-Cidrak, Yak-Cidrak-Cidron-Cidroni,
And three more Chinese women - Tsypa, Tsypa-Dripa, Tsypa-Dripa-Lampomponi.
Married Yak on Tsyp, Yak-Tsidrak on Tsype-Drip,
Yak-Tsidrak-Cidron-Cidroni on Tsyp-Dripe-Lampomponi.
Here they had children: Yak with Tsypa - Shah,
Yak-Tsidrak with Tsypa-Drypa - Shah-Sharakh,
Yak-Tsidrak-Tsidroni with Tsypo-Drypa-Lampoponi - Shah-Sharakh-Sharoni.

What is missing

No apricot, coconut, radish,
Halibut, vinegar, kvass and rice,
No compass, longboat and cable,
Thermos, press, Indian sailor,
No bass, no taste, no weight, no demand,
No interest, no question.

Feast at Kira and Fira

At Kira and Fira
There was a feast in the apartment:
Fakir ate marshmallows and
Fakir drank kefir.
A Fira and Kira
They didn't drink kefir,
They didn't eat marshmallow -
They fed the fakir.

Blackberries and strawberries

If you didn't live near the blackberries,
but if you lived near the strawberries,
then strawberry jam is familiar to you
and not at all the usual blackberry jam.
If you lived near a blackberry
, then it means that blackberry jam is familiar to you,
and not at all the usual strawberry jam.
But if you lived near the blackberry
and if you lived near the strawberry
and if you did not spare time for the forest,
then it means that you ate excellent blackberry jam,
strawberry jam every day.

English tongue twisters with translation

Reading tongue twisters in English develops speech in terms of pronunciation of letter combinations unusual for the Russian language. Tongue twisters in English with translation are designed for children over 6 years old who are learning a foreign language.

Groundhog

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

How much firewood would a groundhog throw,
if a groundhog could throw firewood?

Zoo

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
managing an imaginary menagerie?

Can you imagine an imaginary zookeeper
running an imaginary zoo?

Oyster

Any noise annoys an oyster
but a noisier noise annoys an oyster most.

Any noise irritates the oyster,
but louder noise irritates the oyster even more.

Shells

She sells sea shells at the sea shore,
the shells she sells are the sea-shore shells, I'm sure.

She sells seashells on the beach,
the shells she sells are seashells, I'm sure.

Modern tongue twisters

Children's most modern tongue twisters for the general development of speech. Assume not only memorization by heart, but also pronunciation for speed.

Who wants to talk

Who wants to talk,
He must pronounce
Everything is correct and intelligible,
So that everyone can understand.
We will talk
And we will pronounce
So correctly and clearly,
So that everyone can understand.

Coconut

Coconut cooks cook coconut juice in a quick cooker.

Gazelle

Gazelle's eyes stare at the beaver from behind the spruce.

Lotto

Count Toto plays loto
and Countess Toto knows about it
that Count Toto plays loto,
if Count Toto knew about it,
that Countess Toto knows about it,
that Count Toto plays loto,
then Count Toto would never play lotto in his life.

Other famous tongue twisters

Short tongue twisters that even the smallest children can read and memorize.

Soaps Mila

Soaps Mila soap bear,
Mila dropped the soap.
Mila dropped soap,
Teddy bear was not washed with soap.

Against hooves

Dust flies across the field from the clatter of hooves.

Belka

White snow. White chalk.
White sugar is also white.
But the squirrel is not white.
was not even White.

Jackdaws

Once scaring a jackdaw,
saw a parrot in the bushes.
And that parrot says:
"You scare the jackdaws, pop, scare,
but scaring the jackdaws in the bushes,
don't you dare scare the parrot."

Sonya on a sled

Senka and Sanka are carrying Sonya on a sled.

Tongue twisters for children - I am happy MOM

Tongue twisters for children are funny poems for the development of speech and diction. Agree, it's nice to listen to a beautiful, correct speech, when a person clearly pronounces each sound and pronounces all the endings; when everything is clear and you do not need to guess what the interlocutor had in mind.

Many mistakenly believe that the ability to speak beautifully is a special talent, a gift that not everyone can be honored with. This is a big misconception.

To improve colloquial speech, tongue twisters were invented - small rhymes built from difficult-to-pronounce words, syllables and sounds.

On our website we have collected online poems for every taste. The section "patter tongue twisters for children" presents rhyming quatrains for the development of speech and improvement of diction, for learning English and just for fun.

We have divided tongue twisters for children into several sections. In the first two, we have collected touching rhymes for staging the "r" sound and funny tongue twisters to amuse the kids. The next three included short rhymes for practicing hissing consonants [zh], [sh], [h], [u], complex tongue twisters “for advanced” and modern tongue twisters. The last section includes English quatrains with translation for those who study a foreign language, as well as other beautiful tongue twisters.

Tongue twisters for children starting with the letter "r"

In this section, we have collected online tongue twisters, working through which the child learns to pronounce the sound "r". For some reason, of all the sounds, this one is the most difficult for a child. To pronounce it, you need to use not one, but several parts of the tongue at once.

An otter in the tundra

In the depths of the tundra
Otters in spats
They dig into buckets
Kernels of cedars!

Otter from an otter
Leggings in the tundra
Otter from a cedar kernel
0013 Wipe the face of the otter with a gaiter
Cannonballs in buckets
Otter in the tundra!

Margarita

Margarita collected daisies on the mountain,
Margarita lost daisies in the yard.

Carl from Clara

Carl stole corals from Clara,
Clara stole the clarinet from Carl.

A Greek rode across a river

A Greek rode across a river,
He sees a Greek - a cancer in the river.
Threw the Greek's hand into the river,
Cancer for the Greek's hand - tsap!

Chattering Magpies

Three Chattering Magpies chattered on a hill.

Ships tacked

Ships tacked, tacked, but not caught.

Beavers go

Beavers go to bora cheese.
Beavers are kind, beavers are cheerful.

Grass in the yard

Grass in the yard, firewood on the grass
Do not cut firewood on the grass in the yard.

Drawings

Larisa painted daffodils in watercolor.
Natasha painted dahlias in gouache.

Patter about purchases

Tell us about purchases,
About which purchases?
About purchases, about purchases,
About my purchases.

Pine

There grew behind the mountain, behind a hillock
a pine with a sucker.

Children's funny tongue twisters

In this section you will find excellent material for playing learning. Learning together funny tongue twisters for children will create a positive attitude and attract the attention of even the most restless kid.

Parrot

The parrot said to the parrot:
I'll parrot you, parrot.
The parrot answers him:
Parrot, parrot, parrot!

Koschei

Skinny and weak Koschei
Carrying a box of vegetables.

Mouse

Mouse crawled under the lid,
To gnaw a crumb under the lid,
Probably the lid for the mouse -
The mouse forgot about the cat!

Carp

Carp once crucian
Gave a coloring book.
And Karas said:
"Color, Karasyonok, a fairy tale!"
On the coloring of the Karasyonka -
Three funny pigs:
The Karasyonka repainted the piglets into crucians!

Forty forty

Cunning magpie to catch trouble,
And forty forty - forty trouble.

Turtle and tea

Turtle, not bored, sits for an hour with a cup of tea.

Glutton Zhora

Glutton Zhora ate one hundred pancakes and one hundred cutlets for lunch.
Zhora's stomach hurts. It's dangerous to be a glutton!

Toad, crane and yellow bug

Toad, crane and yellow bug
We went to the meadow to visit the hedgehog,
So that the dressmaker would sew in place
Letter Sh and it became quiet in the forest.

Patter with hissing sounds [w], [w], [h], [u]

To tongue twisters with hissing [w], [w], [h], [u] parents and teachers turn most often. These sounds are the most difficult for children.

Hooded Cuckoo

Cuckoo bought a hood.
Cuckoo put on a hood.
How funny he is in the hood!

H tongue twister

Four turtles have four baby turtles.

In a hut

Rustling silks in a hut
A yellow dervish from Algeria
And, juggling with knives,
Shtuk eats figs.

Four little imps

Four black, grimy little imps
Draw a drawing in black ink.

Sasha was walking along the highway

Sasha was walking along the highway and sucked dry food.

Red cat

Red couch potato

Patter with the letter Щ

Two puppies, cheek to cheek,
Pinch the brush in the corner.

Patter with the letter Zh

A bear cub was frightened
A hedgehog with a hedgehog and a hedgehog,
A swift with a shear and a short haired cub.

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