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

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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,

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60 Tongue Twisters in English for Kids

Funny tongue twisters for kids have been around for generations. Those seemingly gibberish-sounding sentences are not only fun, but they also help you speak better. They boost your repertoire of exciting and fun-sounding words and make a good public orator out of you. Plus, who does not like to have fun with friends and family by challenging them with words? Whether you are in school, park, or out with friends or cousins, a game of fun tongue twisters will surely give you a lifelong memory to cherish. Politicians, actors, and news anchors also happen to use tongue twisters before going on air to stretch their mouths and perfect their speech. There are plenty of easy-to-memorise tongue twisters to downright impossible ones to test your speaking skills. Here’s our lowdown on some popular tongue twisters, and why you and your kids should recite them together. Don’t worry if you don’t begin very well; with enough practice, these will come totally easy to you!

What Are Tongue Twisters?

In reality, tongue twisters are phrases, which have similar sounding words in a repetitive sequence. They aid language development, boost vocabulary, and are a lot of fun when recited together in a group.

What Are the Different Types of Tongue Twisters?

Depending on the age, tongue twisters have been categorised into different types. These include short tongue twisters for children, long tongue twisters for kids, funny tongue twisters for little ones, popular tongue twisters for lil champs, and easy tongue twisters for kids. With age, you can progress with learning short and easy to long and difficult tongue twisters to enhance your speech and vocabulary well.

Benefits of Tongue Twisters for Young Kids

Kids begin to develop their speech and diction at a young age, and tongue twisters can help them stretch the muscles that are necessary for speech. This helps them develop clear pronunciation and speech patterns.

Tongue Twisters for Children to Recite

Don’t make your child recite tongue twisters, alone. Multiply the fun by participating in a group. Here are our 20 best tongue twisters in English for kids, which will give you a real challenge.

1. I Scream

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

2. Peter Piper

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?

3.

Betty Botter

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.

4. Susie Shine

I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.

Where she shines, she sits, and where she sits, she shines.

5. Woodchuck

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.

6. Doctor Doctor

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?

7.

Thought A Thought

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.

8. Fuzzy Wuzzy

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,

Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair,

Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?

9. She Sells

She sells sea shells by the seashore

And the shells she sells by the seashore are sea shells for sure.

10. All I Want is a Proper Cup of Coffee

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.

11. Bleeding Boys

Brave, bleeding boys battle bald, biting babies

Biting babies ride battle toys while bumbling boys brave bald biting babies.

12. Denise Sees

Denise sees the fleece,

Denise sees the fleas.

At least Denise could sneeze

And feed and freeze the fleas.

13. Dark Dock

To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,

In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,

Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,

From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

14. Luke Luck

Luke Luck likes lakes.

Luke’s duck likes lakes.

Luke Luck licks lakes.

Luke’s duck licks lakes.

Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.

Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

15. Cheese Trees

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew

While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew

Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze

Freezy trees made these trees’ cheese freeze

That’s what made these three free fleas sneeze

 

16.

Black and Brown Background

Black background, brown background,

Brown background, black background,

Background background, black, black, brown, brown.

17. Why Willy?!

Why do you cry, Willy?

Why, Willy?

Why, why, why?!

Why do you cry?

Willy, Willy!

Willy cry, why you cry, Willy?

18. Ned Nott and Sam Shott

Ned Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not.
So it is better to be Shott than Nott.

Some say Nott was not shot.
But Shott says he shot Nott.
Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot,
Or Nott was shot.

If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot.
But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott,
Then Shott was shot, not Nott.

However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott, but Nott.

19.

Butter And Jelly

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!

20. Chester Cheetah

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?

Short Tongue Twisters for Children

 

Here are some short tongue twisters for kids that are easy to recite and perfect for beginners.

  1. Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward.
  2. Zebras zig and zebras zag.
  3. Irish wristwatch.
  4. Red lorry, yellow lorry.
  5. Selfish Shellfish.
  6. Toy boat. Try boat. Toy boat. Try boat.
  7. Kitty caught the kitten in the kitchen.
  8. Greek grapes, Greek grapes, Greek grapes.
  9. Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread.
  10. Bad money, mad bunny.

Long Tongue Twisters for Kids

How about going to the next level with something longer and fun tongue twisters?

  1. Fresh fried fish, fish fresh fried, fried fish fresh, fish fried fresh.
  2. Fox on clocks on bricks and blocks. Bricks and blocks on Knox on box.
  3. No needs to light a night light On a light night like tonight.
  4. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
  5. Why do you cry, Willy? Why, Willy? Why why why? Why do you cry? Willy, Willy! Willy cry, why you cry, Willy?
  6. I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. Upon the slitted sheet, I sit. 
  7. If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
  8. Whether the weather is warm, whether the weather is hot, we have to put up with the weather, whether we like it or not.
  9. If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I’m perfectly practised and practically perfect.
  10. Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.

Funny Tongue Twisters for Children

For ultimate fun in practising tongue twisters, nothing could be better than these funny tongue twisters. Let’s take a look and laugh, shall we?

  1. 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?”
  2. If you want to buy, buy, if you don’t want to buy, bye bye!
  3. An ape hates grape cakes.
  4. I have got a date at a quarter to eight; I’ll see you at the gate, so don’t be late.
  5. Any noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more.
  6. Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, ’tis the peanut-butter picky people pick.
  7. Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye.
  8. If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
  9. . A sailor went to sea to see what he could see. And all he could see was sea, sea, sea.
  10. A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym.

Well Known Tongue Twister for Kids

Regardless of short or hard, there are many popular tongue twisters that have been loved for ages. Here are some of them:

  1. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
  2. Sheena leads, Sheila needs.
  3. Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.
  4. And when they battle in a puddle, it’s a tweetle beetle puddle battle.
  5. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
  6. A big black bug bit a big black bear. 
  7. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
  8. If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
  9. 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.
  10. Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes.

Try out these tongue twisters at home with your kids and see if you can recite them at breakneck speeds. Let us know how it went, by getting in touch with us.

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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.

Sh 9 tongue twister0323

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

Sasha sewed

Sasha sewed Sasha's hat,
Sasha's hat knocked a bump.

Mice

The mouse whispers to the mouse:
“You keep rustling - you are not sleeping”
The mouse whispers to the mouse:
“I will rustle quieter”.

Hedgehog

A hedgehog lies by the fir-tree, by the hedgehog of needles,
And below, like small hedgehogs,
Last year's cones lie on the grass.

Hoop

I spin the hoop, I twist, I want to become a circus performer.

Patter with the letter H

At a neighbor, at a rook,
The rook shouted in a temper.
The rook was shouting, the rook was getting excited...
But the neighbor was not upset.

Complex tongue twisters

Those children who have already mastered simple quatrains can move on to more complex children's tongue twisters. With their help, the child not only correctly and clearly pronounces sounds and words, but also learns to speak beautifully, without screaming or breaking into high notes.

Blackberries and wild 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 familiar 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 excellent blackberry jam,
you ate strawberry jam every day.

What is missing

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

A 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 Tsype-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.

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 marshmallows -
They fed the fakir.

The talker

The talker said to the talkers: “Don’t tell the talker that the talker has spoken”,
the talker has a talker talker.
The talker spoke and the throat of the talker began to talk a little,
and here the talker says in the end: "Stop talking talker spokekin."

Cats and cakes

Tiny cats ate cakes.
Tiny cats love cakes.
Cats crumbled cakes with their paws.
Cake cats filled their tummies.

From the clatter of hooves

From the clatter of hooves the dust flies over the field,
The dust flies across the field from the clatter of hooves,
From the clatter, from the clatter, from the clatter of hooves,
Dust over the field, dust over the field, dust over the field flies .

Modern tongue twisters

Modern children's tongue twisters are the same exercises for the development of speech, only in addition to training the articulatory apparatus, the tempo of speech is also practiced here.

Gazelle

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

Who wants to talk

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

Lotto

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

Coconut

Coconut cooks cook coconut juice in a quick cooker.

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 marshmallows -
They fed the fakir.

Not bankrupt

Whoever is not bankrupt has an ATM full of banknotes,
the same person who is bankrupt has no banknotes in the ATM.

Carp

Fishermen have tackle,
Carp have graze.
Carp on tackle.
Karasei cannot be saved.

English tongue twisters with translation

For children who, in addition to their native language, also learn English, we have made a wonderful selection of children's tongue twisters with translations.

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.

Zoo

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

Can you imagine an imaginary zookeeper
running an imaginary zoo?

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.

Marmot

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?

I miss

I miss my Swiss Miss.
My Swiss Miss misses me.

I miss my Swiss Miss
and my Swiss Miss misses me

Ice cream

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

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

Weather

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
whether we like it or not.

The weather will be good
or the weather will not be good.
The weather will be cold
or the weather will be hot.
We will weather any weather
whether we like it or not.

Kid

Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.

The kid filled the road with fondant, dragging the bag.

I like my Bunny.
Bears like honey.
Girls like cats.
Cats like rats.
Boys like dogs.
Storks like frogs.
Mice like cheese.
Sparrows like peas.
Owls like mice.
I like rice.
Birds like grain.
Say it all again!

I love my rabbit.
Bears love honey.
Girls love cats.
Cats love mice.
Boys love dogs.
Storks love frogs.
Mice love cheese.
Sparrows love peas.
Owls love mice.
I love rice.
Birds love grain.
Say it all again.

Other well-known tongue twisters

Here we have collected short tongue twisters that will be interesting and understandable even for kids.

Squirrel

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

Mila soap

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

Sonya on a sled

Senka and Sanka are carrying Sonya on a sled.

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."

The ship was carrying caramel

The ship was carrying caramel,
The ship ran aground,
Sailors were stranded caramel for two weeks.

Marusya bought granny beads

Marusya bought granny beads,
Grandmother stumbled over a goose at the market.
Marusya's granddaughter will not have a gift —
All the beads were pecked by a bead by a geese.

Bull

A bull is stupid, a bull is stupid,
the bull's lip was blunt.

What does memorizing tongue twisters give?

  1. With the help of a tongue twister, the child trains the speech apparatus. His muscles become mobile, and his speech becomes clearer and more expressive.
  2. Despite the fact that the word “patter” itself means “to speak quickly”, their memorization develops in children the habit of speaking slowly, clearly pronouncing all sounds.
  3. Trying to learn the text, the kid comprehends everything that needs to be remembered. Learns to control his intonation, use facial expressions and gestures.
  4. To memorize a tongue twister, you need to listen to it more than once. The ability to concentrate is a skill that will be very useful at school, where you have to “process” a lot of different information every day.

How to learn tongue twisters?

  1. First, the mother reads the tongue twister, pronouncing each letter, then asks the baby to repeat after her. You need to do this very slowly, breaking words into syllables.
  2. When the child already knows the text well, invite him to read the verse without sound. During this exercise, the muscles of the lips and tongue are well worked out.
  3. At the third stage, we do the same, only in a whisper. Let the phrases sound clear and distinct. It is good to alternate reading tongue twisters by heart in a whisper with speaking it out loud.
  4. When a child has learned a tongue twister so that it literally flies off his teeth, offer him to be an actor. Let him read the poem with an interrogative intonation and with an exclamation, fervently and sadly, thoughtfully and angry.

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