Looking for a fun way to help your grandkids speak more clearly and confidently? Tongue twisters might be just the thing! These silly little phrases aren’t just good for laughs—they’re great for building fluency, vocabulary, and language skills too. To make it easy for you, I’ve put together a mix of easy, tricky, short, long, and downright hilarious tongue twisters for kids.
19 Funny Tongue Twisters for Kids
A big black bear sat on a big black rug.
A big bug bit the little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back.
Babbling baby boys blurted boldly.
Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye. If cows could fly I’d have a cow pie in my eye.
Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons—balancing them badly.
Double bubble gum, bubbles double.
Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.
How many yaks could a yak pack, pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?
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.
I saw a saw that could saw out any other saw I ever saw.
If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
I’m a mother pheasant plucker; I pluck mother pheasants.
Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, ’tis the peanut-butter picky people pick.
The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
The two-toed tree-toad tried to win the three-toed she-toad’s heart
Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr Thurber on Thursday.
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.
23 Easy Tongue Twisters for Kids
A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped
Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar
Busy buzzing bumblebees
Clean clams crammed in clean cans
Eleven benevolent elephants
Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes
Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread?
Friendly fleas and fireflies
Great glass globes glow greenly
He threw three free throws
Kitty caught the kitten in the kitchen
Nine nimble noblemen nibbling nuts
Really leery, rarely Larry
Rubber rudders bounce
Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle
She sees cheese
Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards
Six sticky skeletons
Splish, splash, splosh, went the dog in the wash
The blue bluebird blinks
The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes
Two tried and true tridents
Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses
26 Short Tongue Twisters for Kids
Argyle gargoyle
Bad money, mad bunny
Dark dusty disks.
Ed had edited it
Flash place
Flashy fish massage
Fresh French fried fly fritters
Freshly-fried flying fish
Greet with glee
Octopus ocular optics
Pirates’ private plank
Proper copper coffee pot
Red Brick, blue Bick
Red leather, yellow leather
Rudder valve reversals
Russian Rob runs
Santa’s short suit shrunk
Selfish shellfish
She threw three balls
Sheena leads, Sheila needs
Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward
Specific Pacific
Tommy Tucker tried to tie
Willie’s really weary
Zebras zig and zebras zag
17 Hard Tongue Twisters for Kids
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk
Fresh fried fish, fish fresh fried, fried fish fresh, fish fried fresh
Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie
Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better
Many mumbling mice are making merry music in the moonlight
On a lazy laser raiser lies a laser ray eraser
Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery
Rory’s lawn rake rarely rakes really right
Send toast to ten tense stout saints’ ten tall tents
Seven sleazy shysters in sharkskin suits sold sheared sealskins to seasick sailors
Shut up the shutters and sit in the shop
Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep
Supposed to be pink pistachio, supposed to be pistachio pink
The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick
These sheep shouldn’t sleep in a shack; Sheep should sleep in a shed
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
Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
16 Long Tongue Twisters for Children
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.
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.
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?
I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop. Where she shines, she sits, and where she sits, she shines.
If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I’m perfectly practised and practically perfect.
If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
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.
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.
Luke’s Luck likes lakes. Luke’s duck likes lakes. Luke’s Luck licks lakes. Luck’s duck licks lakes.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why do you cry, Willy? Why, Willy? Why why why? Why do you cry? Willy, Willy! Willy cry, why you cry, Willy?
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.
14 Famous Tongue Twisters for Children
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?”
And when they battle in a puddle, it’s a tweetle beetle puddle battle.
Denise sees the fleece, Denise sees the fleas. At least Denise could sneeze and feed and freeze the fleas.
Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
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.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet, I sit.
If you must cross a coarse cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran
She sold six shabby-sheared sheep on ship.
Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
The top cop saw a cop top.
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.
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