168 English Tongue Twisters For Kids

Short tongue twisters for kids are a lot of fun, whether you’re trying to say it, or you’re listening to someone else trying to say it. It can be hilarious!

When it comes to linguistic games, there are few things more fun than short tongue twisters. Apart from that, its an excellent way to practice pronunciation.

1. “Yellow yarn is yummy!” Yelled the young yak.
2. “You’re making a mistake marrying that monster!” Moaned the mummy’s mother.
3. A big black bug bit a big black bear, and made the big black bear bleed blood.
4. A big blue tig bird talked to tigger and pulled the big blue trigger.
5. A big bug bit the little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back.
6. A box of mixed biscuits, a mixed biscuit box.
7. A canner can can as many cans as a canner can, if a canner can can cans.
8. A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies
9. A proper copper coffee pot.
10. A sailor went to sea To see, what he could see. And all he could see Was sea, sea, sea.
11. A skunk sat on a stump. The stump thought the skunk stunk. The skunk thought the stump stunk . What stunk the skunk or the stump?
12. A slimey snake slithered down the sandy sahara.
13. A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym.
14. 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?’
15. An Ape hates grape cakes.
16. Any noise annoys an oyster but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more.
17. Bake big batches of bitter brown bread.
18. Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.
19. Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.
20. Billy Button bought a buttered biscuit, did Billy Button buy a buttered biscuit? If Billy Button bought a buttered biscuit,where’s the buttered biscuit Billy Button bought?
21. Black bug bit a big black bear. But where is the big black bear that the big black bug bit?
22. Black bug’s blood.
23. Brave, bleeding boys battle bald, biting babies.
24. Bubble bobble, bubble bobble, bubble bobble
25. Burgess’s fish shop sauce
26. But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought.
27. Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?
28. Clean clams crammed in clean cans
29. Comical economists. Comical economists.
30. Cooks cook cupcakes quickly.
31. Crisp crusts crackle and crunch.
32. Daddy Draws Doors
33. Daddy draws doors. Daddy draws doors. Daddy draws doors.
34. Dan does work in Derick’s dark den.
35. Do tongue twisters twist your tongue?
36. Does your sport shop stock short socks with spots?
37. Don’t trouble the trouble till the trouble trouble’s you. If you trouble the trouble, the trouble trouble’s you the double.
38. Double bubble gum, bubbles double.
39. Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
40. Ed had edited it.
41. Firefighters found Father frowning from a funny fever and farting fierce flames.
42. Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes.
43. Flash message. Flash message.
44. Four furious friends fought for the phone
45. Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread
46. Freed flies feed on fries
47. Fresh fried fish
48. Freshly fried fresh flesh.
49. Freshly-fried fat flying fish
50. Friendly Fleas and Fire Flies
51. Fruit float
52. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, fuzzywuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy… was he?
53. Good blood, bad blood
54. Greedy Grandpa grabbed Grandma’s greasy grubs.
55. Greek grapes
56. Green glass globes glow greenly .
57. Growing gray goats graze great green grassy groves.
58. How many cans can a canner can, if a canner can can cans?
59. How much wood could a wood chopper chop, if a wood chopper could chop wood?
60. How much wood could a wood chuck; chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood
61. I saw a saw that could out saw any other saw I ever saw.
62. I saw Esau sitting on a seesaw. Esau, he saw me.
63. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
64. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
65. I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. And on a slitted sheet I sit. I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. The sheet I slit, that sheet was it.
66. I thought a thought.
67. I thought of thinking of thanking you.
68. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish.
69. If a black bug bleeds black blood, what color blood does a blue bug bleed?
70. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose
71. If a sledering snail went down a slippery slide would a snail sleder or slide down the slide.
72. If eight great apes ate eighty-eight grapes, guess how many grapes each great ape ate.
73. If Freaky Fred Found Fifty Feet of Fruit and Fed Forty Feet to his Friend Frank how many Feet of Fruit did Freaky Fred Find?
74. If one doctor doctors another doctor does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does the doctor doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?
75. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper, where’s the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?
76. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn’t have thought so much.
77. If two witches were watching two watches: which witch would watch which watch?
78. If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing
79. If you tell Tom to tell a tongue-twister his tongue will be twisted as tongue-twister twists tongues.
80. Irish wrist watch
81. It’s not the cough that carries you off, it’s the coffin they carry you off in!
82. Jolly juggling jesters jauntily juggled jingling jacks.
83. Kacha papaya pacca papaya Kacha papaya pacca papaya Kacha papaya pacca papaya.
84. Kindly kittens knitting mittens keep kazooing in the king’s kitchen.
85. Knapsack straps
86. Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
87. Little Lillian lets lazy lizards lie along the lily pads
88. Lovely lemon liniment.
89. Mae-me-mi-mo-moo
90. Many mumbling mice are making merry music in the moonlight.
91. Men munch much mush
92. Mix a box of mixed biscuits with a boxed biscuit mixer.
93. Momma made me mash my m-n -m’s…
94. My Bhaiya buys black Bananas by the bunch.
95. My sister’s shop sells shoes for sheep.
96. No need to light a night-light on a light night like tonight.
97. Noisy boys enjoy noisy toys, but noisy boys enjoying noisy toys are annoying.
98. Old oily Ollie oils old oily autos
99. Once a fellow met a fellow In a field of beans. Said a fellow to a fellow, “If a fellow asks a fellow, Can a fellow tell a fellow What a fellow means?”
100. One smart fellow, he felt smart. Two smart fellows, they felt smart. Three smart fellows, they all felt smart.
101. Paresh P  Patel plans to peel potatoes in Pune
102. Penny’s pretty pink piggy bank
103. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
104. Please put this porcupine in your pants.
105. Pre-shrunk shirts
106. Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People, Purple Paper People
107. Red blood blue blood
108. Red Bulb Blue Bulb -Red Bulb Blue Bulb- Red Bulb Blue Bulb
109. Red bulb blue bulb red bulb blue bulb
110. Red leather yellow leather
111. Red lorry, yellow lorry, blue lorry
112. Rory’s lawn rake rarely rakes really right.
113. Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran
114. Rubber baby buggy bumpers
115. Rush the washing, Russell
116. Sanjeev’s sixth sheep is sick
117. Selfish shellfish
118. Shave a single shingle thin.
119. She saw a fish on the seashore and I’m sure the fish she saw on the seashore was a saw-fish.
120. She sells sea shells by the sea shore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I’m sure she sells seashore shells.
121. She should shun the shinning sun.
122. She sold six shabby sheared sheep on ship.
123. Shun the sunshine.
124. Six slippery snails, slid slowly seaward.
125. Six socks sit in a sink, soaking in soap suds
126. Six stinky skunks sprayed Santa’s sleigh.
127. Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick.
128. Slimy snakes snaked stormy seas
129. Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.
130. Specific Pacific
131. Super-duper storm troopers whoop it up at Death Star groupers: helmet thrashing, rebel bashing, laser blasting at party poopers.
132. Susie sits shinning silver shoes
133. Swan swam over the sea. Swim, swan, swim! Swan swam back again. Well swum, swan!
134. The big, bumbling bear burned his butt baking bread.
135. The boot black brought the black boot back.
136. The bottom of the butter bucket is the buttered bucket bottom.
137. The cat catchers can’t catch caught cats.
138. The crowd of clumsy clowns crushed the king’s crown.
139. The detective discovered the deadly dagger in Dad’s dirty diapers.
140. The fat farmer’s five filthy fingers fed the ferocious ferret french fries.
141. The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes
142. The hippos heard the hunter’s hiccups and hurried home to hide.
143. The instinct of an extinct insect stinks.
144. The little lambs, licking lollipops, went leaping and laughing into the lava.
145. The nervous nurse had another nasty nosebleed and needed nine napkins for her nostrils.
146. The owner of the inside inn was inside his inside inn with his inside outside his inside inn.
147. The peppy puppy the prince presented the princess produced piles of poop in the palace.
148. The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.
149. The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
150. The tiny teacher (on tippytoes) tamed the terrible T-Rex by tickling its tummy.
151. The twins took the toilet and tiptoed toward town to try trading it for toys.
152. There was a car rally just like a lorry rally
153. These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue .
154. Three fluffy feathers fell from Phoebe’s flimsy fan.
155. Three free throws.
156. Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.
157. Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
158. Unique New York
159. Upper roller lower roller
160. Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently.
161. What time does the wristwatch strap shop shut?
162. When a doctor falls ill another doctor doctor’s the doctor. Does the doctor doctoring the doctor doctor the doctor in his own way or does the doctor doctoring the doctor doctors the doctor in the doctor’s way.
163. When the wizard winked and waved his wand, the wars of the world went away.
164. Which watch did which witch wear and which witch wore which watch?
165. Which wrist watches are Swiss wrist watches?
166. You curse, I curse, we all curse, for asparagus!
167. “Juicy!” Joked the janitor, his jaws one jiggling jellyfish.
168. You’ve no need to light a night-light on a light night like tonight, for a night-light’s light’s a slight light, and tonight’s a night that’s light. When a night’s light, like tonight’s light, it is really not quite right to light night-lights with their slight lights on a light night like tonight.

That’s a LONG list of tongue twisters for kids, right? For your convenience, I created a downloadable pdf for you, so you can print and refer to it anytime.

There are a ton of advantages of practicing tongue twisters.

I’ll speak for myself when I say that it can be frustrating, but it’s also a lot of fun. Therefore, I do hope you enjoyed these tongue twisters for kids. I was giggling the whole time, as I was putting this list together.

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Gioula Chelten