Activity Overview
Play around with Tongue Twisters to add some silliness to your family time while teaching children how to enunciate words. Tongue twisters are a great way to mix things up at the dinner table, in the car or anytime that your family is together.
There are certain to be lots of laughs as family members take turns attempting to get through the tongue twisters successfully. It really can be quite a fun challenge for all ages to enjoy!
You don't need much to get started. Focus on one or two tongue twisters at a time. Have each person try to work the wording out for themselves. Never judge anyone for their accuracy or inaccuracy. Laughter will undoubtedly prevail because most everyone will mix up the words and sound just as silly as the person who went before them.
Materials Needed
- List of tongue twisters (can find them on the internet, but will include examples of our favorites here.)
Examples
To be read swiftly:
- When the Tweedle Beetles Battle With Paddles In a Puddle, We call it a Tweedle Beetle, Puddle Paddle Battle. Dr. Suess
- 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, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
Say these 3 times fast:
- Unique New York
- Toy Boat
- She sells seashells by the seashore.
- Shut up the shutters and sit in the shop.
- Irish Wrist Watch
- I left my thermos in the theater
