Tongue twisters by sophia mullins
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?
How many boards
Could the Mongols hoard
If the Mongol hordes got bored?
How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents.
The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said 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 batter better So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.
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?
How many boards
Could the Mongols hoard
If the Mongol hordes got bored?
How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents.
The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said 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 batter better So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.
Games by Erin McCarthy
Word scramble:
Solve the riddles:
- iecturerahct
- cpeeimtrf
- nleigidy
- elauvba
- fyidteni
- ctonaiva
- teiesenxc
- rutregar
- esiecnra
- jrunie
Solve the riddles:
- What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
- Two people are born at the same moment, but they don't have the same birthdays. How could this be?
- What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
- What is harder to catch the faster you run?
- You can see me in water, but I never get wet. What am I?
- What question can you never honestly answer yes to?
- I am a seven letter word containing thousands of letters. What am I?
- What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
- I have six faces but not even one body connected, 21 eyes in total but cannot see. What am I?
- Although I’m far from the point, I don’t make mistakes, I fix yours. What am I?
Game answers
Word Scramble:
Solve the riddles:
- Architecture
- Imperfect
- Yielding
- Valuable
- Identify
- Vacation
- Existence
- Quarter
- Increase
- Injure
Solve the riddles:
- Your name
- They were born in different time zones
- Swims
- Your breath
- A reflection
- Are you asleep?
- Mailbox
- A penny
- A dice
- An eraser
Fun facts
Fun Facts
By Erin McCarthy
"155 Cool and Weird Fun Facts that you should know!" Livin3 - Helping You Lead a Healthier and More Positive Life. N.p., 15 Dec. 2016. Web. 14 Mar. 2017.
By Erin McCarthy
- There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world.
- Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.
- A banana IS a berry.
- Maine is the closest US state to Africa.
- The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.
- New York drifts about one inch farther away from London each year.
- 10% of the World’s population is left handed.
- Apple launched a clothing line in 1986.
- The chance of you dying on the way to get lottery tickets is actually greater than your chance of winning.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- A “jiffy” is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- The founders of Google were willing to sell Google for $1 million to Excite in 1999, but Excite turned them down. Google is now worth $527 Billion.
- On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily (around the world).
- In France, it is legal to marry a dead person.
- Women have twice as many pain receptors on their body than men. But a much higher pain tolerance.
- On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds.
- It takes about 3,000 cows to supply enough leather for the NFL for only one year.
- The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!
- Ketchup was used as a medicine back in the 1930’s.
"155 Cool and Weird Fun Facts that you should know!" Livin3 - Helping You Lead a Healthier and More Positive Life. N.p., 15 Dec. 2016. Web. 14 Mar. 2017.
The Ladder Tree--a word game by Erin McCarthy
Directions: This game is simple, all you have to do is use the word box at the bottom of the page and fill the empty spaces to make compound words. Like this example… Cowgirl-Girlfriend.
Word Bank: Yard Fish On Top House Man *Out* Ball Step *Used Twice*
Back Yard
_______Stick
Stick_______
______Power
Power______
______Work
Work______
_______Side
Side_______
_____Ladder
LADDER TREE
Tree_______
________Sail
Sail________
_______Eye
Eye________
_______Game
Game_______
_______Time
Time_______
_______Back
Back Yard
Directions: This game is simple, all you have to do is use the word box at the bottom of the page and fill the empty spaces to make compound words. Like this example… Cowgirl-Girlfriend.
Word Bank: Yard Fish On Top House Man *Out* Ball Step *Used Twice*
Back Yard
_______Stick
Stick_______
______Power
Power______
______Work
Work______
_______Side
Side_______
_____Ladder
LADDER TREE
Tree_______
________Sail
Sail________
_______Eye
Eye________
_______Game
Game_______
_______Time
Time_______
_______Back
Back Yard
Riddles by Mabel Eames and Adynn Kitchin
Q: What word looks the same backwards and upside down?
A: Swims
Q: I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter but can’t go outside. What am I?
A: A Keyboard
Q: Feed me and I live, but give me a drink I die.
A: Fire
Q: Why is the letter A most like a flower?
A: Because the B is after it!
Q: How many toeticklers does it take to screw in a doormat?
A: None, because they’re too busy tickling toes!
Q: What is one thing that can be broken if you say it?
A: Silence
Q. Mary’s Father has 5 daughters, Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughter’s name
A. If you answered Nunu you are wrong. It is Mary!
Q: What word looks the same backwards and upside down?
A: Swims
Q: I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter but can’t go outside. What am I?
A: A Keyboard
Q: Feed me and I live, but give me a drink I die.
A: Fire
Q: Why is the letter A most like a flower?
A: Because the B is after it!
Q: How many toeticklers does it take to screw in a doormat?
A: None, because they’re too busy tickling toes!
Q: What is one thing that can be broken if you say it?
A: Silence
Q. Mary’s Father has 5 daughters, Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughter’s name
A. If you answered Nunu you are wrong. It is Mary!
Tongue Twisters
by Lyrica Marsh
2. Peggy Babcock Peggy Babcock Peggy Babcock Peggy Babcock Peggy Babcock
3. Once twisted a twist,
And the twist that he twisted,
Was a three-twisted twist.
Now in twisting this twist,
If a twist should untwist,
The twist that untwisted
Would untwist the twist.
4. The skunk sat on a stump and thunk
the stump stunk.
But the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
5. Fruit Puree Fruit Puree Fruit Puree
6. 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?
7. Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.
8. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can
9. Oxygen Oxygen Oxygen Oxygen Oxygen
10. What terrible tongue twisters
What terrible tongue twisters
What terrible tongue twisters
What terrible tongue twisters
by Lyrica Marsh
- must be said aloud
- must be said fast
2. Peggy Babcock Peggy Babcock Peggy Babcock Peggy Babcock Peggy Babcock
3. Once twisted a twist,
And the twist that he twisted,
Was a three-twisted twist.
Now in twisting this twist,
If a twist should untwist,
The twist that untwisted
Would untwist the twist.
4. The skunk sat on a stump and thunk
the stump stunk.
But the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
5. Fruit Puree Fruit Puree Fruit Puree
6. 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?
7. Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.
8. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can
9. Oxygen Oxygen Oxygen Oxygen Oxygen
10. What terrible tongue twisters
What terrible tongue twisters
What terrible tongue twisters
What terrible tongue twisters