💪Tongue Gym

Push your tongue up against the roof of your mouth and hold it there!

Stretch your lips into a big smile, then pucker them up!

Puff out your cheeks like a balloon, then slowly let the air out!

Move your tongue in a circle around your lips — first one way, then the other!

Slowly slide your jaw from side to side, keeping your lips together.

Make your tongue go up and down like a wave inside your mouth!

Press your lips together tightly, then pop them open with a 'pa' sound!

Touch each tooth with the tip of your tongue, one by one!

Open your mouth as wide as you can, like a big lion yawn!

Press your lips together and blow to make a buzzing sound like a bee!

Tap the tip of your tongue quickly behind your top teeth — like a little drum!

Suck your cheeks in and pucker your lips to make a silly fish face!

Stick your tongue out as far as you can and try to touch your chin!

Say 'la la la' as fast as you can, then switch to 'da da da'!

Puff one cheek out, then the other, back and forth like a chipmunk!

Pretend to sip from a straw — keep your lips tight and cheeks strong!

Make a long 'ssssss' sound like a snake — keep it going as long as you can!

Curl your tongue up, then flip it down quickly. Try to do it ten times fast!

Roll your tongue and make a 'brrr' sound like a car engine revving up!

Open your mouth as wide as you can, hold for three seconds, then close slowly!

Slide the tip of your tongue along the roof of your mouth from front to back, like going down a slide!

Fill your cheeks with air and move the air from one cheek to the other without letting any escape!

Blow air through your lips to make them vibrate like a horse — keep it going for five seconds!

Push the back of your tongue up against the soft part of the roof of your mouth and hold for five seconds!

Pretend there is a candle in front of you — blow a long, steady stream of air to flicker the flame without blowing it out!

Open and close your jaw quickly like chattering teeth — try to keep a steady rhythm for ten seconds!

Touch the tip of your tongue to the spot behind your top teeth, then quickly move it to behind your bottom teeth — go back and forth like a seesaw!

Puff your cheeks out and hold for five seconds, then let the air out slowly through a tiny hole in your lips!

Make an 'oooo-eeee-oooo' sound like a siren — move your lips from a big round shape to a wide smile!

Click your tongue against the roof of your mouth over and over like a bouncing ball — try to get faster and faster!