Alliteration occurs when two or more words starting with the same sound are used repeatedly in a sentence or phrase. Using this deliberate repetition makes sentences sound funny and may spark giggles. So, here we bring you some alliteration poems for kids that are fun and interesting to learn. While your child recites these poems, you can explain the nuances of alliteration and how it imparts musical structure and rhythm to one’s writing style. As your child understands how alliteration works, let them make a few sentences, phrases, or poems using this unique technique that works on sounds of words. Scroll down to check out a few alliteration poems for kids.

How To Write An Alliteration Poem?

Writing alliteration poems is a wonderful creative exercise. It requires thinking of alliterating words and using them to create proper sentences. It is an easy way to write a poem and an excellent opportunity to let the child’s imagination run and come up with some fantastic poetry ideas. Writing an alliteration poem involves a few easy steps: Alliteration is the repetition of sounds, not only the letters. They need not be placed precisely next to each other. In prose and poetry, alliteration is often used in commercial writing, such as marketing taglines, brand names, and commercials.

Examples Of Alliteration Poems For Kids

Here are a few genres of alliteration poems that can be read out for children to learn.

Short Alliteration Poems For Kids

1. I saw an ol’ gnome

I saw an ol’ gnome Take a gknock at a gnat Who was gnibbling the gnose of his gnu? I said, “Gnasty gnome, Gnow, stop doing that. That gnat ain’t done gnothing to you.” He gnodded his gnarled ol’ head and said, “‘Til gnow I gnevergnew That gknocking a gnat In the gnoodle like that Was gnot a gnice thing to do.” —Shel Silverstein

2. The Football Game

Blitz and blocking, bump-and-run Drive and dropkick, the other team’s done End zone, end line, ebb, and flow Snap, sack, scrambling, I love it so Football is fun and fabulous too Let’s go to the stadium, just me and you. —Alan Loren

3. Peter Piper

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? —Unknown

4. Eat Wisely

Franks and fries, and French fondue Beans and burgers and biscuits too Chicken, chili, and cheddar cheese When I munch too much, I always sneeze! —Alan Loren

5. Silly Sally

Silly Sally Silly Sally sat silently sifting sugar. For Billy, the baker to bake better-buttered buns. But silly Sally smiled so seductively, Billy burnt the better butter buns he’d baked. —Barry Stebbings

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6. In a Whispering Garden

That whisper takes the voice. Of a Spirit, speaking to me, Close, but invisible, And throws me under a spell. At the kindling vision it brings; And for a moment I rejoice, And believe in transcendent things. That would make of this muddy earth. A spot for the splendid birth Of everlasting lives, Whereto no night arrives; And this gaunt gray gallery. A tabernacle of worth On this drab-aired afternoon, When you can barely see Across its hazed lacune If opposite aught there be Of fleshed humanity Wherewith I may commune; Or if the voice so near Be a soul’s voice floating here. —Thomas Hardy

7. Romeo and Juliet, Sonnet 5

Those hours, that with gentle work did frame The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, Will play the tyrants to the very same And that unfair which fairly doth excel; For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter and confounds him there, Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone, Beauty o’er-snowed and bareness everywhere. Then were not summer’s distillation left, A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, Beauty’s effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it nor no remembrance what it was. But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet. —William Shakespeare

Alphabet Alliteration Poems For Kids

8. A to G Alliteration

Angry apes acting Beautiful Barbra barking Creative clowns clapping Dramatic Diana dancing Excited elephant entertaining Funny flamingos flapping Great guys grooving —Daniela and Angie

9. Zzzzz

I see zebras from Zimbabwe zipping all around the zoo. I see Zeus up in the zodiac, a zillion zithers too. There are zephyrs blowing zeppelins that are zooming near and far. There are zealots counting zeroes in a zone near Zanzibar. There are Zulus wearing zoot suits eating zwieback and zucchini plus a zombie with a zipper on his zinnia bikini. Yes, I always have the zaniest most zonked-out dreams like these, because every time I go to sleep I try to catch some Z’s. — Kenn Nesbitt

10. Alphabet Alliteration

Awesome, Allie ate apples Brilliant Babies buy bananas Colorful chameleons change colors Droopy dogs dig dirt Excellent elephants eat eggs Funny friends find fossils Great grandmas grow gardens Hilarious, Hilary held her hat Intelligent igloo Inuits iron ice Jumping jokers juggle jugs Kind kings kick kangaroos Lovely, Lacey likes lots of lemurs Marvelous Molly makes milkshakes Noisy Noah nibbles nuts Outstanding octopus ate Oreos Purple porcupines play with pencils Quiet Quarry quickly gets quiet Rough Rufus rides roller skates Stinky stars stands on stables Tough Tommy tells Timmy to talk Understanding us is a U-turn Vicious likes to play volleyball Wonderful Wal-Mart sold Whiskers X-ray play xylophones Yellow Yox Yo-Yoed yesterday Zipping zebra zipped zippers —Unknown

11. L to S Alliteration

Laughing lions lie Mad monkey mutter Not neat jumping Old orangutan outruns Prized pencil plays Quiet quilt quits Rad rhino rages Sad Sunday sits —Zarek

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12. Crazy Words

People play poker in a place called Pop’s While tigers go tramping on treetops Kids practice canning with Kathy and Claire As Harold and Helen have fun with their hair —Alan Loren

13. Betty Botter

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, That would make my batter better.” So she bought a bit of butter, Better than her bitter butter, And she put it in her batter, And the batter was not bitter; So it was better that Betty Botter Bought a bit of better butter. —Mother Goose Poems

14. Spinning Dry

If I had a choice when it’s time to get clean I’d like to jump into our washing machine for sudsing and soaking and rolling and churning and bobbing and bubbling and twisting and turning. Next, come my chance to feel just like a flyer as I get to hop out and spin in the dryer. I’d roll all around with a fluttering flopping, just floating and turning with no thought of stopping. It sounds like such fun, this incredible fling, that I wouldn’t mind if I got static cling. —Denise Rodgers

15. The Mess

Bubbly baby Bradley And Annie’s sister Abby Made a mess in Mab’s house And now it’s rather shabby! Clean it, cleanse it, don’t stand sill Or you’ll bump heads with her boyfriend Bill. —Alan Loren

Animal Alliteration Poems For Kids

16. Slithery, Slidery, Scaly Old Snake

Slithery, slidery, scaly old snake, surely your body must be a mistake. Your eyes, mouth, and tongue wisely stay on your head. It seems that your body is all tail instead. You gobble your dinner; you swallow it whole — a mouse or a frog or a turtle or mole. Ugh! Why don’ you eat ice cream or chocolatey cake! Oh, slithery, slidery, scaly old snake. —Kimberly Garcia

17. Slippery Sloppery

A slippery sloppery slipping snail Slithered, slimed, and slid on the floor Feeling hurried, harried, hungry, and helpless. As starlings screeched, spiraled, and saw. That slippery sloppery slipping snail Who slithered slimed and slid on the floor A fluttering of feathers fell frighteningly fast. Meant that slippery sloppery slipping snail Who slithered, slimed, and slid was no more. —David Williams

18. Betty Boop’s Beaver

The brazen Billy Bailey, could be such a bad, bad boy. One day he bopped a beaver who was busy working by the bay. The beaver then bit Billy near the bottom of his butt. The beaver’s big bright teeth, left a big bright bleeding cut Then poor bawling Billy Bailey, was bouncing by the bay Just as beautiful Betty Boop was passing by his way She said, “It’s best not to bop beavers, be a gentle boy instead. Drop by my boudoir later You can caress my beaver in my bed.” —Richard Lamoureux

19. Under the Laden Clouds Nursery Rhyme

Listen to the Ladybug laugh; Lingers and crawls up the giraffe’s Long legs and neck, holding a staff. Love to get its lips on the light chaff; Later delights on a leaf for a late lunch. Lazy near a log by the lake for a lush brunch, Lamb, lion, and calf lie and munch Limiting little for later to the bunch. —Eve Roper

Creature Alliteration Poems For Kids

20. My Creature Alliteration Poem

This is a Lician. A Lician lives in lying, lazy, lovely London. A Lician eats looping spaghetti, lettuce, lollipops and lemons. A Lician likes laughing, leaping, and looking at locusts. A Lician is losing games and loving loops. My Lician left my loose laundry all over the left floorboard. — vitabugz

21. Rise Up

Rise up children of the earth Rise up men of the earth Rise up women of the earth Rise up politicians of the earth Rise up scientists of the earth Rise up super powers of the earth Rise up little ones of the earth Rise up every creature of the earth Rise up you and me of the earth Rise up to save mother earth Rise up today Rise up now Arise Solomon Ochwo-Oburu

22. Dogian

This is a dogian A dogian lives in dusty dong houses when he digs A dogian eats dangerous deadly doggie treats A dogian likes to dive in dusty dog wholes A dogian is daring determined and dependable A dogian is drinking dirty water while driving with me —Unknown

23. Catian

This is a catian A catian lives in a couch with carrots while creating chaos A catian eats cat food on a couch in a carrot farm A catian likes to claw couches an compete A catian is confident confused aand cruel A catian drinks coco cola at chucky cheese —Unknown