130 Awesome Speech Topics for Kids

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Written By Amanda Green

Amanda Green was born in a small town in the west of Scotland, where everyone knows everyone. I joined the Toastmasters 15 years ago, and I served in nearly every office in the club since then. I love helping others gain confidence and skills they can apply in every day life.

Kids always do best when they are interested in what they are asked to talk about. But every child has different interests, and therein lies the challenge – selecting awesome speech topics that kids will want to talk about.

A few points you want to consider:

  • If the topic is too “adult,” they may be too young to cope with what they find.
  • If the topic is too simplistic, their growing sense of awareness may be stunted.
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  • Keep in mind the goal of the speech – do you want to educate, to entertain, to express ideas, or something else?
  • Consider topic that suits child’s character: someone who has an extensive imagination won’t like the same topics as someone who is more factual and practical.

Here is a broad range of speech topics for kids you can choose from.


Family and Friends

  1. Why I love my mom and dad
  2. Funny things my parents say
  3. Let me tell you about my imaginary friend
  4. Things that really happen at grandma’s house when mom and dad aren’t there
  5. Secrets my mom does all day when I’m not around
  6. What my brother/sister thinks of me
  7. What my dad does in the bathroom for all that time
  8. If I had a choice between getting money or spending time with my family, I would choose…
  9. What did I do for my mom last mother’s day
  10. Let me tell you about my family
  11. My family’s traditions
  12. Original projects to surprise my parents on Mother’s Day (in the Spring) and Father’s Day (often marked in June).
  13. Where we went on vacation/holiday with my family

Favorites

  1. What is my favorite song
  2. My favorite band or singer, and one of his or her greatest hits I would like to play with some clarification.
  3. The best fairy tale, or a variation child speech topic can be a cartoon character.
  4. My favorite season of the year is…
  5. My favourite time of day or week.
  6. The funniest April Fool’s Day joke.
  7. 5 of my favorite words
  8. Top favorite Christmas song of all times
  9. 3 favorite things to buy at the market
  10. If I went to my favorite restaurant I would order…
  11. Mom and my favorite place to visit is..
  12. My favorite thing about summer
  13. What my favorite pizza toppings are
  14. My favorite New Year’s tradition

Food

  1. Favorite sundae toppings
  2. The most delicious meal I’ve ever had
  3. If I built the ultimate sandwich, it would have…
  4. The worst vegetable on the planet
  5. How many things can you make with a potato
  6. Describe the flavors of Thanksgiving foods
  7. One thing I know how to cook is…
  8. The contents of your lunch box.
  9. Different ways to eat an apple
  10. Why I don’t care about the “Five second rule”
  11. I don’t like to eat … Fill in something you dislike

Animals

  1. A day in the life as a fly
  2. What my dog is thinking
  3. What would it be like if dinosaurs roamed the Earth?
  4. My dream mythical creature for a pet would be…
  5. If I could talk to animals…
  6. What do cows think about
  7. How do animals talk to each other
  8. How to care for your pets, the right way
  9. What rights should animals have?
  10. What different wild animals have I seen
  11. How penguins live on Antarctica and only there and not on the North Pole (besides the zoo of course)
  12. A day at the wildlife sea aquarium, with dolphins, sharks, whales and seals.
  13. How kangaroos care for their children.
  14. What birds visit your backyard at home

Science

  1. How do rainbows work
  2. What planet would I visit if I had my own rocket ship
  3. Why the sky is blue
  4. How are stars made
  5. Where do clouds come from?
  6. Where babies come from
  7. What outer space is like
  8. Why do the leaves on trees change color in the fall
  9. How water is so important
  10. What makes the Sun so bright
  11. How do boats float
  12. Why do we have dreams when we sleep
  13. Why are eyes different colors
  14. What makes the world go ’round
  15. How do planes fly
  16. The stars, black holes, galaxies and the interstellar medium in our cosmos

Miscellaneous

  1. Biggest birthday wish
  2. Best indoor winter activities
  3. Coolest superhero power
  4. If I was the President of the U.S….
  5. My dream vacation
  6. If I were a character in a book, I would be…
  7. Why I’m on Santa’s nice/naughty list
  8. The inside scoop on __________
  9. If I could change one thing about the world, it would be…
  10. How I really feel about seeing the doctor
  11. The best part about holidays
  12. If I had three wishes, they would be…
  13. If I were famous, it would be for my…
  14. My secret life as a spy
  15. My best invention
  16. Fun games to play on long car rides
  17. Silly songs I know
  18. In my dream house, there would be…
  19. The best part about being sick
  20. Why the tooth fairy must be real
  21. What my name means
  22. Disney World: the first person I’d want to see is…
  23. If I was the author of a book, I’d write about…
  24. The charity I’m going to donate to when I’m older is…
  25. What happiness means to me
  26. The best thing about me is…
  27. If I could be a character in any video game, it would be…
  28. How I care for the environment every day
  29. Why are farmers important
  30. What I want to be for Halloween next year
  31. What I want to be when I grow up
  32. Why best friends are so special
  33. If I was a princess or prince, I would …
  34. My toys, dolls or mini racing cars collection.
  35. My trip to Disney World or other resort.
  36. How I decorate my room at home.
  37. My biggest adventure.
  38. Good kid games online.
  39. Nice birthday presents you like to get.
  40. What you could do without television or video.
  41. Foreign hollidays we do not celebrate.
  42. Things – food or scary situations – that make you sick.

More Miscellaneous…

  1. What is more important: Doing what’s right or being popular
  2. The best memory I can remember
  3. Who I was named after
  4. What it would be like to meet an alien
  5. My greatest fear
  6. The happiest day of my life
  7. Something I have done that I am proud of
  8. What adult in my life do I look up to the most
  9. How to plan a surprise party
  10. A day at the beach
  11. The coolest toy I have
  12. What I know about (insert sport)
  13. Vampires or werewolves?
  14. Steps to drawing a flower
  15. If I re-wrote the story, “The Little Mermaid” or “Bambi” it would go like this…
  16. How to make a snowman
  17. The strangest place I’ve ever been
  18. Are table manners really important
  19. Tell a myth or legend about your future self
  20. The coolest art/craft I’ve ever made
  21. If I were in charge, the rules I would make would be…

Next Steps

If you are selecting a topic together, sit down with your child and read through this list together and make your own list of which topics stood out to your child. Suggest alternatives or adaptations to some topics. The goal is to get their juices flowing. You want this to be a choice that they are comfortable with.

Help them decide by reminding them who their audience will be and what the occasion is. This will help determine what is appropriate and what the audience will want to hear. Your child probably wouldn’t want to talk about Barbie at a formal function or to an audience of mostly boys.

All that’s left to do is prepare and practice, because we all know – practice makes perfect!

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25 thoughts on “130 Awesome Speech Topics for Kids”

  1. Sure! It’s about I only want a ribbon about u are afraid Togo on stage and don’t want to go to the next level except a good grade.

  2. this really helped me I am trying to look for a speech and this helped me ALOT!!!!thanks and had lots of good ideas

  3. it’s very good for a child under like 8 but i am 9 and i use it and when our teacher said were have a speech contest i flip out! but i found this web site and it helped me a lot. In fact, i won the speech contest!

  4. Ok you guys are good in all but I feel like I don’t know if kids are going to want to listen to these baby ideas and where baby’s come from and I am in grade six and I don’t think people really want to listen but you guys ar good for like grade threes or something like that because I don’t think people over the grade of four are going to want to listen to this

  5. I LOVE your topic Me it inspires me and I think I am going to write about that for my speech contest entry.

  6. i wish you would give more responsible topics because i don’t want to write a speech on the steps to write a flower i would want to amaze the judges with a out of this world speech not a stupid one i am in sixth grade and i am about to do a huge essay contest and i want to write something jaw dropping

  7. I need a topic that I can talk about for 20 MINUTES!!!. These topics seem too trivial for an impromptu speech for 20 minutes, but good topics for shorter speeches!

  8. No this is not the topics i am looking for…..
    I’m looking for persuasive speeches could u please add topics for that

  9. Well, it’s pretty good for school, but I need topics like “Benefits of ___” or “What we should do about pollution”, etc. I’m doing this for a Public Speaking class and we have to do speeches sort of like a ‘TED talk’

  10. I love those crazy and cute topics….once I read them they grab my heart at once and now my mummy is saying me to make ur speech on this and that blaa … blaaa…. but I can’t leave those cute science topics….thank you so much for whoever have those kind of sweet topics

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