Let’s have fun making them! Kid-friendly palindromes. Great as a reference for creating your own.
A palindrome is a sentence that reads the same from top to bottom and bottom to top.
It feels kind of mysterious, but when you see one, you can’t help wanting to say it out loud!
Palindromes aren’t just fun to read—they’re also perfect for kids’ play, because creating your own builds vocabulary and thinking skills.
In this article, we’ll introduce recommended palindromes that we’d love kids to try, and that you can use as references when making your own.
The key to making palindromes is ensuring that the meaning still makes sense whether you read them forward or backward.
Try reading the palindromes we introduce out loud, and use them as inspiration for creating your own!
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Let's Play and Create! Fun Palindromes for Kids. Great as inspiration for making your own (1–10)
Squid and Shellfish (Ika to Kai)
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When small children try their hand at palindromes, the key is to first choose clear, familiar nouns.
Short words are easier to use, so two-character words that form nouns even when reversed—like “ika” and “kai” in this palindrome—are ideal!
We’re having sukiyaki tonight.
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When it comes to making a 9-letter palindrome, you really have to think flexibly, don’t you? The choice of words—“night” and “sukiyaki”—is exquisite.
In palindromes, the use of particles is usually key, but in this sentence they’re deliberately left out, giving it a playful, free wordplay vibe.
I’ve lost.
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This is one of the famous palindromes.
The final “wa” gives it a conversational feel that makes it more relatable, doesn’t it? In this way, freely adding characters before or after words to form sentences is also a fun tip for enjoying palindromes, so feel free to play around with them flexibly!
Let's Play and Create! Fun Palindromes for Kids. Great as a Reference for Making Your Own (11–20)
added
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This is a palindrome so natural that at first glance it doesn’t even seem like one.
“Tashimashita” (“I added it”) is an everyday, natural expression, right? There may not be many examples, but it might be fun to look for words like this—everyday words you always use—that happen to form palindromes.
No way—upside down? (Masaka sakasama)
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A classic that combines two impactful words: “masaka” (no way) and “sakasama” (upside down).
If you can find a word that becomes another word by reversing it and adding a letter or two, you’ve almost got a palindrome right there.
Don’t limit yourself to nouns—look for candidates across different parts of speech.
The dance is over.
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A clever palindromic discovery that combines the word “dance” with “sunda.” You might think that reading “dance” backwards wouldn’t make a different word, but surprise—it turns into “sunda,” which means “finished”! Unexpected words can make great building blocks for palindromes, so try looking for them yourself.
I definitely lent it.
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It’s a neat palindrome made by adding the particle “ni” to the words “tashika” (surely) and “kashita” (lent), both of which still make sense when reversed.
They sound like ordinary words you might hear in natural conversation, don’t they? If you pay attention as you go about your day, you might find quite a few palindromes like this hidden in everyday speech!