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Fun speech topics for kids of all ages
By: Susan Dugdale | First published: 01-01-2010 | Last modified: 03-22-2019
Below are 60 light-hearted fun speech topic ideas.
Either pick one or use them to kick start your own creativity.
At the foot of the page you'll find links to help you craft your speech.
Sadly, intentionally "funny" speeches rarely are, without effort!
15 fun speech topics
- How to procrastinate like a professional - ten top tips.
- My worst embarrassing experience.
- Five sure-to-impress excuses for not handing in your homework (getting to work on time, coming home on time...)
- How to tell if your cat (dog, goldfish...) needs counseling.
- How to successfully annoy your parents (co-workers, friends...)
- The top three strangest hobbies.
- The secrets your choice of hobby reveal.
- How to get others to do your work for you without them knowing.
- Five ways to test if your friends are really your friends.
- How to successfully and spectacularly fail your exams.
- My secret life as Mr Magic (Miss Universe...)
- How to be the favorite person of everybody.
- Why junk food is good for you.
- Why lying well can be useful.
- How to look intelligent.
15 more funny speech topics
- The Christmas (birthday) presents I would really like to give my family.
- Five ways to say 'go away' to an annoying person without appearing rude.
- The silliest or dumbest accidents
- The oddest sports
- Vegetables have feeling too
- How to tell if a tomato is shy
- How to psychologically prepare pumpkins for Halloween or turkeys for Thanksgiving
- Teaching cabbages to talk
- Cruelty to broccoli
- Fashion tips for poodles - the latest revealed
- Is your dog (cat, goldfish...) intelligent? 10 IQ questions to find out.
- Paw readings for dogs. What do those canine's lines reveal? Madame Flo reports on her research.
- Teach your pet to talk. Easy step by step exercises to communicate fluently with any animal of your choice.
- How to use corporate jargon without embarrassment or ever revealing what you really mean
- The uses for a brick (eg. a weight, a weapon, or a car back stop. Anything other than its intended use.)
Another 15 fun speech topics
- How to know if your he-man loves you
- The funniest tee shirt sayings
- Crazy inventions
- The silliest advertising campaign
- How NOT to get a date
- How to prepare for your first kiss - what a person should know
- How to practice the art of getting others to pick up the tab for you - sponging with style
- What a choice of house reveals about its owner - match personality type to dwellings
- Famous failures
- The weirdest sounding words - what they really mean. How to use them in conversation.
- The top 10 words to impress. Examples.
- Being beautiful is over rated.
- The food I least like to eat and why
- They said it. Embarrassing speech blunders of famous people
- Mondays should be banned.
And yet another 15 fun speech topics

- The new national holiday is XXX (Decide and theme a day's activity around it. Example: Smile Day
- Hairdressing disasters - My worst bad hair day ever!
- Word replacements. From now on XXX word is forbidden for whatever reason you can think of. In its place we will say XXX and do it for the rest of your speech.
- A collection of the world's oddest records - the biggest teaspoon collection, the tiniest person...
- The rules of my household are...
- What really makes the world go round? The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about XXX (insert whatever you like)
- Words of great wisdom - Things I've learned - Never use an electric kettle to boil milk, etc
- How to look innocent. Guaranteed 100% success!
- When your mother says 'you look lovely, honey' what is she really trying to tell you? How to decode your parent's conversation
- The funniest things I've done or said without intending to be funny.
- The funniest sayings (expressions) I've heard and where they came from.
- The best trick that was played on me.
- Cute or funny things my pets have done.
- If they could talk, what would they be saying? Walls, chairs, desks, the fridge...
- The Beginners Guide to Texting - How to teach your Granny to text.
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To get the best from yourself and your topic do have a look at the following pages. They offer tips, suggestions and examples on how to use humor effectively.
It's rare to be a naturally "funny" speaker. Choosing your topic is just the beginning!
Go well! I hope you get them laughing out loud.