Children's Picture Dictionary | Words that start with T

A table is a large, flat piece of furniture with long legs. You usually sit around a table on chairs and eat dinner. Small tables are often put near sofas so people can put their coffee cups on them. Most tables are made out of wood, with either wood or metal legs. Tables can be round or square.

Tadpoles are the larval stage of frogs, and spend their lives in water. They hatch from eggs, and gradually change into frogs. Tadpoles cannot breathe outside of water, they have gills like fish. The bottom picture is a tadpole that is well on the way to turning into a frog.

Talking is making words with your mouth and tongue. When babies are born they cannot talk, and they gradually learn it in the first few years of their life.

Teeth are the hard, white things in your mouth. Most animals have teeth, but birds and insects don't. Teeth are used for biting, tearing and chewing food. Once you are about five, you start to lose your baby teeth, one at a time, over several years.

A television is something you use for watching moving pictures and sound that comes from a distance. Television is broadcast from television transmitters (which comes into your house through cables or in the air from a tower), the device that you watch picks up the signal. You can also play games though your television. Most people today have at least one television in their house.