80 Riddles for Kids With Answers! š§
Riddles are a fun and sneaky way to get kids thinking, laughing, and learning all at the same time. They help with vocabulary, critical thinking, and problem-solving all while being loads of fun!
1. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg
2. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age
3. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle
4. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
5. What has one eye but canāt see?
Answer: A needle
6. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge
7. What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold
8. What goes in dry and comes out wet?
Answer: A tea bag
9. What can travel around the world while staying in one place?
Answer: A stamp
10. What has hands but canāt clap?
Answer: A clock
11. What has many teeth but canāt bite?
Answer: A comb
12. What has four legs but canāt walk?
Answer: A table
13. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name
14. What do you find at the end of a rainbow?
Answer: The letter W
15. What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain
16. What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole
17. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot
18. What runs but never walks?
Answer: A river
19. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock
20. Whatās easy to lift but hard to throw?
Answer: A feather
š Silly & Funny Riddles
1. What has ears but cannot hear?
Answer: A cornfield
2. Why did the banana go to the doctor?
Answer: Because it wasnāt peeling well!
3. What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer: A gummy bear
4. Why donāt skeletons fight each other?
Answer: They donāt have the guts
5. What building has the most stories?
Answer: A library
6. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom
7. Why was the math book sad?
Answer: Because it had too many problems
8. What do you get when you cross a snowman and a dog?
Answer: Frostbite
9. Why did the teddy bear skip dessert?
Answer: Because it was stuffed!
10. What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck
11. What animal needs to wear a wig?
Answer: A bald eagle
12. Whatās brown and sticky?
Answer: A stick
13. Why canāt your nose be 12 inches long?
Answer: Because then it would be a foot!
14. What do you call cheese that isnāt yours?
Answer: Nacho cheese
15. Why did the computer go to the doctor?
Answer: It had a virus
16. What has legs but doesnāt walk?
Answer: A chair
17. What goes tick-tock and woof-woof?
Answer: A watchdog
18. Why did the cookie go to the doctor?
Answer: It felt crummy
19. What game do cows play at parties?
Answer: Moo-sical chairs
20. What kind of tree fits in your hand?
Answer: A palm tree
š§āāļø Magical Riddles
1. I can fly without wings. I cry without eyes. Wherever I go, darkness flies.
Answer: A cloud
2. I disappear the moment you say my name.
Answer: Silence
3. I have a heart that doesnāt beat.
Answer: An artichoke
4. I light up the sky but I’m not alive.
Answer: The moon
5. The more you take, the more you leave behind.
Answer: Footsteps
6. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears.
Answer: An echo
7. Iām tall when Iām young and short when Iām old.
Answer: A candle
8. Iām not alive, but I grow. I donāt have lungs, but I need air.
Answer: Fire
9. Iām invisible but you can feel me.
Answer: The wind
10. I shine during the night but disappear by day.
Answer: Stars
11. I make you see double but Iām not broken.
Answer: A mirror
12. You can touch me, but Iāll vanish.
Answer: A shadow
13. Iām faster than light but weigh nothing.
Answer: A thought
14. I open when you say my name, but Iām not a door.
Answer: A voice assistant
15. I hide in books and come alive in minds.
Answer: Imagination
16. I am a tale thatās old but new every time.
Answer: A story
17. I sparkle without glitter and shine without light.
Answer: Magic
18. Iām not real, but I can make you cry.
Answer: A dream
19. Iām always ahead of you but never in sight.
Answer: The future
20. Iām made of words but I can build worlds.
Answer: A book
š¶ Animal-Themed Riddles
1. What has four legs, a tail, but canāt run?
Answer: A stuffed animal
2. What animal jumps higher than a house?
Answer: All of themāhouses donāt jump!
3. What do you call a sleeping bull?
Answer: A bulldozer
4. What do frogs like to drink?
Answer: Croak-a-cola
5. What kind of key opens a banana?
Answer: A monkey
6. What animal wears shoes?
Answer: A horse (it wears horseshoes!)
7. What do you call a cow that plays a musical instrument?
Answer: A moo-sician
8. What animal is always at a baseball game?
Answer: A bat
9. What has two wings and a long tail but doesnāt fly?
Answer: A kite (that looks like a bird!)
10. What do you call a penguin in the desert?
Answer: Lost
11. What do cats like to eat on hot days?
Answer: Mice cream
12. What do you get if you cross a snake and a pie?
Answer: A python Ć la mode
13. Why are fish so smart?
Answer: Because they live in schools
14. What animal is great at baseball?
Answer: A bat
15. What do you call a bear thatās stuck in the rain?
Answer: A drizzly bear
16. What kind of dog loves to take bubble baths?
Answer: A shampoo-dle
17. What is a crocodileās favorite game?
Answer: Snap!
18. What bird can lift the most?
Answer: A crane
19. What do you get if you cross a parrot and a shark?
Answer: A bird that talks your ear off, then eats you!
20. Whatās black and white and red all over?
Answer: A sunburned zebra