Riddles for Kids
Kids and Riddles is a next-level story. The intriguing minds of kids always look for something new and exciting. They love to crack the puzzles and find new things, don’t they? Who can tell this better than the kids themselves we know that some very imaginative and creative kids are right there on our web page.
So kids are you ready? We’ve got some exciting riddles including food riddles and some funny rhyming riddles that will tease your brain and make your heart race with excitement when you solve them. Dive in and see if you can crack these fun challenges! Remember, these riddles are not just puzzles; they’re an adventure for your imagination!
127 Riddles for Kids
What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano.
What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain.
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock.
What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg.
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
What is made of water but if you put it into water, it will die?
Answer: An ice cube.
What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
You can catch it, but you cannot throw it. What is it?
Answer: A cold.
What is at the end of a rainbow?
Answer: The letter W.
What is as light as a feather, but even the world’s strongest man couldn’t hold it for more than a minute?
Answer: His breath.
What comes once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day?
Answer: The letter ‘E’.
What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone.
What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
Answer: A stamp.
I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Answer: Fire.
What has many teeth but can’t bite?
Answer: A comb.
Math Riddles for Kids
Sara buys 2 books and 3 pencils for $7. Each book costs $2 more than a pencil. How much does each pencil cost?
Answer: $1 each.
If you have five apples and you give away three, how many do you have?
Answer: You have two apples.
I add five to nine, and get two. The answer is correct, but how?
Answer: When it’s 9 AM, adding 5 hours makes it 2 PM.
I had 6 eggs. I broke 2, cooked 2, and ate 2. How many eggs do I have left?
Answer: 4 eggs (because the broken ones were also cooked and eaten).
A basketball and a bat cost $110 together. If the bat costs $100 more than the ball, how much does the ball cost?
Answer: $5.
Emily has three times as many dolls as Julie. Julie has 3 dolls. How many dolls does Emily have?
Answer: 9 dolls.
If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Answer: Nine.
There are 7 days in a week. If Lily goes to the park every other day, how many times does she go to the park in two weeks?
Answer: 7 times.
You have 20 pairs of shoes, but there is only room in your closet for 8 shoes. How many shoes do you have to get rid of?
Answer: 32 shoes.
A clock shows the time as 3:15. What is the angle between the minute and the hour hand?
Answer: 7.5 degrees.
Lily has twice as many marbles as James. If James has 12 marbles, how many marbles does Lily have?
Answer: 24 marbles.
If you have two quarters, three dimes, one nickel, and four pennies, how much money do you have in total?
Answer: 89 cents.
There are six apples in a basket and six kids eagerly waiting to get one. You give each one an apple but still have one in the basket. How?
Answer: You give the last kid the basket with the last apple still in it.
I am a three-digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit, and my hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?
Answer: 194.
A baker baked a total of 120 cookies. He sold three-fifths of them in the morning and the rest in the afternoon. How many cookies did he sell in the afternoon?
Answer: 48 cookies.
Hard Riddles for Kids
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?
Answer: An echo.
What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A computer keyboard.
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp.
I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Answer: Breath.
What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle.
What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke.
If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?
Answer: A mirror.
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river.
This belongs to you, but everyone else uses it more. What is it?
Answer: Your name.
What has keys but opens no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but can’t go inside?
Answer: A keyboard.
What begins with an ‘E’ and only contains one letter?
Answer: An envelope.
What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold.
I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
Answer: Fire.
What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter ‘M’.
Funny Riddles for Kids
What has ears but cannot hear?
Answer: A cornfield.
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
Why can’t a leopard hide?
Answer: Because it’s always spotted.
What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom.
What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck.
Animal Riddles for Kids
What animal can you always find at a baseball game?
Answer: A bat.
What do you call a sleeping bull?
Answer: A bulldozer.
What goes tick-tock, woof-woof?
Answer: A watchdog.
How do you fit more pigs on your farm?
Answer: Build a sty-scraper.
What animal is always at a game of cricket?
Answer: A bat.
What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge.
Why don’t skeletons fight each other?
Answer: They don’t have the guts.
What do you call cheese that isn’t yours?
Answer: Nacho cheese.
Food Riddles for Kids
What fruit is never lonely?
Answer: Pears.
I start with ‘P’, end with ‘E’, and have thousands of letters. What am I?
Answer: Post office.
What is the easiest way to double your money?
Answer: Put it in front of a mirror.
Why did the student eat his homework?
Answer: Because the teacher told him it was a piece of cake.
What do you get from a pampered cow?
Answer: Spoiled milk.
Food Riddles for Kids
What type of cheese is made backward?
Answer: Edam.
What kind of key opens a banana?
Answer: A monkey!
What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs.
What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A penny.
Why do we never tell secrets on a farm?
Answer: Because the potatoes have eyes and the corn has ears.
What kind of dog never bites?
Answer: A hot dog.
Why was the math book sad?
Answer: Because it had too many problems.
English Riddles for Kids
What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot.
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter ‘M’.
I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
Answer: Fire.
What word is spelled incorrectly in every single dictionary?
Answer: Incorrectly.
What has many hearts but no other organs?
Answer: A deck of cards.
What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short.
What begins and ends with an ‘E’ but only has one letter?
Answer: Envelope.
What word looks the same upside down and backwards?
Answer: SWIMS.
What starts with a ‘P’, ends with an ‘E’ and has thousands of letters?
Answer: Post Office.
What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
Answer: Queue.
Halloween Riddles for Kids
What is a ghost’s favorite dessert?
Answer: I scream.
What type of dog do vampires like the best?
Answer: Bloodhound.
Why didn’t the skeleton go to the party?
Answer: He had no body to go with.
What room do ghosts avoid?
Answer: The living room.
Why are ghosts bad liars?
Answer: Because you can see right through them.
Holiday Riddles for Kids
What falls at the North Pole but never gets hurt?
Answer: Snow.
What do you get if you cross a snowman and a vampire?
Answer: Frostbite.
What kind of ball doesn’t bounce?
Answer: A snowball.
What can you catch, but not throw?
Answer: A cold.
Why was the Thanksgiving soup so expensive?
Answer: It had 24 carrots.
What is a witch’s favorite subject in school?
Answer: Spelling.
What do you get when you cross a vampire and a snowman?
Answer: Frostbite.
What kind of monster loves to dance?
Answer: The boogie man.
Why did the vampire need mouthwash?
Answer: Because he had bat breath.
What do you get if you cross a witch with sand?
Answer: A sandwich!
Tricky Riddles for Kids
What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and rivers, but no water?
Answer: A map.
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light.
If you’re running in a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
Answer: Second place.
What has many teeth, but can’t bite?
Answer: A comb.
What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole.
I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.
What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
Answer: A bed.
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
Answer: A glove.
What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?
Answer: Your left hand.
What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs.
What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water?
Answer: A map.
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
Answer: An echo.
What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano.
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light.
You see me once in June, twice in November, but not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter ‘E’.
Animal Riddles for Kids
What animal is best at hitting a baseball?
Answer: A bat.
What animal needs to wear a wig?
Answer: A bald eagle.
I am a bird, I am a fruit, and I am a person. What am I?
Answer: Kiwi.
What do you call a fish without an eye?
Answer: Fsh.
What kind of dog tells time?
Answer: A watch dog.
What animal dresses up and howls?
Answer: A werewolf.
What animal is always at a game of cricket?
Answer: A bat.
What do you get if you cross a sheepdog with a rose?
Answer: A collie-flower.
I am known as a king, and I have a big mane. What am I?
Answer: A lion.
What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer: A gummy bear.
Holiday Riddles for Kids
What do elves learn in school?
Answer: The elf-abet.
Where does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?
Answer: In the dictionary.
What do you call a snowman with a six-pack?
Answer: An abdominal snowman.
What can you serve but never eat?
Answer: A volleyball.
What goes “Oh, Oh, Oh”?
Answer: Santa walking backwards!
What’s red and white and falls down chimneys?
Answer: Santa Klutz.
What do snowmen like to do on the weekend?
Answer: Chill out.
What holiday drink is a favorite of kids and snowmen?
Answer: Hot cocoa.
Why did the gingerbread man go to the doctor?
Answer: He felt crummy.
Why don’t you ever see Santa in the hospital?
Answer: Because he has private elf care!