Searching for an entertaining way to help your child to enhance their problem-solving skills? To parents and educators with kids – here is an overview of riddles specifically created for kids. These little brain teasers, on the one hand, are a wonderful way to stimulate curiosity, on the other hand, they help to develop skills of critical thinking and creativity. Looking for a brain teaser for your young ones or just a fun and simple riddle to make them laugh then this list has you covered. Ready to get started? Check out some of the funniest riddles we have gathered for kids below and enjoy the contagious happiness your kids will have while unraveling these puzzles. 🌟🧩
kids riddles
September 2, 2024
What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg 🥚.
Explanation: To cook or eat an egg, you must break its shell.
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I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle 🕯️.
Explanation: A candle starts out tall, but as it burns, it becomes shorter 🔥.
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What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano 🎹.
Explanation: A piano has keys that make music, but they don’t open locks.
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What gets bigger the more you take away?
Answer: A hole 🕳️.
Explanation: As you dig a hole and remove more dirt, the hole itself gets larger.
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What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
Answer: A stamp 📮.
Explanation: A stamp is placed in the corner of an envelope, and it can travel the world as part of a letter.
Explanation: The future is always ahead of you, but you can’t see it because it hasn’t happened yet. 🌟
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There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?
Answer: There are no stairs.
Explanation: Since it’s a one-story house, there wouldn’t be any stairs! 🏡
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The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps 👣.
Explanation: As you walk 🚶, you leave a trail of footsteps behind you. The more you walk (take steps), the more footsteps you leave 👟.
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What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock 🕰️.
Explanation: A clock has a "face" (the front part where the numbers are) and "hands" (the parts that point to the time) 🕒, but it doesn’t have actual arms or legs 🚶.
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What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
Answer: A coin 🪙.
Explanation: A coin has a "head" (the face on one side), a "tail" (the back), and it's brown in color, but it doesn’t have any legs.
Explanation: The "hands" of a clock point to the time 🕒, but they can’t clap like human hands 🙌.
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What gets wetter as it dries?
Answer: A towel 🧼.
Explanation: A towel absorbs water, so as it dries you or something else, it becomes wet itself 💧.
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I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can’t go outside. What am I?
Answer: A keyboard ⌨️.
Explanation: A keyboard has "keys" (buttons), "space" (the space bar), and "enter" (the Enter key) 🖥️, but these are all parts of the keyboard, not a physical place 🚪.
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What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age 🎂.
Explanation: As time passes ⏳, you grow older, but you never get younger 👶➡️👵.
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What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold 🤧.
Explanation: You "catch" a cold when you get sick 🤒, but it’s not something you can physically throw 🎯.