100 Fun Riddles for Kids With Answers

In many ways, riddles are just like jokes—they challenge the mind, surprise us unexpectedly, and often end in laughter. Ready to put your thinking cap on? Riddles sharpen logic, improve language, and create playful moments of learning. Let’s dive into 100 delightful riddles that will keep kids entertained and thinking!

Riddles for Kindergarten

1. I have hands but no fingers. What am I?
Answer: Clock

2. I fly high in the sky and I’m colorful. Kids love to fly me. What am I?
Answer: Kite

3. I have four legs and go “moo”. What am I?
Answer: Cow

4. I say “quack” and love to swim. What am I?
Answer: Duck

5. You eat me for breakfast and I’m made from eggs and bread. What am I?
Answer: Omelette or sandwich

6. I bark and wag my tail. What am I?
Answer: Dog

7. I’m big and gray and have a trunk. What am I?
Answer: Elephant

8. I shine bright during the day. What am I?
Answer: Sun

9. I twinkle at night and shine far away. What am I?
Answer: Star

10. I have a mane and say “roar”. What am I?
Answer: Lion

11. I am small and green, and I hop. What am I?
Answer: Frog

12. You can draw with me, and I come in many colors. What am I?
Answer: Crayon

13. I have wheels and carry kids to school. What am I?
Answer: School bus

14. I go up and down but never move. What am I?
Answer: Stairs

15. You wear me on your head on sunny days. What am I?
Answer: Cap

16. I have pages and pictures, and you read me. What am I?
Answer: Book

17. You put your toys in me to keep the room clean. What am I?
Answer: Toy box

18. You wear me to bed at night. What am I?
Answer: Pajamas

19. I make a “meow” sound and love milk. What am I?
Answer: Cat

20. I live in a shell and crawl slowly. What am I?
Answer: Snail

Funny Riddles for Kids

21. Why did the banana go to the doctor?
Answer: Because it wasn’t peeling well!

22. What has ears but cannot hear?
Answer: A cornfield!

23. Why don’t eggs tell jokes?
Answer: Because they’d crack each other up!

24. What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer: A gummy bear!

25. Why did the teddy bear say no to dessert?
Answer: Because it was already stuffed!

26. What do you call a sleeping bull?
Answer: A bulldozer!

27. Why did the student eat his homework?
Answer: Because the teacher said it was a piece of cake!

28. Why can’t your nose be 12 inches long?
Answer: Because then it would be a foot!

29. What has legs but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A chair!

30. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom!

31. Why did the bicycle fall over?
Answer: Because it was two-tired!

32. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age!

33. Why are ghosts bad at lying?
Answer: Because they are too transparent!

34. What did one wall say to the other wall?
Answer: I’ll meet you at the corner!

35. What kind of tree fits in your hand?
Answer: A palm tree!

Easy Riddles for Kids

36. What has to be broken before you can use it?
Answer: An egg

37. What is full of holes but still holds water?
Answer: A sponge

38. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock

39. What has legs but doesn’t walk?
Answer: A table

40. Where does the sun go at night?
Answer: To bed!

41. What has a head, a tail, but no body?
Answer: A coin

42. What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain

43. What has many teeth but can’t bite?
Answer: A comb

44. What do you hit and it comes back to you?
Answer: A ball

45. What has one eye but can’t see?
Answer: A needle

46. What do bees make?
Answer: Honey

47. What goes tick-tock and lives on your wall?
Answer: A clock

48. You use me to write and I have ink. What am I?
Answer: A pen

49. What color is the sky on a clear day?
Answer: Blue

50. What do you wear on your feet when it rains?
Answer: Rain boots

Hard Riddles for Kids

51. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
Answer: An echo

52. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps

53. I go up but never come down. What am I?
Answer: Your age

54. What begins with T, ends with T, and has T in it?
Answer: A teapot

55. What has keys but can’t open locks?
Answer: A piano

56. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M

57. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light

58. You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: The letter E

59. I have no legs but I can run. What am I?
Answer: A river

60. What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
Answer: A hole

61. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock

62. What kind of coat is always wet when you put it on?
Answer: A coat of paint

63. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map

64. What can travel around the world while staying in the same corner?
Answer: A stamp

65. What has one eye but still can’t see?
Answer: A cyclone or a needle

Maths Riddles for Kids

66. I am an odd number. Take away one letter, and I become even. What number am I?
Answer: Seven

67. If you multiply me by any other number, the answer will always be the same. What number am I?
Answer: Zero

68. I am a number. Double me and add 10. You get 50. What number am I?
Answer: 20

69. I am a number that comes between 10 and 20 and is an even number. What am I?
Answer: 12 (or 14, 16, 18 – all acceptable!)

70. If 5 kids have 5 chocolates and each kid gives 1 to their friend, how many chocolates are there in total?
Answer: Still 5

71. You have 3 apples and you take away 2. How many do you have?
Answer: 2 (the ones you took)

72. What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: A fraction

73. I am a three-digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit. My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?
Answer: 194

74. I am a number. Multiply me by 4 and subtract 6. The result is 18. What number am I?
Answer: 6

75. When I was 6, my sister was half my age. Now I’m 10, how old is my sister?
Answer: 7

76. How many sides does a circle have?
Answer: Two — inside and outside!

77. What two numbers make 10 when added and 24 when multiplied?
Answer: 6 and 4

78. If there are four Mondays and four Tuesdays in a month, what is the minimum number of days in that month?
Answer: 28

79. I am a number less than 10. Double me and add 2, and you get 10. What number am I?
Answer: 4

80. I am a number that is equal to the sum of all the numbers before me. What number am I?
Answer: 1 (only number that fits this perfectly)

Animal Riddles for Kids

81. I have black and white stripes and live in the jungle. What am I?
Answer: Zebra

82. I hang upside down and come out at night. What am I?
Answer: Bat

83. I have a long neck and eat leaves from tall trees. What am I?
Answer: Giraffe

84. I hiss and I slither on the ground. What am I?
Answer: Snake

85. I carry my house on my back. What am I?
Answer: Turtle

86. I am small, love cheese, and squeak. What am I?
Answer: Mouse

87. I have wings, but I’m not a plane, I lay eggs, and I crow. What am I?
Answer: Rooster

88. I live in water, have fins, and swim. What am I?
Answer: Fish

89. I can jump high, and I love carrots. What am I?
Answer: Rabbit

90. I roar, I’m the king of the jungle. What am I?
Answer: Lion

English Riddles for Kids

91. What starts with a P, ends with an E, and has thousands of letters?
Answer: Post office

92. What word is spelled incorrectly in every dictionary?
Answer: Incorrectly

93. I start with an E, end with an E, but contain only one letter. What am I?
Answer: Envelope

94. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short

95. What comes at the end of everything?
Answer: The letter G

96. Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
Answer: The C (sea)

97. What begins with T, is full of T, and ends in T?
Answer: Teapot

98. What has three letters and starts with gas?
Answer: Car

99. What starts with a W, ends with a T, and has an “h” and “a” in between?
Answer: What

100. What English word has three consecutive double letters?
Answer: Bookkeeper

Conclusion

Whether you’re a teacher wanting to liven up your classroom or a parent looking for quality engagement at home, these 100 riddles with answers are sure to spark laughter, learning, and logic. Fun, free, and full of brainy goodness—they’re a win-win for everyone!