Riddles for young kids

They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?

What two keys can’t open any door?

A girl is sitting in a house at night that has no lights on at all. There is no lamp, no candle, nothing. Yet she is reading. How?

What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?

Where does Friday come before Thursday?

What word begins and ends with an E but has only one letter?

What gets wetter as it dries?

Why did the girl bury her flashlight?

What has to be broken before you can use it?

You walk into a room with a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. Which do you light first?

What did one wall say to the other wall?

What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

What do you call an alligator in a vest?

Where do cows go for a bit of entertainment?

How do you keep an elephant from charging?

Why are ghosts bad liars?

Why do bees have sticky hair?

What can run but can’t walk?

What belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?

What ship has two mates but no captain?

What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

What can you catch but not throw?

How do oceans say hello to each other?

What do you call a bear with no teeth?

A cowboy rides into town on Monday, stays for three days, then leaves on Monday. How did he do it?

Why can’t you give Elsa a balloon?

Why do birds fly south for the winter?

Why did the belt go to jail?

What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire?

Why did the math book look so sad?

What did the king say when he went to the dentist?

Where do monkeys get their exercise?

Why can’t your nose be 12 inches long?

What did one eye say to the other eye?

What kind of food does a racehorse eat?

What do fish play on the piano?

Which tire doesn’t move when a car turns right?

Which word is always written incorrectly in the dictionary?

You will buy me to eat but never eat me. What am I?

Which hand is better for stirring sugar into a cup of coffee?

Why are teddy bears never hungry?

Why is it dangerous to play cards in the jungle?

A boy was rushed to the hospital emergency room. The ER doctor saw the boy and said, “I cannot operate on this boy. He is my son.” But the doctor was not the boy’s father. How could that be?

What can you feed to give it life but give it a drink and it will die?

Who makes moves while remaining seated?

What flies when it is born, lies when it lives and runs when it dies?

I exist when there is light, but direct light kills me. What am I?

What’s full of holes but still holds water?

What never asks questions but is often answered?

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?

What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?

Why did the cookie go to the emergency room?

What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?

What is light as a feather but even the strongest person in the world can’t hold it for more than 5 minutes?

Why was the baby strawberry crying?

What animal can you always find at a baseball game?

What do you call a ghost’s one true love?

What building in any city has the most stories?

What falls in winter but never gets hurt?

What’s a tornado’s favorite game to play?

What travels around the world, all the while staying in the same corner?

How does a scientist freshen her breath?

How can you tell if a vampire has a cold?

How does a cucumber become a pickle?

What did the nose say to the finger?

What do you call a dog that is also a magician?

Why couldn’t the pony single a lullaby?

How do you fix a cracked pumpkin?

Why was the picture sent to jail?

Why do ducks make great detectives?

What do lawyers wear to go to court?

Why didn’t the orange win the race?

What dinosaur had the best vocabulary?

Why did Mary throw the clock out of her window?

What is hard as a rock but melts in hot water?

What kind of shower doesn’t need water?

What has teeth but cannot chew?

I have keys but no doors, I have space but no rooms, I allow you to enter but you are never able to leave. What am I?

I have wings, I am able to fly, I‘m not a bird yet I soar high in the sky. What am I?

I am a fruit, I am a bird and I am also a person. What am I?

What is always late and never present now?

What do you call a dinosaur that is sleeping?

What has ears but cannot hear?

Why did the student eat his homework?

What did the Dalmatian say after finishing lunch?

Why did the kid cross the playground?

You cannot come in or go out without me. What am I?

I am a number. When you add the letter G to me, I go away. What number am I?

What kind of coat can you only put on when it is wet?

What goes up and never comes down?

What has a neck but no head?

What do you call a droid that takes the long way around?

What kind of water cannot freeze?

How can a man go 8 days without sleep?

What is full of keys but can’t open any doors?

In a one-story red house, there was a red person, a red cat, a red dog, a red table, a red chair, a red telephone, a red shower– everything was red!What color were the stairs?

A boy fell off a 25-meter ladder but did not get hurt. Why not?

What goes around and around the wood but never goes into the wood?

Two mothers and two daughters went out to eat, everyone ate one burger, yet only three burgers were eaten in all. How is this possible?

A man was outside taking a walk when it started to rain. The man didn’t have an umbrella and he wasn’t wearing a hat. His clothes got soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this happen?

How many months have 28 days?

I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?

My name is Tom, I live on a farm. There are four other dogs on the farm with me. Their names are Dash, Flash, Speedy and Storm. What do you think the fifth dog’s name is?

What do the numbers 11, 69, and 88 all have in common?

Say Racecar backward.

What word looks the same backward and upside down?

How do dog catchers get paid?