Scavenger hunt riddles for kids

I start with an “e”, I end with an “e”, but I usually contain only one letter?

I’m so simple that I only point; yet I guide people all over the world?

Although I may have eyes, I can’t see. At one time there was a dearth of me in Ireland and people went hungry?

What’s black and white and read all over?

If you were ‘able’, you’d add a ‘T’?

Look for a rainbow in a box?

Keys open my door, but mine only make a sound?

I’m an insect, and the first half of my name reveals another insect; also some famous group of musicians had a similar name?

The more I dry, the wetter I become?

I’m a bird but I can’t fly?

I don’t go out and play, I just stay home all day, I’m nice – you might agree, but mostly your feet just rub me?

Stiff is my spine and my body is pale, but I’m always ready to tell a tale?

What has a ring, but no finger?

I have a neck, but no head, but I still wear a cap?

Some take me in the morning, others take me in the evening, but one thing you should know – that when I’m ‘taken’, I don’t really go anywhere?

My words number quite many (like pen, pent, and penny); my title you will discover, is explained under my cover?

Fluttering, flying and flitting so free, from flower to flower is where you’ll find me?

I may be black, and may be white, or any color in between. I’m small and made of plastic, not round but very light; when I’m moved up and down, I’m used to create sound?

I get bigger when I eat, but die weaker when I drink?

What invention lets you look right through a wall?

People climb me, cut me and burn me, they show me no respect! My rings are not of gold, but they do tell my age?

What is higher without the head, than with it?

I have a heart, and my last five letters mean the same as “strangle”?

I grow shorter, as I grow older?

I have a face that doesn’t frown, I have hands that do not wave, I have no mouth, just a familiar sound, I don’t walk – but I move around?

When you buy me I’m black, when you use me I’m red, and when you throw me away I’m gray?