Riddles for Kids

I'm white, perfect for cutting and grinding. For most animals I am a useful tool. What am I?

What travels from house to house and is sometimes narrow and sometimes wide but always stays outside?

I can be long, or I can be short.
I can be grown, and I can be bought.
I can be painted, or left bare.
I can be round, or square.
What am I?

I am full of holes but still holds water. What am I?

It's voice is like a burp,
Will swallow with a slurp,
You'll never hear it chirp.
Kiss it with a wince,
Might turn into a prince.

Seven brothers, five work all day,
The other two, just play or pray.

I am a strange creature, Hovering in the air,
Moving from here to there, with a brilliant flare.
Some say I sing, but others say I have no voice.
So I just hum - as a matter of choice.
What am I?

I am quick when I'm thin. I am slow when I'm fat. Wind is my worst nightmare. What am I?

What's large on Saturday and Sunday. Small on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and disappears on Monday and Friday?

What's the difference between here and there?

What type of dress can never be worn?

Teddy bears are never hungry because they are always what?

I am your mother's brother's only brother in law. Who am I?

Take one royal word in the plural and make it singular by adding one letter.

What is between heaven and earth?

How many gold coins can a leprechaun throw in an empty pot?

What does someone else have to take before you can get?

Cold head and feet; Round as a ball; Always turning around itself.

I cannot be used until I have been broken. What am I?

I have four legs, a back, but no head. What am I?

What is all over a house?

I stink up your breath and fights evil vampires. What am I?

What invention lets you look right through a wall?

What can be any size or shape and gets bigger the more you take from it?

What always comes into the house through the keyhole?

What is seen in the water and in the sky? It is part of the rainbow and can be in your eye.

What animal would you get crossed a duck, a beaver, and an otter?

We are all around, yet to us you are half blind.
Sunlight makes us invisible, and difficult to find.

Where can you find roads without cars, forests without trees and cities without houses?

What calls for help, when written in capital letters, is the same forwards, backwards and upside down?

How many sides does a circle have?

What has a ring but no fingers?

What becomes too young the longer it exists?

They make no sense at all,
In them you either fly or fall.
They make you do it all.
Their need is biologic,
but they are most illogic.
They are not real but still can be achieved,
If they are just believed.

What breaks in the water but never on land?

When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing.

Forwards I am heavy, but backwards I am not. What am I?

This could make wooden boy's noses grow.

I dance on one feet and knows only one shape. Someone with same name as me is very good with directions. What am I?

When you are inside me, you will be encouraged to slam other cars. What am I?

Tomorrow's yesterday. Yesterday's tomorrow. What is it?

A celebrity under the sea.

When does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?

I can be found on fingers, in toolboxes and in snails. What am I?

What can be played with no rules and no winners or losers?

What day, within a week of today, does not end in "Y"?

What is filled with air and sometimes a gas, tied to a string and often seen on your birthday?

You can break it or drink water from it.

If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am i?

I can't go left, I can't go right. I am forever stuck in a building over three stories high. What am I?

It speaks without a tongue, and listens without ears.

Despite having long teeth, every bit of food it grabs gets taken from it.

A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son.

What is red and smells like blue paint?

Two is one, four is two, and six is three. Don't you see? What am I?

What bird can lift the heaviest weight?

What gets whiter the dirtier that it gets?

What is the saddest fruit?

Has its teeth on your head but doesn't bite.

What is a witch's favorite school subject?

What is far behind us, and can be seen without looking at it?

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

What time is spelled the same forwards and backwards?

Give me food, and I will live. Give me water, and I will die. What am I?

What doesn't get any wetter, no matter how much rain falls on it?

By Moon or by Sun, I shall be found.
Yet I am undone, if there's no light around.

It rows quickly with four oars but never comes out from under his own roof. What is it?

I give milk and have a horn but I'm not a cow. Who am I?

What are you certain to find inside your pocket when you reach into it?

If you're stealing honey, be prepared to receive vengeance in this form.

What loses its head every morning only to get it back every night?

The more I dry the wetter I get. What am I?

Sitting down you have it, Standing up you don't.

What is so delicate that even mentioning it breaks it?

What has 4 fingers and a thumb, but is not living?

I love spinach. Who am I?

This orange vegetable is a favorite of Bugs Bunny.

What has 4 eyes but can't see?

What is never eaten before lunch?

What demands an answer, but asks no question?

Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?

Agile on my feet, I drive dogs mad.
I flick my tail when I'm angry and hum when I'm glad.
What am I?

I dance and sing in the breeze, but I have neither voice nor feet. What am I?

What kind of dog chases anything red?

There is one in every corner and two in every room.

I can only be played on a windy day. What am I?

I am pronounced as one letter, written with three. I come in blue, black, brown, or grey. Reverse me and I read the same either way. What am I?

Sugar on a stick. The kids love licking them.

What word is the same written forward, backward and upside down?

Snow White was friendly with seven of them.

One time every year, there is a very special day. Little have the same, everyone party a different way.

What does a cat have that no other animal has?

This is the most famous bank where children keep their assets.

Where do baby ghosts go while their parents work?

I only exist when you are here. Where you never were, I can never be. What am I?

Why does nobody talk to circles?

What follows a dog wherever it goes?

A container holding water but not a cup. If you want to find me, look up. What am I?

According to kids' entertainment, these reptiles are gifted at martial arts and surfer-dude slang.

I am green but not a tree. You can see me and sit on me and I grow around the world. What am I?