![]() ![]() Q: If two’s a company, and three’s a crowd, what are four and five? How many apples can you fit in the empty basket?Ī: Only one, because then it's not empty anymore. Q: You have a basket that's one foot in diameter and one foot deep. Q: What did the triangle say to the circle? Q: When things go wrong, what can you always count on? How many kids are there in total?Ī: Five, there are four daughters and one son. Q: How many letters are there in the alphabet?Ī: There are 11: three in "the" and eight in "alphabet." Q: If there are seven oranges and you take three away, how many oranges do you have?Ī: Three, since that's how many you took.Ī: Twelve - January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd. Q: What kind of apples do computers prefer? Q: What kind of room has no doors or windows? Q: You cut me, slice me, dice me, and all the while, you cry. Q: Why did the citrus tree go to the hospital? Q: What kind of foods are the most fun at parties? Q: What has to be broken before you can use it? Q: When I’m ripe, I’m green, when you eat me, I’m red, and when you spit me out, I’m black. Q: I'm red and small, and I have a heart of stone. Q: What has a head but no eyes, nose or mouth? Made is M-A-D-E, Edam is E-D-A-M, or "made" backwards. Q: What kind of cheese is made backwards?Ī: Edam. Then you eat my outside and throw away the inside. Q: First, you throw away my outside and cook the inside. Q: What has four fingers and a thumb but isn’t alive? Q: What has a head and a tail but no body? Q: I can be cracked or played told or made. Q: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. Q: What animal can jump higher than a building?Ī: Any animal that can jump - buildings don’t jump, silly! Q: What’s really easy to get into, and hard to get out of? Q: What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire? Q: Nobody empties me, but I never stay full for long. Q: Cats have four, bugs have four, but school has six. Q: I jump when I walk and sit when I stand. What do you call an elephant in Antarctica? Q: What do you call a bear with no teeth? Q: What’s bright orange with green on top and sounds like a parrot? Q: Without me Thanksgiving and Christmas are incomplete, when I’m on the table everyone tends to overeat. Q: What has a thousand needles but cannot sew? If it laid an egg, would the egg roll to the north or to the south?Ī: It's impossible - roosters don't lay eggs. Q: A rooster is sitting on the roof of a barn facing west. Q: What's something that, the more you take, the more you leave behind? Q: Which question can you never answer "yes" to? Q: What is yours but mostly used by others? Q: What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it? Q: I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. Q: You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars and Jupiter, but not in Venus or Neptune. Q: What has hands and a face, but can’t hold anything or smile? Q: If you drop me, I’m sure to crack, but smile at me and I’ll smile back. Q: What two things can you never eat for breakfast? Q: What goes in a birdbath but never gets wet? Q: I’m always on the dinner table, but you don’t get to eat me. Q: If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become? Q: I go all around the world, but never leave the corner. ![]() Q: What goes up but never comes back down? Q: What appears once in a minute, twice in a moment, but not once in a thousand years? Q: What word begins with E and ends with E, but only has one letter? Save this story for the next time you're waiting for a food order, stuck in the doctor's office, on a long line or any other time you need to keep a kid's mind occupied. We broke them into categories, so you’ll be sure to find the right riddle for your kids. There are real head-scratchers for the older kids, sidesplitting puns for the younger crowd and even a little math thrown in there. If you're just getting started, these are the best riddles for kids. (No knock-knock joke setups here.) So, even if they have a punchline, there's still some kind of wordplay involved that needs to be worked out. But a riddle is a statement or question that has multiple meanings and needs to be solved. Sometimes it can be hard to separate riddles for kids and jokes for kids, because the answers can make you feel like you've just heard one of the corniest dad jokes. Riddles also help kids work on their logic and critical thinking skills, practice their vocabulary, stretch their problem-solving muscles and sometimes even give them a good laugh or an a-ha moment when they've reached the solution. There are so many joys to seeing kids work out a good riddle in their minds. ![]()
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