Riddles for Kids With Answers — 60+ Fun

Riddles for kids with answers are the perfect way to turn five quiet minutes into a giggling brain workout. Kids love the mystery of a riddle — the guessing, the wrong answers, and finally the big "aha!" when the solution clicks. This page collects 60+ riddles for kids with answers, all clean, all friendly, and all simple enough for young thinkers.

The best part about riddles for kids is that they teach without feeling like a lesson. Each puzzle sneaks in a bit of logic, a bit of wordplay, and a whole lot of fun. Read one aloud on a car ride, trade them at the dinner table, or let kids quiz each other at a sleepover.

Every riddle here has its answer right below the question, so nobody gets stuck. Start with the silly animal ones for a laugh, then work up to the trickier brain teasers when the kids are ready for a challenge.

• 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
• The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
  Answer: Footsteps
• What has keys but can't open locks?
  Answer: A piano
• What gets wetter the more it dries?
  Answer: A towel
• I have cities, but no houses; mountains, but no trees; water, but no fish. What am I?
  Answer: A map
• What has a head, a tail, but no body?
  Answer: A coin
• What has one eye but can't see?
  Answer: A needle
• What has hands but can't clap?
  Answer: A clock
• What runs around the yard without moving?
  Answer: A fence
• What goes up but never comes down?
  Answer: Your age
• What has legs but doesn't walk?
  Answer: A table
• What is full of holes but still holds water?
  Answer: A sponge
• What has a neck but no head?
  Answer: A bottle
• I come with a bow, I'm a favorite for kids; I can be bright red and sit under the tree. What am I?
  Answer: A Christmas present
• What do you call a reindeer with no eyes?
  Answer: No-eye deer (no idea)
• What is Santa's favorite type of music?
  Answer: Wrap music
• I fly without wings, I jingle without bells; I land on rooftops, I'm known very well. What am I?
  Answer: Santa's sleigh
• What do you call a Christmas tree that sings?
  Answer: A carol tree
• What kind of ball doesn't bounce?
  Answer: A snowball
• What has four fingers and a thumb but isn't alive?
  Answer: A glove
• What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
  Answer: A clock
• What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
  Answer: A hole
• What has many teeth but can't bite?
  Answer: A comb
• What goes up and down but never moves?
  Answer: A staircase
• What has one head, one foot, and four legs?
  Answer: A bed
• What can you catch but not throw?
  Answer: A cold
• What is at the end of a rainbow?
  Answer: The letter W
• What has cities and streets but no people?
  Answer: A map
• What has a bark but no bite?
  Answer: A tree
• What kind of room has no doors or windows?
  Answer: A mushroom
• What has teeth but no mouth?
  Answer: A saw
• What has a thumb and four fingers but is not a hand?
  Answer: A glove
• What has a head and a tail but no body?
  Answer: A coin
• What has to be broken before you can use it?
  Answer: An egg
• What has an eye but cannot see?
  Answer: A potato
• What has legs but never walks, and lives in a field?
  Answer: A scarecrow
• What has one key but opens no locks?
  Answer: A piano
• What has a spine but no bones?
  Answer: A book
• What has a tail and a head but no body?
  Answer: A coin
• What has an ear but cannot hear?
  Answer: Corn
• What has a bottom but no top?
  Answer: A pair of pants
• What is always coming but never arrives?
  Answer: Tomorrow
• What has a head, a tail, and four legs but no body?
  Answer: A bed
• What has a face but no head, hands but no arms?
  Answer: A clock
• What runs all around a field but never moves?
  Answer: A fence
• What has many keys but opens no locks?
  Answer: A piano
• What has a neck but no head?
  Answer: A bottle
• What has no beginning, end, or middle?
  Answer: A circle
• What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
  Answer: A glove
• What has ears but cannot hear, and a mouth but cannot speak?
  Answer: A cornstalk
• What has an eye but no head?
  Answer: A needle
• What has a foot but no leg?
  Answer: A snail
• What has a thousand needles but cannot sew?
  Answer: A porcupine
• What has a head and a tail but no legs?
  Answer: A snake
• What gets wetter as it dries?
  Answer: A towel
• What has a face and two hands but no arms?
  Answer: A clock
• What has a roof but no house, and a bed but no sleep?
  Answer: A doghouse
• What has a face and two hands but no arms? — Answer: A clock.
• What has a head and a tail but no body? — Answer: A coin.
• What has keys but opens no locks? — Answer: A piano.
• What gets wetter the more it dries? — Answer: A towel.
• What has a neck but no head? — Answer: A bottle.
• What has one eye but cannot see? — Answer: A needle.
• What has many teeth but cannot bite? — Answer: A comb.
• What runs but never walks? — Answer: Water.
• What has a thumb and four fingers but is not a hand? — Answer: A glove.
• What is full of holes but still holds water? — Answer: A sponge.
• What has cities but no houses, and roads but no cars? — Answer: A map.
• What has a bed but never sleeps? — Answer: A river.
• What can travel around the world while staying in a corner? — Answer: A stamp.
• What has legs but never walks? — Answer: A table.
• What has a ring but no finger? — Answer: A telephone.
• What is always in front of you but can't be seen? — Answer: The future.
• What goes up but never comes down? — Answer: Your age.
• What goes up and down but never moves? — Answer: A staircase.
• What can you break without touching it? — Answer: A promise.
• What has no beginning, middle or end? — Answer: A circle.
• What begins with T, ends with T, and has T inside it? — Answer: A teapot.
• What gets bigger the more you take away? — Answer: A hole.
• What kind of room has no doors or windows? — Answer: A mushroom.
• What can fill a room but takes up no space? — Answer: Light.
• What is as light as a feather but cannot be held for long? — Answer: Your breath.
• What has a spine but no bones? — Answer: A book.
• What can you catch but not throw? — Answer: A cold.
• What has 13 hearts but no other organs? — Answer: A deck of cards.
• What has a bank but no money? — Answer: A river bank.
• What invention lets you look right through a wall? — Answer: A window.
• What is black and white and read all over? — Answer: A newspaper.
• What is white when it's dirty and black when it's clean? — Answer: A blackboard.
• What is found over your head but under your hat? — Answer: Your hair.
• What is easy to lift but hard to throw? — Answer: A feather.
• What has a tongue but cannot talk? — Answer: A shoe.
• What has four wheels and flies? — Answer: A garbage truck.
• What has a bark but no bite? — Answer: A tree.
• What has a heart that doesn't beat? — Answer: An artichoke.
• What is at the end of a rainbow? — Answer: The letter W.
• What has ears but cannot hear? — Answer: Corn.
• What has a head, a tail and four legs? — Answer: A bed.
• What has a forest but no trees, and an ocean but no water? — Answer: A map.
• What do you call a bear with no teeth? — Answer: A gummy bear.
• What do you call a fish with no eyes? — Answer: A fsh.
• What do you call a sleeping dinosaur? — Answer: A dino-snore.
• What do you call a cow with no legs? — Answer: Ground beef.
• What do you call a fake noodle? — Answer: An impasta.
• What do you call a pig that does karate? — Answer: A pork chop.
• What do you call a deer with no eyes? — Answer: No-eye deer.
• What do you call a cow with two legs? — Answer: Lean beef.
• What do you call a dog with a dictionary? — Answer: A vocabular-dog.
• What do you call a snowman with a six-pack? — Answer: An abdominal snowman.
• What do you call a snail on a ship? — Answer: A snailor.
• What do you call a lazy kangaroo? — Answer: A pouch potato.
• What do you call a sleeping bull? — Answer: A bulldozer.
• What do you call a snowman in July? — Answer: A puddle.
• What has ears but cannot hear and grows in a field? — Answer: Corn.
• What has a mouth but never talks and a bed but never sleeps? — Answer: A river.
• What has a head and a foot but no body? — Answer: A bed.
• What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? — Answer: A thesaurus.

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