What Am I’ Riddles for Kids With Answers

Greetings brainiacs, children of adventure, and a warm welcome to those who love to wear their thinking caps and engage in wordplay and crack answers to interesting and fun riddles. Are you ready for some mind-bending, mysterious fun with your friends and family? Whether you’re going to answer them or ask them to your friends we’ve brought you riddles so you can spend hours keeping your grey cells active and spend all day quizzing your friends.

What are Riddles?

Riddles are word puzzles that challenge the mind and tickle the imagination. Through intuitive and imaginative wordplay, it provides intellectual stimulation for people of all ages. A riddle hides a clever answer in the form of a question for participants to figure out.

What are the Benefits of Riddles for Children?

• As riddles encourage children to think critically by deciphering clues and finding hidden meanings, it improves their problem-solving skills.
• As a child ponders over the structure of the riddles and the myriad of answers they could possibly have, it helps improve the child’s analytical and thinking abilities.
• Riddles can help in building a child’s vocabulary and aid in correct pronunciations.
• It encourages them to think out-of-the-box and explore unconventional ways of thinking.
• It stimulates their imagination as they may visualise the answers in their minds.
• It can make educational activities more like play time, and motivate them to pay more attention in class and in their academics.
• As riddles ask for contextual understanding, solving riddles will help children with reading comprehension.
• The more riddles a child gets right, the more confidence he builds in himself and his quick-thinking abilities and sharp wit.
• As riddles can test a child’s brain and take some time to decipher, it teaches children patience.
• At the core, riddles are meant to be light-hearted questions which bring about fun, laughter, and humour.

Now, let’s check out some simple riddles for kids.

Riddles for Kids: What am I?

1. I come in many different colours and I get bigger when I’m full. I will float away if you don’t tie me down and I will make a loud sound if I break. What am I?

Balloon

2. I’m usually green and brown. With rain, I can live for a long time. I’m a house for a bird and kids love to climb me. What am I?

Tree

3. I get wet when drying. I get dirty when wiping. What am I?

Towel

4. You are my brother, but I am not your brother. Who am I?

Your Sister

5. I have a face but no eyes, hands but no arms. What am I?

Clock

6. I have two hands, but I cannot scratch myself. What am I?

Clock

7. You have to break me before you can use it? What am I?

Egg

8. I am white when I am dirty and black when I am clean. What am I?

Blackboard

9. If you don’t keep me, I’ll break. What am I?

A: A promise.

10. Riddle: I have a tail and a head, but no body. What am I?

A: A coin.

11. What has keys but can’t open locks?

A: A piano.

12. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?

A: A stamp.

13. Riddle: It’s the only place in the world where today comes before yesterday. Where is it?

A: The dictionary.

14. What starts with T, ends with T, and has T inside it?

A: A teapot.

15. I am always in front of you, but you can’t see me? What am I?

The future.

16. The more you take away from me, the larger I become. What am I?

Hole

17. Say my name and I disappear. What am I?

Silence

18. Which letter has the most water?

A: C

19. Which month has 28 days?

A: All months

20. What question can you never answer yes to?

A: Are you asleep yet?

21. What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?
    

A: A road.

22. What do you call a pig that does karate?
    

A: A pork chop

23. What has 13 hearts, but no other organs?

A: A deck of cards

24. What goes up but never comes back down?

A: Your age.

25. I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
    

A: Fire.

26. What is made of water, but if you put it into water it vanishes?

A: An ice cube.

27. I’m lighter than a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
    

A: Your breath.

28. What is the end of everything?
    

A: The letter “g”

29. What starts with a P, ends with an E, and has thousands of letters?
    

A: The post office.

30. I am something to make you think, I am something to make you know. I am something to which the answer you might never know. What am I?

A riddle

31. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have nobody, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
32. I am black when you get me, red when you use me, and white when you’re all through with me. What am I?

Charcoal

33. You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?

Telephone

34. If you allow me to live, I shall not live long, but if you kill me, I shall stay longer. Who am I?

Candle

35. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?

A joke.

36. I’m full of holes, yet I hold water. What am I?

A sponge.

There you have it folks, we’ve gathered 35 of the wittiest and best riddles for you to try on your friends and family. At EuroKids, we encourage children to practise fun learning activities like trying out riddles with each other. It makes education fun, exciting, and also helps children bond better with each other. Discover more with us and start your child’s early education with our world-class teaching technique and facilities.