🧩 Easy riddles for kids with answers
Read each riddle out loud and give everyone a moment to think. Stuck? Peek at the hint before you open the answer.
I have hands but cannot clap. What am I?
What has to be broken before you can use it?
I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?
What has lots of keys but can't open a single door?
What gets wetter the more it dries?
What has legs but cannot walk?
What has one eye but cannot see?
What can you catch but not throw?
What goes up but never comes down?
What has a neck but no head?
What has teeth but cannot bite?
What has words but never speaks?
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
What runs but never walks?
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
What is full of holes but still holds water?
What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do?
What building has the most stories?
What gets bigger the more you take away from it?
What has four wheels and flies?
What month has 28 days?
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
What has a bottom at the top?
What kind of band never plays music?