Riddles for children: the funniest to stimulate the mind

Easy to remember children's riddles

Below you will find a series of logical and mathematical riddles along with others that are simpler but still require reasoning. Test your kids and train your mind.

1. I speak but I don't have a tongue, I hug you but you can't catch me, I run quickly and when I pass you don't see me.
Answer: the wind.

2. I'm always cooked and gray but can't be eaten. I don't exist raw.
Answer: ash

3. If you stand on top of me, I appear to be stationary but if you move away you see me spinning like a carousel.
Answer: the Earth

4. When I work I always have to keep my head out.
Answer: the nail

5. He has the crown but he is not king, he has spurs but a cavalier is not ...
Answer: the rooster

6. I come from heaven and people flee, yet all plants love me.
Answer: rain

7. I am always still and never move, but if I start smoking I make a lot of trouble.
Answer: the volcano

8. You always eat me broken, if I'm raw and if I'm cooked. Who I am?
Answer: the egg

9. The older I am, the less you see, only cats don't fear me.
Answer: Darkness

10. It is not sea water, nor spring water, it is not in heaven, nor on earth but only on the forehead.
Answer: sweat

11. I have no wings and no feet, but as soon as I am born I run away. Who I am?
Answer: smoking

12. If you name me you break me, who am I?
Answer: silence

13. I look for land and dive into the sea but then go to the bottom because I can't swim.
Answer: the anchor

14. I can be blonde or brunette and they all know me because if you squeeze me, you don't have to exaggerate with me.
Answer: grapes

15. I become big if you take it off and small if you add it to me. They are the joy of many animals.
Answer: a hole in the earth

16. Everyone is born without having me, then they receive me and carry me for life.
Answer: the name

17. I have a neck but I have no head, I have a belly but I have no back, only one foot but I have no legs and when I feel empty, someone fills me.
Answer: the pitcher

18. He goes to the mill and he is yellow but when he comes out he is white.
Answer: wheat / flour

19. Up above there is an old woman who shakes her tooth and calls all the people.
Answer: the bell.

20. Refreshing and transparent are something that never sleeps and never rests.
Answer: the water of the river

21. I take off the cold, then I cook with you, but it's better if you don't stay too close to me.
Answer: fire

22. We are four sisters in a year: one in bloom, one sunny, one reddish, one covered with snow. When one comes the other leaves. Who we are.
Answer: the seasons

23. I am damp and relative to the rain, if you are far from me, you can see me better.
Answer: the fog

24. I stay home on good days and only go out on bad days.
Answer: the umbrella

25. If he ends up on the net, he misses the pass. Who?
Answer: the circus trapeze artist

26. The hotter I am, the fresher I am.
Answer: bread

27. Two windows open during the day and closed at night.
Answer: the eyes

28. I have no legs but I travel fast, I speak to you but I have no voice and I always bring you news.
Answer: the letter

29. I love the white, black, red and blonde fields, smooth or curly but I'm not a plow that I am.
Answer: the comb / brush

30. I have a hole in my head and I make holes.
Answer: the needle

31. I stand on one foot only, in a brown hat and a white suit. What are they?
Answer: the porcini mushroom

32. I have a long beard that wears me out if you scrape me. I'm a horse for witches. Who I am?
Answer: the broom

33. Neither a pear nor an apple but only in the shape of a sphere. My juice is nutritious and very refreshing.
Answer: the orange

34. I am a house with 12 doors, each door has 30 locks and each lock has 24 keys.
Answer: The year, with the months, days and hours

35. I am colorful and I bring luck I show myself in the sun but after the rain ...
Answer: the rainbow

36. I'm on the roofs but I'm not a bird, I'm white but I'm not flour. Who I am?
Answer: snow

37. My father is tall, my mother stings and is first green and then brown. I am dark outside and all white inside.
Answer: chestnut

38. I always live on the roof: it is my throne and my bed. I don't eat or drink but I smoke all day.
Answer: The chimney

39 The door of our long house, it only opens once and we little brothers roll away. Who we are?
Answer: The peas

40. She is a woman, a city and a virtue that never will be.
Answer: consistency

41. I don't know how to sew but my needle goes fast, for those who leave and for those who move.
Answer: the compass

42. When summer dies, I run away and go back to my nest every year.
Answer: the swallow.

43. You find me in all animals I am red it is always movement but if I stop there is trouble.
Answer: blood

44. We have legs but we don't have feet, we know how to walk and also run or fly.
Answer: the pants

45. It's a toothless snake but it holds an elephant. What is that.
Answer: the chain

46. ​​Thirty white ponies are always in company in the red stable. They are always on "attention are the ...
Answer: teeth

47. I am one and well protected but if I fall to the ground and break I split into three.
Answer: the egg

48. I look like a mushroom or an umbrella and I'm tall and strong. Next to the sea is my house and my fruits are made of wood.
Answer: the pine

49. I stand on the wheat and over a ditch I don't burn but the fire I wear.
Answer: the firefly

50. I bathe everybody and I am careless ... I always fall from the clouds.
Answer: rain

51. If the author is there, she is not seen but when he goes away she appears.
Answer: the footprint

52. I'm dead black and alive red and it's better if you don't touch me.
Answer: coal

53. The older we are, the less we think.
Answer: the holes

54. In the morning everyone leaves me but at night they always sleep with me.
Answer: the bed

55. We are five very capable and capable sisters, all born on the same day but we are not twins.
Answer: the fingers

56. When you catch me I am green or black when I peel instead I am white but at the first bite I become all red.
Answer: the fig

57.I grow in the woods and the trees are my shelter, they are a colorful fruit but there is no flower before me.
Answer: the mushroom

58. I leave my mark only where it is dark and sometimes I screech if you don't break me.
Answer: plaster

59. I have many forms, I am big or small and when you take me into the dark, I am the one to lead.
Answer: the flashlight

60. It has many light wings but cannot fly, it knows many things but cannot speak.
Answer: the book

61. I'm small and flying and I have a little buzzing sound, but if I want I can enter the castles to eat.
Answer: the fly

62. If you use me we have six feet, otherwise I have only four.
Answer: the chair

63. She is a woman with seven children, when one arrives the other leaves.
Answer: the week

64. I am your sister, black short or long I follow you everywhere and if you step on me you don't hurt me. Answer: the shadow

65. I never take off my pajamas and I don't sleep on a bed, I have a tail and a mane but a horse, you know, I'm not.
Answer: the zebra

66. Narrow, long, short or wide and is in the center of a square, the shape doesn't matter but the two holes are vital.
Answer: the nose

67. I remain impaled on the side of the road and so many people look at me so I change color continuously.
Answer: the traffic light

68. I can write well but I cannot reread what I write.
Answer: the hand

69. If you are with me you are no longer one, even if you are alone, I show you the ugly and the beautiful, if you are barefoot or if you have a hat.
Answer: the mirror

70. You plant me but I don't grow up.
Answer: the nail

71. I blow through the reeds but I am not the wind, if you touch me my song is melodious.
Answer: the organ

72. We were born to travel but we travel alone, by sea, by land or by flight.
Answer: stamps

73. I have my weight even if it is very light, expansive and transparent, if I enlighten I will also help you in the kitchen.
Answer: gas

74. We have hands and fingers but we are without flesh and without bones.
Answer: gloves

75. Everyone likes our father when warm and fragrant .. we like children and all birds.
Answer: bread and crumbs

76. I always follow you and I'm yours alone but you can't take me.
Answer: the shadow

77. If I am in love all night I sing, among grass and flowers I jump and take me, for the children, is a source of pride.
Answer: the cricket

78. I have a mustache and a fine nose and I smell a mickey mouse, I always ride in 44, but you know I'm the ..
Answer: cat

79. I am a battlefield with black and white soldiers, never armed but enemies and when one goes mad my war is already over.
Answer: the chessboard

80. Ugh! It doesn't itch anything but everyone scratches me.
Answer: cheese

Riddles for children: the most beautiful in rhyme

Here are some very simple rhyming riddles for 6-8 year olds. They seem like nursery rhymes because the solution is in rhyme, to help the little one to memorize even more.


I am long tall and slender you use me when it rains I am….
Answer: The umbrella


You can eat me during the day or in the evening I am a friend of the apple but I am the….
Answer: Pear


I do television and I do not complain I introduce myself I am the….
Answer: Spider


I am smooth and fragrant of me, the dirty boy is afraid so I am the ...
Answer: Soap


I go in the air with the engine and I certainly don't go slow, hello I'm….
Answer: Airplane


All the nails of me are afraid even if I am very beautiful, I introduce myself I am the….
Answer: Hammer


Everyone uses me everywhere except in the sea, I'm used to call, I'm the ...
Answer: Mobile

I play ball in the garden and I'm not naughty, good morning everyone I'm a….
Answer: Child


I have two wheels and I hurry like a bolt of lightning, I'm the ...
Answer: Bicycle


I'm not raw but I'm cooked, you eat me with milk I'm a ...
Answer: Biscuit


It's magical like Ali Babà and having fun with mom makes me, it's very easy it's mine ...
Answer: Dad


I am in the meadows with a lot of color, beautiful and fragrant I am a….
Answer: Flower


I am one who does not come out of the water, in fact I am a ...
Answer: Fish


I am made of cloth with a dress and you do not use me for the carom because I am the ...
Answer: Doll

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