Best Fun Free Printable Riddles For Kids

Get ready to embark on a journey full of laughter and curiosity as we dive into the world of free printable riddles for kids.

Prepare yourself for some family fun brainteaser that create not just big smiles, but also nurtures those little brains.

After all, riddles are not just an entertaining pastime. They are a fantastic, fun way to promote critical thinking skills, problem-solving abilities, and verbal fluency in your child’s mind.

Why Riddles?

Riddles serve as a powerful tool to encourage the development of various language skills, reading skills, and creative thinking abilities.

They are like little notes of wisdom wrapped in humour, designed to tickle your child’s intellect and curiosity.

But that’s not all! They have an uncanny way of turning a regular school day or a long road trip into a bundle of fun.

Riddles come in different flavours too – easy riddles for the younger kids, hard riddles for the older kids, funny riddles to trigger those giggles, and math riddles to make numbers a fun activity.

Our riddle sheets and printable brain teasers offer an excellent blend of learning and entertainment. Now that’s what we call a great way to spend a day!

Fun Classic Riddles For Kids

Without further ado, here’s a list of 50 classic riddles to challenge your family, ranging from easy riddles to hard riddles:

1. What has to be broken before you can use it?
   • An egg
2. I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
   • A candle
3. What month of the year has 28 days?
   • All of them
4. What is full of holes but still holds water?
   • A sponge
5. What question can you never answer yes to?
   • Are you asleep yet?
6. What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
   • The future
7. There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. What color are the stairs?
   • There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house!
8. What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
   • A promise
9. What goes up but never comes down?
   • Your age
10. A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?

• He was bald

11. What gets wet while drying?

• A towel

12. What can you catch, but not throw?

• A cold

13. I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but can’t go outside. What am I?

• A keyboard

14. What has many keys, but can’t even open a single door?

• A piano

15. What has many rings, but no fingers?

• A telephone

16. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?

• An artichoke

17. You see a house with two doors. One door leads to certain death and the other door leads to freedom. There are two guards, one in front of each door. One guard always tells the truth and the other always lies. You do not know which guard is which, nor which door leads to freedom. You can ask only one question to one of the guards. What question should you ask to find the door that leads to freedom?

• You ask one guard, “If I were to ask the other guard which door leads to freedom, what would he say?” Then choose the opposite door of what he indicates.

18. What has one eye but can’t see?

• A needle

19. What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?

• A potato

20. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

• Silence

21. What kind of band never plays music?

• A rubber band

22. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?

• An echo

23. You see a red house made of red bricks, a blue house made of blue bricks, and a green house made of green bricks. What is a green house made of?

• Glass

24. What kind of room has no doors or windows?

• A mushroom

25. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. What am I?

• A map

26. What has a neck but no head?

• A bottle

27. What kind of coat can only be put on when wet?

• A coat of paint

28. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

• Footsteps

29. I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I?

• A pencil

30. I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

• Fire

31. What is as light as a feather, but even the strongest man cannot hold it for long?

• His breath

32. If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I?

• A secret

33. You see a house with two doors. One door leads to certain death and the other door leads to freedom. There are two guards, one in front of each door. One guard always tells the truth and the other always lies. You do not know which guard is which, nor which door leads to freedom. You can ask only one question to one of the guards. What question should you ask to find the door that leads to freedom?

• You ask one guard, “If I were to ask the other guard which door leads to freedom, what would he say?” Then choose the opposite door of what he indicates.

34. What is heavier: a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?

• Neither, they both weigh a pound

35. What goes up and down but doesn’t move?

• A staircase

36. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?

• The letter ‘M’

37. What is at the end of a rainbow?

• The letter ‘W’

38. I have no feet, no hands, no wings, but I climb to the sky. What am I?

• Smoke

39. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?

• An artichoke

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

• Fire

41. I am full of keys but can’t open any door. What am I?

• A piano

42. What travels around the world but stays in one spot?

• A stamp

43. What has many needles, but doesn’t sew?

• A Christmas tree

44. What has a head and a tail but no body?

• A coin

45. What has words, but never speaks?

• A book

46. What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?

• A stamp

47. I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time & space. What am I?

• The letter ‘E’

48. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

• A palm

49. What is as light as a feather, but even the world’s strongest man couldn’t hold it for long?

• His breath

50. I am not alive, but I can grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

• Fire

Number Riddles for Kids

Here are ten number riddles tailored just for kids. Let’s work on those problem-solving skills and see if they can get the correct answer!

1. I am an odd number. Take away one letter, and I become even. What number am I?
   • Seven
2. What three positive numbers give the same result when multiplied and added together?
   • 1, 2, and 3 (because 123 = 6 and 1+2+3 = 6)
3. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
   • The number ‘ton’ (because ‘ton’ is heavy, but backward, it is ‘not’)
4. What number do you get when you multiply all of the numbers on a telephone’s number pad?
   • Zero (because you’re multiplying by zero)
5. I am a three-digit number. My tens digit is five more than my ones digit, and my hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit. What number am I?
   • 194
6. Using only addition, how can you add eight 8’s to get the number 1,000?
   • 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000
7. I am a number that is very rare. You’ll find that I am two square. My digits are reversed when I am three cubed. What am I?
   • 16 (because it’s 4^2 and when reversed it’s 61, which is 3^3)
8. I am a number less than 100. More than half of me is 50. When you subtract 5 from me, the result is the same as when you add 5 to me. What number am I?
   • 55

9. If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?

• Nine (because 4 + 5 = 9)

10. If seven is lucky, and thirteen is unlucky, what is nine and ten?
    • Nineteen (because 9 + 10 = 19)

Free Printable Riddles for Kids: Instant Download

You can read the riddles here from our blog post but to make things even more accessible on the go, we’ve prepared a collection of free printable worksheets for you. These are great for road trips, or even to use as lunch box notes and so on.

Trust us; these are the perfect accompaniments for a family game night or a dinner table challenge.

So what’s stopping you from joining this intellectual voyage? All you need to do is click on the download link provided below to access an instant download of the printable sheets.

Our PDF file contains all the free printable riddles, ensuring a good time for the whole family.

Before you know it, your kids will not just be solving riddles but creating their own too! Whether it’s a riddle about the “pound of feathers versus pound of bricks” debate or about the “flight of stairs,” riddles offer a platform for your child to express their unique perspective on various topics.

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From easy way riddles like the “kind of band that never plays music” to hard riddles like the “kind of coat that can only be put on when wet” (hint: it’s a coat of paint!), these printable riddles promise a lot of fun. They will undoubtedly turn your ordinary day into a creative expedition.

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