20 riddles for kids for a fun afternoon
Not only as fun, the riddles can be used to teach many things to children: from literature using funny rhymes to paying attention to the small details, since riddles normally they involve an approximation to a daily object in a different way: either with a play on words or highlighting a detail never before thought.
Riddles for children about animals
1.- My sting is harmful,
my insignificant body,
but the nectar that I give
you eat it instantly.
(the bee)
2.- Lives in the desert,
Kills people,
under the stones,
very well accommodates.
(The scorpion)
3.- With his morning laugh
the whole beach rocks,
fisherwoman and sailor.
(Seagull)
4.- We are traveling
in black dresses,
under the tiles
we make the nests.
(The swallows)
5.- Of greenish colors,
big bulging eyes,
we have the back legs
very long to jump.
(The Frogs)
Riddles for children about food
6.- They are chocolate,
they soften with the heat
and if they get into the oven
they explode with great fury.
(The chestnuts)
7.- Fox says, you see,
although always the other way around,
it is eaten by the Japanese
and very rich dish is.
What is it?
(Rice)
8.- In green branches I was born,
in a mill they squeezed me,
I got into a well,
and from the well they took me out
to the kitchen to fry.
(Oil)
9.- The most prickly of the tree
the most fetén
once squeezed
goes to the pan.
(The olive)
10.- Has teeth
and he does not eat.
He has a head
and he is not a man.
(Garlic)
Riddles for children about nature
11.- There are those who drink by mouth,
what is the way to drink,
but I know someone who drinks
only by the feet.
(The tree)
12.-In the mountain he was born
what was never sown;
he has the green legs
and the red bonnet.
(The poppy)
13.-I am born and I die without ceasing;
I still nonetheless exist,
and, without leaving my bed,
I always find myself running.
(The river)
14.- It's a huge orange
but of salty juice,
the segments are supposed
between a pair of meridians.
(The earth)
15.-Bellow to bellow,
before the storms
we have all heard it.
(The Thunder)
Riddles for children about school
16.- Enter the scholar,
never the loafer,
is looking for books
that there you will find.
(Library)
17.- I'm always open
for all children.
Closed and sad I stay
Sundays.
(The school)
18.- Four legs has,
as well as seat;
from her I get up
and in it I feel.
(The chair)
19.- Very often you see it,
think a little with cunning,
when it's black, it's clean,
when it's white, it's dirty.
(The blackboard)
20.- A white lady,
for a black field,
walk around
and the field is full
of white footsteps.
(The chalk and the blackboard)
Marina Berrio