
Q: A rooster is sitting on the roof of a barn facing west. Q: What's something that, the more you take, the more you leave behind? Q: Which question can you never answer "yes" to? Q: What is yours but mostly used by others? Q: What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it? Q: I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. Q: You’ll find me in Mercury, Earth, Mars and Jupiter, but not in Venus or Neptune. Q: What has hands and a face, but can’t hold anything or smile? Q: If you drop me, I’m sure to crack, but smile at me and I’ll smile back. Q: What two things can you never eat for breakfast? Q: What goes in a birdbath but never gets wet? Q: I’m always on the dinner table, but you don’t get to eat me. Q: If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become? Q: I go all around the world, but never leave the corner. Q: What goes up but never comes back down? Q: What appears once in a minute, twice in a moment, but not once in a thousand years? Q: What word begins with E and ends with E, but only has one letter? Save this story for the next time you're waiting for a food order, stuck in the doctor's office, on a long line or any other time you need to keep a kid's mind occupied.

We broke them into categories, so you’ll be sure to find the right riddle for your kids. There are real head-scratchers for the older kids, sidesplitting puns for the younger crowd and even a little math thrown in there. If you're just getting started, these are the best riddles for kids.

(No knock-knock joke setups here.) So, even if they have a punchline, there's still some kind of wordplay involved that needs to be worked out. But a riddle is a statement or question that has multiple meanings and needs to be solved. Sometimes it can be hard to separate riddles for kids and jokes for kids, because the answers can make you feel like you've just heard one of the corniest dad jokes. Riddles also help kids work on their logic and critical thinking skills, practice their vocabulary, stretch their problem-solving muscles and sometimes even give them a good laugh or an a-ha moment when they've reached the solution. There are so many joys to seeing kids work out a good riddle in their minds.
