Riddles For Kids

Find riddles about anything and everything, all specially designed for kids!


Red Riddles

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We’re continuing our series of color riddles today with a set which all have an answer of ‘red.’

If you’re planning on using these rhyming riddles as part of an activity or game for kids, they may also enjoy this color scavenger hunt idea.

4 Red Riddles For Kids

Red Riddles For Kids

When you’re driving in a car
This color is on top
Of a set of traffic lights
It means that you should stop

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Many foods are this color
Like some types of cherries
Tomatoes and some peppers
As well as strawberries

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This color’s on the US flag
It’s the shade of some apples
And if you ever play snooker
There are fifteen of these balls

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Lipstick is this color
And ladybugs in part
And on Valentine’s Day
Some roses and a heart

Yellow Riddles

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We’re starting a new series today that focuses on different colors – today’s set all have yellow as their answer.

All of these riddles for kids rhyme, making it even more fun for them when trying to work out the answer.

4 Yellow Riddles For Kids

Yellow Riddles For Kids

The name of this color
Isn’t purple or green
It is the color of
The Beatles’ submarine

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A rubber ducky and egg yolk
A banana and some cheese
A sunflower and a lemon
What’s the color of all these?

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Once her house landed on the wicked witch
Blown by a tornado that was strong
What was the color of the long brick road
That Dorothy and friends walked along?

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The inside of a mango
Half the color of some bees
A lovely daffodil
What’s the color of all these?

Orange Riddles

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We’re starting a new series of riddles this week where the answers will be different types of food.

Today’s set has several where the answer is ‘orange.’ In addition to these being good to use with our other food riddles, they could also be used with our other ideas that are based on different fruits and colors.

The first four of these rhyme, while the final one is a What Am I? riddle. To use that, read the first line of it to your kids and get them to guess what they think the answer is.

If they’re not correct, read them the second line and have them guess again. Keep going until they either work out that you’re describing the word orange or they run out of clues.

Orange Riddles For Kids

Orange Riddles For Kids

This is a fruit that
You might be fed
You just need to mix
Yellow and red

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You might sometimes see this color
On the feathers of a parrot
It is the name of a fruit and
The same color as a carrot

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Violet, red, blue and green
Yellow and indigo
What’s the other color
You’d find in a rainbow?

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This is a type of fruit
But it is not a lime
There are no other words
With which this word can rhyme

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What Am I?

I grow on trees but I’m not a leaf
I’m spherical but I’m not a soccer ball
I provide juice but I’m not an apple
I’m sometimes naval but I’m not a sailor
I’m a color but I’m not red

Rainbow Riddles

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Carrying on with our St Patrick’s Day theme, today’s set of riddles all have an answer of ‘rainbow.’

These ideas would fit in with many of our other themes though, like the Wizard Of Oz, Christian, weather and more.

The first five of these are rhyming riddles, while the last one asks your kids What Am I?

To use the final idea, get your children to read the first clue and guess what they think the answer is.

If they’re incorrect, have them read the second line and guess again. Keep going until they either answer correctly or they run out of clues.

6 Rainbow Riddles For Kids

Rainbow Riddles For Kids

Violet, indigo and blue
Red, yellow, orange and green
At the end of this object
A pot of gold can be seen

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This natural phenomenon
Cannot be seen when it is dark
For it’s caused by light hitting rain
To create a colorful arc

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You see me in the air
But I am not a kite
I am what’s created
When water refracts light

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To reach the land of Oz
Go ‘somewhere over’ this
To where the bluebirds fly
And your home you will miss

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You might see this in the sky
By a waterfall it’s lower
Some say that it was first seen
After a flood by Noah

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What Am I?

I’m curved but I’m not a banana
I’m mentioned in the first book of the Bible but I’m not a snake
I’m colorful but I’m not a parrot
I’m mentioned in a Wizard Of Oz song but I’m not a Yellow Brick Road
I’m found near a leprechaun but I’m not a pot of gold