Riddles for 8 Year Olds — Page 9

I love ramps, concrete bowls, and handrails. If you tap my tail against the ground just right, we can jump into the air together without any wings. What am I?

Hide me inside hundreds, tens, and ones. Stack other eights beside me. Together we reach a round thousand.

Hint: Look for the biggest chunk of eight-hundred-something.

I’m a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils O red fruit, Ivory, fine timber! The loaf’s big with it’s yeasty rising Money’s new minted in this fat purse. I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf. I’ve eaten a bag of green apples Boarded the train there’s no getting off.

Hint: I’m a riddle in nine syllables…

I’m as big as an elephant, but lighter than a feather. What am I?

I’m not really more than holes tied to more holes; I’m strong as good steel, though not as stiff as a pole. What am I?

Hint: I’m not really more than holes tied to more holes; I’m strong as good steel…

I’m related to you. I’m really close to you! I’m your cousins aunt. Who am I?

I’m the part of the bird that’s not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?

Hint: I’m the part of the bird that’s not in the sky…

I protect the most important thing you own. Skaters think they’re too cool for me, but one bad fall and they wish they’d worn me. What am I?

I say everything I hear to others around. I’m not an animal, nor part of the human race. I will, immediately, repeat after you; But only if my tail is in place. What am I?

Hint: I say everything I hear to others around…

I soar without wings, I see without eyes. I’ve traveled the universe to and fro. I’ve conquered the world, yet I’ve never been anywhere but home. Who am I?

Hint: I soar without wings…

I spin beneath you but never get dizzy. The faster you go, the faster I turn. Change me when I get too smooth to grip. What am I?

I spin the board a full 360°, yet your feet never leave it. Wheels to the sky, then back to the ground. What trick am I?

I turn around once. What is out will not get in. I turn around again. What is in will not get out. What am I?

Hint: I turn around once…

I turn polar bears white and I will make you cry. I make guys have to pee and girls comb their hair. I make celebrities look stupid and normal people look like celebrities. I turn pancakes brown and make your champane bubble. If you sqeeze me, I’ll pop. If you look at me, you’ll pop. Can you guess the riddle? 97% of Harvard graduates can not figure this riddle out, but 84% of kindergarten students were able to figure this out in 6 minutes or less.

Hint: I turn polar bears white and I will make you cry…

I was framed, yet I didn’t commit a crime, and the person who framed me committed no crime. How is this possible?

Hint: I was framed…

• I’m a giant berry, sweet and cool,
• My skin is striped, by a simple rule.
• Slice me open at a picnic delight,
• Spit out the black seeds, black as night.

Hint: You often find me at summer barbecues.

• A weird pattern appears: 2+2 gives 44.
• 3+3 is 96, 4+4 is 168, 5+5 is 2510.
• Look closely at how the answers form.
• They combine two operations.
• Apply the same logic to 6+6.

Hint: The result combines multiplication and addition: 6×6=36, 6+6=12 makes 3612.

If a fire hydrant has H2O inside, what does it have on the outside?

If a man carried my burden He would break his back. I am not rich, But leave silver in my track.

Hint: If a man carried my burden He would break his back…

If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?