Animal Riddles for Kids

I live in the canopy. I rarely touch the forest floor. I hang upside down all day. I move as slow as a tortoise. My hair is brown and green. I eat tree leaves. Who am i?

Hint: I live in the canopy…

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 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…

If a man carried my burden he would break his back. I am not big but leave silver in my tracks. What am I?

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

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?

If three cats catch three mice in three minutes, how many cats would be needed to catch 100 mice in 100 minutes?

Hint: If three cats catch three mice in three minutes…

In a pond there are some flowers with some bees hovering over the flowers. How many flowers and bees are there if both the following statements are true: 1. If each bee lands on a flower, one bee doesn’t get a flower. 2. If two bees share each flower, there is one flower left out.

Hint: In a pond there are some flowers with some bees hovering over the flowers…

In marble walls as white as milk, Lined with skin as soft as silk, Within a fountain crystal clear, A golden apple does appear. No doors are there to this stronghold— Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.

Hint: In marble walls as white as milk…

I hop instead of walk, my fluffy tail is small and round, and crunchy orange carrots are my favorite snack of all.

Hint: I’m a small furry friend you might see in a garden.

Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye, and a long tail which she let fly; and every time she went through a gap, a bit of her tail she left in a trap. What is she?

Hint: Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye…

Polly Perkins was after a talking parrot, so she went to the local pet shop in the hope of securing such a find. She was in luck. The shop assistant assured her that the parrot would learn and repeat any word or phrase it heard. Polly was delighted. However, a week later, the parrot still hadn’t spoken a word. Polly returned to the shop to complain, however, it appeared that the assistant was accurate in what he had said, and refused a refund. Why didn’t the parrot talk?

Hint: Polly Perkins was after a talking parrot…

The strangest creature you’ll ever find: Two eyes in front and many many more behind.

Hint: The strangest creature you’ll ever find: Two eyes in front and many many more be…

There are two bodies on the floor. They are surrounded by water and broken glass. How did they die?

Hint: There are two bodies on the floor…

There is a frog, dead in the middle of an island. If he swims north, the distance to the mainland is 2 meters. If he swims south, the distance to the mainland is 3 meters. If he swims east or west, the distance is 4 meters. Which way does he swim?

Hint: There is a frog…

They can trickle down, They can tickle too. Or make you sneeze, Or comfort you. Their rustling sound, you’ve rarely heard, Unless you’re a pillow or a bird! What are they?

Hint: They can trickle down…

What always goes to bed with shoes on?

What goes into the water black and comes out red?

What has no heart Yet is alive? It never moves People stab it with knives.

what has six legs but olny walks with 4?