Looking for nature riddles? You've found the right page. We've collected 20 kid-safe nature riddles, ranging from quick "what am I" warm-ups to head-scratching brain-teasers. Each riddle includes the answer behind a tap, so kids get a chance to guess before peeking. Great as classroom starters, lunch-box surprises, or a family game.
84 nature riddles
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A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I’m the torment of man.
Hint: A cloud was my mother…
A farmer in California owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase. The farmer knows that the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and each bough has exactly 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver?
Hint: A farmer in California owns a beautiful pear tree…
A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of a green grass. What am I?
Hint: A little pool with two layers of wall around it…
A man but an animal, a horn with two hands. What am I?
A tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum height over the course of ten years. How many years did it take for the tree to reach half its maximum height?
Hint: A tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum height over the …
A very pretty thing am I, fluttering in the pale-blue sky. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing. What am I?
Hint: A very pretty thing am I…
A white dove flew down by the castle. Along came a king and picked it up handless, ate it up toothless, and carried it away wingless.
Hint: A white dove flew down by the castle…
All about, but cannot be seen, Can be captured, cannot be held, No throat, but can be heard. What is it?
Hint: All about…
At dusk I come without being fetched. At dawn I disappear without being stolen. I’m a poet’s tears and a sailor’s guide. What am I ?
Hint: At dusk I come without being fetched…
At night they come without being fetched, And by day they are lost without being stolen.
Hint: At night they come without being fetched…
How far can a dog run into the woods?
How Far Can You Walk into the woods?
I am a fruit. I taste very yummy. I came from trees, ofcourse. I am color orange. What am I?
Hint: I am a fruit…
I am a tree, but I am very small… Who am I?
I am always hungry, I must always be fed, The finger I lick Will soon turn red.
I am large as a castle, yet lighter than air. 100 men and their horses cannot move me. What am I?
Hint: I am large as a castle…
I am like day, you can find me near the river any day, and you can make almost anything out of me. who am I?
Hint: I am like day…
I am that which is hunted, and this panes me. Do you dig, Stone? What am I?
I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. Who am I?
Hint: I am the black child of a white father…
I am thought to be everywhere, and I only have one rival. He hides within himself, and stays wherever I cannot reach. Who am I? and Who is my rival??
Hint: I am thought to be everywhere…