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.
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Violet, indigo, blue and green, yellow, orange and red; these are the colors you have seen after the storm has fled.What am I?
Hint: Violet…
Walking home one day, you take a short cut along the train tracks. The tracks cross a narrow bridge over a deep gorge. At the point you are 3/8 of the way across the bridge, you hear the train whistle somewhere behind you. You charge across the bridge, and jump off the track as the train is about to run you down. As it happens, if you had gone the other way, you would have reached safety just before being run over as well. If you can run ten miles per hour, how fast is the train moving?
Hint: Walking home one day…
Weight in my belly, Trees on my back. Nails in my ribs, Feet I do lack.
What can go up and come down without moving?
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Hint: What can run but never walks…
What falls but doesn’t break, and what breaks but doesn’t fall?
What goes into the water black and comes out red?
What goes through the door without pinching itself? What sits on the stove without burning itself? What sits on the table and is not ashamed?
Hint: What goes through the door without pinching itself…
What goes up when the rain comes down?
What has no heart Yet is alive? It never moves People stab it with knives.
What has roots as nobody sees. Is taller than trees. Up, up it goes. And yet never grows?
Hint: What has roots as nobody sees…
What has roots that nobody sees, and is taller than trees. Up, up it goes, and yet it never grows. What is it?
Hint: What has roots that nobody sees…
What is red and blue, and purple and green? No one can reach it, not even the queen?
Hint: What is red and blue…
What kind of storm is always in a rush?
What never gets any wetter, no matter how much it rains?
What’s as big as you are yet doesn’t weigh an ounce?
What tree do Fortune Tellers look at?
What was the biggest island in the world before the discovery of Australia by Captain Cook?
Hint: What was the biggest island in the world before the discovery of Australia by Ca…
When I left, I didn’t know where I was going; when I got there, I didn’t know where I was; when I returned, I didn’t know where I had been. Who was I?
Hint: When I left…
When John was six years old he hammered a nail into his favorite tree to mark his height. Ten years later at age sixteen, John returned to see how much higher the nail was. If the tree grew by five centimeters each year, how much higher would the nail be?
Hint: When John was six years old he hammered a nail into his favorite tree to mark hi…