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🌻 Object 🛡️ Kid-Safe ✨ With Answers

Object Riddles for Kids

Looking for object riddles? You've found the right page. We've collected 20 kid-safe object 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.

140 object riddles

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What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

easy Age 6+ object what am i

What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

✨ A Penny
L2 · what am i

What has one foot on each side and one in the middle?

medium Age 8+ object brain teaser

What has one foot on each side and one in the middle?

✨ A yardstick
L3 · brain teaser

What has to be broken before it can be used?

easy Age 6+ food what am i

What has to be broken before it can be used?

✨ An egg
L2 · what am i

what is black when clean and white when dirty?

easy Age 6+ object what am i

what is black when clean and white when dirty?

✨ a chalkboard
L2 · what am i

What is it that is deaf, dumb and blind and always tells the truth?

medium Age 8+ object what am i

What is it that is deaf, dumb and blind and always tells the truth?

✨ A Mirror
L3 · what am i

What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?

medium Age 8+ object what am i

What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?

✨ A deck of cards
L2 · what am i

What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn't fill it up?

medium Age 6+ object what am i

What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn’t fill it up?

Hint: What is round as a dishpan…

✨ A sieve
L2 · what am i

What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet

medium Age 8+ object what am i

What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet the carriage cannot go without it?

Hint: What is that which goes with a carriage…

✨ Noise
L2 · what am i

What is the color of the vest's sleeves ?

easy Age 4+ object joke

What is the color of the vest’s sleeves ? …

✨ Vests don't have sleeves
L1 · joke

What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?

medium Age 8+ object brain teaser

What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?

✨ A coat of paint
L3 · brain teaser

What kind of rocks does Frankenstein have in his collection?

medium Age 8+ object joke

What kind of rocks does Frankenstein have in his collection?

✨ Tombstones
L3 · joke

What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?

medium Age 8+ object brain teaser

What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?

Hint: What object has keys that open no locks…

✨ A computer keyboard
L3 · brain teaser

What's the difference between a jeweler and a jailer?

tricky Age 8+ wordplay joke

What’s the difference between a jeweler and a jailer?

✨ A jeweler sells watches and a jailer watches cells
L3 · joke

What's the difference between a penniless man and a feather bed?

tricky Age 10+ wordplay joke

What’s the difference between a penniless man and a feather bed?

✨ One is hard up, while the other is soft down
L3 · joke

What's the greatest worldwide use of cowhide?

easy Age 6+ animal joke

What’s the greatest worldwide use of cowhide?

✨ To cover cows
L2 · joke

What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?

easy Age 6+ object what am i

What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?

✨ A teapot
L2 · what am i

What time is it when the clock strikes 13?

easy Age 6+ time joke

What time is it when the clock strikes 13?

✨ Time to get the clock fixed
L2 · joke