How it works
Every answer on this page is a punchline: a pun, a silly picture or a plain joke that a child can tell again at dinner. Nothing has to be worked out, only guessed and groaned at.
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Kid jokes and riddles, one set at a time
The menu under the button keeps one set: animals, food, school, space and weather, sports and play, or around the house. The answers in Silly what am I are absurd on purpose. Jokes to tell a grown-up are plain question-and-answer jokes about dentists, painters and farmers.
Silly riddles for kids of 5 to 7, or 8 to 11
Choose More filters in that menu, then Ages. The younger band keeps to puns on words a first grader knows. When a punchline is a pun, the word it plays on follows in parentheses, for the child who asks why it is funny.
Tips
- Pause before the punchline. The wait is half of the joke.
- Print gives ten riddles with a line under each and the punchlines on a page of their own.
Questions and answers
What are some funny riddles for kids?
Three to try. What do you call a bear caught in the rain? A drizzly bear. How do bees get to school? On the school buzz. What do snowmen call their kids? Chill-dren.
What is the difference between a joke and a riddle?
A riddle can be worked out from its clues. A joke riddle only pretends to be one: the answer is a pun or a surprise, and nobody is meant to get it. Everything on this page is the second kind.
Which funny riddles suit a 5 year old?
The ones marked Ages 5 to 7. Their puns sit on words a young child already says, such as leaf, buzz and rocket, and several need no pun at all. The age bands are the editors' judgment.
How do you help a child tell a joke riddle?
Let them read the question, cover the answer and practice the punchline once out loud. Short ones work best at first: a question of one line and an answer of two or three words.