What Am I Riddles for Kids

Ten what am I riddles for kids with the answers under a cover: read one aloud, guess, then tap.

What Am I Riddles for Kids

  1. I have two small wheels, a board to stand on and a tall handle. Push with one foot and off we roll. What am I?
  2. I am white and sticky. Squeeze me out to stick paper to paper. What am I?
  3. I am a little roof on a stick. Press my button and I pop open with a snap. Afterward I drip in the hall. What am I?
  4. I float across the sky, white and fluffy like cotton. When I turn dark and heavy, fetch your raincoat. What am I?
  5. Push my button and water jumps up for a sip. I stand in the hall. What am I?
  6. I am a bird with bright feathers, and I can copy the words you say. Pirates in stories carry me on one shoulder. What am I?
  7. I have a long handle and a skirt of bristles. I push the crumbs across the floor into a pile. What am I?
  8. My door has a window so you can watch the cookies turn brown. I am very hot inside, so the grown-ups do the reaching in. What am I?
  9. I start as a trickle in the hills and I end in the sea. Fish live in me, and bridges step over me. What am I?
  10. I am covered in buttons, and I am always lost in the couch. Point me, press me, and the picture changes. What am I?

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These what am I riddles for kids describe things a child can point at: a turtle, a pancake, a scooter, a paintbrush. The Read aloud level gives riddles for young kids who cannot read yet.

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Three levels, from riddles for 5 year olds up

Read aloud is for ages 4 to 6: two short lines, and the second one gives the answer away. Easy suits ages 7 and 8 and Medium ages 8 to 10. To keep one level, open the menu under the button and choose More filters. The ages are our judgment.

Six sets to choose from

The same menu keeps one set: Animals, Food, Toys and play, At school, Around the house or Outside. Read a riddle aloud, let everyone guess, then tap Show answer.

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  • Let the child who guessed right make up the next riddle about something in the room.

Questions and answers

What is an easy riddle for 4 to 8 year olds?

One with two clues about a thing the child knows. I pull my head and legs inside my shell, and then I look like a rock: a turtle. I am soft and warm, and you pull me up to your chin: a blanket.

How do you play what am I with kids?

Read the clues aloud one sentence at a time and stop as soon as somebody guesses. A wrong guess earns the next clue. Then swap: the child describes something in the room and the grown-up guesses.

Do these riddles work for children who cannot read yet?

The Read aloud level does. A grown-up or an older child reads the two lines, and the answer is something a four-year-old knows by sight: a cat, a ball, a spoon, the rain.

What makes a good what am I riddle for a child?

An answer the child can point at, a clue about how it looks, a clue about what it does, and a last clue that almost says it. A child who misses the first clue can still get there.

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Animals 20

  • I am a bird that can stand taller than a grown-up. My wings cannot lift me, but no bird runs faster, and each of my feet has only two toes. What am I? Answer: An ostrich. The ostrich is the tallest living bird, and it has two toes on each foot.
  • I am a bird with bright feathers, and I can copy the words you say. Pirates in stories carry me on one shoulder. What am I? Answer: A parrot. Parrots can learn to repeat words.
  • I am a tall pink bird on long, thin legs. To eat, I dip my head into the water upside down. What am I? Answer: A flamingo. A flamingo feeds with its bill turned upside down.
  • I am big and furry, with claws on all four paws. I can stand up on my back legs like a person, and my baby is called a cub. What am I? Answer: A bear. Bears can stand on their hind feet, and a young bear is a cub.
  • I am covered in prickles. When I am scared I roll myself into a ball, and then nobody wants to pick me up. What am I? Answer: A hedgehog. A rolled-up hedgehog is all spines.
  • I began my life as a tadpole with a tail and no legs. Now I have four legs and no tail, and I jump from one lily pad to the next. What am I? Answer: A frog. A tadpole grows legs, loses its tail and becomes a frog.
  • I build a wall of sticks and mud across the stream. My front teeth never stop growing, and my tail is flat like a paddle. What am I? Answer: A beaver. Beavers cut wood with their teeth and build dams.
  • I hang from a branch by my long, curved claws, high in the rain forest. Some of my kind have two toes on the front feet and some have three. I do everything slowly. What am I? Answer: A sloth. There are two-toed sloths and three-toed sloths, and all of them move slowly.
  • I hang from a branch by one arm and scratch my head with the other. I chatter, I make faces, and I peel my own snack. What am I? Answer: A monkey. Monkeys climb, chatter and peel fruit with their hands.
  • I have a red comb on my head. I shout cock-a-doodle-doo when the sun comes up. What am I? Answer: A rooster. A rooster crows at dawn.
  • I have no legs at all, and I never blink. I flick my forked tongue in and out to smell the air. What am I? Answer: A snake. A snake picks up smells with its forked tongue.
  • I hold on to a tree trunk and tap it with my beak: rat-a-tat-tat. I am looking for bugs under the bark. What am I? Answer: A woodpecker. A woodpecker drills into wood to find insects.
  • I lick my paws to wash my face. I say meow. What am I? Answer: A cat. Cats clean themselves with their tongues.
  • I live in warm rivers. I have short legs, a long tail and a long mouth, and my teeth show even when my mouth is shut. What am I? Answer: A crocodile. A crocodile's teeth can be seen when its jaws are closed.
  • I pull my head and my legs inside my shell. Then I look like a rock. What am I? Answer: A turtle. A turtle hides in its shell.
  • I squirt water with my long nose. My ears are as big as blankets. What am I? Answer: An elephant. The long nose is the trunk.
  • I start as an egg on a leaf. Then I crawl and eat and eat. Later I rest inside a case, and when I come out I have wings. What am I? Answer: A butterfly. Egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly: four stages of one life.
  • I swim round and round in a glass bowl. I am small and orange. What am I? Answer: A goldfish. A pet goldfish lives in a bowl or a tank.
  • My neck is longer than you are tall. I have to spread my front feet wide apart just to bend down for a drink. What am I? Answer: A giraffe. A giraffe is so tall that it must splay its legs to reach the water.
  • You can ride on my back. I say neigh and I eat hay. What am I? Answer: A horse. Horses neigh, eat hay and carry riders.

Food 20

  • Bees make me. I am gold and sticky, and I come out of the jar very slowly. What am I? Answer: Honey. Bees make honey in their hive.
  • I am long and orange, and I hide in the garden soil. Only my green, feathery top shows. What am I? Answer: A carrot. A carrot is a root, so it grows underground.
  • I am long and thin like string. Boil me until I wiggle, twirl me on a fork, and try not to slurp. What am I? Answer: Spaghetti. Cooked spaghetti is soft and easy to twirl.
  • I am long, green and cool. Slice me into a salad, or soak me in a jar and I turn into a pickle. What am I? Answer: A cucumber. Pickles are cucumbers kept in brine or vinegar.
  • I am round and flat, and I am cut into triangles. I have sauce, melted cheese, and a crust to hold me by. What am I? Answer: A pizza. A round pizza is cut into pointed slices.
  • I come in scoops: chocolate, vanilla, strawberry. Lick me before I run down your hand. What am I? Answer: Ice cream. Ice cream melts if you wait.
  • I grow in the dark under the ground and come up covered in dirt. Mash me, bake me, or cut me into fries. What am I? Answer: A potato. Potatoes are dug out of the soil.
  • I grow on a tree, and I go crunch when you bite me. Cut me across the middle and my seeds make a little star. What am I? Answer: An apple. Cut an apple across and the seeds sit in a star shape.
  • I grow under the ground inside a bumpy shell with room for two. Crush a jarful of us and you can spread us on bread. What am I? Answer: A peanut. Peanuts ripen underground, and peanut butter is made from them.
  • I have a shell, and I am not a turtle. Crack me into the pan for breakfast. What am I? Answer: An egg. You crack the shell to cook an egg.
  • I look like a small yellow football. One lick of me and your whole face squeezes shut. What am I? Answer: A lemon. Lemons are very sour.
  • I rattle out of a box into your bowl. Pour on the milk and eat me fast, before I go soft. What am I? Answer: Cereal. Crunchy cereal gets soggy in milk.
  • I start as a puddle in the pan. Flip me once, stack me high, and pour syrup over my head. What am I? Answer: A pancake. Pancake batter is poured, flipped and stacked.
  • I start as soft dough and puff up in the oven. Slice me, toast me, or put me on both sides of a sandwich. What am I? Answer: Bread. Dough rises and bakes into a loaf.
  • I wear a spiky green crown and a rough coat. Inside I am yellow, sweet and juicy. What am I? Answer: A pineapple. The crown is the tuft of leaves on top.
  • Mice love me in stories. I am yellow, I come in slices, and some kinds of me are full of holes. What am I? Answer: Cheese. Storybook mice are always after the cheese.
  • Noodles and carrots swim in me. Blow on your spoon before you sip. What am I? Answer: Soup. Hot soup needs a moment to cool.
  • We are small, round and blue. We hide inside muffins and pancakes. What are we? Answer: Blueberries. Blueberries are baked into muffins.
  • We are small, round and dark red, and we often hang in twos from one stem. Mind the hard stone in the middle. What are we? Answer: Cherries. A cherry has a stone, or pit, inside.
  • We are small, round and green. We sit in a row inside a pod. What are we? Answer: Peas. Open a pea pod and the peas are lined up inside.

Toys and play 20

  • Bang on me with two sticks. Boom, boom, boom: I am very loud. What am I? Answer: A drum. You play a drum by hitting it.
  • Blow me up and I get big and round. Hold my string at the party. What am I? Answer: A balloon. A balloon is filled with air.
  • I am a cube covered in dots. Shake me and roll me, and I tell you how far to move. What am I? Answer: A die. The dots on top are your number.
  • I am a game for two on a board of dark and light squares. The pieces are round and flat, and you jump over a piece to take it. What game am I? Answer: Checkers. In checkers you capture a piece by jumping over it.
  • I am a house, but nobody can walk in. My front opens wide, and tiny beds, chairs and people wait inside for you to move them. What am I? Answer: A dollhouse. A dollhouse is a small toy house with toy furniture.
  • I am a ladder lying on its side, high above the wood chips. Swing along me from hand to hand. What am I? Answer: The monkey bars. You cross the monkey bars by swinging from rung to rung.
  • I am drawn on the sidewalk with chalk: a row of squares with numbers inside. Toss a stone, then hop through me on one foot. What am I? Answer: Hopscotch. You hop from square to square.
  • I am made of wooden rings on a pole, the biggest at the bottom and the smallest on top. Take me apart, and stack me up again in the right order. What am I? Answer: A stacking toy. The rings fit the pole only one way to make a cone.
  • I am one sheet of paper, folded to a point. Throw me and I glide across the room. What am I? Answer: A paper airplane. A folded paper plane glides through the air.
  • I am smooth and shiny, and I slope down to the ground. Sit at my top, let go, and you land in the sand. What am I? Answer: A slide. You sit at the top of a slide and glide down.
  • I have a handle at each end. Swing me over your head and hop before I touch your feet. What am I? Answer: A jump rope. You jump each time the rope comes around.
  • I have a seat, a chain and two wheels. Little ones of me wear two extra wheels at the back until you learn to balance. What am I? Answer: A bicycle. Training wheels help while you learn to ride.
  • I have button eyes and a stitched smile. I am stuffed with fluff, and I sleep in your bed. What am I? Answer: A teddy bear. A teddy bear is a stuffed toy bear.
  • I have three wheels: a big one in front with the pedals on it, and two small ones behind. I do not tip over when you stop. What am I? Answer: A tricycle. Three wheels keep a tricycle standing.
  • I have two small wheels, a board to stand on and a tall handle. Push with one foot and off we roll. What am I? Answer: A scooter. You stand on a scooter and push it along.
  • I stand on one foot, but only while I spin. When I slow down I wobble, and then I fall over. What am I? Answer: A spinning top. A top balances on its point as long as it spins.
  • Sit on me and hold my chains. Pump your legs and you fly up high. What am I? Answer: A swing. A swing goes higher when you pump your legs.
  • Stack us up to make a tower. Then knock us down with a crash. What are we? Answer: Blocks. Building blocks stack and tumble.
  • We are small glass balls with swirls of color inside. Flick one of us with your thumb to knock the others out of the ring. What are we? Answer: Marbles. In the game of marbles you shoot one marble at the others.
  • You can throw me, catch me and kick me. Do not let me go over the fence! What am I? Answer: A ball. Balls are for throwing, catching and kicking.

At school 20

  • I am a drawing of a place seen from high above. My lines are roads and my blue parts are water. I help you find your way. What am I? Answer: A map. A map shows where things are.
  • I am a little white stick. I squeak on the board, and I leave dust on the teacher's fingers. What am I? Answer: Chalk. Chalk writes on a chalkboard and crumbles to dust.
  • I am a piece of cloth with colors and shapes on it. I fly at the top of a tall pole in front of the school. What am I? Answer: A flag. A flag is raised on a flagpole.
  • I am a quiet room full of stories. Borrow one, take it home, and bring it back for the next reader. What am I? Answer: The library. A library lends books.
  • I am a round window with a handle. Hold me over an ant and it looks as big as a beetle. What am I? Answer: A magnifying glass. The lens makes small things look bigger.
  • I am a yellow stick with a gray point and a pink hat. I write and I draw. What am I? Answer: A pencil. The point is the lead and the pink hat is the eraser.
  • I am flat, with little marks and numbers from one end to the other. Lay me beside your shoe to find out how long it is. What am I? Answer: A ruler. A ruler measures length.
  • I am full of empty lines waiting for your words. A wire spiral holds my pages together. What am I? Answer: A notebook. A spiral notebook has lined pages.
  • I am white and sticky. Squeeze me out to stick paper to paper. What am I? Answer: Glue. Glue holds things together when it dries.
  • I go to school full and come home empty. At noon you open my lid. What am I? Answer: A lunchbox. Your lunch rides in it until lunchtime.
  • I have a long handle and soft hairs. Dip me in color, and wash me when art is over. What am I? Answer: A paintbrush. The hairs of the brush hold the paint.
  • I have twenty-six parts, and every word needs some of them. I start with A, and you can sing me. What am I? Answer: The alphabet. The English alphabet has 26 letters.
  • I ring when school starts and I ring when it ends. Everybody listens for me before recess. What am I? Answer: The school bell. The bell marks the start and the end of class.
  • Open me and I take you to a castle, a jungle or the moon. I am full of pages, and I wait for you on a shelf. What am I? Answer: A book. A story can take you anywhere.
  • Peel me off my shiny sheet. I am a gold star for good work. What am I? Answer: A sticker. A sticker peels off its backing and sticks to your paper.
  • Push a pencil into me and turn. Out come a sharp point and a curl of wood. What am I? Answer: A pencil sharpener. The blade shaves the wood into curls.
  • Push my button and water jumps up for a sip. I stand in the hall. What am I? Answer: A drinking fountain. A drinking fountain sends up a small stream of water.
  • The teacher writes on me in front of the class. One wipe, and everything I knew is gone. What am I? Answer: The board. A chalkboard or a whiteboard is wiped clean.
  • We are sticks of colored wax in paper sleeves. Press too hard and we snap in two. What are we? Answer: Crayons. Crayons are made of wax.
  • You wear me on your back, and I am not a shirt. Your lunch and your library book ride inside me. What am I? Answer: A backpack. A backpack rides on your back.

Around the house 20

  • Dirty plates and cups stand in my racks. Shut my door, and I spray them with hot water until they shine. What am I? Answer: A dishwasher. A dishwasher washes the dishes for you.
  • I am a little roof on a stick. Press my button and I pop open with a snap. Afterward I drip in the hall. What am I? Answer: An umbrella. An umbrella keeps you dry and comes home wet.
  • I am a small button outside the house. One push, a chime rings inside, and the dog starts barking. What am I? Answer: A doorbell. Pressing the button rings the bell indoors.
  • I am covered in buttons, and I am always lost in the couch. Point me, press me, and the picture changes. What am I? Answer: The remote control. The remote changes the channel from across the room.
  • I am glass in a frame. Open me for fresh air, and draw on me with a finger when I fog up. What am I? Answer: A window. You can draw in the mist on a cold window.
  • I am long and soft, with a pillow at each end. Three people can sit on me, or one person can stretch out for a nap. What am I? Answer: The couch. A couch seats several people.
  • I am noisy, and I roll across the carpet on little wheels. Whatever was on the floor ends up in my bag. What am I? Answer: A vacuum cleaner. A vacuum cleaner sucks up dirt.
  • I am round at one end with a long handle. I carry soup from the bowl to your mouth. What am I? Answer: A spoon. You eat soup with a spoon.
  • I am soft and warm. Pull me up to your chin at night. What am I? Answer: A blanket. A blanket keeps you warm in bed.
  • I am soft, with a pillow and a blanket. You climb into me at night. What am I? Answer: A bed. You sleep in a bed.
  • I am the tall cold box in the kitchen. Magnets hold your drawings on my door, and the ice cream lives in my coldest drawer. What am I? Answer: A refrigerator. A refrigerator keeps food cold, and its freezer keeps it frozen.
  • I have a hook on top and two wide shoulders. Your shirt hangs on me in the closet so it will not wrinkle. What am I? Answer: A hanger. A hanger holds a shirt by its shoulders.
  • I have a long handle and a skirt of bristles. I push the crumbs across the floor into a pile. What am I? Answer: A broom. You sweep with a broom.
  • I stand in a cup by the sink. You squeeze a stripe of paste on my head. What am I? Answer: A toothbrush. Toothpaste goes on the brush.
  • I start as a big bar and shrink a little with every wash. Squeeze me in the bath and I shoot out of your hand. What am I? Answer: A bar of soap. Wet soap is slippery, and it wears down with use.
  • I wear a shade like a hat. Click my switch, and the dark corner of the room goes away. What am I? Answer: A lamp. A lamp lights up a room.
  • Knock, knock! Turn my handle, and I let you in. What am I? Answer: A door. You knock on a door and open it by the handle.
  • Look at me and you see yourself. Wave, and the child inside me waves back at the very same moment. What am I? Answer: A mirror. A mirror shows what is in front of it.
  • My door has a window so you can watch the cookies turn brown. I am very hot inside, so the grown-ups do the reaching in. What am I? Answer: The oven. Food bakes inside a hot oven.
  • We come in twos. You put us on your feet before you go outside. What are we? Answer: Shoes. One shoe for each foot.

Outside 20

  • Cars drive over me and boats sail under me. I hold on to both sides of the river. What am I? Answer: A bridge. A bridge crosses the water from bank to bank.
  • I am bright and hot, and I light up the day. I go away at night. What am I? Answer: The sun. The sun gives us daylight.
  • I am green and I cover the yard. I tickle your bare feet. What am I? Answer: Grass. A lawn is made of grass.
  • I am green and I hide in the tall grass. When you come near, I spring far away on my long back legs. What am I? Answer: A grasshopper. A grasshopper jumps with its big hind legs.
  • I am long, soft and fuzzy, with lots of tiny legs. I munch holes in the leaves all day long. What am I? Answer: A caterpillar. Caterpillars eat leaves.
  • I am much too tall to be a hill. My top can wear snow even in summer, and climbers need days to reach it. What am I? Answer: A mountain. High peaks stay cold enough for snow.
  • I am small and hard, and I sleep in the dirt. Give me water and sun, and I wake up as a plant. What am I? Answer: A seed. A seed sprouts and grows.
  • I am taller than your house. I wear green leaves all summer and drop them in the fall. What am I? Answer: A tree. Many trees lose their leaves in autumn.
  • I am what the rain leaves on the path. Jump into me with both boots and I splash everywhere. What am I? Answer: A puddle. A puddle is a little pool of rainwater.
  • I buzz from flower to flower in a striped coat. Back at home, my sisters and I make something sweet. What am I? Answer: A bee. Honeybees make honey in the hive.
  • I fall from gray clouds, drip, drop. I make puddles for your boots. What am I? Answer: Rain. Rain falls from clouds.
  • I float across the sky, white and fluffy like cotton. When I turn dark and heavy, fetch your raincoat. What am I? Answer: A cloud. Dark clouds bring rain.
  • I hang over the street and change color all day. While I am red the cars wait, and when I turn green they go. What am I? Answer: A traffic light. The lights tell drivers when to stop and go.
  • I have feathers and two wings. I sing in the morning. What am I? Answer: A bird. Birds have feathers, and many sing at dawn.
  • I have no legs and no eyes, and I live under the grass. After a good rain you find me on the sidewalk. What am I? Answer: A worm. Earthworms live in the soil and come up when it rains.
  • I have petals and a green stem. Bees come to visit me. What am I? Answer: A flower. Bees visit flowers.
  • I show up when the sun comes out while it is still raining. I am an arch of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. What am I? Answer: A rainbow. Sunlight and raindrops together make a rainbow.
  • I stand by the road on one leg. My little flag goes up when I am holding a letter for the mail carrier. What am I? Answer: A mailbox. The raised flag tells the carrier there is mail to pick up.
  • I start as a trickle in the hills and I end in the sea. Fish live in me, and bridges step over me. What am I? Answer: A river. A river flows from high ground down to the sea.
  • People make a wish on the first one of us they see at night. We look like tiny sparks, and the darker the sky, the more of us you find. What are we? Answer: The stars. Stars show when the sky is dark.
How this list was compiled

Written by the Game Night Generator editors on October 3, 2026: 120 what am I riddles for children of about 4 to 10, in six sets of 20. Every answer is something a child can point at, and every riddle is the editors' own wording; none was copied from a collection. Read aloud riddles are two short lines for children who cannot read yet, and the last line gives the answer away. Easy and Medium riddles have two or three clues. The ages on the three levels are the editors' judgment; nobody tested the riddles with a class. What the riddles say about animals and plants (how a giraffe drinks, how a bear stands, the beaver's teeth, the crocodile's teeth, the snake's tongue, the sloth's claws and toes, the ostrich, how a flamingo feeds, the hedgehog, the earthworm, where peanuts grow) was read in the English Wikipedia articles on them (en.wikipedia.org) on October 3, 2026. Riddles that another list of this site or our sister site's riddle pages already tell were left out. This site is not connected with Wikipedia. Licence: own work