20 Fun Riddles for 8-Year-Olds
1. I'm a reptile with a prehistoric past, fierce and mighty, a creature so vast.
Dinosaur!
2. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
An artichoke!
3. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Darkness!
4. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
A piano!
5. What has a neck but no head?
A bottle!
6. What comes down but never goes up?
Rain!
7. What gets wetter the more it dries?
A towel!
8. What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
Your right elbow!
9. What has a thumb and four fingers but isn’t alive?
A glove!
10. What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Your name!
11. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have nobody, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
An echo!
12. What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence!
13. What has eyes but can’t see?
A potato!
14. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light!
15. What has one eye but can’t see?
A needle!
16. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Footsteps!
17. What runs but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps?
A river!
18. What has teeth but can’t bite?
A comb!
19. I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Your breath!
20. What goes up but never comes down?
Your age!