16 English riddles for kids: "What am I?" (with answers and audio)
Reviewed by Chinh Q. Hoang, PhD, founder, English for Fun · 2026-10-30
Short answer: A "What am I?" riddle describes an animal or object in a few short sentences, and the child guesses. These 16 riddles each have audio and a hidden answer.
A "What am I?" riddle describes an animal or object in a few short sentences, and the child guesses. It is vocabulary practice in disguise: the child has to understand whole sentences, not just single words. Tap a riddle to hear it, then tap "Answer".
How to play
- Play the riddle or read it yourself, slowly, with gestures as clues.
- Any answer counts at first, even in another language. Then say it back in English: "Yes! A banana!"
- Swap roles: your child makes up a riddle, "I am yellow. What am I?", and you guess.
Easy riddles for ages 4 to 6
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Wordplay riddles for older kids and grown-ups
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Hands are also the pointers on a clock.
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A table has legs too.
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Piano keys, not door keys. Learn these words
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It gets wet while it dries you.
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The thin top of a bottle is its neck.
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Your age only goes up.
Learn the words in the riddles
- Animals, food and fruit, nature and weather, toys and music, house and home.
- Each topic page has audio, flashcards and a worksheet to print.
- Listen and find: the free game Find It!.
The easy riddles were written by English for Fun. The wordplay riddles are well-known folk riddles.