This document contains 12 riddles with their answers: 1) A soap - the more it is used, the smaller it gets. 2) The butcher, baker, candlestick maker and their spirits - no one left or entered but 4 came out. 3) 10 books - if one is the 4th from the left and 6th from the right, there must be 10 total. 4) A table - it has 3 legs but cannot walk. 5) The moon - it creeps between toes and makes the tide rise and fall. 6) 8 times - he will have to paint the number 8 eight times. 7) Words/newspaper - it carries news but

1. Riddles with answers for kids
1 You use me from your head to your toes, the more I work the thinner I grow. What am I?
2 One (k)night, a butcher, a baker, and a candle stick maker all went into an old deserted cottage. No
one left no one entered. The next day, 4 people came out. Who were they?
3 There are several books on a bookshelf. If one book is the 4th from the left and 6th from the right,
how many books are on the shelf?
4 What has 3 feet but cannot walk?
5 Sometimes I'm high and sometimes low, and I creep between your toes. My orders come from the sky,
I make men fall and rise. What am I?
6 John has been hired to paint the numbers 1 through 100 on 100 apartments. How many times with he
have to paint 8?
7 I talk, but I do not speak my mind I hear words, but I do not listen to thoughts When I wake, all see me
When I sleep, all hear me Many heads are on my shoulders Many hands are at my feet. The strongest steel
cannot break my visageest whisper can destroy me. The quietest whimper can be heard.
8 What is it that after you take away the whole, some still remains?
9 What time is it when an elephant sits on your fence?
10 We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to
be judged by our size. What are we?
11 Every night I'm told what to do, and each morning I do what I'm told. But I still don't escape your
scold. What am I?
12 An apple tree has apples on it. A storm comes through and there is no longer apples on the tree. But
there isn't apples on the ground either. How can this be so?