Funny Riddles about School with Answers

Whether you’re prepping school lunches or driving a van full of kids to their first day, these riddles about school will be the perfect addition.

Print out the riddles to add to the lunch box or memorize a few to ease those first-day jitters.

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Funny Riddles about School with Answers

Riddles are such a fun way to connect with kids. These school riddles are a perfect way to bring a smile.

• You will always find me in the past. I can be created in the present, But the future can never change me. What am I? – History.
• I am so simple, that I can only point yet I guide men all over the world. What am I? – Compass.
• What word is spelled wrong in the dictionary? – Wrong.
• I have a back and legs, but I don’t have hair. What am I? – A chair.
• There were 3 girls walking to school. They had 1 umbrella to share. How did they not get wet? – It wasn’t raining.
• Despite my name, I am not a queen. When you hold me up to things, their length is seen. What am I? – A ruler.

What has hands and a face, but can’t hold anything or smile? – A clock.

• It has keys, but no locks. It has space, but no room. You can enter, but can’t go inside. What is it? – A keyboard.
• I can fill a room, but I take up no space. What am I? – Light.
• It’s the only place in the world where today comes before yesterday. Where is it? – The dictionary.
• When is homework not homework? – When it’s done at school.
• How can the teacher’s coat pocket be empty, and still have something in it? – It has a hole.
• What goes up and down stairs without moving? – carpet
• Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red. – Match
• What is brown, has a head, and tails, but no legs? – A penny.

• I am so simple that I can only point, yet I guide people all over the world. – Compass
• Riddle: I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I? – A balloon.
• What belongs to you, but other people use more? – Your name.
• What gets wetter the more it dries? – A towel.
• What is bright orange with a green top and sounds like a parrot? A carrot.
• You buy me to eat, but you never eat me. What am I? – A fork.
• 16. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I? – Footprints.
• Kate’s mother has three children: Snap, Crackle and ___? – Kate! 
• You’re running a race and at the very end, you pass the person in 2nd place. What place did you finish the race in? – You finished in 2nd place.
• What is full of holes but still holds water? – A sponge.

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• What has an eye but can’t see anything? – A needle.
• What has a key, but can’t open a locked door? – A monkey.
• What has thirteen hearts, but no other organs? – A deck of cards.
• Remove my skin and I won’t cry, but you might! – An onion
• When Grant was 8, his brother was half his age. Now, Grant is 14. How old is his brother? – His brother is 10. 
• I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden cas-e, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost every person. What am I? – Pencil lead.
• What follows you everywhere but can’t be caught? – Your shadow.
• I have no eyes, ears, or legs, but I can help you move earth. What am I? – An earthworm.
• What question can you never answer “yes” to? “Are you asleep yet?”
• I shave 25 times a day and still have a beard? What am I? – A barber
• I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I? Your breath.

I have no legs so I never walk, but I always run. What am I? – A river.

• If an electric train is going south, what direction is the smoke going? – There is no smoke – it’s an electric train.
• What is powerful still so delicate that it breaks when you say its name – Silence 
• I can be cracked. And I can be made. I can be told. And I can be played. What am I? – A joke 
• If there are three slices of pizza and you take away two, how many slices do you have? – Two.
• What is made of water, but if you put it into water it vanishes? – An ice cube.
• I am not alive, but I can still die. What am I? – A battery.
• The more of me there is the less you can see. What am I? -: The dark.
• What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty? – A chalkboard.

• With pointed fangs it sits in wait, with piercing force it doles out fate, over bloodless victims proclaiming its might, eternally joining in a single bite. What is it? – Stapler.
• You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I? – Letter E.
• What’s the one thing your right hand can hold but your left hand cannot? – Your left elbow.
• What starts with a “P,” ends with an “E” and has thousands of letters? – The post office.
• What has a big mouth, yet never speaks? – Jar
• Turn me on my side and I am everything. Cut me in half and I am nothing. What am I? – Number 8
• Kids can make it, but never hold it or see it. What is it? – Noise.
• What is really easy to get into but really hard to get out of? – Trouble.

Riddle Tips for Teachers

These riddles are perfect for back-to-school.

• Print them out and have a different waiting on each desk.
• Use them as an icebreaker activity
• Or write a new one on the board every day for the first two weeks of school.