Riddle:
We are little Verbal creatures. Each of us with different features. The first of us in glass is set. The second you can find in jet. The third is trapped in tin. The fourth is boxed within. Now the fifth may try and hide, but it can never leave your side. An adopted sibling we also have but, he only appears when pigs fly. What are we?
Answer: The vowels A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y.
Riddle:
A blanket of crystals that covers all. Nothing can escape its fall. It will put you to sleep in a harsh way, and you will never again see the day It's on the earth always and forever, part of our lives leaving, never. Floats and falls like little butterflies. Catch them and they will surely die. What am I?
Answer: Snow.
Riddle:
Every famine begins with me. Each fight I'll be the first you see. Though food can never come without, what forest fire beginnings are all about. Fears begin with me it is true, and when I come I'll bring flames for you. But with the hungry I wont be found. Yet with each new life I'll be around. What am I?
Answer: The letter F.
Riddle:
It's true I am hot and cold, and I'm always with the old. Youth requires what life does not see, and the heart of groups requires me. I stand alone within all holes, never to see the light of day. Let my turmoil bring you joy since I don't ever make you pay. What am I?
Answer: The letter O.
Riddle:
I come in rolls and sometimes stacks. I can be colored, plain or black. Born from the earth alive and well, then I'm chopped and changed so none can tell. Forced to endure your mistakes. Left with marks all over my clean face. Rocks lose to me I'm told, and I have been used to endure your cold. What am I?
Answer: Paper.
Riddle:
A man was walking on a beach, but when he turned around, he saw no footsteps. How is this possible?
Answer: He was walking backwards.
Riddle:
I am said to be strong and unbreakable yet gental and kind. I may be suppressed but not ignored. I can be lost but may be found. I can die yet still live on. What am I?
Answer: The sun.
Riddle:
What is easy to get into, but hard to get out of?
Answer: Trouble.
Riddle:
If 1 fifth of an hour is 12 minutes, what is 5 fifths of an hour?
Answer: The whole hour.
Riddle:
You bury me when I'm alive, and dig me up when I die. What am I?
Answer: A plant.
