Riddle:
A very pretty thing am I, fluttering in the pale-blue sky. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing. What am I?
Answer: I am a Butterfly.
Riddle:
I never was, am always to be, No one ever saw me, nor ever will, And yet I am the confidence of all to live and breathe on this terrestrial ball. What am I?
Answer: Tomorrow.
Riddle:
I was carried into a dark room and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off. What am I?
Answer: A Candle.
Riddle:
A slender body, a tiny eye, no matter what happens, I never cry. What am I?
Answer: A needle.
Riddle:
Three lives have I. Gentle enough to soothe the skin, Light enough to caress the sky, Hard enough to crack rocks. What am I?
Answer: Water. Explanation: Water can be in the form of a liquid, solid (ice), and/or a gas (water vapor) which is represented by "three lives". As a liquid, it is used to bathe, as a gas it creates clouds that float in the sky, and as a solid (ice), it can split rocks or create glaciers that scour the earth as they move downhill.
Riddle:
I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness. What am I?
Answer: The letter S.
Riddle:
Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not.
What am I?
Answer: The word Ton.
Riddle:
I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I?
Answer: Your fingernails.
Riddle:
I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?
Answer: I am the birds shadow.
Riddle:
You go at red but stop at green. What am I?
Answer: Watermelon! You eat the red part, and you stop eating at the green part.
Riddle:
A little pool with two layers of wall around it. One white and soft and the other dark and hard, amidst a light brown grassy lawn with an outline of green grass. What am I?
Answer: A Coconut.
Riddle:
I'm so fast you can't see me, though everyone else can see straight through me. I won't stop until the day you die. What am I?
Answer: The blink of an eye.
Riddle:
I come in many colors and I am very thin, I am found in every country, even in your home, I am very important, you can be very creative with me, I can even help you learn.
What am I?
Answer: Paper!
Riddle:
Some try to hide, some try to cheat; but time will show, we always will meet. What am I?
Answer: I am death.
Riddle:
I look at you, you look at me, I raise my right, you raise your left. What am I?
Answer: Your reflection in a mirror.
Riddle:
I hurt the most when lost, yet also when not had at all. I'm sometimes the hardest to express, but the easiest to ignore. I can be given to many, or just one. What am I?
Answer: Love.
Riddle:
You will always find me in the past. I can be created in the present, But the future can never taint me. What am I?
Answer: History.
Riddle:
Some will use me, while others will not, some have remembered, while others have forgot. For profit or gain, I'm used expertly, I can't be picked off the ground or tossed into the sea. Only gained from patience and time, can you unravel my rhyme. What am I?
Answer: I'm Knowledge.
Riddle:
I am useless when together but useful when I am broken apart. What am I?
Answer: I am an egg.
