A Riddle a Day

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A Riddle
a Day
Riddle Activities for a Week

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Day 1: Solve the riddle below.
I am a snowman’s nose,
And a reindeer’s Christmas Eve treat.
I’m good to eat, but crunchy when raw;
Bugs Bunny’s favourite.
What am I?
Click me for
the answer!
A carrot!
Now write your own.
Instructions: use the next list to help you write your own riddle
about a banana:
• I look like…
• I sound like…
• You find me…
• I have…
• I am…
I challenge you to solve the riddle
• I feel…
above and then write your own.
Remember to use
WOW words and a
Click me for a
connective like
red hot challenge!
‘however’ and
‘although’
Remember to use
Click me
forand
a
WOW
words
warm
challenge!
connectives
like
‘but’ and ‘so’
I look like
I sound
like a
Click
me for
have
mild Ichallenge!
I am
I feel

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Day 2: Solve the riddle below.
My transport is a boat.
My teeth are often crooked or missing.
I love jewels and gold.
My pet is a parrot.
What am I?
Can you write a riddle
about a mermaid?
Click me for
the answer!
A pirate!
Click me for a
Try
start
one of your
redandhot
challenge!
sentences with an adverb
e.g. carefully, loudly.
Can you write a different
Click
meriddle?
for a
pirate
warm challenge!
Include a clue about his
wooden leg.
I challenge you to solve the riddle above
and then write your own by picking a
challenge on the right.
Can you add three more
clues to the riddle on the
Click left?
me for a
mild challenge!
Ideas: what pirates say,
his wooden leg, sailing the
seas, a bottle of rum…

4.

Day 3: Solve the riddle below.
Two riddles have been blown about in the wind. Can you put the
two riddles back together?
Clue: one is about a chimpanzee and one is about a brown
(grizzly) bear.
Roar!
I have four paws.
The sound I make is an ‘oo’ ‘oo’.
My arms are longer than my legs.
Fish and berries are my favourite foods.
I live in America.
Alone is how I live.
I am an ape.
My long arms help me to swing through the trees.
I like living in groups.
Create two riddles: Each
riddle is about a different
Click me for a
person in the class. Read
red
challenge!
it outhot
and see
if anyone
can guess which is which.
Write a riddle about a
friend. Remember to
Click me for a
describe:
warm
• hair challenge!
• eye
• things they like/dislike
Look at the riddle about
the Click
brown me
bear.for
Giveaeach
line
‘Food’,
milda name:
challenge!
‘Body’, ‘Nose’, ‘Where it
lives’ and ‘How it lives.’

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Day 3: Answers
Brown Grizzly Bear
Alone is how I live.
Fish and berries are my favourite foods.
Roar!
I live in America.
I have four paws.
Chimpanzee
My arms are longer than my legs.
The sound that I make is an ‘oo’ ‘oo’.
I am an ape.
I like living in groups.
My long arms help me to swing
through the trees.

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Day 4: Finish the riddle below.
This riddle has been started for you. Today you will need to
finish this riddle:
No one can reach me
They say there’s a pot of gold at the end
This riddle has been started, what will you write next?
Here are some ideas…
How can you use the
following sentence
Click me for a
openers…
• adverb?
red
hot challenge!
• ing word?
• a WOW word?
Click me for a
How can you use 3 WOW
warm
challenge!
words
in your
sentences?
The colours
When you see a rainbow
After it has rained
• I look like
Click me for a
• I have
• mild
I am challenge!
• I come out when
Leprechauns

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Day 5: Solve the riddle below.
I am part of a bird but I always stay dry.
I fly over land following the bird wherever it goes.
I can fly across the oceans and never get wet.
I can change shape and size.
I can change from dark to pale.
You can’t catch me or touch me.
What am I?
Change some of the
Click me for a
words to make them into
red hot
WOW
words.challenge!
Change how some of the
Click me
sentences
start.for a
warm challenge!
Add a connective
somewhere.
Click me for the
answer!
A bird’s shadow!
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forofa
Change
order
somemild
of the
words to
challenge!
make it sound different.