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For elementary school kids! Fun riddles recommended for lower grades

10 years as a kindergarten teacher / elementary school teacher / junior and senior high school teacher / childminderkepiko
Graduated from Kunitachi College of Music, Faculty of Music (now: Department of Music Culture and Education, Early Childhood Music Education major). In elementary school, my homeroom teacher was Jun Kusaba, a game researcher. After graduating from university, I worked as a kindergarten teacher for 10 years and as an after-school childcare instructor for 7 years, then took a position as a music teacher at an international school in Singapore. In addition to music education, I engaged in activities that introduced Japanese culture, traditional games, and recreational activities, working with many children. Later, through freelance writing, planning, and editing at Shogakukan, I met many delightful adults and experienced the joy of communicating and sharing. Drawing on the perspective cultivated in the field of education and my experience as an editor, I provide practical information with an emphasis on both input and output, mainly in areas related to music and children. My hobbies include instruments, singing, handicrafts, toys, drawing, traditional games, the outdoors, and books. My special skill is spinning-top tricks.

Lively, curious lower-grade elementary school children.

They love learning new things and playing with friends.

Their thinking is still flexible, and they’re great at coming up with fun ideas.

Here, we’ll introduce riddles for elementary school kids that lower graders can enjoy.

Riddles help develop thinking skills and let you enjoy wordplay.

Have a wonderful time using your heads together with friends and family as you enjoy all kinds of fun riddles featuring familiar things!

For elementary school kids! Fun riddles recommended for lower grades (51–60)

A trick quiz at an elementary school level

Can we solve it faster than Kuronowa? We tried some trick questions at an elementary school level! #Kuronan

A trick quiz at an elementary school level

We’re introducing trick questions at an elementary school level that make you go “Ah, I get it!” when you think them through.

Elementary school kids have flexible minds and genuinely enjoy quizzes, right? Sometimes, when a slightly tricky or trick question comes up, they get super excited and shout out the answer to teach everyone.

These quizzes have simple prompts—let’s try to find the answers.

If you think carefully, the answer might come to you intuitively in a flash.

If you can’t figure it out, asking for a simple hint is also recommended.

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There are 5 candies. If you lick one, how many are there?

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It seems like a question that would trip up adults more than children.

When you read the problem statement, you instinctively want to treat it like an arithmetic problem and think, “5 – 1 = 4, so the answer is 4!” But remember, it’s a trick question.

The hint to solving it is that the candy wasn’t given to someone else, nor did it disappear.

If you think about how many candies you have after you lick one, you should arrive at the correct answer.

An elementary school student with a flexible mind might solve it right away!

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A truck loaded with watermelon, bananas, and apples dropped something. What did it drop?

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speed

What the truck dropped was not the fruit it was carrying, but its speed (velocity). This indicates that the truck suddenly slowed down. In other words, even if it was loaded with watermelons, bananas, and apples, what actually gets dropped isn’t the cargo, but the speed of its movement.

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What kind of shellfish is a shellfish that’s taking a bath?

Speaking of shellfish, many of you have probably eaten clams, turban shells, or abalone at least once.

Some of you may have gone clam digging, caught and eaten shells yourselves, or searched the beach for shells to use as craft materials.

Here’s a riddle about shellfish.

We usually think shells live in the sea, but apparently they’re in the bath, too.

However, since this is a riddle, thinking about the biology or types of shellfish won’t help.

Start by taking “kai” as the keyword and associating it with things or words related to baths.

The answer is attakai (warm)!

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In conclusion

How was it? We introduced a variety of riddles for elementary school students that lower graders can enjoy.

We collected simple and funny ones tailored to the level of early grades.

There might have been a few that even adults had to think about for a moment.

Be sure to think them through with your friends and family and enjoy the time spent finding the answers!