Solutions to RIDDLE Poems!
by Little Dazzy Donuts
Here’s a selection of riddle poems taken from the weekly Kids’ Poetry Club podcast, together with the riddle solutions as well as links to podcast episodes and YouTube videos.
All poems are written by children’s poet, Little Dazzy Donuts.
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“A Beach Riddle”
(available in episode 112)
I wear a white cap
but who exactly am I?
I’m found with hellos
and also goodbyes,
and it may sound strange
but I’m sometimes in hair.
If you go to the beach,
you may find me there.
There are times when I’m small,
and times when I’m tall,
and times when you just
can’t see me at all.
But, I perform at my best,
and there’s no place to hide
when people rise up
on my back for a ride,
before we crash on the land
in a flurry of foam.
Shake your hand towards me
before you head home.
SOLUTION: Waves
“A Quiz Riddle”
(available in episode 103)
We're together in quizzes.
In interviews too.
You probe and explore.
I explain what is true.
Although we're very alike,
and have a lot that's the same,
you're the one with a mark
that carries your name.
They say there's no wrong
versions of you.
People hope that I'm the right
response to a q.
You're the first to appear,
and then I'm next in line.
People know who we are.
Though we aren't in this rhyme.
SOLUTION: Questions & Answers
“An Animal Riddle”
(available in episode 20)
I am named for different colors,
at times where I reside
yet it may sound to you
like I have no clothes
or covers in which to hide.
Don’t confuse the two of me
for we are definitely not the same:
for I may be one by nature
and the other one by name.
SOLUTION: Bear & Bare
“A Hidden Riddle”
(available in episode 56)
Anyone out there
can sit down to write
riddles hiding words
out in plain sight.
Safely hiding away
to be found in a rhyme.
I'm wondering if you
can spot what's hidden in mine?
SOLUTION: ACROSTIC
“My Autumn Riddle”
(available in episode 60)
It was under my arm,
when I returned home in Fall,
but can you now guess
what the object is called?
It starts with a letter
in Parsley and Pea,
if I then throw in Sprouts,
there’s not two but three.
The second is in Sunshine
but not Rain Or Snow
The third is a letter
that comes before NO.
The fourth and the first
are exactly the same,
and the fifth is in cake
but isn’t in came.
The sixth and the seventh
are definitely in.
All the clues that you need
are now hidden within.
This riddle is tough.
I cannot deny.
While you figure it out,
I’ll go make some pie.
SOLUTION: Pumpkin
“Two Word Riddle”
(available in episode 80)
You start early and don’t end until late -
the exact opposite of me!
You’re all bright and illuminating
whereas I make it much harder to see.
It's obvious there are ways we are different.
You have your break, trips, and care.
Whereas I have my life, fall, and over.
But there are still a few things that we share.
Afterall, people find similarities between us:
we both have our dreams, beds, and time.
They find us with mid and also with week,
which surely helps solve this rhyme.
I feel like we must be related.
There's just one thing that's a shame:
when people think of us together,
they call the combined us by your name.
SOLUTION: Day & Night