A Riddle a Day Riddle Activities for a

A Riddle a Day Riddle Activities for a Week

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

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…

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 chimpanzeeand one is about a brown (grizzly) bear. Roar! I have four paws. The sound I make is an ‘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 Click me fortoa describe: warm • hair challenge! • eye • things they like/dislike Look at the riddle about Click mebear. for. Give a the brown each linechallenge! a name: ‘Food’, mild ‘Body’, ‘Nose’, ‘Where it lives’ and ‘How it lives. ’

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’. I am an ape. I like living in groups. My long arms help me to swing through the trees.

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

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! Clicktheme forofasome Change order of the to make it mildwords challenge! sound different.