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“Laughter is the best medicine,” as the saying goes. Sharing humor with your kids can help them be more resilient and lift their spirits during these crazy times.

We’ve been through a lot for the past year since the pandemic, especially for kids. In a situation like this, humor and laughter are excellent ways to hit the pause button. Jokes for kids and funny riddles can reduce fear and anxiety and help boost the immune system by increasing immune cells’ production which protects us from infections. While funny jokes and silly riddles may feel gratuitous in the face of today’s world, they can actually do a lot of good.

Laughter as a pandemic medicine can help us get through the traumatic year we’ve had. So, we’ve compiled totally LOL-worthy jokes for kids and riddles with humor starting from A to Z to get lots of laughter during these challenging times. From silly question-and-answer gags to kid-friendly riddles or even viral jokes on the internet, get them ready for some serious giggles. So, crack up with these funny jokes for kids whenever you need a good laugh because the chuckles from kids’ humor are just so infectious!

Here are some humor riddles and funny jokes that will surely bring laughter to your kids:

A

What do librarians take with them when they go fishing?
Answer: A bookworm

What do snowmen take when the sun gets too hot?
Answer: A chill pill.

What did the gingerbread man put under his blankets?
Answer: A cookie sheet.

What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold!

What do you need to go to high school?
Answer: A ladder.

What room does a ghost not need?
Answer: A living room.

How do you fix a cracked pumpkin?
Answer: A pumpkin patch.

How do you get a squirrel to like you?
Answer: Act like a nut.

What do you call a dumb gobbler?
Answer: A jerky turkey.

What school supply is always tired?
Answer: A knapsack!

What should you give your parents at Christmas?
Answer: A list of what you want.

Why did the student drown?
Answer: All her grades were below C-level!

Why is arithmetic hard work?
Answer: All those numbers you have to carry.

What kind of car do elves drive in the off-season?
Answer: A minivan.

What’s white and ruins your dinner?
Answer: An avalanche.

What is the pirate’s favorite letter of the alphabet?
Answer: Arrrr! 

Which school supply is the king of the classroom?
Answer: A ruler.

What is the smartest insect?
Answer: A spelling bee.

What does a thesaurus eat for breakfast?
Answer: A synonym roll

B
What do you call an exploding monkey?
Answer: ba-BOOM

What’s one animal you’ll always find at a baseball game?
Answer: Bat

Why did the cookie go to the hospital?
Answer: Because he felt crummy.

Why was the turkey the drummer in the band?
Answer: Because he had the drumsticks.

Why did the egg get thrown out of class?
Answer: Because he kept telling yolks.

Why did the Cyclops close his school?
Answer: Because he only had one pupil.

Why did the teacher marry the janitor?
Answer: Because he swept her off her feet.

Why did the teacher draw on the window?
Answer: Because he wanted his lesson to be very clear!

Why did the student bring scissors to school?
Answer: Because he wanted to cut class

Why did the boy go to the top of the school?
Answer: Because he wanted to go to high school.

Why did the dog do so well in school?
Answer: Because he was the teacher’s pet.

Why didn’t Rudolph get a good report card?
Answer: Because he went down in history.

Why did the teacher wear sunglasses to school?
Answer: Because her students were so bright.

Why was the music teacher not able to open his classroom?
Answer: Because his keys were on the piano.

Why did the kid eat his homework?
Answer: Because his teacher said it was a piece of cake.

Why was the computer so angry?
Answer: Because it had a chip on its shoulder.

Why was the math book sad?
Answer: Because it had too many problems.

Why doesn’t the sun go to college?
Answer: Because it has a million degrees!

Why is history the sweetest subject?
Answer: Because it’s full of dates

Why is the obtuse triangle always so frustrated?
Answer: Because it’s never right.

Why isn’t there a clock in the library?
Answer: Because it tocks too much.

Why was the little boy so cold on Christmas morning?
Answer: Because it was Decembrrrrr!

Why do mummies like Christmas so much?
Answer: Because of all the wrapping!

Why can’t a nose be 12 inches long?
Answer: Because then it would be a foot

Why was the voice teacher so good at baseball?
Answer: Because she had the perfect pitch.

Why did the kid bring a ladder to school?
Answer: Because she wanted to go to high school.

Why can’t you do a math test in the jungle?
Answer: Because there are too many cheetahs.

Why did the new boy steal a chair from the classroom?
Answer: Because the teacher told him to take a seat.

Why are Christmas trees bad at sewing?
Answer: Because they always drop their needles!

Why are school cafeteria workers cruel?
Answer: Because they batter fish, beat eggs, and whip cream.

Why are cats good at video games?
Answer: Because they have nine lives.

Why can’t pirates learn the alphabet?
Answer: Because they keep getting lost at C.

Why are fish so smart?
Answer: Because they live in schools.

Why do turkeys always go, “gobble, gobble”?
Answer: Because they never learned good table manners.

Why did the students study on airplanes?
Answer: Because they wanted higher grades.

Why is it dangerous to do math in the jungle?
Answer: Because when you add four and four you get ate (eight).

Why are ghosts such terrible liars?
Answer: Because you can see right through them.

What kind of vegetable would you like on Thanksgiving?
Answer: Beets me!

What did the buffalo say at drop off?
Answer: Bison.

What’s a really sad strawberry called?
Answer: Blueberry

Where do surfers go to school?
Answer: Boarding school.

What is a ghost’s nose full of?
Answer: Boo-gers

What do you call two witches living together?
Answer: Broommates

What do you call a rabbit with fleas?
Answer: Bugs Bunny

What do you call a sleeping bull?
Answer: Bull-dozer

How do bees get to school?
Answer: By school buzz…

How do you get straight A’s?
Answer: By using a ruler!

C

What did the student say after the teacher said, “Order students, order?”
Answer: “Can I have fries and a burger?”
What’s a cat’s favorite magazine?
Answer: Cat-alogue

How do chickens dance at a holiday party?
Answer: Chick to chick.

What candy is always running late to things?
Answer: Choco-late

What do you give a vampire when he’s sick?
Answer: Coffin drops

What does Santa use to keep his house sparkling clean?
Answer: Comet.

What’s a computer’s favorite thing to snack on at night?
Answer: Computer chips

D
Two pickles fell out of a jar onto the floor. What did one say to the other?
Answer: Dill with it.

What’s a sleeping dinosaur called?
Answer: Dino-snore

What did the limestone say to the geologist?
Answer: Don’t take me for granite.

What do you call a man with a shovel?
Answer: Doug

What kind of nut has no shell?
Answer: Doughnut

E
What’s one way the moon cuts his hair?
Answer: Eclipse it.

I walked through a field of wheat; I picked up something good to eat; it was white and had no bone; in twenty-one days, it walked alone. What did I pick up?
Answer: Egg

Who delivers Christmas presents to elephants?
Answer: Elephanta Claus.

How many letters are in the alphabet?
Answer: 11, T-H-E A-L-P-H-A-B-E-T.

What do elves learn in school?
Answer: Elf-abet

What kind of photos do elves take?
Answer: Elfies

What do you call a greedy elf?
Answer: Elfish!

What’s a teacher’s favorite nation?
Answer: Expla-nation

F
What did Jay-Z call his wife before they were married?
Answer: Feyoncé

What is worse than finding a worm in your apple?
Answer: Finding half a worm.

What kind of kitten works for the Red Cross?
Answer: First-aid kit

How do a Spanish sheep say Merry Christmas?
Answer: Fleece Navidad!

What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?
Answer: Frostbite!

What is the best day to visit McDonald’s?
Answer: Fry-Day!

What do you call a rabbit who tells jokes?
Answer: Funny bunny

G
What’s a math teacher’s favorite kind of tree?
Answer: Geome-tree

What’s the worst thing that can happen to a geography teacher?
Answer: Getting lost.

What position does a ghost play in hockey?
Answer: Ghoulie

What do you call a cow with no legs?
Answer: Ground beef!

What is a little bear with no teeth called?
Answer: Gummy bear

H

What does your computer do for lunch?
Answer: Has a byte!

How did the pirate get his flag so cheaply?
Answer: He bought it on sail.

What did the bully have for lunch?
Answer: He had a knuckle sandwich!

What happened to the thief who stole a Christmas calendar?
Answer: He got 12 months.

Why does Peter Pan fly around so much?
Answer: He Neverlands.

Why was the broom late for school?
Answer: He over swept.

How does Rudolph know when Christmas is coming?
Answer: He refers to his calen-deer.

Why did the teacher jump into the pool?
Answer: He wanted to test the water.

What does a gorilla learn in school?
Answer: His Ape B C’s.

What is the snake’s favorite subject?
Answer: Hiss-story

What do you say to a rabbit on its birthday?
Answer: Hoppy Birthday!

What’s faster hot or cold?
Answer: Hot, because everyone catches a cold.

What kind of water can’t freeze?
Answer: Hot water

What should you grow in a school garden?
Answer: Human beans!

I
What would a bear say if he got confused?
Answer: I barely understand.

What did one volcano say to the other?
Answer: I lava you.

What do you call a fake noodle?
Answer: IM-pasta

What did the glue say to the teacher?
Answer: “I’m stuck on you.”

What do you call babies in the army?
Answer: Infantry! 

Where do monsters study?
Answer: In ghoul school.

Where do cool mice live?
Answer: In mouse pads.

What do you call an elephant that doesn’t matter?
Answer: Irrelephant!

Why is glue bad at math?
Answer: It always gets stuck on the problems.

Why did the computer sneeze?
Answer: It had a virus.

Why wouldn’t the Christmas tree stand up?
Answer: It had no legs.

Why did the echo get detention the first day?
Answer: It kept answering back

What does Mrs. Claus say to Santa when there are clouds in the sky?
Answer: It looks like rain, deer.

Why did the little boy bring his Christmas tree to the hair salon?
Answer: It needs a little trim.

Why is 2+2=5 like your left foot?
Answer: It’s not right.

What did the tiger say to her cub on his birthday?
Answer: It’s roar birthday.

What did the math book say to the other math book?
Answer: “I’ve got problems.”

How do we know that the ocean is friendly?
Answer: It waves.

J
What jack has a head but no body?
Answer: Jack-o-lantern

What’s the name of the movie starring a pig and a dinosaur?
Answer: Jurassic Pork

How do you learn to be a trash collector?
Answer: Just pick it up as you go along. 

K
Where do mermaids look for jobs?
Answer: Kelp-wanted section

What’s the difference between broccoli and boogers?
Answer: Kids don’t eat broccoli.

What’s the best place to grow flowers in school?
Answer: Kindergarden.

What’s the most popular video game at the bread bakery?
Answer: Knead for Speed

L
What do you call a dog magician?
Answer: Labracadabrador

My fleece is white as snow. Everywhere that Mary goes, I go. What am I?
Answer: Lamb

What kind of pets like NASCAR?
Answer: Lap dogs

What do lawyers wear when they go to court?
Answer: Law-suits

What did one pencil say to the other on the first day of school?
Answer: Looking sharp!

How does the Easter bunny stay in shape?
Answer: Lots of eggs-ercise.

What do you get if you cross a computer with an elephant?
Answer: Lots of Memory.

M

How do sheep wish each other happy holidays?
Answer: Merry Christmas to ewe.
Where did the school kittens go for their field trip?
Answer: Mew-seum

What do you call a cow that won’t give milk?
Answer: Milk dud

Where do cows go for entertainment?
Answer: Moooooooooovies!

What is a cow’s favorite holiday?
Answer: Moo-years Day.

What tool is best suited for math?
Answer: Multi-plier

What’s the strongest type of sea creature?
Answer: Mussels

N
What is a cheese that doesn’t belong to you called?
Answer: Nacho cheese

Which planet loves to sing?
Answer: Nep-tune!

What’s an elf’s favorite sport?
Answer: North Pole-vaulting.

Where do polar bears vote?
Answer: North Poll

How much did Santa’s sleigh cost?
Answer: Nothing! It was on the house.

What did one stranger say to the other?
Answer: Nothing, they were strangers who didn’t know each other. 

Are monsters good at math?
Answer: Not unless you count Dracula.

O
What kind of cat lives underwater?
Answer: OctoPUSS!

What kind of shoes do frogs love?
Answer: Open-toad!

What’s a Christmas tree’s favorite candy?
Answer: Orna-mints.

What class do birds always ace?
Answer: Owl-gebra!

What do you get when you cross a rabbit with shellfish?
Answer: Oyster bunny!

P
What kind of tree fits in your hand?
Answer: Palm tree

What’s a pencil’s favorite place to visit?
Answer: Pencil-vania!

What is a math teacher’s favorite dessert?
Answer: Pi!

What do you do if a teacher rolls her eyes at you?
Answer: Pick them up and roll them back!

What do you get when you combine a Christmas tree with a computer?
Answer: Pine-Apple

What do you call a pig that knows karate?
Answer: Pork chop!

What monster plays tricks on Halloween?
Answer: Prank-enstein

What building in your town has the most stories?
Answer: Public library

What does a book do in the winter?
Answer: Puts on a jacket.

What does a ghost do to stay safe in a car?
Answer: Puts on his sheet belt.

Q
What time do ducks get out of bed?
Answer: Quack of dawn

What vegetables do librarians like?
Answer: Quiet peas.

What did the nose say to the finger?
Answer: Quit picking on me!

What did the broccoli say to the celery?
Answer: Quit stalking me!

R
Who won the race of princesses?
Answer: Rapunzel, By a hair!

What did Santa say at the start of the race?
Answer: Ready, set, ho ho ho!

What is fast, loud, and crunchy?
Answer: Rocket chip

What do you call a reindeer with bad manners?
Answer: Rude-olph

S
What do you call a witch who goes to the beach?
Answer: Sand-witch

What do you get when Santa becomes a detective?
Answer: Santa clues

What do you call Santa when he stops moving?
Answer: Santa Pause

What does a witch use to do her hair?
Answer: Scarespray

Why did 6 hate 7?
Answer: 7 8 9.

Why is Cinderella so bad at playing football?
Answer: She runs away from the ball.

What is every parent’s favorite Christmas carol?
Answer: Silent Night.

What school requires you to drop out in order to graduate?
Answer: Sky diving school.

What do you get when you cross a snail with a porcupine?
Answer: Slowpoke!

What do you call a boy with a dictionary in his pocket?
Answer: Smartie Pants!

What kind of shoes do robbers wear?
Answer: Sneakers

What falls in winter but never gets hurt?
Answer: Snow

Where does a snowman keep his money?
Answer: Snow bank

How do mountains stay warm in winter?
Answer: Snowcaps 

What do snowmen eat for breakfast?
Answer: Snowflakes

What’s a witch’s favorite subject in school?
Answer: Spelling

What do you get from a pampered cow?
Answer: Spoiled milk

What kind of meals do math teachers eat?
Answer: Square meals

What sport do horses like to play?
Answer: Stable tennis

Where do reindeer go for coffee?
Answer: Star-bucks.

What do you call a boomerang that won’t come back?
Answer: Stick

Which school does an ice cream man go to?
Answer: Sundae school.

T

How do you make seven even?
Answer: Take away the ‘s’

What flies around the kindergarten room at night?
Answer: The alpha-BAT.

Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
Answer: The “C.”

Who sits in front of the class in ghoul school?
Answer: The creature teacher

Where do computers go to dance?
Answer: The disk-o

What comes at the end of Christmas Day?
Answer: The letter “Y!”

How do the fish get to school?
Answer: The octobus!

What contest do skunks win at school?
Answer: The smelling bee!

What dinosaur had the best vocabulary?
Answer: The thesaurus.

What’s the key to a great Thanksgiving dinner?
Answer: The tur-key.

Why do math books always look so sad?
Answer: They are full of problems.

What do cakes and baseball teams have in common?
Answer: They both need a good batter.

Why do magicians do so well in school?
Answer: They’re good at trick questions.

What happened when the teacher tied all the kid’s shoe laces together?
Answer: They had a class trip!

What song does a cat like best?
Answer: Three Blind Mice

What does a cloud wear under his raincoat?
Answer: Thunderwear

Where do New York City kids learn their multiplication tables?
Answer: Times Square.

What time would it be if Godzilla came to school?
Answer: Time to run!

Why did the jellybean go to school?
Answer: To become a smartie!

Name two days of the week that start with “t”.
Answer: Today and Tomorrow.

Why did the kid cross the playground?
Answer: To get to the other slide.

Why did the computer get glasses?
Answer: To improve its websight.

Why does a music teacher need a ladder?
Answer: To reach the high notes

Why did the square and triangle go to the gym?
Answer: To stay in shape

What do birds say on Halloween?
Answer: Trick or tweet

What musical instrument is found in the bathroom?
Answer: Tuba toothpaste

Who isn’t hungry at Thanksgiving?
Answer: Turkey — he’s already stuffed.

What do you call two birds who are in love with each other?
Answer: Tweet-hearts

What does the wind play on family game night?
Answer: Twister

U
I go up when the rain comes down. What am I?
Answer: Umbrella

How do you stop a bull from charging?
Answer: Unplug it!

How do you talk to a giant?
Answer: Use big words.

V
What is the center of gravity?
Answer: V!

What is the name of the Dutch pig who was famous for painting sunflowers and cutting off his ear?
Answer: Vincent van Hog

What do you call an ant who fights crime?
Answer: Vigilanty!

W
What does the ocean do when it sees its friends?
Answer: Waves!

When is a blue school book not a blue school book?
Answer: When it is read!

What did the little corn say to the mama corn?
Answer: Where is pop corn?

What kind of snake would you find on a car?
Answer: Windshield viper

How did the zombie pay for his lunch?
Answer: With an arm and a leg.

How does a scientist freshen her breath?
Answer: With experi-mints.

How do you make an octopus laugh?
Answer: With ten-tickles.

Where does Spider-Man do research when he needs to find out something?
Answer: World Wide Web

What kind of music do mummies love?
Answer: Wrap music

X
What do you call a wrong sword?
Answer: X-calibur

Through me, you see through things. What am I?
Answer: X-ray machine

Y
What do you get when you cross a sweet potato and a jazz musician?
Answer: Yam session

How do they answer the phone at the paint store?
Answer: Yellow!

What did the firefly say to her BFF?
Answer: You glow, girl!

What did the calculator say to the other calculator?
Answer: “You can count on me!”

What happens if you eat Christmas decorations?
Answer: You get tinselitus

What did one toilet say to the other?
Answer: You look a bit flushed.

What did one snowman say to another snowman?
Answer: You’re cool.

What did the triangle say to the circle?
Answer: You’re pointless

Z
Saws sing it, We snore it, Bees drone it; And one alone ends the alphabet. What is it?
Answer: Zzzzzzzz

I am white, and I am black. I am fast, and I am not fat. I confuse many people with my style. Who am I?
Answer: Zebra

I went to the zoo and saw a baguette in a cage. Why was that?
Answer: Zookeeper told me it was bread in captivity.

Laughter is super duper therapeutic! Kids genuinely love to hear and tell funny jokes, particularly of the question-and-answer variety or some kind of humor riddles. These short, simple, and easy-to-remember funny jokes for kids are just what we need in the face of adversity.

There’s nothing better than the sounds of kids giggling and having fun. Keep the humor for the little ones going to give them some laughter and brighten up just about anyone’s day!

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