Skip Are we there yet? and go for giggles and good-natured groans on your next road trip. What’s better at keeping kids entertained than riddles? Use the following brain teasers to encourage creative thinking.

• What invention allows people to walk through walls? Answer: Doors.
• What asks no questions but receives a lot of answers? Answer: A telephone.
• Why should you never tell a secret in a vegetable garden? Answer: Because the corn have ears.
• What is the difference between a lion with a toothache and a rainy day? Answer: One roars with pain and the other pours with rain.
• What is ready to walk, has a long tongue, and can’t talk? Answer: A shoe.
• What is everyone in the world doing at the same time? Answer: Getting older.
• What do you lose every time you stand up? Answer: Your lap.
• A box filled with water weighs a ton. What can you put in the box to make it weigh less? Answer: Holes
• What are raised in many countries where the rainfall is heavy? Answer: Umbrellas.
• What goes down a hill but never moves? Answer: A road.
• You use me between your head and your toes; the more I work, the thinner I grow. What am I? Answer: A bar of soap.
• What kind of coat is made without buttons and put on wet? Answer: A coat of paint.
• What has leaves but no bark, a jacket but no tie, a spine but no bones, and is good company? Answer: A book.
• What bone keeps getting longer and shorter? Answer: A trombone.
• When you fall into the water, what is the first thing you do? Answer: Get wet.
• What comes all the way up to a house but never gets in? Answer: The steps.

For more wacky, puzzling, giggle-provoking riddles, check out Riddles In a Jar^®: 101 Puzzling and Playful Riddles.

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