Books influence our thinking, that's a fact. Therefore, we want children to be surrounded by the most educational and useful books that will help them develop, prepare for school, get acquainted with literature and simply have a fun time.
On the Children's Time website you will find fairy tales from USSR records, audio fairy tales and books, stories, poems, novels from great writers. In addition to books, we have collected and will continue to collect songs for children: New Year's, from cartoons, Russian folk, sounds of nature and other funny songs that are interesting to kids. And for the little ones there are lullabies and classical music for pregnant women. Files can be listened to and read online, or downloaded in mp3 and epub formats (fb2, doc, pdf).
For those who cannot imagine their life without paints, markers and pencils, we have children's coloring books of the highest categories. Download these coloring pictures online, print them and learn to draw from them, just like in art school lessons, thanks to step-by-step examples. All this is free - for the development and useful leisure of children of different ages.
Audio tales from the best storytellers
- Astrid Lindgren
- Andersen G.H.
- Tove Jansson
- Nikolay Nosov
- Popular
- Collection of audio tales
- Arabic audio tales
- Russian national
- Charles Perrault
- Rudyard Kipling
- Gianni Rodari
- Goffman E.T.A.
- Wilhelm Hauff
- Brothers Grimm
- Foreign audio tales
- Joel Harris
- Jonathan Swift
- Tolstoy A.N.
- Sergey Aksakov
- Samuel Marshak
- Saltykov-Shchedrin M.E.
- Pushkin A.S.
- Mamin-Sibiryak D.N.
- Korney Chukovsky
- Vsevolod Garshin
- Vladimir Odoevsky
- Russian audio tales
- Vladimir Suteev
- Mikhail Prishvin
- Vitaly Bianchi
Funny riddles for children
Comic puzzles are great for developing a child's attentiveness. After all, to give the correct answer, you need to pay attention to words and details. Fun questions motivate you to answer the fastest, and this definitely requires quick wits and creative thinking. Don’t forget that any game, even a comic one, is about developing your horizons. In addition, information presented in a humorous form is remembered much better! Solving fun puzzles together energizes both children and adults with positivity.
Riddle No. 20
One pine tree grew 5 apples, and the second tree grew three more apples. How many apples are there in total on two trees?
Answer
not at all, because apples don’t grow on pine trees.
Riddle No. 21
A person who catches everything as he goes.
Answer
juggler
Riddle No. 22
A fabulous singer and traveler who ran away from his home.
Answer
Kolobok
Riddle No. 23
The first 40 letters of the alphabet fly through the forest.
Answer
Magpie
Riddle No. 24
Backwards moves forward. Who is this?
Answer
cancer
Riddle No. 25
How many corners does a round table have?
Answer
Not at all
Riddle No. 26
Why do you go to the kitchen when you want to eat?
Answer
by gender
Riddle No. 27
I am not in Samara, Tomsk, or Moscow, but I am in Sochi, Izhevsk and Vladivostok.
Answer
letter I
Riddle No. 28
You only have one match, and in a dark room there are white and black candles. What will you light first?
Answer
match
Riddle No. 29
Can a penguin call itself a bird?
Answer
no, penguins can't talk.
Riddle No. 30
The artist painted 5 paintings. He hung three paintings on the wall. How many paintings does the artist have left?
Answer
five paintings
Riddle No. 31
How to catch a zebra in a cage?
Answer
There are no checkered zebras, zebras are striped.
Riddle No. 32
What mousetrap doesn't need bait?
Answer
cat
Riddle No. 33
A part of the mountain is in the hands of each teacher.
Answer
chalk
Riddle No. 34
A fabulous aircraft with a room cleaning function.
Answer
broom
Riddle No. 35
What bow should not be put on a horse?
Answer
rainbow
Riddle No. 36
What word does everyone pronounce incorrectly?
Answer
the word "wrong"
Riddle No. 37
This cow does not give milk. What's her name?
Answer
greedy
Riddle No. 38
A pigeon can eat a handful of seeds, but a moose cannot. Why?
Answer
because pigeons don't eat moose
Riddle No. 39
Small, gray, looks like a mouse. Who is this?
Answer
little mouse
Riddle No. 40
A horse, a plane and a car in one place is...
Answer
carousel
Riddle No. 41
Where rivers don't flow, trees don't grow and nothing is alive?
Answer
on a geographical map
Riddle No. 42
A man entered the room. There are 4 corners in this room, 4 cats sit in each corner, and 4 kittens next to the cat. How many feet are there in this room?
Answer
two legs, like cats have paws
Riddle No. 43
Which hand is better to pour soup into bowls?
Answer
It’s better to pour the soup with a ladle rather than with your hand.
Riddle No. 44
It's red, black, white, because it's green. What is this?
Answer
currant
Riddle No. 45
What stones are not in the river?
Answer
dry
Riddle No. 46
At what table can you not sit on the corner?
Answer
for the round
Riddle No. 47
What nose doesn't smell?
Answer
spout
Riddle No. 48
What horse doesn't eat grass or hay?
Answer
chess
Riddle No. 49
The doctor says: “My brother is a cook.”
The cook said he doesn't have a brother. How can this be?
Answer
the cook has a sister who is a doctor
The best storytellers
- Astrid Lindgren
- Popular
- Storybook
- Arabian tales
- Folk tales
- Russian folk tales
- Charles Perrault
- Rudyard Kipling
- Gianni Rodari
- Goffman E.T.A.
- Wilhelm Hauff
- Brothers Grimm
- Foreign storytellers
- Andersen G.H.
- Tolstoy A.N.
- Samuel Marshak
- Sergey Aksakov
- Saltykov-Shchedrin M.E.
- Pushkin A.S.
- Mamin-Sibiryak D.N.
- Korney Chukovsky
- Vsevolod Garshin
- Vladimir Odoevsky
- Russian storytellers
- Vladimir Suteev
- Nikolay Nosov
- Mikhail Prishvin
- Vitaly Bianchi
- Boris Zhitkov
- Victor Dragunsky
Why solve logic problems?
Our whole life consists of solving everyday problems. The ability to quickly summarize information, analyze data, find a way out of a situation, draw conclusions - all this can be developed with the help of logic puzzles. You can and should train your thinking from an early age. Riddles are one of the most fun ways to improve your logic.
Development and education of children from 2 to 11 years old in a playful way
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Children as young as 4-5 years old can solve funny riddles with a trick. You'll have to work hard here! After all, in such problems, not everything is as simple as it seems at first glance. Here, the work of both hemispheres of the brain is in full swing: the left, which is responsible for analysis and logic, and the right, which generates fantasy and imagination. You will also need to learn to control yourself so as not to say the first thing that comes to mind. The catch is hidden in this, because the rhyme will be confusing.
Read books, listen to children's songs and coloring pages online
How else, if not with the help of a good book, music and drawing, does a child learn about the world? This site is designed specifically for children, so that with the help of creativity and literature, they discover the world around them.
Here parents will find the books they have read and will read everything. These are the best fairy tales of Pushkin, stories of Gaidar, novels of Mark Twain, poems of Chukovsky and other works of foreign and domestic writers. Books can be read online, listen to free audio versions and download as mp3.
If your child loves to sing and dance, we have children's songs online. These are different thematic selections, according to the seasons of the year, from your favorite cartoons, for children's parties, as well as Mozart's music, sounds of nature, etc.
To develop creative thinking, we recommend downloading online coloring books for children or learning to draw step by step. A variety of drawing elements with visual examples make this process simple. And the choice of coloring books makes your eyes widen: coloring books for girls and boys, educational ones, from games and cartoons, New Year’s, Winx coloring books and more. For adults there is an anti-stress coloring book; you can download and print any of the files in one click. Have a nice time!
Puzzles
Popular wisdom in matters
In search of a solution, the children will be smart, develop attention, fantasize, and reflect.
A riddle is very important for a child, especially in preschool age. It’s easier to learn if you look for the answer to a short question yourself.
A textbook with ready-made answers does not help the development of logic, as it is designed for automatic memorization. And tricky problems make you think and teach you not to look for the truth on the surface.
What is hidden in a rhyming question?
Riddles cannot be called a children's type of folklore. Adults also puzzle over many of them. We have selected ones that will not discourage you from thinking. You need to start with easy tasks. With their help, parents and educators can talk about life in an interesting way. Children will better understand the features of the world around them:
- natural phenomena;
- vegetables and fruits;
- flora;
- animals;
- household items.
It is also easier to learn letters and numbers if their names are encrypted in funny poems.
Kids perceive deceptions with delight. This is a rhyming riddle that prompts an incorrect answer. Awareness of the catch causes a sea of positive emotions in children.
Age for riddles
If you spend a lot of time with your baby, communicating in a language he understands, then by the age of one and a half to two years he will be able to find clues. You don't even have to be able to speak to do this. The answer can be found in the picture, among the toys and objects that surround him.
With age, riddles for children become more complicated. They have a complex shape and structure. These are both problems in prose and in the form of poetry. Rhyme will additionally affect the result of memorization. On this page you will find original riddles about unusual and familiar objects. The structure of the riddles section allows you to do this in a matter of minutes. A user-friendly interface and constantly updated information will not let you get bored while teaching your child. There are riddles for every taste for development, both for the youngest and for older children. There are also humorous, educational and simply curious riddles with answers. They will appeal to both adults and children.
Our collection of riddles
Choose from our collection what interests your children. Our site contains original and funny riddles with answers for children. They allow you to develop ingenuity, imagination and allow you to have great fun at a holiday or home celebration. A riddle forces you to concentrate on a specific task and actively search for answers. This is the creative and imaginative work of the brain that begins when given an unusual task. If information encoded in an interesting form is spoken by parents or a teacher, then her answer is remembered quickly and remains in memory for life. Ingenuity puzzles for any age on our website help expand your child’s vocabulary and significantly expand their horizons. Here you will find both selections of classics and original versions that you have never seen anywhere before.
Author's riddles
Author's riddles are riddles that are reliably written by a specific person. They do not bear a collective image, like the folklore riddles of the peoples of Rus', but belong to the pen of one of the writers or poets. Such short poetic works are republished many times in their original form, without modification, and always require the name of the author to be indicated.
Here we have posted collections of thematic riddles from famous Soviet authors: Korney Chukovsky, Boris Zakhoder and Samuil Marshak. The work of these children's writers in itself is widely known. However, parents often forget that not only reading books online develops the child’s logic and intelligence, but also the ability to solve riddles in poetic form. You can memorize such riddles by heart, like children’s poems, and ask your child to tell them to their relatives. Such training develops memory and communication skills with adults.
Riddles with rhyme are easier for a child to understand by ear and can instill an interest in writing poems on their own.
Don't neglect the different forms of self-expression and creativity available to children. Getting to know the properties of objects and the peculiarities of natural phenomena through riddles is the simplest and most exciting task.
An interesting difference between author's riddles and folk ones is that the answer comes to mind on its own - it is suggested by the rhyme. This technique is best suited for children from two years of age and older preschoolers. However, this does not exclude the possibility of becoming familiar with Marshak’s riddles at an older age, for example in elementary school, when the child is already in grades 1-2.
Each of the writers presented is unique in their approach to children's literature.
Mysteries of Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky
The riddles of Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky are considered one of the best and most beloved among other children's works of the writer. Riddles are a unique source of knowledge, as they talk about complex and serious things in a light, playful manner. All of Chukovsky’s works are written in a fairly simple style and are easily perceived even by children, because it was to them that the author addressed his poetry and riddles. The closeness of Chukovsky’s poems to children’s speech is impressive, as is the ease with which children give the correct answers. Riddles of Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak
Riddles of Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak - as a source of creative Soviet children's poetry. A feature of Marshak’s short, intricate questions is their focus on the reader’s age. Therefore, among his riddles there are descriptions of the most common objects. However, there are also non-standard problems, the answers to which are not obvious even to adults. Marshak's riddle always looks like a small work of art with a fascinating rhyme, a useful idea and significant content. Mysteries of Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder
The mysteries of another famous writer of children's books, Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder, have always been integrated into the author's works, and did not exist as separate works. They are much more complicated, since the author’s target audience is children of primary school age. Zakhoder's riddles are an exclusive opportunity to get acquainted with fairy-tale fantasies, expand your vocabulary, develop imagination and observation.
