Riddles About Air: 30 Air Riddles with Answers for Kids

I’m all around you, but you can’t see me. You can’t hold me, but you need me every second. What am I?

You can’t see me, but you can see what I do: I bend the trees, blow your hat off and spin the windmill. What am I?

You blow into me, and I get bigger and bigger. Let go of my end, and I zoom around the room. What am I?

You take me in, then you let me out, all day and all night, without even thinking about it. What am I?

I dance high in the sky on a long string. Without the wind, I just lie flat on the ground. What am I?

I’m a ball of air wrapped in a thin skin of soap. I float, I shine with rainbow colors, and then I pop. What am I?

I have blades but I never cut. I spin around and push air at you to keep you cool. What am I?

I’m a hollow ring of rubber that’s full of air, and I let your bike roll smoothly. When I’m flat, you go nowhere. What am I?

Pucker your lips and blow, and I come out as a tune, with no instrument at all. What am I?

I look blue on a sunny day, but I’m really just air, lit up by the sun. Birds and planes fly through me. What am I?

I’m the gas your body needs from every breath. I make up about 21% of the air. What am I?

I’m the most common gas in the air, about 78% of it, but your body breathes me in and out without using me. What am I?

We’re two spongy bags inside your chest. We fill with air when you breathe in and squeeze it out when you breathe out. What are we?

We breathe in carbon dioxide and give out the oxygen that animals need. We do it with our green leaves, using sunlight. What are we?

Make a wish and blow on me. My fluffy seeds drift away on the air, each one hanging under its own tiny umbrella. What am I?

I open up like a giant umbrella and catch the air, so a skydiver floats down slowly instead of falling fast. What am I?

My three long blades turn in the wind, and I change that moving air into electricity. What am I?

I sit on top of a roof and spin to point where the wind is coming from. Sometimes I’m shaped like a rooster. What am I?

I have a mast and a big sheet of cloth, but no engine. The wind pushes me across the water. What am I?

I’m a musical instrument with holes but no strings. Blow across me, and the air inside me sings. What am I?

You can’t feel me, but the air above you is pressing down on every part of your body all the time. At sea level, I push on each square centimeter with about the weight of 1 kilogram. What am I?

I’m a tool that measures how hard the air is pushing down. When my reading drops, a storm may be on its way. What am I?

I travel through the air as waves, at about 343 meters every second. In space, where there’s no air, I can’t travel at all. What am I?

I’m a space with no air in it at all. Outer space is almost all me, and a straw can’t work in me. What am I?

You breathe me out with every breath, plants soak me up, and I make the bubbles in fizzy drinks. I’m only a tiny part of the air. What am I?

Climbers on the world’s highest mountains often carry bottles of oxygen. The air up there has the same mix of gases as at the bottom, so why do they need them?

My little cups spin in the wind, and I tell weather scientists how fast it’s blowing. What am I?

I’m water, but you can’t see me, because I’m a gas mixed into the air. On a hot, sticky day there’s a lot of me. What am I?

I’m a column of air spinning so fast that I can tear roofs off houses. I reach down from a storm cloud to the ground. What am I?

I’m a blanket of air hundreds of kilometers thick, wrapped around the whole Earth. I keep you warm and block harmful rays from the Sun. What am I?