24 spring riddles with answers

I'm a little lake that shows up after the rain and dries up when the sun comes out, and kids love to jump right in me. What am I?

Hint: Splash!

I wiggle up out of the dirt after a spring rain, and robins want me for breakfast. What am I?

Hint: It has no legs and lives in the soil.

The parents build me one twig at a time, and the children move out the week they learn to fly. What am I?

Hint: Look up into the branches of a tree.

I have a long spout like an elephant's trunk, but all I ever do is sprinkle water on the flowers. What am I?

Hint: You fill it at the garden tap.

Spring rain turns me from dust into something that sticks to your boots and paints your pants brown. What am I?

Hint: Pigs love to roll in it.

In spring my pink petals drift down like snow, and in Japan families picnic under my branches to watch. What am I?

Hint: Its fruit is small, red and has a pit.

Plant me in the fall and I wait under the snow all winter. In spring I come up as a tulip. What am I?

Hint: It looks a bit like a small onion.

On my first day, people play tricks on each other and then shout the name of my first day. Which month am I?

Hint: It comes after March.

I'm a paper envelope with flowers pictured on the front, but there are no flowers inside me, only their beginnings. What am I?

Hint: You tear it open before planting the garden.

I have a round door just the right size, I hang on a post or a tree, and no person can ever fit inside me. What am I?

Hint: Its visitors have feathers.

In spring, people move the clocks forward one hour. What do they lose that night?

Hint: "Spring forward, fall back."

On my day in March, daytime and nighttime are almost exactly the same length. What am I?

Hint: It marks the first day of spring on the calendar.

Bees visit me for my sweet drink, and I send them off with a dusting of yellow to carry to my neighbors. What am I?

Hint: It grows in the garden and has petals.

I'm not a fever and I don't come from hay, but every spring I make people sniffle and sneeze. What am I?

Hint: It is an allergy to something in the spring air.

A saying says April's showers bring something in May. What do they bring?

Hint: Think of what spring rain helps to grow.

Plant a bean in a clear cup of damp paper and watch. Which comes out of the seed first: the root that goes down or the shoot that goes up?

Hint: A plant needs water before it can grow tall.

A seedling grows 2 centimeters in its first week, and each week after it grows twice as much as the week before. How tall is it after three weeks?

Hint: Write down how much it grows each week, then add.

Once a year, people open the windows, empty the closets and scrub the house from top to bottom. What is it called?

Hint: It is named after the season when it happens.

Rearrange the letters of a garden flower, and you get how your muscles feel after a day of digging. What are the two words?

Hint: The flower has thorns.

Rearrange the letters of part of a flower, and you get what your dinner is served on. What are the two words?

Hint: The flower part is soft and colorful, and a daisy has many of them.

Rearrange the letters of a bird's spring home, and you get what people use to catch fish. What are the two words?

Hint: The fishing tool has holes in it.

I'm a spring month, and I'm also what a band does in a parade. What am I?

Hint: Left, right, left, right.

I'm a spring month, and I'm also the word you use to ask a polite question. What am I?

Hint: "___ I have a cookie?"

I'm what you water the garden with, and I'm also the old word for stockings. What am I?

Hint: It is long and coiled up by the garden tap.