50 Funny Riddles and Jokes to Serve the Family This Thanksgiving
Prepping a Thanksgiving menu is often a multi-hour process that involves lots of chopping, basting, and baking. And while the Thanksgiving host may be running around the kitchen checking on the turkey and every side dish imaginable, there is bound to be downtime your the guests to sit back and enjoy each other's company. Thanksgiving riddles for kids — and riddles for adults — will help keep everyone occupied before and after dinner is served on November 24.
You can write out these Thanksgiving jokes and riddles with answers, then toss them in a bowl or hat for guests to pick out and ask each other to keep the conversation lively. These funny riddles will have some wobbling away in defeat and others doing a celebratory turkey trot.
Yes, of course, there is the parade to watch and football on TV to keep the older crowd occupied, but this is an especially great activity for those younger guests at the kids' table who need entertainment to hold them over until the meal is served. Plus, these riddles can introduce a new Thanksgiving tradition for your family that goes beyond the standard things to do on Thanksgiving — or help break up any tension that can sometimes arise at the Thanksgiving dinner table.
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There's something on this list for every age and sense of humor, from math riddles to Thanksgiving puns and corny jokes that are so bad they're good. All of your guests will be feeling grateful to have such a loving and silly crowd to be with this November.
Funny Thanksgiving Riddles for Kids
What is a scarecrow’s favorite fruit?
Answer: Straw-berries.What is a mathematician’s favorite food on Thanksgiving?
Answer: Pumpkin Pi.I can be crushed, baked, and carved. What am I?
Answer: A pumpkin.What’s the key to a great Thanksgiving dinner?
Answer: The turkey.Why did the turkey cross the road twice?
Answer: To prove he wasn’t a chicken!What do you call when it rains turkeys?
Answer: Fowl weather!What’s the most musical part of a turkey?
Answer: The drumstick.What instrument did the band let the turkey play?
Answer: The drums — he already had the drumsticks.What happened when the turkey got into a fight?
Answer: He got the stuffing knocked out of him.I have ears but can’t hear, and flakes but no hair. What am I?
Answer: Corn.When does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?
Answer: In the dictionary.What do you call a running turkey? Fast food.
Woman's Day/Getty Images What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?
Answer: Pumpkin Pi.What sound does a limping turkey make?
Answer: “Wobble wobble!”What happens when cranberries are sad?
Answer: They turn into blueberries.Why did the turkey get grounded?
Answer: He was using fowl language.April showers bring May flowers, so what do May flowers bring?
Answer: The pilgrims.What do pumpkins and gourds love to play?
Answer: Squash.If a turkey says gobble, gobble, gobble and an astronaut says Hubble, Hubble, Hubble, then what would a computer say?
Answer: Google, Google, Google.What do vampires celebrate in the fall?
Answer: Fangsgiving.Which side of the turkey has more feathers?
Answer: The outside.What always comes at the end of Thanksgiving?
Answer: The letter “g.”I am a 12-letter word, 2 compound words, and people celebrate me in the fall. What am I?
Answer: Thanksgiving.Can a turkey fly higher than an ostrich?
Answer: Yes, because ostriches don’t fly.What is a turkey’s favorite dessert?
Answer: Peach gobbler!
Harder Thanksgiving Riddles for Adults
If we feel scared on Halloween, and jolly on Christmas, then what do we feel on Thanksgiving?
Answer: Stuffed!What should you say when your family begs you to stop making Thanksgiving jokes?
Answer: I can’t just quit cold turkey!What do you use to make bread on Thanksgiving?
Answer: May flour.Why did the cranberries go red?
Answer: Because they saw the turkey dressing.Why shouldn’t you share secrets in the cornfield?
Answer: Because corn have ears!What is red and has feathers all over?
Answer: A turkey blushing.What do you call a turkey on the day after Thanksgiving?
Answer: Lucky.What has feathers, a bowed head, and kneels?
Answer: A turkey praying not to be eaten.Where do turkeys go to dance?
Answer: The Butter Ball.What kind of music did the Pilgrims like?
Answer: Plymouth Rock.What sound does a turkey’s phone make?
Answer: “Wing, wing.”What is hard, oddly-shaped, and brings you good fortune on Thanksgiving?
Answer: A wishbone.Woman's Day/Getty Images What’s the best dance to do on Thanksgiving?
Answer: The turkey trot.What would you get if you crossed a turkey with a ghost?
Answer: A poultrygeist.What did the mother turkey say to her disobedient children?
Answer: If your father could see you now, he’d turn over in his gravy!Why didn’t the cook season the Thanksgiving turkey?
Answer: There was no thyme.What should you wear to Thanksgiving dinner?
Answer: A har-vest.What did the daughter say when her mom wanted her help fixing Thanksgiving dinner?
Answer: “Why? Is it broken?”What’s the best song to play while cooking a turkey?
Answer: “All About That Baste.”What is something that describes both political talk and filling up your plate of food?
Answer: Choosing sides.If you’re carving the turkey with an electric cutter, what kind of battery does it need when it runs out of power?
Answer: None, because it is electric powered.I get stuffed and I get dressed on Thanksgiving. What am I?
Answer: The Thanksgiving host.What did the pumpkin say to the turkey on Thanksgiving?
Answer: You’re lucky you’re only eaten on one holiday! This is my second one in a month!What has feathers, is wild and ready for a party?
Answer: A dressed turkey.If an apple, pear, and peach come from a tree, where do turkeys come from?
Answer: A poul-tree.
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