Can you guess the solution to these riddles created by Miss Webster's grade 7 class?
(solutions are at the bottom of the page)


(1.)  Vibrant and colourful, each is unique
I dim at night but never sleep
You can steal me but I'll never be yours.
I cannot speak or open doors.

You'll never get me back once I'm taken away.
I may not be yours tomorrow, but you own me for today.
Take one of these and for you it's too late.
You'll meet your doom at heaven's gate.
What am I?


(2.)  As refreshing as a summer's breeze
I am dressed in spices and herbs.
My Italian heritage separates me from others.
Seams of Gouda,  chedder, and mozzarella;
Full of flavour in every bite.
My mouth-watering flavour will send your taste buds flying!
What am I?

(3.)  I am a mountainous blue and yellow structure waiting for you to come on by.
When you do, you spend and buy with the money that sits in your wallet.
Some items are less; some items are more
It all depends if it attracts or bores.
I was made by a man, Igvar Kamprad,
founded in the year 1943, in the land of Sweden, Smalland.
I'm sure you've been in me before but if you forget,
I can say no more but, "Have a nice day and thank you for shopping!"
What am I?

(4.)   I do not have a start or finish.
I always continue and never diminish.
Invisible, no one can see;
I'm as slow as a slug or as quick as a bee.

I'm marked in numerals up on your wall.
I move day and night, but I never fall.
I have one "eye" that stands after "T"
But I can't see you, and you can't see me.
What am I?

(5.) I am in a band but do not play music.
I encircle you like a hawk surrounds its prey.
In the past children feared me.
I hold you up but can't help you if you trip.
What am I?

(6.)  I am anything yet everything that's everywhere at all.
In temperatures I change my form.
You gauge, observe and classify me.
I am tasted, touched, smelled, heard and looked upon.
What am I?








Answers:  (1.)  a life  (2.) lasagna (3.)  Ikea (4.)  time   (5.) a belt (6.) matter