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Riddles
A riddle is a statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.
1. What has teeth but cannot eat? Comb
2. Which letter sounds like an insect? 'B 'sounds like an insect 'BEE'
3. Name the pan in which you cannot cook? Japan
4. What is dark but made by light? Shadow
5.What has neck but not head? A bottle
6. What is given to you but used more by others? Your name
7. Who drives all his customers away? A taxi driver
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9. Who has holes but holds water? Sponge
10. Why do skeletons love to dance? Because they can shake, rattle & roll
11. Which fruit is spelt like a color? An orange
12. What room is never entered? - A Mushroom13. What two keys can't open any doors? A Donkey and a Monkey
14. What has four legs, but can't walk? A Table
15. What's black when it's clean and white when it's dirty? A blackboard
16. What room is never entered? A Mushroom
17. What kind of dress can never be worn? An address
18. What gets beaten, and whipped, but never cries? An egg
19. What kind of cup can'thold water? A cupcake
20. What are two things you cannot have for breakfast? Lunch and dinner

Tongue Twisters
Do tongue twisters twist your tongue?
It is a phrase or sentence which is hard to speak fast, usually because of alliteration or a sequence of nearly similar sounds. It helps develop speech skills & helps in speech therapy.

1. A good cook could cook as much cookies as agood cook who could cook cookies.

2. I saw a saw that could out saw any other saw I ever saw.

3. A black bug bit a big black bear. But where is the big black bear that the big black bug bit?

4. A big bug bit the little beetle but the little beetle bit the big bug back.

5. If a slidering snail went down a slippery slide would a snail slider or slide down the slide?

6.Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.

7. If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

8. Which watch did which witch wear and which witch wore which watch?
9. How much wood could a wood chuck; chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

10. How much wood could a woodchopper chop, if a wood chopper could chop wood?

11. Jolly juggling jesters jauntily juggled jingling jacks.

12. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?  
          
13. A tutor who tooted the flute, tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to the tutor, 'Is itharder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?

14. If a black bug bleeds black blood, what color blood does a blue bug bleed?

15. If Freaky Fred Found Fifty Feet of Fruit and Fed Forty Feet to his Friend Frank how many Feet of Fruit did Freaky Fred Find?

16. She sells seashells by the seashore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

17. Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.

18. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

19. What noise annoys an oyster? The noise that annoys an oyster is a noise that knows no oyster.

20. These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly offthe tongue.
Nursery Rhymes

Nursery Rhymes are used for ‘traditional’ songs for young children.

1. Incy Winsy Spider
Incy Winsy Spider
Climbed up the waterspout.
Down came the rain
and washed poor Incy out!
Out came the sun
and dried up all the rain.
And Incy Winsy Spider
Climbed up the spout again.

2. Mary had a little lamb
Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb, little...