The riddle about the turnip: a familiar stranger

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Children learn about the existence of such a root crop as a turnip from an early age. While listening to the Russian folk tale of the same name, they look at pictures of garden adventures of cheerful old men, granddaughters and their four-legged friends. Here, the kids get acquainted with the appearance of the main character. Therefore, the riddle about the turnip proposed by adults will be interesting even to younger preschoolers.

Riddle for kids 3-4 years old

Three/four year olds actively explore the world around them and absorb a lot of new information. But riddles for them should be simplified, based on a simple enumeration of the characteristics of the subject. It is also important to associate them with something specific, familiar to the child: with a fairy tale, with appearance, with taste.

This age category will suit the following well-known riddle about the turnip: round, but not the moon; yellow but not oil; with a ponytail, but not a mouse.

Or more simplified: round, yellow, with a ponytail, lives in the ground in summer(growing).

If the baby can’t guess it in any way, you can offer this option:

Round, but not a ball, With a tail, but not a mouse, Yellow like honey

He lives in a fairy tale.

Clarification in the riddle will direct the baby's thoughts in the right direction and help find the right answer.

To reveal the secret of poetry, you can invite the child to draw an object according to the description: round, there is a tail, yellow, there is a fairy tale about it. By drawing and coloring the riddle, the little artist will solve it faster.

Children 3-4 years old will really like the riddle about the turnip in verse, where you need to substitute a rhyme at the end:

Large yellow bun

Hided in the garden.

Grandfather could not pull out

And sent for the grandmother.

Here the helpers came running, Grip tight.

Friendship won again:

Pull out…!

(turnip).

A child who knows the taste of ripe turnips will like this riddle rhyme:

Round, yellow, sweet, Her home is a garden bed.

To avoid misunderstandings, you can first find out how the baby understands the word "bed": he must associate it with the garden where vegetables grow.

The riddle about the turnip for children of senior preschool and primary school age

At the older preschool age, the thinking of children becomes more figurative, they understand metaphorical descriptions. In this regard, a riddle about a turnip for children five years old and older, which was composed by Natalya from Armavir, will come in handy:

Throw a crumb into the ground, She will lie down a little.

And look - already growing

Samovar-root vegetable.

And schoolchildren will probably guess what this poem is about:

In a hat with green feathers, She is wearing a yellow caftan –

This person is famous, Round like the moon.

Hides in the black chamber, Fleeing the summer heat, And in the fall comes to our house

To the delight of all the kids.

Here are such funny riddles about the turnip you can guess for kids.