April Fools’ Day is a great time to insert some silly, harmless fun into the school day. It’s also a great opportunity to build classroom community, spark laughter, and encourage critical thinking in a low-pressure way. Add this April Fools’ Day unsolvable word search worksheet into morning work or assign it for extra work or as a “can do” when students are finished with their work. Have students work in groups to see if they can solve it, and the first group to call “April Fools’!” wins a prize. (Bonus points if they figure it out through teamwork and observation!) However you use this word search, students won’t forget it!
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April 1st is a day to keep students on their toes with harmless pranks, and the April Fools’ worksheet is a perfect school prank. It looks like a standard classroom activity, but students will find the words listed are actually not to be found in the word search. The first to call out “April Fools’!” wins. No one gets hurt, it’s academic, and students can talk about how they figured it out. This opens the door for great conversation about perseverance, patterns, and knowing when it’s OK to rethink your approach. You can assign this unsolvable word search as extra work during the day. Students who get the joke are sure to want to take the word search home to try it out on their families, so be sure to print some extra copies!
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Good riddles can leave high school students both stumped and laughing. Trying to solve them and find the answer encourages creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. It’s also a lot of fun! Want to share some riddles with your class? Here’s a list of riddles for high school students to bring some energy to the classroom.
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1. Which month has 28 days?
All months have 28 days!
2. What do you break before you use it?
An egg.
3. Trees are my home, but I never go inside. When I fall off a tree, I am dead. What am I?
A leaf.
4. I have hands, but I cannot shake your hand. I have a face, but I cannot smile at you. What am I?
A clock.
5. I have no doors, but I have keys. I have no rooms, but I have space. You can enter, but you cannot leave. What am I?
6. If you drop me on the ground, I survive. But if you drop me in water, I die. What am I?
Paper.
7. What has a bottom at the top?
Your legs.
8. You can hear me, but you cannot see or touch me. What am I?
A voice.
9. What is black and white and read all over?
A newspaper.
10. How can a man go for eight days without sleeping?
He sleeps at night.
11. You live in a one-story house made entirely of redwood. What color are the stairs?
There are no stairs—it is a one-story house.
12. What do you find at the end of a line?
The letter “e.”
13. Name three consecutive days that aren’t the days of the week.
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
14. There are two fathers and two sons in a car. How many people are in the car?
Three people—a grandfather, a father, and a son.
15. Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it, you die. What is it?
Nothing.
16. What five-letter word reads the same right side up and upside down when written in all caps?
SWIMS.
17. What has a thumb and fingers but is not alive?
A glove.
18. What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge.
19. A man shaves throughout the day, yet he has a beard. How?
He is a barber.
20. What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin.
21. What gets wetter the more it dries?
A towel.
22. What has a neck but no head?
A bottle.
23. What can’t be kept until it is given?
A promise.
24. What goes up but never comes down?
Your age.
25. When I am young, I am tall. I grow shorter as I become older. What am I?
A candle.
26. What has a mouth but cannot eat and runs but has no legs?
A river.
27. What has branches but no leaves or fruits?
A bank.
28. What has 13 hearts but no brains?
A pack of playing cards.
29. What speaks but has no mouth and reproduces but has no body?
An echo.
30. What has no beginning, end, or middle?
A circle.
31. What grows bigger the more you take away from it?
A hole.
32. What do you place on the table and cut but never eat?
A pack of playing cards.
33. What breaks the moment you say its name?
Silence.
34. During which month do people sleep the least?
February—it has the fewest days.
35. The person who buys me cannot use me, and the person who uses me cannot buy or see me. What am I?
A coffin.
36. You can hear me but cannot see me. I don’t speak until you do. What am I?
An echo.
37. I am hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. What am I?
A friend.
38. I have seas with no water, mountains with no land, and towns with no people. What am I?
A map.
39. What can be caught but is impossible to throw?
A cold.
40. When you have me, you want to share me. But if you share me, you don’t have me any longer. What am I?
A secret.
41. What goes all around the world but stays in one place?
A stamp.
42. What has one eye but cannot see?
A needle.
43. Everyone has me but nobody can lose me. What am I?
A shadow.
44. There was a plane crash and every single person died. Who survived?
Couples.
45. What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window.
46. They come out at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?
Stars.
47. What has four legs but can’t walk?
A table.
48. What goes up when rain comes down?
An umbrella.
49. I am your mother’s brother’s brother-in-law. Who am I?
Your father.
50. What has a tongue but never talks and has no legs but sometimes walks?
A shoe.
51. Born in an instant, I tell all stories. I can be lost, but I never die. What am I?
A memory.
52. With shiny fangs, my bloodless bite will bring together what’s mostly white. What am I?
A stapler.
53. A plane crashed on the border of the United States and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?
Nowhere—the survivors are alive.
54. What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left hand?
Your left hand.
55. What’s always in front of you but can’t be seen?
The future.
56. What can’t bite you even though it has many teeth?
A comb.
57. Two boys are born at the same time to the same mother, but they are not twins. How is this possible?
They’re two triplets.
58. What is purple and smells exactly like green paint?
Purple paint.
59. Veronica’s birthday is on February 3, but her birthday falls in summer. How is that possible?
She lives in the Southern Hemisphere.
60. The more of this you encounter, the less you’ll be able to see. What is it?
Darkness.
61. I grow richer with alcohol but die with water. What am I?
Fire.
Food & Drink Riddles for High School Students
62. I’m layered and if you peel me, I’ll make you weep. What am I?
An onion.
63. You throw away the outside and cook the inside, then eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?
Corn on the cob.
64. My first letter is in chocolate but not in ham. My second letter is in cake and jam, and my third is in tea but not in coffee. What am I?
A cat.
65. You are alone at home and sleeping. Your friends ring the doorbell. They have come for breakfast. You have cornflakes, bread, jam, a carton of milk, and a bottle of juice. What will you open first?
Your eyes.
66. How can you drop a raw egg from up high onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
Concrete floors are very hard to crack.
67. I am made of water, but I die when you put water on me. What am I?
Ice.
68. When do you go at red and stop at green?
While eating a watermelon.
69. I am a bird, I am a fruit, and I am a person. What am I?
A kiwi.
70. I am a fruit with seeds on the outside. What am I?
A strawberry.
71. I’m a cookie you might like to eat, and I have brown arms, eyes, and don’t forget my feet. What am I?
A gingerbread man.
Math & Science Riddles for High School Students
72. If you multiply this number by any other number, the answer will always be the same. What number is it?
Zero.
73. An apple is 40 cents, a banana is 60 cents, and a grapefruit is 80 cents. How much is a pear?
40 cents. The price of each fruit is calculated by multiplying the number of vowels by 20 cents.
74. Find the number less than 100 that is increased by one-fifth of its value when its digits are reversed.
45 (1/5*45 = 9, 9+45 = 54)
75. Which weighs more, a pound of iron bars or a pound of feathers?
They both weigh the same.
76. An electric train is traveling from east to west, and the wind is blowing from north to south. In which direction does the smoke go?
None—electric trains don’t produce smoke.
77. It is lighter than a feather, but you can’t hold it for more than two minutes. What is it?
Your breath.
78. I can fill up a room but take no space. What am I?
Light.
79. I am easy to lift but hard to throw. What am I?
A feather.
80. I am smooth as silk and can be hard or soft. I fall but cannot climb. What am I?
Rain.
81. If you are running a race and you pass the person who is running second, which position are you in?
Second.
82. Forwards I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Ton.
83. I can be hot, I can be cold, I can run, I can be still, I can be hard, and I can be soft. What am I?
Water.
84. Feed it and it will live. Give it water and it will die. What is it?
Fire.
85. Born in the ocean and white as snow, when I fall back to water I disappear without a trace. What am I?
Salt.
86. What can eat a lot of iron without getting sick?
Rust.
87. A word I know, six letters it contains. Remove one letter and 12 remain. What is it?
Dozens.
Animal Riddles
88. A woman builds a house with all four walls facing south. A bear walks past the house. What color is the bear?
White. It is a polar bear since this must be the North Pole if all walls face south.
89. I have a head like a cat and feet like a cat, but I am not a cat. What am I?
A kitten.
90. A farmer walks toward his field and he sees three frogs sitting on the shoulders of two rabbits. Three parrots and four mice run toward him. How many pairs of legs are going toward the field?
One pair—the farmer’s.
91. How do you spell “cow” in 13 letters?
CEE O DOUBLE YOU.
92. What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?
A kangaroo.
93. I sleep by day and fly at night, but I have no feathers to aid my flight. What am I?
A bat.
94. I am an animal named after the animal that I eat. What am I?
Anteater.
95. My wings are used as flippers, so in water I can swim. Sometimes when on land I slide on my belly in the snow. What am I?
A penguin.
96. The strangest creature you’ll ever find: two eyes in front and many more behind. What am I?
A peacock.
School & Learning Riddles for High School Students
97. How many books can you pack inside an empty backpack?
One. It is no longer empty after that.
98. What is the longest word in the dictionary?
Smiles, because there is a mile between each “s.”
99. Where does divorce come before marriage?
In the dictionary.
100. What starts with a P and ends with an X and has hundreds of letters in between?
A postbox.
101. What can be found at the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, and the beginning of every end?
The letter “e.”
102. What vehicle is a palindrome?
Racecar.
103. There is only one word spelled wrong in the dictionary. What is it?
W-R-O-N-G.
104. What begins with T, finishes with T, and has T in it?
A teapot.
105. What gets sharper the more you use it?
Your brain.
106. Which English word has three consecutive double letters?
Bookkeeper.
107. What becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
The word “short.”
108. What can you find in a minute or an hour but never in a day or a month?
The letter “u.”
109. What is the only English word with “ii” in it?
Skiing.
110. What is the only English word with “uu” in it?
Vacuum.
111. Kate’s mother has four daughters: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and _____. What is the name of the fourth daughter?
Kate.
Holiday & Seasonal Riddles
112. I’m a cookie you might like to eat, and I have brown arms, eyes, and don’t forget my feet. What am I?
A gingerbread man.
113. I am opened each day and have many doors. Inside each is a small surprise. What am I?
An advent calendar.
114. I’m covered before I’m seen and torn open to be used. What am I?
A wrapped present.
115. I arrive at midnight without footsteps, and my first act is to change every calendar. What am I?
New Year’s Day.
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Science can be a heavy topic. Whether you’re learning or teaching, all that deep thinking can sometimes give you a brain cramp! Thank goodness science can be pretty humorous too. Here are our favorite cheesy science jokes and funny puns to share with your students. These science jokes are just the formula you need for a few good laughs!
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As a refresher: Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter and it’s always 3.14. Since Pi is constant and never-ending (it’s been calculated to 50 trillion digits beyond the decimal point), it’s great for math jokes. On March 14 (Pi Day—get it, 3.14?), celebrate math, geometry, and any kind of pie you can think of (apple, peach, pumpkin, pizza) with these Pi Day jokes.
1. What do you get when you divide the circumference of a jack-o’-lantern by its diameter?
Pumpkin pi!
2. What’s the best way to serve pi?
A la mode. Anything else is mean.
3. Why should you never talk to Pi?
Because they will go on and on and on forever.
4. What do you get when you divide the circumference of the sun by its diameter?
Pi in the sky.
5. Why shouldn’t you let advanced math intimidate you?
It’s really as easy as pi!
6. A statistics professor and a math professor worked together on a cookbook.
They called it “Pi a la Mode.”
7. Why did Pi fail their driver’s test?
Because they didn’t know when to stop.
8. What do you get when you divide the circumference of green cheese by its diameter?
Moon pi.
9. What are 3.14% of sailors?
Pi-rates.
10. What’s wrong with the equation “pi r squared”?
Pi are round.
11. What did Pi say when asked to explain what Pi Day is again?
“I don’t want to repeat myself.”
12. Why should you never argue with Pi?
They are completely irrational.
13. What is a math teacher’s favorite snake?
A pi-thon.
14. What did the triangle say to the circle?
You’re pointless.
15. What’s the official animal of Pi Day?
The pi-thon!
16. What happens when you eat too much pi?
You get a bigger circumference.
17. What do you get when a bunch of sheep stand in a circle?
Shepherd’s pi.
18. Who was the roundest knight at King Arthur’s table?
Sir Cumference because he ate too much pi.
19. What did the math teacher have for dessert?
Chocolate pi.
20. What do you call a mathematician who becomes a secret agent?
A s-pi.
21. What was Sir Isaac Newton’s favorite dessert?
Apple pi.
22. How did movie critics rate Life of Pi?
3.14 stars.
23. How are mathematicians like the air force?
They both use pi-lots.
24. Why don’t the other numbers take Pi to the party?
He goes on forever and ever.
25. What were the first mathematicians on the Oregon Trail called?
Pi-oneers.
26. Who do kids follow on March 14?
The Pi-ed Piper.
27. Why don’t you want to get hit in the face with pi?
It never ends.
28. How many bakers does it take to bake a pi?
3.14.
29. What do you get when you take a bovine and divide its circumference by its diameter?
A cow pi.
30. What do you call a mathematician who becomes a private investigator?
Magnum Pi.
31. What do mathematicians eat for dinner on March 14?
Chicken pot pi.
32. What is 1.57?
Half a pi.
33. Why don’t you get into an argument with pi?
It goes around in circles.
34. What do you call a young student who loves math and wants to know more about pi?
An as-pi-ring mathematician.
35. What did Pi say to their partner?
Stop being so irrational.
36. Why was the math book sad on Pi Day?
It had too many problems.
37. What did the mathematician call his girlfriend on March 14?
Winter brings the calmness of snow flurries and cozy days by the fire … oh, who are we kidding? Winter shenanigans, excitement, and chaos are what our students are all about! Calm the excitement with belly laughs from some of our favorite winter jokes for kids.
1. What did one snowman say to the other snowman?
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“Can you smell carrot?”
2. What kind of ball doesn’t bounce?
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A snowball.
3. What do snowmen eat for lunch?
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Icebergers.
4. What often falls at the North Pole but never gets hurt?
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Snow.
5. What does a gingerbread man put on his bed?
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A cookie sheet!
6. Why did the girl keep her trumpet out in the snow?
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She liked playing cool jazz.
7. What sort of cakes do snowmen like?
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Any cake with lots of icing.
8. What do you get if you cross a snowman and a shark?
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Frostbite.
9. What is a mountain’s favorite type of candy?
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Snowcaps.
10. What do you call a snowman that tells tall tales?
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A snow-fake!
11. Where do snowmen love to dance?
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At a snow ball.
12. What’s a snowman’s favorite drink?
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Iced tea.
13. How do you know when it’s too cold for a picnic?
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When you chip your tooth on the soup!
14. What do you call a snowman on Rollerblades?
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A snowmobile.
15. Where do snowmen put their money?
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Snowbanks.
16. What do snowmen wear on their heads?
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Ice caps.
17. How do you build a snow fort?
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You igloo it together.
18. How did the snow globe feel after listening to a scary story?
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A bit shaken up!
19. How does a snowman get to work?
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By icicle.
20. What two letters of the alphabet do snowmen prefer?
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I.C.
21. What do you call a penguin with no eye?
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A pengun.
22. What kind of fish do penguins catch at night?
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Starfish.
23. When is a polar bear not a polar bear?
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When it’s in a grizzly mood.
24. What do you call a snowman in the summer?
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A puddle.
25. What do snowmen eat for breakfast?
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Frosted Flakes.
26. What do you call a snowman temper tantrum?
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A meltdown.
27. What food do you get when you cross a snowman with a wolf?
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A brrrr-grrr.
28. What’s white and goes up?
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A confused snowflake.
29. Why did Frosty go to the middle of the big lake?
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Because snow man’s an island.
30. How do you know that a snowman was in your home?
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You find a carrot in a puddle next to the fireplace.
31. What do you call a penguin in the Sahara Desert?
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Lost.
32. What did the police officer say when he saw the snowman stealing?
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Freeze!
33. What is a snowman’s favorite snack?
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Ice Krispy Treats.
34. How do snowmen pay their bills?
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With cold hard cash.
35. What do you have in December that you don’t have in any other month?
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The letter D.
36. What does Frosty the Snowman like to put on his icebergers?
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Chilly sauce.
37. What video game do they play in igloos?
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Snow Fortnite.
38. Why did the boy only wear one snow boot?
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There was only a 50 percent chance of snow.
39. Who were Frosty’s parents?
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Mom and Pop Sicle.
40. What do you call a snowman with a six-pack?
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An abdominal snowman.
41. What’s the best part of school during the winter?
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Snow and tell.
42. What did the icy road say to the truck?
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Want to go for a spin?
43. Where do snowmen get the weather report?
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The Winternet.
44. What do you call a snowman’s dog?
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A slush puppy.
45. What is a snowman’s favorite game?
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Ice Spy.
46. Why was the snowman rummaging through the bag of carrots?
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He was picking his nose.
47. What do you call a snowman that plays piano?
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Meltin’ John.
48. What do snowmen do when the weather’s too hot for scarves and hats?
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They change into puddles.
49. What do you call a snowman without a carrot?
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Nobody nose.
50. What’s a snowman’s favorite meat?
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Cold cuts.
51. What are caribou calves given to wear?
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Hoof-me-downs.
52. Is it quicker to be hot or cold?
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Hot is quicker because you can catch cold.
53. What sits on the bottom of the cold Arctic Ocean and shakes?
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A nervous wreck.
54. If your reindeer lost his tail, where would you go to buy him a new one?
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A re-tail store.
55. Where do seals go to see movies?
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The dive-in.
56. What did Jack Frost say to Frosty the Snowman?
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“Have an ice day!”
57. What kind of math do snowy owls like?
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Owlgebra.
58. What did the big furry hat say to the warm woolly scarf?
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“You hang around while I go on a-head.”
59. What is red, white, and blue over winter break?
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A sad candy cane.
60. What happens when you’re alone in the water and get too cold?
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You’re totally ice-olated.
61. What do you call a ghost in the winter?
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Casp-brrrrr.
62. What kind of androids do you find in the Arctic?
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Snobots.
63. What do snowmen do on Christmas?
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Play with snow angels.
64. How would you scare a snowman?
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Show him a hair dryer.
65. Why do mummies like holiday gifts?
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Because of all the wrappings.
66. How do you keep from getting cold feet?
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Don’t go around brrfooted!
67. What happened when an icicle landed on the snowman’s head?
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It knocked him out cold.
68. Why are bad school grades like a shipwreck in the Arctic Ocean?
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They’re both below C level!
69. What do you call 10 Arctic hares hopping backward through the snow together?
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A receding hare line.
70. How does a penguin build a house?
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Igloos it together.
71. What do snowmen call their offspring?
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Chill-dren.
72. Today isn’t the day to be making jokes about the weather.
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It’s snow joke.
73. What did the snowman order at Wendy’s?
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A Frosty.
74. What did the tree say after a long winter?
“What a re-leaf!”
75. Who is Frosty’s favorite aunt?
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Aunt Arctica!
76. Why did the snowman call his friend an iceberg?
Because they were a cool bunch!
77. What do you call an old snowman?
Water.
78. What did the snowflake say to the fallen leaf?
You’re so last season!
79. What do snowmen like to do on the weekend?
Chill out.
80. Why don’t you ever see a penguin in the U.K.?
Because they’re afraid of Wales!
81. Why did the snowman call his dog Frost?
Because Frost bites!
82. What is a snowman’s favorite dessert?
Ice cream.
83. Why did the snowman bring a broom to the party?
He wanted to sweep a girl off her feet!
84. Why did the snowman break up with his girlfriend?
He thought she was too cold!
85. How do snowmen read their texts?
With an icy stare.
86. What bites but doesn’t have teeth?
Frost.
87. What do you call a slow skier?
A slope-poke.
88. What do snowmen win at the Olympics?
Cold medals.
89. What does Frosty’s mom put on her face at night?
Cold cream.
90. What do you sing at a snowman’s birthday party?
“Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow!”
91. How do polar bears make their beds?
With sheets of ice and blankets of snow.
92. What do you call it when a snowman ignores you?
The cold shoulder.
93. Which side of a polar bear has the most fur?
The outside.
94. Why did the husband pour warm water on his computer?
He had asked his wife what to do if Windows froze.
95. What do you get when you cross a snowman with a baker?
