5 difficult riddles for kids

Test the kids out with these hard riddles. They might even be able to stump their teacher with these ones! They're a little longer than a regular riddle so they'll have to think more logically. Once they get it though, they will be on the hunt for more!

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Riddle:
A cloud is my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place and I'm the torment of man. What am I?
Answer:
Rain
 

Riddle:
I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?
Answer:
Pencil lead
 

Riddle:
There was a competition where the contestants had to hold something. At the end of the event, the winner was a person who was physically disabled (he had no hands or feet)! What was it that the contestants have to hold?
Answer:
Their breath.
 

Riddle:
The person who makes it has no need for it. The person who purchases it does not use it. The person who does use it does not know they are. What is it?
Answer:
A coffin.
 

Riddle:
You live in a place where six months of the year is mild summer and during the other six months the mercury goes drastically down! You own a lake where there is a small island. You want to build a house over there and need to get some materials across there. You have no boat, plane or anything which you can use to transport them to the island. How will you solve the problem?
Answer:
Wait for winter. The lake will freeze when the temperature drops.