Get to Know You Questions for Kids

What is your favorite thing to wear?

Then ask: Where would you wear it if you could wear it anywhere?

What is the best place you have ever been?

Then ask: What do you remember about how it looked or smelled?

What is your very first memory?

Then ask: How old do you think you were?

What is your favorite song right now?

Then ask: What do you do when it comes on?

Which book or show would you tell a friend to try?

Then ask: What part would you not spoil for them?

What is your favorite word?

Then ask: Where did you first hear it?

What was the best day of your life so far?

Then ask: What made it better than a normal good day?

What is your favorite time of year?

Then ask: What do you do then that you never do the rest of the year?

What is the first thing you would buy with ten dollars?

Then ask: Would you spend it all at once or save some?

What is your favorite thing to do outside?

Then ask: Who do you like to do it with?

What was the first thing you learned to do all by yourself?

Then ask: Did someone teach you, or did you figure it out?

What part of the day do you wish you could skip?

Then ask: What would you do with that time instead?

Are you a morning person or a night person?

Then ask: What are you like at the other end of the day?

What do you like to do right after school?

Then ask: What do you need before you can start homework?

What is your favorite breakfast?

Then ask: Who makes it best?

Which chore do you mind the least?

Then ask: What makes it better than the others?

What would you do on a rainy day with no screens?

Then ask: Who would you want home with you?

What do you think about when you are falling asleep?

Then ask: Do you ever dream about it?

What is something you do the same way every single time?

Then ask: What happens if you do it differently?

What is the best thing to do on a long car ride?

Then ask: What makes a car ride feel long?

Where in our home do you like to be the most?

Then ask: What would make that spot even better?

What smell makes you happy?

Then ask: Where do you know it from?

What is something you and your best friend disagree about?

Then ask: How do you stay friends anyway?

What do you and your friends play the most?

Then ask: Who usually picks the game?

Who in our family are you most like?

Then ask: In what way are you different from them?

What is your favorite thing to do with a grandparent?

Then ask: What do they do that nobody else does?

What is the best part of having a brother or sister, or of being the only kid?

Then ask: And what is the hardest part?

What family tradition would you keep forever?

Then ask: Which one would you happily drop?

What does our family do that other families do not?

Then ask: How did you find out other families do it differently?

If you could invite anyone to dinner at our house, who would it be?

Then ask: What would you ask them first?

Who is the best person to tell a secret to?

Then ask: What makes them good at keeping it?

What is a story about you that our family loves to tell?

Then ask: Do you remember it the same way?

What makes a friend's house fun to visit?

Then ask: What would a friend say is fun about ours?

What are you proud of that nobody gave you a prize for?

Then ask: Who would you want to know about it?

If you had a whole day to help someone, who would you pick?

Then ask: What would you do for them?

What is a rule you think is a good one?

Then ask: What would happen if nobody followed it?

What rule would you get rid of?

Then ask: Why do you think someone made it in the first place?

What would you never trade, even for a lot of money?

Then ask: What makes it worth more than money?

What do you want to get better at this year?

Then ask: What is the first small step?

What do you think makes a person brave?

Then ask: When have you seen someone be brave?

What job would you like to try for one day?

Then ask: Which part of it do you think is the hardest?

What do you worry about sometimes?

Then ask: What helps when that worry shows up?

What problem in the world would you fix first?

Then ask: What could a kid do about it now?

Who do you look up to?

Then ask: What do they do that you want to do too?

If you were a kind of weather, what would you be today?

Then ask: What would make the weather change?

If you were a food, what food would you be?

Then ask: Why that one and not your favorite food?

If you were a color, which color would you be?

Then ask: Would you be the same color on a school day?

If you were a room in our house, which room would you be?

Then ask: What would people come to you for?

If you were a song, what kind of song would you be?

Then ask: Loud or quiet, fast or slow? Why?

If you were a book, what would your title be?

Then ask: What would happen in chapter one?

If you were a vehicle, what would you be?

Then ask: Where would you take people?

If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?

Then ask: What would grow on you, and who would live in you?

If you were a superhero, what would your power be?

Then ask: What would your weak spot be?

If you were a game, what game would you be?

Then ask: What would your rules be?

If you were a place on a map, where would you be?

Then ask: Who would come to visit you?

What are you most looking forward to this year?

Then ask: What are you least sure about?

What would you want your new class to know about you?

Then ask: What would you rather they found out later?

What is the best way to make a new friend at school?

Then ask: What would you say first?

What did you notice first when you walked into your new classroom?

Then ask: What would you change about the room?

Who did you sit next to today?

Then ask: What do you know about them already?

What was the hardest part of the first day?

Then ask: What would make tomorrow easier?

What is one thing you want to learn this year?

Then ask: Who could help you learn it?

If you could pick one class job, what would it be?

Then ask: What would you do better than anyone?

What do you think your teacher likes best?

Then ask: How did you figure that out?

What surprised you about your new grade?

Then ask: Is it harder or easier than you thought?

What would make this your best school year so far?

Then ask: Which part of that is up to you?