200 Would You Rather Questions for Kids

Would you rather have a dog that can talk or a horse that can fly?

Then ask: Where would the two of you go on the first day?

Would you rather be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an elephant?

Then ask: Which one would help you more on an ordinary school day?

Would you rather have a tail like a monkey or wings like a bat?

Then ask: What would be annoying about it after a week?

Would you rather live with a family of penguins or a family of monkeys for a month?

Then ask: What would you have to learn first to fit in?

Would you rather have a pet dragon the size of a cat or a pet cat the size of a dragon?

Then ask: Who in your house would have the hardest time with it?

Would you rather breathe underwater like a fish or see in the dark like an owl?

Then ask: What would you explore first, and what would you hope to find?

Would you rather take care of ten puppies for a day or one baby elephant for a week?

Then ask: What would be the hardest part, and who would you ask for help?

Would you rather be a bird that can fly anywhere or a dolphin that can swim anywhere?

Then ask: What would you miss about being a person?

Would you rather have a pet that stays a baby forever or a pet that can do one trick nobody else's pet can?

Then ask: What trick would it be, and who would you show first?

Would you rather ride on the back of a whale or on the back of an eagle?

Then ask: What could you see from there that you can't see any other way?

Would you rather sleep all winter like a bear or stay awake all night like a bat?

Then ask: What would you miss while everyone else did the opposite?

Would you rather have every animal like you or have every animal understand you?

Then ask: Is being liked the same as being understood? What is the difference?

Would you rather have a pet octopus or a pet parrot that repeats everything you say?

Then ask: Which one would get you in more trouble, and how?

Would you rather change color like a chameleon or grow back lost teeth like a shark?

Then ask: When would each one come in handy?

Would you rather spend a day as your pet or have your pet spend a day as you?

Then ask: What do you think would surprise you about their day?

Would you rather work at a zoo or at an animal hospital?

Then ask: What part of the job would be hardest for you?

Would you rather have a giraffe's neck or an elephant's trunk for a day?

Then ask: What could you reach or do that you can't now?

Would you rather find out that ants can talk or that trees can talk?

Then ask: What do you think they would say about people?

Would you rather be friends with a lion that is always hungry or a skunk that is always nervous?

Then ask: How would you keep the friendship safe for both of you?

Would you rather eat only crunchy foods or only soft foods?

Then ask: Which food would you miss most, and what could stand in for it?

Would you rather have dessert before dinner every day or breakfast for dinner every day?

Then ask: Would it still feel like a treat after a month?

Would you rather be the best cook in your family or the best at picking where to eat?

Then ask: Which one would make more people happy?

Would you rather eat a pizza with no cheese or a burger with no bun?

Then ask: At what point does a food stop being that food?

Would you rather have a tree that grows any fruit you ask for or a cow that gives any flavor of milk?

Then ask: Who would you share it with, and who would you keep it secret from?

Would you rather try one new food every day or eat the same five foods forever?

Then ask: What is the best food you almost refused to try?

Would you rather have ice cream that never melts or fries that never get cold?

Then ask: What would you do differently if you never had to hurry?

Would you rather cook dinner for your family every night or wash the dishes every night?

Then ask: Which job is harder, and which one gets noticed more?

Would you rather eat everything with chopsticks or everything with a spoon?

Then ask: Which foods would get impossible, and how would you solve it?

Would you rather taste everything twice as strongly or smell everything twice as strongly?

Then ask: When would that be great, and when would it be awful?

Would you rather invent a new candy or a new kind of sandwich?

Then ask: What would go in it, and who would it be for?

Would you rather know what is for dinner a week ahead or be surprised every night?

Then ask: Is looking forward to something part of the fun?

Would you rather give up pizza or ice cream for a whole year?

Then ask: What would you eat instead when you really wanted it?

Would you rather run a lemonade stand or a cookie stand for a day?

Then ask: How would you get people to stop and buy?

Then ask: What price would you charge, and why that much?

Would you rather eat breakfast in a treehouse or dinner on a boat?

Then ask: Who would you invite, and what would be on the menu?

Would you rather eat only green foods or only orange foods for a week?

Then ask: Which meals could you still make?

Would you rather grow all your own vegetables or catch all your own fish?

Then ask: What would you have to learn first?

Would you rather be a judge on a baking show or one of the bakers?

Then ask: Is it harder to bake the cake or to tell someone their cake did not win?

Would you rather have a chocolate river or a lemonade fountain in your backyard?

Then ask: How long until you got tired of it?

Would you rather turn invisible whenever you want or walk through walls?

Then ask: What rule would you make for yourself about using it?

Would you rather stop time for everyone but you or go one hour back in time once a day?

Then ask: What would you fix, and what would you leave alone?

Would you rather be super strong or super fast?

Then ask: Which one would be better for helping somebody in trouble?

Would you rather have a power nobody knows about or a power everybody knows about?

Then ask: How would people treat you differently if they knew?

Would you rather shrink to the size of an ant or grow as tall as a house?

Then ask: What would be scary about it, and what would be useful?

Would you rather control the weather in your town or make any plant grow in a minute?

Then ask: Who would be upset by your choice, and what would you say to them?

Would you rather never need to sleep or never need to eat?

Then ask: What would you do with the extra time, and what would you miss?

Would you rather be able to copy anyone's voice or draw anything perfectly?

Then ask: When would using it be unfair to someone?

Would you rather heal any scrape with a touch or fix any broken thing with a touch?

Then ask: Would people start being less careful around you?

Would you rather have a power that works only when you help someone or one that works only when nobody is watching?

Then ask: What does your pick say about what you want a power for?

Would you rather know every answer or ask the best questions?

Then ask: Which one would teach you more in the long run?

Would you rather be the hero's sidekick or a hero with no helper?

Then ask: What does a sidekick do that a hero can't do alone?

Would you rather breathe fire or shoot ice from your hands?

Then ask: What everyday job would you use it for?

Would you rather teleport anywhere once a day or fly anywhere but only at walking speed?

Then ask: Where would you go on a normal Tuesday?

Would you rather understand every animal or understand every machine?

Then ask: What would you ask your family's car or computer?

Would you rather be able to talk to plants or make anyone laugh whenever you want?

Then ask: Who would you try it on first, and why them?

Would you rather have super hearing or super eyesight?

Then ask: What would be too loud to hear or too much to see?

Would you rather lift a car with one hand or jump over a house?

Then ask: Would you keep it secret or show people?

Would you rather have a strong power that works only on Mondays or a weak one that works every day?

Then ask: What would your Mondays look like?

Would you rather have a longer recess or a longer lunch?

Then ask: What would you do with the extra minutes?

Would you rather be the best in your class at math or the best at art?

Then ask: Which one would you enjoy even if nobody noticed?

Would you rather have school four long days a week or five short days?

Then ask: What would you do with the day off, every single week?

Would you rather sit next to your best friend all year or pick a new seat every week?

Then ask: What would you learn about the kids you don't know yet?

Would you rather teach the class for a day or be principal for a day?

Then ask: What is the first rule you would change, and who might not like it?

Would you rather read a book and tell the class about it or build something and show the class how it works?

Then ask: Which is harder for you, and what makes it hard?

Would you rather always work in a group or always work alone?

Then ask: When does a group make the work better, and when does it make it worse?

Would you rather get every answer right without knowing how or get some wrong and understand them all?

Then ask: Which one would help you more next year?

Would you rather have class outside every day or a class pet in the room?

Then ask: What would be the hardest part of keeping it going all year?

Would you rather learn a new language at school or learn to play an instrument?

Then ask: Who would you want to use it with first?

Would you rather have a teacher who is funny but strict or one who is quiet but lets you choose your work?

Then ask: What do you need from a teacher to do your best?

Would you rather go on a field trip to a museum or to a farm?

Then ask: What would you most want to see there?

Would you rather be line leader every day or pick the read-aloud book every day?

Then ask: Which job comes with more responsibility?

Would you rather give a speech to the whole school or write a story the whole school reads?

Then ask: What makes one feel scarier than the other?

Would you rather learn from a robot teacher or from your grandparent?

Then ask: What could each one teach you that the other can't?

Would you rather have a science fair every month or a talent show every month?

Then ask: What would you bring to the first one?

Would you rather invent a new school subject or get rid of one?

Then ask: What would kids learn in your new subject?

Then ask: Who would miss the one you got rid of?

Would you rather pick the family movie every week or pick the family dinner every week?

Then ask: How would you make sure everyone else is happy too?

Would you rather do one big chore a week or one small chore every day?

Then ask: Which one are you more likely to actually do?

Would you rather have a slide instead of stairs or a trampoline instead of a floor in one room?

Then ask: What would go wrong first?

Would you rather be the oldest kid in a big family or the youngest?

Then ask: What does the oldest get that the youngest doesn't, and the other way around?

Would you rather spend a day doing what a grown-up in your family does or have them spend a day as you?

Then ask: What do you think would surprise them most?

Would you rather live in a house in the trees or a house on a boat?

Then ask: What would you have to give up from the home you have now?

Would you rather have a family game night every week or a family trip once a year?

Then ask: Which one would you remember more in ten years?

Would you rather always have to be on time or always have to keep your room clean?

Then ask: Which one matters more to the people you live with?

Would you rather have a robot that cleans your room or a robot that does your homework?

Then ask: What would you stop being able to do yourself?

Would you rather share a big room with a brother or sister or have a tiny room all to yourself?

Then ask: What is good about having someone there at night?

Would you rather plan a surprise for someone in your family or have them plan one for you?

Then ask: What makes a surprise good for the person getting it?

Would you rather have a family band or a family sports team?

Then ask: What would each person in your family play?

Would you rather have your grandparents live with you or live next door to your best friend?

Then ask: What would change about an ordinary day?

Would you rather cook a meal with a grown-up or build something with a grown-up?

Then ask: Who in your family would you pick, and what would you make?

Would you rather move to a new town every year or never move at all?

Then ask: What would you miss most about the place you live now?

Would you rather have a backyard with a pool or a backyard with a treehouse?

Then ask: Who would come over most, and what would you play?

Would you rather choose your own bedtime or choose your own screen time?

Then ask: What would you pick, and what would happen after a week?

Would you rather hear a funny story about your parents as kids or learn a secret family recipe?

Then ask: Who could you ask about it this week?

Would you rather be the funniest kid in the group or the kindest?

Then ask: Which one would you want in a friend of your own?

Would you rather always pick the game or always go along with what your friends pick?

Then ask: How would the others feel after a month of it?

Would you rather have a friend who always agrees with you or one who tells you when you're wrong?

Then ask: Which one is easier to be around, and which one helps you more?

Would you rather keep secrets for your friends or never be told a secret at all?

Then ask: When is a secret too big to keep?

Would you rather win a game against your friend or lose and see them thrilled?

Then ask: Does it change if they would never know you let them win?

Would you rather make a new friend every week or keep the same friends your whole life?

Then ask: What do old friends know about you that new ones don't?

Would you rather have a friend who lives next door or a friend far away who writes to you every week?

Then ask: What would you put in a letter that you wouldn't say out loud?

Would you rather be invited to every party or throw one great party a year?

Then ask: Who would you make sure was on the list, and what puts them there?

Would you rather say sorry first after a fight or wait for your friend to say it?

Then ask: What does it cost you to go first?

Would you rather lend your favorite toy for a week or borrow your friend's favorite for a week?

Then ask: How careful would you be with theirs compared to yours?

Would you rather be on a team with your friends that loses or a team of strangers that wins?

Then ask: What is the point of playing, for you?

Would you rather have a friend who is great at sports or a friend who is great at telling stories?

Then ask: What would the two of you do on a Saturday?

Would you rather go to a sleepover at a friend's house or have a friend sleep over at yours?

Then ask: What would make it a good night?

Would you rather start a club with your friends or join a club where you know nobody?

Then ask: What would your club be about, and who could join?

Would you rather be the new kid at school or the kid who shows the new kid around?

Then ask: What would you want someone to do for you on your first day?

Would you rather have a friend who is always early or one who is always late but always fun?

Then ask: How long would you wait before it bothered you?

Would you rather make a friend laugh or help a friend fix a problem?

Then ask: Which one would you remember more if a friend did it for you?

Would you rather live on a planet with two suns or a planet with five moons?

Then ask: What would night look like there?

Would you rather float with no gravity for a day or jump ten times higher for a week?

Then ask: What would be fun, and what would get tricky?

Would you rather name a new star or name a new planet?

Then ask: What name would you pick, and why?

Would you rather fly a rocket or build one?

Then ask: Which job needs more patience?

Would you rather eat space food for a month or sleep strapped to a wall for a month?

Then ask: What would you miss most from home?

Would you rather see Earth from space or see a black hole from a safe distance?

Then ask: What do you think you would feel?

Would you rather take a robot friend on a long space trip or a pet?

Then ask: Which one would help more on a long, quiet day?

Would you rather talk to astronauts on the space station or scientists at the South Pole?

Then ask: What would you ask them first?

Would you rather live on a planet where a year lasts one month or one where a year lasts ten Earth years?

Then ask: How many birthdays would you have had by now?

Would you rather find out there is life on another planet or find out we are alone?

Then ask: How would people on Earth act after the news?

Would you rather go to space for one day or watch every rocket launch from the front row?

Then ask: Is doing something always better than watching it?

Would you rather win every game you play or have fun in every game you play?

Then ask: What would winning feel like after a hundred wins in a row?

Would you rather be the coach or the star player?

Then ask: Who gets the credit when the team wins, and who should?

Would you rather invent a new board game or a new playground game?

Then ask: What are the rules, and how do you win?

Would you rather play on a team where everyone is good or a team where you are the best?

Then ask: Where would you learn more?

Would you rather be great at a sport nobody has heard of or okay at a sport everyone plays?

Then ask: Which one would you stick with longer?

Would you rather never lose at hide-and-seek or never lose at tag?

Then ask: What is your secret trick?

Would you rather play a game where the rules change every five minutes or a game with no rules at all?

Then ask: Which one would end in an argument first?

Would you rather score the winning goal or make the pass that sets it up?

Then ask: Why do people remember one more than the other?

Would you rather race a cheetah on a bike or race a dolphin in a boat?

Then ask: How would you give yourself a fair chance?

Would you rather play a video game you designed or a board game your family made up together?

Then ask: What would make it fun more than once?

Would you rather lose a game because of your own mistake or because the referee made a bad call?

Then ask: Which one is easier to let go of, and why?

Would you rather go camping in the woods or stay in a hotel in a big city?

Then ask: What would you do there that you can't do at home?

Would you rather take a trip with no map or a trip with every minute planned?

Then ask: What is the best thing that could happen on only one of them?

Would you rather visit 100 years in the past or 100 years in the future for a day?

Then ask: What one question would you ask the people there?

Would you rather cross the country by train or by hot-air balloon?

Then ask: What would you see slowly that you would miss going fast?

Would you rather discover a new island or a new animal?

Then ask: What would you name it, and who gets to decide what happens to it?

Would you rather climb the tallest mountain or go down into the deepest cave?

Then ask: What would make you turn back?

Would you rather live on a space station for a year or on a ship at sea for a year?

Then ask: Who would you miss, and how would you keep in touch?

Would you rather visit every country for one day each or live in one new country for a whole year?

Then ask: Which way would you actually get to know a place?

Would you rather go on an adventure with a friend who is brave or a friend who is careful?

Then ask: Which one are you, and which one do you need next to you?

Would you rather be the one who reads the map or the one who decides where to go?

Then ask: What happens when those two people disagree?

Would you rather find a treasure you must share with your whole class or a small one just for you?

Then ask: Would it feel different to keep it if everyone knew?

Would you rather sleep in a tent in the desert or a hut in the jungle?

Then ask: What would you need to pack?

Would you rather ride a camel across a desert or a horse along a beach?

Then ask: What would you see along the way?

Would you rather be lost for an hour in a giant maze or in a big city?

Then ask: What would you do first to find your way out?

Would you rather go on a dinosaur dig or dive to a shipwreck?

Then ask: What would you hope to find?

Would you rather travel with a guide who knows everything or explore on your own and figure it out?

Then ask: Which way would make a better story afterward?

Would you rather visit a place where nobody speaks your language or a place where everyone knows your name?

Then ask: What would be hard, and what would be fun?

Would you rather invent a machine that cleans the oceans or one that plants trees?

Then ask: Who would you ask to help you build it?

Would you rather have a phone that translates what animals say or glasses that show the name of every plant?

Then ask: What would you find out on your walk home?

Would you rather have a closet that picks your clothes or a fridge that picks your meals?

Then ask: What would you do if you didn't like its choice?

Would you rather ride in a car that drives itself or a train as fast as a plane?

Then ask: Where would you go first?

Would you rather invent something that saves people time or something that makes people laugh?

Then ask: What would it be?

Would you rather have a printer that prints any toy or a robot that builds anything out of blocks?

Then ask: What would you make, and would it still be fun if it was that easy?

Would you rather have shoes that let you walk on water or a jacket that keeps you any temperature you want?

Then ask: Where would you test it first?

Would you rather see what your town will look like in 50 years or what it looked like 50 years ago?

Then ask: What do you think changed, or will change, the most?

Would you rather be the person who invents something or the person who makes everyone want it?

Then ask: Who deserves more of the credit?

Would you rather have a robot that remembers everything for you or a brain that never forgets?

Then ask: What would you lose if you never had to remember anything yourself?

Would you rather live in a city under the sea or a city in the clouds?

Then ask: What would school look like there?

Would you rather live in a castle or a cottage in an enchanted forest?

Then ask: Who would your neighbors be?

Would you rather have a talking cat or a flying carpet?

Then ask: Which one would you trust with a secret?

Would you rather meet a friendly giant or a tiny fairy?

Then ask: What could each one help you with?

Would you rather find a door to another world in your closet or under your bed?

Then ask: What would be on the other side?

Would you rather have three wishes for yourself or one wish for everyone in the world?

Then ask: What would you wish for?

Would you rather be a wizard who forgets spells or a knight who is afraid of the dark?

Then ask: How would you still get the job done?

Would you rather turn into any animal for an hour or any object for a day?

Then ask: What would you pick, and what would you find out?

Would you rather live inside your favorite book or your favorite movie?

Then ask: Which character would you want to meet first?

Would you rather have a mirror that answers one question a day or a crystal ball that shows one minute of the future?

Then ask: What would you ask, or what minute would you look at?

Would you rather be friends with a kind ghost or a shy monster?

Then ask: How would you help them meet other people?

Would you rather have a pencil that makes drawings come alive or a backpack that holds anything?

Then ask: What would you draw or carry first?

Would you rather be really good at one thing or pretty good at everything?

Then ask: Which thing would you choose, and what would you give up for it?

Would you rather know what will happen tomorrow or change one thing about yesterday?

Then ask: What would you change, and what else might change with it?

Would you rather be right and have nobody believe you or be wrong and have everybody agree?

Then ask: How would you try to convince them?

Would you rather never be bored again or never be in a hurry again?

Then ask: What good things come from being bored?

Would you rather be famous for something you didn't do or do something great that nobody hears about?

Then ask: Who are you doing it for?

Would you rather have everything you want or want only what you already have?

Then ask: What is the difference between those two kinds of happy?

Would you rather get what is fair or get what you need?

Then ask: Can you think of a time when those were not the same?

Would you rather break a rule to help a friend or follow the rule and let them work it out?

Then ask: Does it depend on the rule? Name one you would break and one you wouldn't.

Would you rather be the one who makes the rules or the one who can skip one rule a day?

Then ask: What rule would you make first, and would you follow it yourself?

Would you rather choose quickly and maybe be wrong or take a long time and maybe miss your chance?

Then ask: Tell me about a time you wish you had gone the other way.

Would you rather have a hard job you love or an easy job that bores you?

Then ask: What makes hard work feel worth doing?

Would you rather be the smartest person in the room or the one who learns the most from everyone else?

Then ask: Which of the two keeps getting better?

Would you rather always know when someone is lying or never be lied to?

Then ask: Which one would make you trust people more?

Would you rather lose your own favorite toy or break your friend's favorite toy?

Then ask: What would you do next, either way?

Would you rather be the youngest in a group of grown-ups or the oldest in a group of little kids?

Then ask: When would you feel like you belong?

Would you rather have lots of money and little free time or little money and lots of free time?

Then ask: What would you do with your free time?

Would you rather be good at something because it comes easy or because you worked hard at it?

Then ask: Which one would you be prouder of?

Would you rather change your mind when someone gives you a good reason or stick with your first answer?

Then ask: When did you last change your mind about something?