Fall Would You Rather Questions for Kids

Would you rather have leaves that stay red and gold all year or watch them all fall in a single week?

Then ask: Would you still stop to look if they never changed?

Would you rather rake the whole yard in one afternoon or a little every day until the tree is bare?

Then ask: Which way would you do a better job?

Would you rather have a windy day for kites or a still, foggy morning for a walk?

Then ask: What can you do in fog that you cannot do in sunshine?

Would you rather collect one leaf from every kind of tree or find the single best leaf on your street?

Then ask: How would you decide which one is the best?

Would you rather have fall last all the way to January or have summer hang on until Halloween?

Then ask: What would you lose from the season that got shorter?

Would you rather walk to school through crunchy leaves or across the first frost on the grass?

Then ask: What sound or feeling tells you the season has changed?

Would you rather have it get dark early so you can see the stars before bed or stay light so you can play outside after dinner?

Then ask: What would you do with the evening you picked?

Would you rather press leaves in a book to keep or let them all blow away?

Then ask: What is worth keeping, and what is better left where it is?

Would you rather be the first leaf to fall or the last one hanging on?

Then ask: What would the last one see that the others missed?

Would you rather spend a rainy fall day indoors with a project or a cold sunny one outdoors with nothing planned?

Then ask: Which day would go by faster?

Would you rather know the exact day the leaves will turn or be surprised some morning?

Then ask: What would you plan if you knew?

Would you rather have all new school supplies or keep the ones that already feel like yours?

Then ask: When is old better than new?

Would you rather be in a class with your best friend and a tough teacher or with an easy teacher and nobody you know yet?

Then ask: Which one would matter more by winter?

Would you rather pick your own seat on the first day or have the teacher pick it for you?

Then ask: What might a teacher see that you do not?

Would you rather be the new kid at a school or the one asked to show the new kid around?

Then ask: What is the first thing you would want someone to tell you?

Would you rather join a club you know you will like or one you have never tried?

Then ask: How would you decide whether to quit or stick with it?

Would you rather have the first week be all games or go straight into the real work?

Then ask: What do the games do that the work cannot?

Would you rather pack your own lunch every day or eat whatever the cafeteria is serving?

Then ask: What would you learn from doing it yourself for a month?

Would you rather walk to school with a friend or get a ride and ten more minutes of sleep?

Then ask: What are ten minutes of sleep worth to you?

Would you rather set one big goal for the school year or a small one for each week?

Then ask: How would you know you were getting there?

Would you rather tell the class about your summer or listen to everyone else tell about theirs?

Then ask: What would you leave out, and what does that tell you?

Would you rather have your hardest subject first thing in the morning or last thing in the afternoon?

Then ask: When in the day does your brain work best, and how do you know?

Would you rather carve a pumpkin with a funny face or paint one that lasts for weeks?

Then ask: Which matters more to you, how it looks tonight or how long it lasts?

Would you rather have apple pie or pumpkin pie as the only pie for the rest of your life?

Then ask: On what day would you regret it most?

Would you rather drink warm apple cider or eat a caramel apple?

Then ask: Which one would you rather make from scratch, and what would be the tricky part?

Would you rather scoop out the pumpkin or roast the seeds?

Then ask: Which jobs do you like even though they are messy?

Would you rather bake bread for your neighbors or have a neighbor teach you their best recipe?

Then ask: Which one would you still have next fall?

Would you rather taste ten kinds of apples and pick a favorite or stick with the kind you always eat?

Then ask: What would it take to change your favorite?

Would you rather have cinnamon in everything or pumpkin in everything for a month?

Then ask: Which food would it ruin?

Would you rather cook one big pot that feeds everyone on your street or a small fancy dinner for your family?

Then ask: What changes when you cook for people you do not know well?

Would you rather have a kitchen that smells like baking all day or a yard that smells like wood smoke?

Then ask: Which smell takes you back to a place, and where does it take you?

Would you rather trade lunches with a friend every Friday or always know exactly what is in your lunchbox?

Then ask: What is the best trade you could offer?

Would you rather pick a whole bushel of apples or turn a few into applesauce from start to finish?

Then ask: Which part of making food do people forget about?

Would you rather have a costume that makes people laugh or one that nobody can figure out?

Then ask: Do you want people to laugh or to guess?

Would you rather trick-or-treat at a hundred houses that give one piece each or ten houses that give ten?

Then ask: Which night would be more fun, even though the candy comes out the same?

Would you rather hand out the candy at your door or go out to collect it?

Then ask: What do you see from the doorway that you miss on the street?

Would you rather keep all your candy and make it last till spring or share half and finish it in a week?

Then ask: Who would you share with, and how would you split it?

Would you rather trade away your favorite candy for a lot of okay candy or keep the one piece you love?

Then ask: When is more worse than less?

Would you rather wear a group costume with friends or one that is your idea alone?

Then ask: What would you give up to match the group?

Would you rather sit at the kids' table or the grown-ups' table at Thanksgiving?

Then ask: What do they talk about at the other one?

Would you rather be in charge of the turkey or of all the pies?

Then ask: Which one would people forgive you for getting wrong?

Would you rather say what you are thankful for out loud or write it down and keep it to yourself?

Then ask: Does saying a thing out loud change it?

Would you rather have Thanksgiving at your house with all the work or travel a long way and just show up?

Then ask: What does the host get that the guests do not?

Would you rather watch the parade on TV in your pajamas or play football in the yard before dinner?

Then ask: Which family habit would you keep when you are grown up?

Would you rather go on a hayride or sit by a bonfire?

Then ask: Which one is better for talking?

Would you rather play in a football game in the mud or cheer from the stands with hot chocolate?

Then ask: What is it like to care about a game you are not playing in?

Would you rather watch a spider build a web or a flock of birds gather on a wire?

Then ask: What do you think each of them is getting ready for?

Would you rather hear geese overhead at night or an owl outside your window?

Then ask: What would you imagine they were saying?

Would you rather hike up to see the colors from above or walk under the trees with leaves coming down on you?

Then ask: Do you understand a thing better from far away or from inside it?

Would you rather plant bulbs now and wait until spring or pick the last flowers before the frost?

Then ask: What would you want to tell yourself in spring?

Would you rather find a woolly caterpillar or a perfect acorn with its cap on?

Then ask: Which one would you keep, and which would you put back?

Would you rather ride your bike on a cold bright morning or take a walk in a warm fall rain?

Then ask: What kind of weather do you think better in?

Would you rather stack firewood for an hour or clean out the garden beds?

Then ask: Which job lets you see what you got done?

Would you rather stay out until the moon comes up or be home in time to watch it rise from the porch?

Then ask: What makes coming home feel good?

Would you rather say goodbye to summer with one last swim or welcome fall with the first night by a fire?

Then ask: Are you better at endings or at beginnings?