Spring Would You Rather Questions for Kids

Would you rather have a week of warm rain or a week of cold sunshine?

Then ask: What would you do outside in the one you picked?

Would you rather carry an umbrella big enough for five friends or wear rain boots that never leak?

Then ask: Which one is for you, and which one is for other people?

Would you rather build a dam in the stream by the curb or race leaf boats down it?

Then ask: What would you have to figure out to make it work?

Would you rather walk in the rain without a coat or sit inside and listen to it on the roof?

Then ask: What do you notice in each one that you miss in the other?

Would you rather know where a rainbow ends or know what makes its colors?

Then ask: What would you do with what you found out?

Would you rather have mud up to your ankles at recess or a field too wet to play on at all?

Then ask: Who should decide when it is too muddy, kids or grown-ups?

Would you rather be caught in a sudden shower with a friend or watch it from a window alone?

Then ask: What turns a bad surprise into a good story?

Would you rather have light showers all April or one giant storm that is over in a day?

Then ask: Which one is better for the plants, and which is better for you?

Would you rather move the worms off the sidewalk after a rain or leave them to find their own way?

Then ask: How do you know when helping actually helps?

Would you rather splash a friend who is ready for it or get splashed when you are not?

Then ask: Where is the line between a joke and going too far?

Would you rather have rain that falls only at night or rain you can switch off for one hour a day?

Then ask: When would you use your hour, and who else would want a say?

Would you rather plant a tree you cannot sit under for twenty years or flowers that bloom in a month?

Then ask: What is worth doing even when you have to wait a long time for it?

Would you rather water a garden every day or pull the weeds once a week?

Then ask: Which job would you be more likely to skip, and what happens then?

Would you rather grow vegetables you do not like or flowers you cannot eat?

Then ask: Who would you give them to?

Would you rather have a small garden that is all yours or a big one shared with the whole street?

Then ask: What rules would a shared garden need?

Would you rather plant a seed without knowing what it is or choose exactly what grows?

Then ask: Is not knowing part of the fun, or just annoying?

Would you rather be able to make any flower bloom at once or keep one flower blooming forever?

Then ask: Would a flower still be special if it never faded?

Would you rather dig in the dirt with your hands or use every tool in the shed?

Then ask: What can your hands tell you that a tool cannot?

Would you rather have a yard full of dandelions or a lawn with nothing but grass?

Then ask: Who decides what counts as a weed?

Would you rather pick a bunch of wildflowers to bring home or leave them where everyone can see them?

Then ask: What if every person who walked by picked some?

Would you rather take care of a plant that needs you every day or one that does fine on its own?

Then ask: What do you get from being needed?

Would you rather have a tree to climb or a tree that gives fruit?

Then ask: What would you do with more fruit than you can eat?

Would you rather hold a baby chick for a minute or watch a fawn from far away for an hour?

Then ask: Which is better for the animal, and does that change your pick?

Would you rather help raise a lamb or a litter of kittens for the spring?

Then ask: How would you feel when it was time for them to go?

Would you rather be a duckling following its mother or a tadpole on its own from the first day?

Then ask: What is good about each way of growing up?

Would you rather have a bird build a nest on your windowsill or a rabbit dig a home under your porch?

Then ask: What would you have to stop doing so you did not scare it?

Would you rather be a bee that visits a thousand flowers or a ladybug that stays on one plant?

Then ask: Which one does more good, and how can you tell?

Would you rather find a baby bird on the ground and go get a grown-up or watch from a distance to see if its parents come back?

Then ask: How do you decide when to step in and when to wait?

Would you rather hear frogs singing every night or birds singing every morning at five?

Then ask: When does a nice sound turn into noise?

Would you rather follow an ant back to its nest or a bee back to its hive?

Then ask: What would you hope to see there?

Would you rather have butterflies land on you whenever you stand still or have birds answer when you whistle?

Then ask: What would you have to get good at for it to work?

Would you rather be the first robin back in spring or the last one to arrive?

Then ask: What does the first one risk, and what does the last one miss?

Would you rather name every animal in a spring pond or draw each one?

Then ask: Which way would you remember them better?

Would you rather have recess outside in a light drizzle or inside on a sunny day?

Then ask: What would you say to change the teacher's mind?

Would you rather learn to ride a skateboard or learn to do a cartwheel?

Then ask: How many times would you fall before it stopped bothering you?

Would you rather play outside until the streetlights come on or get up early and play before school?

Then ask: What would you give up to make the time?

Would you rather be the best kite flyer at the park or the best tree climber?

Then ask: Which one could you teach to a younger kid?

Would you rather go on a hike with a great view at the top or a walk with a creek to play in along the way?

Then ask: Is the best part the end or the middle?

Would you rather have a picnic that gets rained on or no picnic at all?

Then ask: What could you save from a day that goes wrong?

Would you rather play a game where everyone gets a turn or one where the best player stays in?

Then ask: Which one is more fun for the kid who is still learning?

Would you rather cover the whole driveway in chalk drawings or paint one rock and leave it for a stranger to find?

Then ask: Who is each one for?

Would you rather open every window in the house or eat every meal outside for a week?

Then ask: What would you miss about being indoors?

Would you rather put away your winter coat a week too early or a week too late?

Then ask: How do you decide when you cannot be sure?

Would you rather find a new shortcut to school or a new place to play that nobody knows about?

Then ask: Would you tell anyone? Who, and what would you ask them to promise?

Would you rather play an April Fools' joke on someone or have a great one played on you?

Then ask: What makes a prank funny for the person it is played on?

Would you rather clean out your whole room in one day or one drawer a day for a month?

Then ask: What would you find that you forgot you had?

Would you rather give away ten things you have outgrown or keep them all in a box?

Then ask: How do you decide what is worth keeping?

Would you rather pick up litter in a park on Earth Day or plant something there?

Then ask: Which one would still matter a year from now?

Would you rather make a surprise breakfast for someone at home or write them a card that says what you never say out loud?

Then ask: Which is harder for you, doing or saying?

Would you rather lose an hour of sleep when the clocks change or lose an hour of evening light?

Then ask: What is an hour worth, and does it depend on which hour?

Would you rather have spring start a month early or last a month longer?

Then ask: Which season would you take the month from?

Would you rather have a field day with races and ribbons or a field day with no winners?

Then ask: What would change about how hard people try?

Would you rather have one big line in the spring play or work backstage on everything nobody sees?

Then ask: Who would the show fall apart without?

Would you rather try out for a team and maybe not make it or wait a year until you feel ready?

Then ask: How ready do you have to be before you try?

Would you rather count the days until summer or not know how many are left?

Then ask: Does counting make the wait shorter or longer?