From kindergarteners to older students, there’s nothing quite like a good ‘would you rather question to provide entertainment and get those cogs turning.
Whether it’s a warm-up activity at the start of class, the chance for a brief writing exercise, or just a way to end the day, these questions for students are sure to provide some funny, sweet, and often silly answers.
Read on for 150 ‘would you rather’ questions for kids & students
These questions we guarantee will get a great response and spark some thoughtful conversations:
- Would you rather go snowboarding or sandboarding?
- Would you rather be a detective or a fireman?
- Would you rather be three years older or one year younger?
- Would you rather have a horse or a car?
- Would you rather be amazing at drawing or a great dancer?
- Would you rather be a lizard or a fish?
- Would you rather sing or dance?
- Would you rather be a tiger or a lion?
- Would you rather climb up a mountain or down a cave?
- Would you rather be a famous inventor or a secret agent?
- Would you rather work on your homework with your parents or alone?
- Would you rather be able to do a front flip or a back flip?
- Would you rather it be rainy and warm or sunny and cold?
- Would you rather create a new sport or design a new holiday?
- Would you rather dance with monkeys or have tea with tigers?
- Would you rather brush your teeth with cereal milk or orange juice?
- Would you rather move to mars or be the president?
- Would you rather be a pirate or an astronaut?
- Would you rather be an alien or an underground creature?
- Would you rather have eyes like a microscope or telescope?
- Would you rather taste candy forever or smell freshly baked cookies forever?
- Would you rather be able to jump as high as a building or hold your breath for an hour underwater?
- Would you rather be in a band or sing solo?
- Would you rather design a new toy or create a new video game?
- Would you rather live in a triangle shape house or a circle-shaped one?
- 26. Would you rather have a pet dog or a pet cat?
- Would you rather turn into a frog twice a day or turn into a bird once a month?
- Would you rather have super strength or live forever?
- Would you rather only see one color forever or only smell one thing forever?
- Would you rather be a ninja or a samurai?
- Would you rather be Godzilla or King Kong?
- Would you rather decorate your room however you like or have your dream toy?
- Would you rather live in a forest or under the sea?
- Would you rather wear odd socks or odd shoes?
- Would you rather be able to remember all the things you’ve ever seen or mimic someone’s voice perfectly?
- Would you rather drink smoothies for every meal or a milkshake?
- Would you rather control water or fire?
- Would you rather be on TV or be in a movie?
- Would you rather be in a cartoon or make your cartoon?
- Would you rather ride a sheep or a cow?
- Would you rather eat a whole lemon or a whole lime?
- Would you rather dance in front of your whole class or sing in front of your whole family?
- Would you rather be very lucky or very smart?
- Would you rather grow up for a day or have your parents become children for a day?
- Would you rather have a jet-pack or your robot?
- Would you rather be able to make any animal noise or be able to make any video game noise?
- Would you rather make the best pizza ever or the best burger ever?
- Would you rather swim with dolphins or sea turtles?
- Would you rather go on a roller-coaster or water ride?
- Would you rather have a hamster-size dog or a dog-sized hamster?
- Would you rather be able to teleport or have super speed?
- Would you rather change your eye color or your hair color?
- Would you rather play inside or go outside?
- Would you rather play in wet mud or wet sand?
- Would you rather eat broccoli flavor cookies or carrot flavor brownies?
- Would you rather visit Australia or go to England?
- Would you rather shoot bubbles from your hands or shoot flowers from your feet?
- Would you rather never have anything sweet again or never have anything savory again?
- Would you rather live underground or in the sky?
- Would you rather have a slice of cake or a whole cupcake
- Would you rather draw your comic or write your book?
- Would you rather be a star athlete or a famous singer?
- Would you rather be able to understand all languages but not speak them or be fluent in one language?
- Would you rather have infinite money or the power of flight?
- Would you rather not be scared of snakes or not be scared of spiders?
- Would you rather climb a volcano or climb a mountain?
- Would you rather be an amazing coder or an incredible artist?
- Would you rather have a huge garden and a tiny house or a tiny garden and a huge house?
- Would you rather be a dog sitter or a cat sitter?
- Would you rather ride a motorbike or a scooter?
- Would you rather have holes in your socks or shoelaces that won’t stay tied up?
- Would you rather play with others at recess or spend time alone?
- Would you rather have unlimited vanilla ice cream or invent your flavor?
- Would you rather work with your friends on school projects or work alone?
- Would you rather have a super smell or super hearing?
- Would you rather see five movies or go bowling once?
- Would you rather talk to animals or talk to plants?
- Would you rather go camping in a desert or a forest?
- Would you rather sleep for a year and never sleep again or sleep for twelve hours a day?
- Would you rather draw pictures that come to life or write stories that come true?
- Would you rather write movies or star in movies?
- Would you rather start school at 6 am or 6 pm?
- Would you rather fly a plane or a helicopter?
- Would you rather drive a submarine or a speedboat?
- Would you rather go on vacation every month or one huge vacation a year?
- Would you rather know how to do skateboard tricks or know how to do rollerblade tricks?
- Would you rather play the guitar or the drums in a rock band?
- Would you rather turn into an elephant or turn into a mouse?
- Would you rather live in a zoo or live in a theme park?
- Would you rather have bouncy floors in your bedroom or floors made of cushions?
- Would you rather have a real hoverboard or jet shoes?
- Would you rather have twenty dollars in bills or twenty dollars in coins?
- Would you rather eat any spicy food easily or never get brain freeze from ice cream?
- Would you rather live in Gotham with Batman or Metropolis with Superman
- Would you rather never bathe and always smell nice or never eat and always be full?
- Would you rather be able to make wishes come true for other people or have one of your wishes come true?
- Would you rather learn from a book by putting it under your pillow or be able to watch movies in your sleep?
- Would you rather move anywhere or stay where you are and be given 10,000 dollars?
- Would you rather have pancakes for breakfast or pizza for dinner every day?
- Would you rather be able to float when you want to or be able to jump high?
- Would you rather be super rich and mysterious or be famous and have just enough cash?
- Would you rather live in a haunted house or a spooky castle?
- Would you rather live in the middle of nowhere or in the center of a huge city?
- Would you rather never have to do homework again or never have another test?
- Would you rather be able to grow your hair an inch a day or grow a huge beard in one hour?
- Would you rather swim in ketchup or mustard?
- Would you rather play on the swings for one hour or play on the slide for thirty minutes?
- Would you rather have five small dogs or one big dog?
- Would you rather be able to shrink things with your mind or be able to make things bigger?
- Would you rather live on an alien planet or a spaceship with your best friend for the rest of your life?
- Would you rather design a new video game console or create a flying car?
- Would you rather be able to transform into any animal for ten minutes or become that animal for the rest of your life?
- Would you rather have a pet crocodile or a pet shark?
- Would you rather grow feathers and fly like a bird or grow skin flaps and glide like a flying squirrel?
- Would you rather have a dragon as a pet or a t-Rex?
- Would you rather live 200 years in the past or 2000 years in the past?
- Would you rather have a robot dog that can shoot lasers or a real dog that can talk?
- Would you rather work with the same person for your classwork every time or someone different every day?
- Would you rather read a book about dinosaurs or a book about robots?
- Would you rather be as tiny as an ant or as giant as a blue whale?
- Would you rather eat a giant bowl of spaghetti or a giant bowl of macaroni cheese?
- Would you rather have Christmas three times in one year or three birthdays yearly?
- Would you rather have breakfast on top of the Eiffel tower or on top of the statue of liberty?
- Would you rather live somewhere where it is always night or where it is always day?
- Would you rather have a bright purple nose or bright pink eyebrows?
- Would you rather have four arms or four legs?
- Would you rather be bitten by a radioactive spider and become a superhero or be very rich and have a powerful super suit?
- Would you rather have six brothers or five sisters?
- Would you rather be able to make it snow whenever you wanted or make it sunny every other day?
- Would you rather visit the north pole or travel to the south pole?
- Would you rather be able to make your toys come to life or be able to make your drawings come to life?
- Would you rather go invisible whenever you cough or shoot fire out your nose every time you sneeze?
- Would you rather have the magic carpet that can take you anywhere or a tank you can drive?
- Would you rather only be able to eat one piece of candy a day or be able to eat as much candy as you want once a month?
- Would you rather crawl on the ground like an insect or slither like a snake?
- Would you rather be able to walk up walls or be able to walk through walls?
- Would you rather bite into a rotten apple or only eat broccoli for a week?
- Would you rather be able to do a perfect backflip or be fantastic at break-dancing?
- Would you rather be super smart but shy or famous and have to go to parties every day?
- Would you rather not watch TV for a year or not eat pizza for a year?
- Would you rather ride an elephant to the grocery store or be pulled in a two-horse chariot to school?
- Would you rather have one pet lion or three pet hyenas?
- Would you rather be very good at one musical instrument of your choice or be quite good at every musical instrument?
- Would you rather visit the doctor twice a year or the dentist once yearly?
- Would you rather be a superhero or a supervillain?
- Would you rather find a way to make food infinitely for everyone or find a way to make clean water infinitely?
- Would you rather design your own Lego kit or be given five kits you didn’t design?
- Would you rather roar like a lion or bark like a sea lion?
- Would you rather live on top of the highest mountain in the world or in the deepest jungle?
- Would you rather have giant feet and tiny hands or giant hands and tiny feet?
There’s nothing like a good round of ‘would you rather entertain your students, and you’re sure to get some excellent responses along the way. There are plenty of online resources to keep us teachers entertained, too.
Whether you invent your own or use some of the ideas above, you can’t go wrong with this simple game to spark some giggles and get your class thinking.
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