Updated October 27, 2026

Would You Rather Questions for Kids

150 would you rather questions for kids, sorted by age: 4 to 6, 7 to 9 and 10 to 12, plus a set for the classroom. They are short, kind and silly enough to read at dinner, in the car or at school. For a tap-to-vote version, try the Kids deck in our would you rather game.

Stuck for a question? Let the phone choose one from the lists below.

How to play would you rather with kids

Read the question slowly, and repeat both options for younger kids.
Let everyone choose by pointing, holding up one or two fingers, or standing on one side of the room.
Ask one child why. Any reason counts, even “because it’s purple”.
Let a kid read the next one once they can.

Keep the pace quick with little ones. Three or four questions is plenty for a four-year-old; a ten-year-old will happily go for twenty.

Which age group to use

Group	Questions	What they are like
Ages 4 to 6	40	Three to six words per option, things a preschooler has seen: animals, snacks, bath time.
Ages 7 to 9	50	Make-believe and silly rules. Most kids this age can read them on their own.
Ages 10 to 12	45	Choices with a real trade-off, about screens, chores, friends and the future.
Classroom	15	School-day topics for a mixed group of 6 to 12.

The ages are a starting point. Mixed-age siblings usually do best with the 7 to 9 group, where the youngest can follow and the oldest still laughs.

All 150 would you rather questions for kids

Sorted from the youngest to the oldest, then the classroom set. Jump to an age group, or use the random button at the top.

Jump to Ages 4 to 6 Ages 7 to 9 Ages 10 to 12 Classroom

Ages 4 to 6: easy picks

Very short options about animals, snacks, colors and the playground. Read them out loud and let the child point. 40 questions.

Hop like a bunny all day or waddle like a penguin all day?
Have a purple dog or have a green cat?
Splash in a big puddle or jump in a pile of leaves?
Eat green spaghetti or eat blue pancakes?
Swing up to the clouds or go down the tallest slide?
Have a bath full of bubbles or have a bath full of toys?
Buzz like a bee or roar like a lion?
Wear rain boots every day or wear sparkly shoes every day?
Fly a kite in the wind or blow bubbles on a sunny day?
Ride a big yellow school bus or ride a long choo-choo train?
Have a pet duck or have a pet goldfish?
Build a tower of blocks or build a big train track?
Paint with your fingers or paint with your toes?
Have a giant stuffed animal or have a hundred tiny stuffed animals?
Make snow angels or bury your feet in sand?
Hear a story at bedtime or hear a song at bedtime?
Wear a crown all day or wear a cowboy hat all day?
Ride a merry-go-round horse or ride a spinning teacup?
Have hair that changes color or have shoes that light up?
Pick strawberries at a farm or pick apples from a tree?

Sing a song with a frog or dance with a pig?
Get chocolate milk from a cow or get golden eggs from a hen?
Live in a cake house or live in a pillow house?
See a rainbow or see a shooting star?
Have strawberry toothpaste or have bubblegum toothpaste?
Hold a ladybug on your finger or have a bird on your shoulder?
Ride on a whale's back or ride on a turtle's shell?
Jump into a ball pit or jump on a bouncy castle?
Play at a sunny beach or play at a snowy park?
Drive a fire truck or drive an ice cream truck?
Hug a fluffy sheep or hug a big soft dog?
Play tag with a baby seal or play peekaboo with a baby owl?
Eat a giant pretzel or eat a giant pickle?
Have spots like a cheetah or have stripes like a zebra?
Walk like a crab or wiggle like a worm?
Play with squishy play dough or play with sticky slime?
Have a dinosaur backpack or have a shark backpack?
Sleep in a race car bed or sleep in a pirate ship bed?
Eat a plate of peas or eat a plate of broccoli?
Get a sticker or get a stamp on your hand?

Ages 7 to 9

More imagination: dinosaurs, space, being tiny for a day and school rules turned upside down. 50 questions.

Go to school on a pirate ship or go to school on top of a mountain?
Have a superpower that only works on Tuesdays or have a superpower that only works when you sneeze?
Be a superhero with a silly name or be a sidekick with an awesome name?
Have super strength in just your pinky or have super speed but only walking backward?
Shrink small enough to ride a cat or grow big enough to step over your school?
Spend a month living on the moon or spend a week living on Mars?
Have zero gravity in your bedroom or have zero gravity in the school gym?
Name a newly discovered planet or name a newly discovered dinosaur?
Hear what dinosaurs really sounded like or see what colors dinosaurs really were?
Have a dog that can drive or have a cat that can cook?
Have a pet octopus or have a pet hedgehog?
Score the winning goal in soccer or hit a home run in baseball?
Play basketball on the moon or play soccer underwater?
Climb walls like a gecko or swim as fast as a dolphin?
Have a rule that everyone hops on Mondays or have a rule that everyone sings on Fridays?
Start every school day with recess or end every school day with a dance party?
Say banana before every sentence or clap after every sentence you say?
Take a class from a robot teacher or take a class from a talking owl?
Have school start at noon or have school end at noon?
Sit on a bouncy ball at your desk or sit in a spinning chair at your desk?
Sleep a night in a space station or sleep a night in an underwater hotel?
See Earth from space or see a volcano erupt from a safe spot?
Be tiny enough to live in a dollhouse or be giant enough to skateboard on a bus?
Save the day and nobody knows it was you or get a parade for helping only a little?
Have a power that makes plants grow fast or have a power that fixes any broken toy?

Turn into any animal for ten minutes a day or turn into a robot for one hour a week?
Have a dog that is always muddy or have a cat that is always grumpy?
Have a pet that glows in the dark or have a pet that turns invisible when it wants?
Have socks that change color with your mood or have a hat that plays your favorite song?
Have bouncy floors in your whole house or have a zip line from your bed to the kitchen?
Have rain that tastes like lemonade or have snow that tastes like ice cream?
Have a backpack that never gets heavy or have a lunchbox that always holds your favorite lunch?
Be the best player on a losing team or be an okay player on a winning team?
Learn to do a backflip or learn to juggle five balls?
Find a door to a secret world in your closet or find a treasure map hidden in a library book?
Have a friendly giant next door or have tiny fairies living in your garden?
Spend a day inside a video game or spend a day inside a cartoon?
Live in an igloo for a week or live in a lighthouse for a week?
Wear a jetpack that only goes ten feet up or wear rocket skates that only go straight?
Have a teleporter that only goes to the kitchen or have a teleporter that only goes to the park?
Win the school spelling bee or win the school science fair?
Have a clone go to school for you or have a clone do your chores for you?
Eat vegetables that taste like candy or eat candy that is as healthy as vegetables?
Discover a new color or discover a new animal?
Roll around in a giant hamster ball or float around in a giant bubble?
Have a penguin as your butler or have a monkey as your chef?
Live where cars can fly or live where houses can walk?
Have a tree that grows any fruit you want or have a bush that grows any candy you want?
Swap places with your pet for a day or swap places with your teacher for a day?
Stretch your arms across the room or bounce like a rubber ball?

Ages 10 to 12

Real dilemmas a tween will argue about: screens, chores, friends and what they want to be. 45 questions.

Get one hour of screen time every day or get seven hours on Saturday and none on weekdays?
Play one game you love forever or play a new game every day but never finish one?
Clean the bathroom once a week or take out the trash every day?
Earn your allowance by doing chores or get half as much allowance for doing nothing?
Save your allowance three months for one big thing or spend your allowance every week on small things?
Grow up to design video games or grow up to design roller coasters?
Work as a vet for exotic animals or run your own restaurant as a chef?
Invent a toy every kid wants or invent a gadget that helps your grandparents?
Have one best friend or have ten good friends?
Be the one who keeps the group's secrets or be the one who plans every hangout?
Win a game by pure luck or lose a game you played really well?
Beat a game on the hardest level or finish a game with every secret found?
Let the teacher pick your project group or pick your own group and end up doing most of the work?
Share a big room with a sibling or have a tiny room all to yourself?
Babysit a toddler for an hour or walk three dogs for an hour?
Be in charge of feeding the family pet or be in charge of watering every plant in the house?
Have the newest phone with strict rules or have an old phone with no rules?
Give up video games for a month or give up desserts for a month?
Stay up an hour later or sleep in an hour later?
Have a pool party for your birthday or have a sleepover for your birthday?
Learn to code your own game or learn to cook your own dinner?
Get paid to test video games or get paid to taste new candy?
Be the youngest kid in your grade or be the oldest kid in your grade?

Do your homework right after school or do all your homework on Sunday night?
Have a teacher with no homework but tough tests or have a teacher with lots of homework but easy tests?
Be really good at one sport or be okay at every sport?
Have unlimited books or have unlimited art supplies?
Run a lemonade stand all day for $30 or earn $10 in one hour washing a car?
Have a friend who always wins and brags or have a friend who always loses and sulks?
Get a puppy you have to train or get a grown dog that is already trained?
Have a real astronaut as your mentor or have a game designer as your mentor?
Be the first to try a brand-new invention or wait until everyone else has tested it?
Make the rules for one day at home or make the rules for one day at school?
Have 25 hours in every day or have eight days in every week?
Play in a band at the school concert or star in the school play?
Wear the same outfit every day or let your parents pick your outfit every day?
Be great at math without studying or be great at writing without practicing?
Find $20 on the sidewalk and keep it or find the owner and get a thank-you note?
Be on your best friend's team and lose or be on a team of kids you don't know and win?
Invent a new playground game everyone plays or hold the school record on the monkey bars?
Go to summer camp for a month or have a month of free days at home?
Know how to fix a flat bike tire or know how to make breakfast for everyone?
Be really organized but slow or be messy but super fast?
Lend your favorite game to a friend for a month or never lend anything to anyone?
Get one big chore a week or get three small chores every day?

For the classroom

For a morning circle or the last five minutes of class. None of them single out a child or ask about home. 15 questions.

Take a field trip to a science museum or take a field trip to a farm?
Have a class pet bunny or have a class pet lizard?
Have recess before lunch or have recess after lunch?
Hear the teacher read a funny book aloud or hear the teacher read a mystery aloud?
Spend a week learning about volcanoes or spend a week learning about sharks?
Eat lunch outside on the grass or eat lunch picnic-style on the classroom floor?
Grow a class garden or raise butterflies in class?
Learn times tables with a song or learn times tables with a game?
Have class in the library all day or have class in the gym all day?
Write a story with the whole class or paint a giant mural with the whole class?
Have a crazy hat day or have a crazy sock day?
Have a reading buddy from an older class or have a pen pal from another country?
Do a science experiment that fizzes or do a science experiment that glows?
Read in a beanbag chair or read in a cozy tent in the reading corner?
Meet a guest speaker who is a chef or meet a guest speaker who is a pilot?

Tips for parents and teachers

Answer one yourself first. Kids copy the length of your answer, so give a reason, not just a word.
Let them change their mind after hearing someone else. Explaining the switch is good practice.
Turn a quiet child’s answer into a question for the group: “Who else would pick the giraffe?”
Stop while it is still fun. Ending on a laugh makes them ask for it again tomorrow.

Classroom games with would you rather

Two corners. Name one side of the room for each option. Kids walk to their pick, and one child from each corner gives a reason.
Exit ticket. At the end of the lesson, each child writes their answer and one sentence explaining it.
Persuade me. Pairs take opposite sides and get thirty seconds each to win the class over. The class votes again afterwards.
Write a pair. Each child writes their own question with two equally good options. Read the best ones to the class.

Frequently asked questions

What age are these would you rather questions for?

Ages 4 to 12, sorted into three age groups plus a classroom set. The youngest group uses three to six words per option, so a four-year-old can follow along.

Are these questions safe for kids?

Yes. Nothing is scary, romantic or violent, and nothing comments on how anyone looks. A few in the 10 to 12 group mention allowance or a sibling; the classroom set never asks about home.

Can teachers use them in class?

Yes. The classroom set has 15 questions written for a group of six- to twelve-year-olds, and every age group works for a morning meeting. The classroom games below include Two corners, which gets kids out of their seats.

Is there a version kids can tap and vote on?

Yes. The would you rather game has a Kids deck of 40 more questions, where each tap adds a vote and shows how other players chose. Those 40 are different from the 150 here.

What if my child cannot pick?

That is fine. Ask which option sounds more fun for one minute, or let them pick both and explain how that would work. The talking matters more than the answer.

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