120 Would You Rather Questions for Kids

If you need one game that works at the kitchen table, in the car, at a birthday party, or literally anywhere with zero supplies, would you rather questions for kids are your new best friend. Pick a question, make everyone choose a side, and watch the giggles (and surprisingly passionate debates) roll in. I’ve split 120 questions into five themed lists so you can jump straight to whatever mood the room is in — silly, animal-obsessed, food-crazy, superhero-dreaming, or school-themed — and I’ve turned every single one into printable cards you can cut out and keep in a tin for rainy days. 🎉

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How to Play

Would You Rather is beautifully simple: one person reads a question aloud and everyone else — at the same time — shouts, points, or holds up a finger for their choice (Option A or Option B). There are no wrong answers and no keeping score, which is honestly what makes it so great for kids of all ages. Take turns being the reader, encourage kids to explain why they chose what they chose (that’s where the real fun happens), and feel free to do a lightning-round where everyone answers as fast as possible. You can play with two kids or twenty — it scales perfectly for a classroom icebreaker, a road-trip game, or a wild Saturday afternoon at home.

Silly Would You Rather Questions for Kids

These are the questions that will make someone snort-laugh — and they are absolutely perfect for warming up a group or keeping energy high. Print them on cardstock for your next kids’ party and watch chaos (the good kind) unfold.

1. Would you rather sneeze glitter every time you sneeze or hiccup bubbles every time you hiccup?
2. Would you rather have spaghetti for hair or broccoli for fingers?
3. Would you rather laugh uncontrollably for one full minute every hour or sneeze ten times every time you hear the word ‘the’?
4. Would you rather walk on your hands everywhere you go or spin in a circle every time you want to say something?
5. Would you rather have a head the size of a watermelon or a head the size of an orange?
6. Would you rather only be able to talk in rhymes or only be able to talk in questions?
7. Would you rather have ears that can wiggle on command or a nose that lights up like a torch when it’s dark?
8. Would you rather jump like a frog everywhere instead of walking or slither like a snake everywhere instead of running?
9. Would you rather wear your shoes on the wrong feet for a whole week or wear your shirt backwards for a whole month?
10. Would you rather burp the alphabet every morning or have to sing everything you say for one hour after waking up?
11. Would you rather have a laugh that sounds exactly like a seal or a sneeze that sounds exactly like a foghorn?
12. Would you rather have a tail you cannot control or ears that grow an inch every time you tell a fib?
13. Would you rather be able to only whisper or only shout — forever?
14. Would you rather have jelly instead of bones or clouds instead of muscles?
15. Would you rather your hair changed colour every time someone said your name or your skin turned polka-dotted every time you ate something sweet?
16. Would you rather swap voices with your pet (or a neighbour’s pet) for a day or swap voices with your teacher for a day?
17. Would you rather wake up speaking a completely made-up language no one else understands or wake up having forgotten how to spell your own name?
18. Would you rather have two left hands or two right feet?
19. Would you rather only be able to eat with a spoon the size of a shovel or only be able to drink through a straw the width of a needle?
20. Would you rather every time you sit down you make a loud trumpet sound or every time you stand up you make a ‘ta-daa!’ fanfare?
21. Would you rather your belly button played a random song every time someone poked it or your elbow squeaked like a rubber duck every time you bent it?
22. Would you rather have to moonwalk everywhere instead of walking normally or have to cartwheel everywhere instead of running?
23. Would you rather turn into a bouncy ball for one hour every day or turn into a balloon every time someone says ‘surprise’?
24. Would you rather have a permanent clown nose you can never remove or permanently have one eyebrow drawn on with a marker that never washes off?

Animal Would You Rather Questions for Kids

Kids who are obsessed with animals (so, basically all of them) will absolutely lose their minds over these — expect very loud and very confident opinions about which animal is superior. Once you’ve printed the cards, keep the deck in a small tin so it’s ready for the next time you need a conversation starter on a car ride or at the dinner table.

1. Would you rather have a pet elephant that lives in your garden or a pet whale that lives in your swimming pool?
2. Would you rather be able to talk to every animal on Earth or be able to transform into any animal for five minutes whenever you want?
3. Would you rather have the strength of a gorilla or the speed of a cheetah?
4. Would you rather sleep in a cosy bird’s nest at the top of a tree or sleep in a cosy burrow underground like a rabbit?
5. Would you rather have a dog that can do your homework or a cat that can tidy your bedroom?
6. Would you rather live with a family of penguins for a month or live with a family of meerkats for a month?
7. Would you rather be covered in soft fur like a teddy bear or covered in smooth scales like a gecko?
8. Would you rather ride to school every day on a giant tortoise or ride to school every day on a very enthusiastic sheep?
9. Would you rather be able to hold your breath underwater as long as a sea turtle or run as fast as an ostrich?
10. Would you rather have a parrot that repeats everything embarrassing you say in public or a dog that always howls along whenever you try to sing?
11. Would you rather be as small as a mouse for one day or as tall as a giraffe for one day?
12. Would you rather be best friends with a grumpy rhino who is secretly very kind or best friends with a cheerful crocodile who is a tiny bit sneaky?
13. Would you rather have a pet dragon that is the size of a hamster or a pet hamster that is the size of a dragon?
14. Would you rather be able to see in the dark like an owl or smell things from two kilometres away like a bear?
15. Would you rather spend a day swimming with dolphins in the ocean or spend a day flying with eagles in the mountains?
16. Would you rather have a horse that can gallop on water or a fish that can climb trees?
17. Would you rather be a lion cub for a week or a wolf pup for a week?
18. Would you rather have butterfly wings you could actually fly with or a chameleon’s ability to change colour to match anything around you?
19. Would you rather be able to communicate with insects or communicate with deep-sea creatures?
20. Would you rather discover a brand-new animal no one has ever seen before or discover that a supposedly extinct animal is still alive?
21. Would you rather have a pet that could shrink down to pocket-size whenever you needed or a pet that could grow large enough to ride whenever you wanted?
22. Would you rather run at full speed with a pack of wolves or dive to the bottom of the sea with a pod of sperm whales?
23. Would you rather have the memory of an elephant (never forgetting anything ever) or the camouflage of an octopus (invisible whenever you stay still)?
24. Would you rather spend a night in a tree house surrounded by friendly monkeys or spend a night in an igloo surrounded by friendly polar bear cubs?

Food Would You Rather Questions for Kids

Food questions are basically guaranteed to cause arguments — in the absolute best way. These are great for the lunch table at school or for keeping kids entertained while dinner is being made (trust me, it buys you at least ten minutes). If you’re looking for more fun ideas for keeping little ones entertained, you might also love these non-scary Halloween activities for toddlers.

1. Would you rather eat a pizza where every topping is a different type of candy or eat a cake where every layer is a different flavour of pizza?
2. Would you rather drink a smoothie made from every vegetable in the fridge or eat a bowl of plain, unseasoned crackers for every meal for a week?
3. Would you rather have a never-ending supply of your absolute favourite snack or be able to make any food appear out of thin air — but it’s always something you’ve never tried before?
4. Would you rather eat macaroni and cheese with strawberry jam stirred in or eat a peanut butter sandwich with pickle slices instead of bread?
5. Would you rather every sweet thing you eat taste like broccoli or every savoury thing you eat taste like candyfloss?
6. Would you rather have a swimming pool full of chocolate pudding you could swim in (and eat) or a trampoline made entirely of marshmallows?
7. Would you rather eat one tiny meal the size of a thimble every hour or eat one enormous meal the size of a paddling pool once a day?
8. Would you rather have ketchup come out of your fingers whenever you click them or have lemonade come out of your elbows whenever you bend them?
9. Would you rather have the ability to make any food taste like your favourite thing or the ability to eat as much as you want of anything and never feel too full?
10. Would you rather eat a bowl of cereal with orange juice instead of milk every morning or eat soup with a fork for every meal?
11. Would you rather live in a house made entirely of gingerbread you could eat whenever you wanted or live in a house made entirely of giant waffles?
12. Would you rather have sprinkles that fall on everything you eat automatically or have sauce squirted at you by a tiny robot chef who follows you everywhere?
13. Would you rather eat a crisp that is so spicy your mouth turns bright red or eat a sweet that is so sour your eyes water for an hour?
14. Would you rather only eat foods that are the colour blue or only eat foods that are perfectly round?
15. Would you rather have a magic lunchbox that turns any food into your favourite meal or a magic water bottle that turns any drink into the flavour you’re craving?
16. Would you rather eat a full dinner while hanging upside down or eat a full breakfast while spinning slowly in an office chair?
17. Would you rather find out that your least favourite vegetable now tastes like chocolate or find out that your favourite dessert now tastes like cabbage?
18. Would you rather eat your birthday cake before dinner every year but get a smaller cake or eat your birthday cake after dinner but get an enormous double-layer one?
19. Would you rather have unlimited free ice cream but you can only eat one flavour forever or have every flavour in the world but you can only have ice cream once a year?
20. Would you rather cook a meal that everyone loves but you hate eating it or cook a meal that only you think is delicious but everyone else refuses to try?
21. Would you rather have a pet that you have to share all your snacks with or have a friend who always steals the last bite of everything you eat?
22. Would you rather eat a meal that is completely invisible so you can’t see what you’re eating or eat a meal that makes sound effects the whole time — beeping, honking and whooshing as you chew?
23. Would you rather eat your favourite meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner for a whole year or never eat your favourite meal again but get to try one amazing new food every single day?
24. Would you rather have a refrigerator that refills itself with unlimited fruit or a cupboard that refills itself with unlimited cookies?

Superpower Would You Rather Questions for Kids

Here’s where things get genuinely philosophical — kids will debate these forever and honestly they have some incredible reasoning. This section pairs perfectly with party games for kids or a rainy-day indoor afternoon. Once you’ve printed the cards on cardstock, laminate them so they last through all the enthusiastic handling they’ll definitely get.

1. Would you rather be able to fly at the speed of a racing car or run on the ground faster than any vehicle ever built?
2. Would you rather be able to become invisible whenever you close your eyes or be able to freeze time whenever you clap your hands?
3. Would you rather have the power to make plants grow instantly wherever you touch or the power to make it rain any type of weather you choose?
4. Would you rather be able to read minds but only while you’re asleep or be able to see the future but only one second ahead of it happening?
5. Would you rather have the ability to shrink down to the size of a coin or grow to the size of a five-storey building — but only one size change per day?
6. Would you rather be able to speak and understand every language on Earth or be able to speak and understand every animal language on Earth?
7. Would you rather have super-strength so powerful you could lift a skyscraper or super-speed so fast you could run around the whole planet in under a minute?
8. Would you rather be able to breathe underwater like a fish or survive in outer space without a suit?
9. Would you rather have a superpower that lets you copy any skill after watching someone do it once or a superpower that lets you never need to sleep and use that time however you like?
10. Would you rather be able to create force fields around yourself and others or be able to heal any injury or illness just by touching the person?
11. Would you rather have the power to talk to machines and electronics so they always do exactly what you want or the power to know instantly how anything works just by looking at it?
12. Would you rather be able to summon any object you’ve lost just by thinking of it or be able to duplicate any object you’re holding so you always have a spare?
13. Would you rather have a superpower that only works when you’re singing or a superpower that only works when you’re completely silent?
14. Would you rather be able to jump so high you can reach low-flying clouds or be able to dig so fast you could tunnel through the Earth in an hour?
15. Would you rather have the power to turn any ordinary object into something useful (like turning a stick into an umbrella) or the power to make any mess clean itself up instantly?
16. Would you rather have a superpower that lets you re-do any moment from the past five minutes or a superpower that lets you skip forward five minutes into the future?
17. Would you rather be able to control the weather in your local area or be able to control what happens on every screen — TV, phone, computer — within a mile of you?
18. Would you rather have laser vision that can only be used to heat up food or ice-breath that can only be used to cool down drinks?
19. Would you rather have a superpower that lets you perfectly remember everything you’ve ever read or one that lets you learn any new skill in just ten minutes of practice?
20. Would you rather be able to walk through walls or be able to teleport to any place you’ve visited before?
21. Would you rather have the power to make yourself and anyone you’re holding weightless and float gently wherever you want or the power to magnetically attract or repel any metal object?
22. Would you rather have a superpower that works perfectly but everyone can see when you’re using it or a weaker superpower that is completely secret and no one ever notices?
23. Would you rather be able to project any image or movie from your mind onto a wall like a cinema screen or be able to record any moment you experience and play it back perfectly later?
24. Would you rather have one incredible superpower for only one hour a day or have three smaller, more limited superpowers you can use any time?

School and Playground Would You Rather Questions for Kids

These are brilliant for classroom icebreakers, morning meetings, or just getting kids talking on the playground — and tbh, a few of them will have the grown-ups in the room secretly debating too. If you’re planning a fun school event, you might also love these ideas for easy costumes kids can make themselves.

1. Would you rather have a five-minute break every hour at school or one giant two-hour lunch break in the middle of the day?
2. Would you rather your school had a slide connecting every classroom or a zipline that ran from the main entrance to the playground?
3. Would you rather have a robot teacher that never gets tired or a human teacher that can also do magic?
4. Would you rather do PE class on a bouncy castle every single week or do art class inside a real art gallery every single week?
5. Would you rather be brilliant at maths but struggle with reading or be a fantastic reader but find maths really hard?
6. Would you rather have a locker that had a mini vending machine built into it or a school bag that never got heavy no matter how many books you put in?
7. Would you rather be class president with the power to choose one thing about school each month or be the person who decides what is served for lunch every single day?
8. Would you rather have recess last an extra thirty minutes every day or get to leave school thirty minutes early every Friday?
9. Would you rather be the fastest runner in your entire school or be the person who can solve any puzzle or riddle faster than anyone else?
10. Would you rather have to stand at a tall desk for all your lessons or sit on a giant exercise ball instead of a chair for the whole school year?
11. Would you rather your school have a swimming pool that classes could use on Fridays or a go-kart track behind the sports hall?
12. Would you rather bring your pet to school for one full day or bring your favourite video game or board game to school for one full day?
13. Would you rather have homework every night but never any tests or have loads of tests but absolutely zero homework ever?
14. Would you rather be given a whole free afternoon with no lessons once a week to do anything school-related you choose or get a surprise bonus day off once a month with no warning?
15. Would you rather your school cafeteria served breakfast food for lunch every day or served lunch food for breakfast every day?
16. Would you rather have school start at noon and finish at six in the evening or have school start at six in the morning and finish at noon?
17. Would you rather go on a school trip to the moon (if it were possible and safe) or go on a school trip to the bottom of the ocean in a submarine?
18. Would you rather always know the right answer in class but never be able to explain how you got it or always be able to explain your thinking perfectly but sometimes get the answer wrong?
19. Would you rather your school had a huge library with a secret reading den hidden inside it or a rooftop garden where lessons could be held on sunny days?
20. Would you rather be able to choose your own seat every single day or always have an assigned seat that is guaranteed to be the most comfortable one in the room?
21. Would you rather get to design your own school uniform — colours, style, everything — or get to wear your own clothes every day with no uniform at all?
22. Would you rather have a school year with no summer holidays but lots of little breaks throughout the year or keep the long summer holiday but have no shorter breaks at any other time?
23. Would you rather your best friend was always in every single one of your classes or your best friend was at the same school but always in different classes so you only saw them at break?
24. Would you rather earn extra playtime by getting good marks or earn the chance to teach your class for ten minutes on any topic you love?

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you play Would You Rather with kids?

One person reads a question aloud and everyone else shouts or signals their choice — Option A or Option B — at the same time. Then ask everyone to explain their reasoning. Take turns being the reader, and keep it moving fast for younger kids who prefer a quick-fire pace.

How many players do you need?

Would You Rather works with as few as two players and as many as a full classroom. There is no upper limit — the more players, the louder and funnier the disagreements get!

What age are these questions suitable for?

Younger children love the silly and animal sections; older kids tend to go wild for the superpower and school questions. All 120 are clean and age-appropriate.

How do I print and use the card decks?

Download or save the card-sheet images, then print them on white cardstock for a sturdier feel. Laminate the sheets if you want them to last, cut along the dashed lines, and thread the cards together with a binder ring so the deck stays tidy. A small tin makes a great home for the finished deck.

Can these questions be used as a classroom icebreaker?

Absolutely — they are brilliant for morning meetings, the first day of term, or any transition moment in the school day. The school and playground section is especially designed with classroom use in mind, but any of the five themes works well.

Do I need any supplies to play?

Not a single thing — just the questions and some enthusiastic kids. If you want to make it a physical game, print the cards on cardstock, laminate them for durability, and keep them in a small tin so they are always ready to grab.

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