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40 fun questions to ask kids

By American Girl Sep. 3, 2019

Use this list of would-you-rather questions for kids to keep your daughter talking when "How was school today?" just doesn’t cut it anymore. Whether you’re sitting around the dinner table, driving in the car, or waiting in line at the grocery store, these fun questions can turn spans of silence into meaningful conversations. Just make sure both of you answer the questions—your daughter is more likely to open up if you do the same.

2019 Girl of the Year™ Blaire Wilson™ plays a similar game in Blaire: Book One with her best friend, Thea. While they paint trim on the barn’s windows, the two of them make up This or That? questions to pass the time and have fun together. So, after you and your girl have answered the questions below, try making up your own!

Would you rather…

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Serve food at a soup kitchen

or

walk dogs at the animal shelter?

Live in a tree house

or

beach house?

Be a famous sculptor

or

basketball player?

Invent a new kind of cheese

or

flavor of ice cream?

Give a gift

or

receive one?

Ride a bike that plays music

or

lights up?

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Direct a play

or

perform in the lead role?

Visit a national park

or

a roller coaster park?

Wake up early

or

stay up late?

Open a time capsule from 100 years ago

or

a letter you wrote yourself three years ago?

Have the hiccups

or

a runny nose?

Design a video game

or

a billboard?

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Wear the same outfit

or

read the same book every day?

Never have to do homework

or

do chores again?

Be able to speak to dolphins

or

grow a mermaid tail whenever you're in water?

Never have to sleep

or

never have to eat?

Travel to school in a submarine

or

a hot air balloon?

Have a waterfall in your bedroom

or

a trampoline park in your backyard?

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Watch an outdoor movie

or

go stargazing?

Receive a bouquet of roses

or

cake pops?

Plant a garden

or

paint a mural?

Go to school in a different country for a year

or

host an exchange student at your house?

Learn to speak a new language

or

code in a new programming language?

Adopt a pet pig

or

a pet toucan?

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Write a recipe book

or

a mystery novel?

Fly an airplane

or

steer a boat?

Take care of cats at a pet resort

or

bake pies for a dessert shop?

Compete in a science fair

or

a soccer tournament?

Be too cold

or

too hot?

Live at the zoo

or

in the White House?

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Work on a school project as a group

or

on your own?

Create a new holiday

or

name a star in the sky?

Be able to change the length

or

color of your hair every morning?

Spend 24 hours in a haunted mansion

or

a tiny submarine?

Have the power to stop time

or

turn invisible?

Eat only bananas

or

avocados for a week?

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Cure a disease

or

discover a way to make shots not hurt?

Fly an airplane

or

climb a tree?

Write thank-you cards

or

plan a surprise party for all teachers at school?

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