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Theme Icebreaker questions for kids

Someone new at the table, or grandparents visiting? These questions about favourites and fun facts help everyone get to know each other quickly. They are easy to answer, even for the youngest.

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Example questions

2-4toddlerToddlers

  1. What is your favourite food?

  2. What do you like wearing best?

  3. Where do you like playing best?

  4. What is your favourite fruit?

  5. What do you like doing with Mum or Dad?

  6. What do you like on your pancake?

  7. Which toy do you take in the car?

  8. Which animals live on the farm?

4-6preschoolPreschoolers

  1. What is your favourite place at home?

  2. What do you want to be when you grow up?

  3. Which book do you always want someone to read to you?

  4. What can you already do all by yourself?

  5. Which game do you like playing best in the playground?

  6. Who is the funniest person you know?

  7. Which animal can you copy best? Show us!

  8. What do you like doing with us best?

6-8grade 1-2Age 6 to 8

  1. What are you good at that the others at the table might not know?

  2. If you had a restaurant, what would be on the menu?

  3. Which country would you like to visit one day?

  4. What would you like to learn to cook or bake?

  5. Whose job would you like to watch for a day?

  6. Which animal would you study if you were a scientist?

  7. Which job seems the most exciting to you?

  8. Which of our family traditions do you like best?

8-10grade 3-4Age 8 to 10

  1. Which game or sport would you like to teach everyone?

  2. What's your favourite thing that Grandma or Grandpa makes?

  3. Which game do you like playing best with the whole family?

  4. Where would you most like to live if you could choose anywhere?

  5. What do you like most about your best friend?

  6. Who would you like to swap lives with for a day, and why?

  7. What can you do better than us, do you think?

  8. Who at this table is most like you, and in what way?

10-12grade 5-6Age 10 to 12

  1. How would you describe yourself to someone who has never met you?

  2. What dream do you have for when you're older?

  3. What do you think matters most in a friendship?

  4. Which app or game do you use most, and what do you like about it?

  5. Which job would you like to try out for a week?

  6. Which person from history would you like to interview?

  7. Which rule at home do you understand, and which one don't you?

  8. What would you do if you couldn't use any screens for a month?

How to get the most out of it

  1. 1

    Ask one question at a time

    Give everyone time. A silence often means someone is thinking.

  2. 2

    Join in yourself

    Children open up more easily when you share something of your own.

  3. 3

    Let the die choose

    In the app you tap the die and get a question that fits the theme and the age.

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