50 Icebreaker Questions for Families

Prompts (50)

• 1. Is our home loudest in the morning rush or at dinner time?

  Home life
  in the morning rushat dinner time

• 2. Should the person who cooks also have to do the dishes or get the night off?

  Home life
  also have to do the dishesget the night off

• 3. Who should control the TV remote: whoever finds it first or whoever is oldest?

  Home life
  whoever finds it firstwhoever is oldest

• 4. Is the best spot on the couch the corner seat or the middle seat?

  Home life
  the corner seatthe middle seat

• 5. Do you like a tidy house all week or one big clean-up on weekends?

  Home life
  a tidy house all weekone big clean-up on weekends

• 6. Should family chores rotate every week or stay the same so everyone gets good at one?

  Home life
  rotate every weekstay the same

• 7. Would you rather share a bathroom with the whole family or share a bedroom with one sibling?

  Home life
  share a bathroom with the whole familyshare a bedroom with one sibling

• 8. Is the thermostat best set to toasty warm or nice and cool?

  Home life
  toasty warmnice and cool

• 9. Should pets be allowed on the couch or stay on the floor?

  Home life
  allowed on the couchstay on the floor

• 10. Would you rather have a family vegetable garden or a family fish tank?

  Home life
  a family vegetable gardena family fish tank

• 11. Is family dinner better at the table or on the couch with a movie?

  Food at home
  at the tableon the couch with a movie

• 12. Should family meals be phones-in-a-basket or phones allowed for looking things up?

  Food at home
  phones-in-a-basketphones allowed for looking things up

• 13. Who is the best cook in the family: the one who follows recipes or the one who invents dishes?

  Food at home
  the one who follows recipesthe one who invents dishes

• 14. Should Sunday breakfast be pancakes or eggs and toast?

  Food at home
  pancakeseggs and toast

• 15. Would you rather bake cookies together or build sandwiches together?

  Food at home
  bake cookies togetherbuild sandwiches together

• 16. Is the last slice of pizza fair game or something to split evenly?

  Food at home
  fair gamesomething to split evenly

• 17. Should kids get to pick dinner once a week or once a month?

  Food at home
  once a weekonce a month

• 18. Would you rather eat grandma's best dish or grandpa's best dish forever?

  Food at home
  grandma's best dishgrandpa's best dish

• 19. Are leftovers night a treat or a chore?

  Food at home
  a treata chore

• 20. Should dessert come every night or only on weekends?

  Food at home
  every nightonly on weekends

• 21. Is the perfect family Saturday a day trip or a stay-home day?

  Weekends & outings
  a day tripa stay-home day

• 22. Would you rather visit every grandparent in one big trip or host them all at our place?

  Weekends & outings
  visit every grandparent in one big triphost them all at our place

• 23. Would you rather visit a farm or a zoo together?

  Weekends & outings
  a farma zoo

• 24. On road trips, should the playlist be shared or chosen by the driver?

  Weekends & outings
  sharedchosen by the driver

• 25. Would you rather have a family bike ride or a family hike?

  Weekends & outings
  a family bike ridea family hike

• 26. Is the better family competition a backyard obstacle course or a kitchen bake-off?

  Weekends & outings
  a backyard obstacle coursea kitchen bake-off

• 27. Would you rather go to a family reunion with games or with a big shared meal?

  Weekends & outings
  with gameswith a big shared meal

• 28. On vacation, should everyone stick together or split up for an afternoon?

  Weekends & outings
  stick togethersplit up for an afternoon

• 29. Would you rather spend a rainy weekend doing a big puzzle or building a living room fort?

  Weekends & outings
  doing a big puzzlebuilding a living room fort

• 30. Should the family camp in the backyard or in a real campground?

  Weekends & outings
  in the backyardin a real campground

• 31. Should birthdays start with breakfast in bed or a special family outing?

  Family traditions
  breakfast in beda special family outing

• 32. Would your family rather make a time capsule together or hold a one-recipe cook-off?

  Family traditions
  make a time capsule togetherhold a one-recipe cook-off

• 33. Should family photos be posed and neat or silly and messy?

  Family traditions
  posed and neatsilly and messy

• 34. Would you rather start a family book club or a family cooking challenge?

  Family traditions
  a family book cluba family cooking challenge

• 35. Should the birthday person pick the dinner or the activity?

  Family traditions
  pick the dinnerthe activity

• 36. Would you rather make a family time capsule or a family scrapbook?

  Family traditions
  a family time capsulea family scrapbook

• 37. Is it more fun to look at old baby photos or old family videos?

  Family traditions
  old baby photosold family videos

• 38. Would you rather have a family motto or a family handshake?

  Family traditions
  a family mottoa family handshake

• 39. Should the first day of summer break have a tradition or just be a lazy day?

  Family traditions
  have a traditionjust be a lazy day

• 40. Would you rather plant a tree for every new family member or carve height marks on a door frame?

  Family traditions
  plant a tree for every new family membercarve height marks on a door frame

• 41. If our family had a band, would we play rock or folk?

  Family hypotheticals
  rockfolk

• 42. Would you rather our family have a pet llama or a pet penguin?

  Family hypotheticals
  a pet llamaa pet penguin

• 43. If our family had a theme color, would it be blue or orange?

  Family hypotheticals
  blueorange

• 44. Would you rather our family live on a boat or in a lighthouse for a summer?

  Family hypotheticals
  on a boatin a lighthouse

• 45. If our family starred in a TV show, would it be a cooking show or a travel show?

  Family hypotheticals
  a cooking showa travel show

• 46. Would you rather our house have a secret tunnel or a swimming pool on the roof?

  Family hypotheticals
  a secret tunnela swimming pool on the roof

• 47. If our family won a talent show, would it be for singing or for comedy?

  Family hypotheticals
  for singingfor comedy

• 48. Would you rather the whole family switch chores or switch bedrooms for a week?

  Family hypotheticals
  switch choresswitch bedrooms

• 49. If our family opened a shop, would it sell ice cream or sell books?

  Family hypotheticals
  sell ice creamsell books

• 50. Would you rather have a family robot butler or a family dragon that keeps the house warm?

  Family hypotheticals
  a family robot butlera family dragon that keeps the house warm

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