50 Would You Rather Questions for Elementary Students
50 Would You Rather questions for elementary students, made for classroom warm-ups. Vote live on 15 as a class, plus 35 more to read aloud.
These Would You Rather questions are for elementary students in grades 1 to 5. Use them as classroom warm-ups, morning-meeting starters, brain breaks or quick writing prompts where students explain their choice. Every one is clean and classroom safe. The first 15 are live polls, so the class can vote and compare with students everywhere. Back to the main collection →
School Day
Would you rather have art every day or gym every day?
Would you rather be the line leader or the class helper?
Would you rather go on a field trip to a museum or an aquarium?
Would you rather read a chapter book or a comic book?
Would you rather do a science experiment or write a story?
Imagination
Would you rather explore a jungle or the North Pole?
Would you rather have a robot friend or an alien friend?
Would you rather be a famous inventor or a famous artist?
Would you rather live in a treehouse or a castle?
Would you rather shrink to the size of a bug or grow as tall as a house?
Just for Fun
Would you rather have a snow day or a field day?
Would you rather play soccer or basketball?
Would you rather have a pet hamster or a pet goldfish?
Would you rather eat tacos or spaghetti?
Would you rather travel by hot air balloon or by submarine?
More elementary questions (read-aloud list)
- Would you rather have recess twice a day or lunch twice a day?
- Would you rather know how to juggle or how to do a cartwheel?
- Would you rather visit the moon or the bottom of the ocean?
- Would you rather learn to play the guitar or learn to speak Spanish?
- Would you rather be a zookeeper or a park ranger?
- Would you rather have a library in your bedroom or a game room in your basement?
- Would you rather write a book or illustrate one?
- Would you rather have a class pet rabbit or a class pet guinea pig?
- Would you rather solve a puzzle or build a model?
- Would you rather go camping or go to a water park?
- Would you rather invent a new game or a new flavor of ice cream?
- Would you rather be the captain of a ship or the pilot of a plane?
- Would you rather have super hearing or super eyesight?
- Would you rather learn about dinosaurs or about planets?
- Would you rather make a movie or make a video game?
- Would you rather spend a day with your favorite author or your favorite athlete?
- Would you rather have a giant sandbox or a giant trampoline?
- Would you rather be able to talk to dogs or to dolphins?
- Would you rather paint a mural or build a fort?
- Would you rather visit a chocolate factory or a toy factory?
- Would you rather be in the school play or the spelling bee?
- Would you rather ride a roller coaster or a Ferris wheel?
- Would you rather have a backpack that flies or shoes that bounce?
- Would you rather study volcanoes or study whales?
- Would you rather have pizza day every Friday or ice cream day every Monday?
- Would you rather learn magic tricks or learn karate?
- Would you rather go to school on a boat or on a train?
- Would you rather design your own sneakers or your own T-shirt?
- Would you rather spend a day as your teacher or as the principal?
- Would you rather grow a giant pumpkin or a giant sunflower?
- Would you rather discover a new animal or a new planet?
- Would you rather have a talking backpack or a talking pencil?
- Would you rather play board games or play outside?
- Would you rather have a robot that does your homework or one that cleans your room?
- Would you rather run a lemonade stand or a bake sale?
Want to run one of these as a live vote with your group? Start one here — it takes 30 seconds and you get a link that updates as people vote.