100 Conversation Starters To Increase Your Family’s Connectedness

Have fun with these conversation starters as you connect with your family by chatting it up with each other using these silly and serious questions!

Topic 1: Family

1.  Describe our family in one word.
2.  What is your favorite family memory?
3.  What is your most memorable family holiday?
4.  The official food of our family would be…
5. If our family had a sponsorship with a company or organization, who would sponsor our family?
6.  Our family receives an all-expense-paid trip to anywhere for a week. But we must all agree on the location. Where do we go?
7.  Besides people or pets, what is our family’s most prized possession?
8.  If you could change one thing about our family, what would it be?
9. If our family had to enter a talent competition, what talent gives our family the best chance to win?
10. What is the BEST part of our family?

Topic 2: Would You Rather…

1. Spend the night in a supposedly haunted house or camp out in a cemetery?  
2. Be stranded on an island with someone you can’t stand or be stranded by yourself?
3. Pet a snake or pet a rat?
4. Go without brushing your teeth or go without a shower for a month?
5. Live with someone who doesn’t brush or someone who doesn’t shower?
6. Read people’s minds or see into the future?
7. Not be able to watch tv/play video games or go to bed at 6PM for a month?
8. No wi-fi/cellular service or no pizza for the rest of your life?
9. Have a family chef or a family housekeeper?
10. Accidentally fart or burp loudly at a restaurant?

Topic 3: Which Is Better & Why?

1. Cake or Pie?
2. Water Park or Amusement Park?
3. Waffles or Pancakes?
4. Water, Sport/Energy Drink, or Soda?
5. Family Game Night or Family Movie Night?
6. Driving or Flying?
7. Going to a lake or Going to the Ocean?
8. Leftovers for Breakfast or Breakfast for Dinner?
9. Read the Book or Watch the Movie?
10. Shopping for Shoes or Shopping for Clothes?

Topic 4: All About Mom and Dad

1. What kind of student were you in school?
2. We have to make a fast getaway! Who do we want driving—Mom or Dad?
3. New nicknames for Mom and Dad are…?
4. What do you appreciate the most about Mom?
5. What do you appreciate the most about Dad?
6. Earliest memory of your mom?
7. Earliest memory of your dad?
8. When have your parent(s) totally embarrassed you?
9. If you really want something, who do you go to, Mom or Dad? 
10. Funniest memory about Mom/Dad is…?

Topic 5: All About The Kids

1. If your kids could go anywhere on vacation where would they want to go?
2. What are your kid’s “superpowers?”
3. When have your kids surprised you in a good way?
4. What chores do your kids hate the most?
5. What is one house rule your kids would want to change the most?
6. Your kids have a couple of hours of free time, what do they do?
7. What are your kids most afraid of?
8. Name as many of your kids’ friends as you can.
9. What are your kids’ “spirit animals?”
10. What are your favorite moments with your kids?

Topic 6: Nothing But The Best

1. Holiday?
2. You’ve ever felt?
3. Birthday?
4. Team/group/club you’ve been a part of?
5. Clothes you’ve ever worn?
6. Song you’ve ever heard?
7. Dance you’ve ever seen?
8. Thing you’ve ever seen someone do for someone else?
9. Gift you’ve ever received?
10. Family vacation?

Topic 7: The Absolute Worst

What’s the worst…

1. Job you could ever have?
2. Movie you’ve ever seen?
3. Song you’ve ever heard?
4. Video game you’ve ever played?
5. Grade you’ve ever gotten?
6. Joke you’ve ever heard?
7. Book you’ve ever read?
8. Thing you’ve ever eaten?
9. You’ve ever felt?
10. Restaurant our family has eaten at?

Topic 8: Money

1. You have only $50 and we’re going to Walmart. What will you buy?
2. You have $1,000 to make the world a better place. What do you do with it?
3. What is the most valuable thing you own?
4. House is burning; you can only get one thing. What do you get?
5. Name one thing important to you which money can’t buy?
6. One thing you’ve bought that you wish you could take back and get a refund?
7. Name one thing you would like to save money to buy?
8. Name one thing you would like to save money to do?
9. If you had to sell $100 worth of your belongings, what would you sell?
10. You have only $1. What are you going to spend it on?

Topic 9: Wildcard 

1. Favorite season of the year? Why?
2. Nicest thing you have ever done for someone?
3. If you could be any animal for a day, what animal would be?
4. Your dream job would be…?
5. Why are french fries “French?”
6. Would you rather run away from a bear through mud or swim away from a shark in maple syrup?
7. Would you rather play catch with an egg or play frisbee with a frozen fish?
8. Name a natural food that is blue. (Not “blueberries” or candy!) I know, right?!
9. What time period would you like to have lived in—the wild west or medieval times?
10. Win a championship in a team sport or an individual sport? What sport?

Topic 10: The Future

1. One invention that needs to be invented? Be “uninvented?”
2. Where would you go if the end of the world were coming?
3. Zombie Apocalypse! What do you do?
4. Will the world be a better or worse place in 20 years? Why?
5. How will people travel in the year 2120?
6. For each member of the family: Most Likely To ______? Why?
7. What’s popular now that won’t be popular at all in 5 years? 
8. How will people communicate with someone they’re not face to face with in 20 years? 
9. In 30 years, where will you live? What will be your job? Will you have a family? What will you do for fun? 
10. Do you look toward the future more with worry or anticipation? Why?