Christmas Questions to Ask Kids

Q: What can I ask a preschooler at Christmas?

Press Easy for the cards written for ages 3 to 6, short enough to answer in a few words: What color would you paint Santa's sleigh? What should go on top of the tree? What would you bake for Santa?

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Where would he go on vacation? Ages 7 to 12.

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How it works

These 88 Christmas questions to ask kids are written for children of 3 to 12: Santa, elves and reindeer, giving and wishing, traditions at home and imagine-ifs, plus a set for a whole class. None asks what a child got.

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Around the tree, in the car, at the table

Before the first card, press Topic for a set, and Easy for ages 3 to 6 or Medium for 7 to 12. Santa, elves and reindeer is the silliest: What do reindeer say to each other while they wait on a roof? No card says whether Santa is real.

Holiday questions to ask students

For a whole class holds 20 cards that name no holiday (lights, snow, kindness, the break), so every student can answer: What sound do you hear only in winter? On the end card, Print these gives slips for a jar.

Questions and answers

What are good Christmas questions to ask kids?

Ones with no wrong answer: What would a reindeer training school teach? If your stocking could talk, what would it say? What could you make for someone you love? Each card has a follow-up for a child who answers in one word.

What can I ask a preschooler at Christmas?

Press Easy for the cards written for ages 3 to 6, short enough to answer in a few words: What color would you paint Santa's sleigh? What should go on top of the tree? What would you bake for Santa?

Do the questions ask what a child wants for Christmas?

No. The giving cards are about what a child could make or give: What gift could you give that cannot be wrapped? None asks what a child was given, hopes to be given, or what anything cost.

All 88 questions

Santa, elves and reindeer 18

How do you think Santa stays warm? Follow-up: What does his coat feel like? Ages 3 to 6.
How do you think the sleigh gets around the world in one night? Follow-up: What would you add to make it faster? Ages 7 to 12.
What color would you paint Santa's sleigh? Follow-up: What would you add to the sleigh? Ages 3 to 6.
What do reindeer say to each other while they wait on a roof? Follow-up: Which reindeer is the chatty one? Ages 3 to 6.
What do you think elves do on their day off? Follow-up: What games do elves play? Ages 3 to 6.
What do you think Mrs. Claus is in charge of? Follow-up: What would she change first? Ages 7 to 12.
What do you think Santa does in July? Follow-up: Where would he go on vacation? Ages 7 to 12.
What do you think Santa eats for breakfast? Follow-up: Who cooks that breakfast? Ages 3 to 6.
What is the trickiest house in the world for a sleigh to land on? Follow-up: How would you solve the landing? Ages 7 to 12.
What rule would you make for the workshop if you ran it for a day? Follow-up: What would the elves think of your rule? Ages 7 to 12.
What song do the elves sing while they work? Follow-up: How does the elf tune go? Ages 3 to 6.
What would a reindeer training school teach? Follow-up: What would the final test be? Ages 7 to 12.
What would be the hardest elf job, and the easiest? Follow-up: Which of the two would you apply for? Ages 7 to 12.
What would the weather report at the North Pole say today? Follow-up: What would everyone up there wear? Ages 7 to 12.
What would you ask Santa to show you at the workshop? Follow-up: What would you want to try out there? Ages 3 to 6.
What would you bake for Santa? Follow-up: What would you put on top of it? Ages 3 to 6.
What would you say to the elves to thank them? Follow-up: How would you get your thanks to them? Ages 7 to 12.
Which reindeer would you like to ride? Follow-up: Where would the two of you go? Ages 3 to 6.

Giving and wishing 16

How does it feel when you give someone a present? Follow-up: What do you watch for on their face? Ages 3 to 6.
If you could give one present to your whole class, what would it be? Follow-up: How would you hand it out? Ages 7 to 12.
What could we give to a neighbor? Follow-up: How would we deliver it? Ages 3 to 6.
What could you make for someone you love? Follow-up: What would you make it from? Ages 3 to 6.
What do you like more: choosing a present, wrapping it or giving it? Follow-up: What makes that part the best? Ages 7 to 12.
What gift could you give that cannot be wrapped? Follow-up: Who would you give that gift to? Ages 7 to 12.
What good thing would you send to every child on Earth? Follow-up: What is one small step toward that? Ages 7 to 12.
What is one wish you have for someone else? Follow-up: How could we help that wish along? Ages 3 to 6.
What makes a present a good one? Follow-up: Which present you gave fits that best? Ages 7 to 12.
What old toy or book of yours could make another child happy? Follow-up: What did you love about it? Ages 7 to 12.
What would you give to the birds outside this winter? Follow-up: Where would you leave it for them? Ages 3 to 6.
What would you put in a card for a grandparent or an old friend? Follow-up: What would you draw on the front of the card? Ages 7 to 12.
What would you put in a present for a friend? Follow-up: How would you wrap that present? Ages 3 to 6.
Which present were you most excited to hand over? Follow-up: How did you keep it a secret? Ages 7 to 12.
Who works on Christmas Day, and how could we thank them? Follow-up: What would the thank-you say? Ages 7 to 12.
Who would you like to give a hug to this Christmas? Follow-up: What would you say with the hug? Ages 3 to 6.

At our house 18

What Christmas food do you like the most? Follow-up: Who makes that food? Ages 3 to 6.
What do we do every Christmas that you would never give up? Follow-up: What makes it yours? Ages 7 to 12.
What do you like best about the Christmas lights? Follow-up: What colors would you pick for ours? Ages 3 to 6.
What do you like to do on Christmas Eve? Follow-up: What do you want to do first that evening? Ages 3 to 6.
What do you remember about last Christmas? Follow-up: What do you want to be the same this year? Ages 7 to 12.
What do you want to help cook or bake? Follow-up: Which kitchen job do you want? Ages 3 to 6.
What does December smell like in our kitchen? Follow-up: Which smell is the best one? Ages 3 to 6.
What is something new we could add to our Christmas this year? Follow-up: On which day would we do it? Ages 7 to 12.
What is the coziest spot in our house in December? Follow-up: What do you do in that spot? Ages 7 to 12.
What is the funniest thing that has happened at our house at Christmas? Follow-up: Who was there to see it? Ages 7 to 12.
What is your favorite decoration on our tree? Follow-up: Where on the tree should it hang? Ages 3 to 6.
What part of Christmas Day goes by too fast? Follow-up: How could we make that part last? Ages 7 to 12.
What should go on top of the tree? Follow-up: Who should put it up there? Ages 3 to 6.
What would you put on the menu for Christmas dinner if you were the chef? Follow-up: What is for dessert on your menu? Ages 7 to 12.
Which Christmas book should we read tonight? Follow-up: Which page of it is your favorite? Ages 3 to 6.
Which Christmas job at home are you ready to take over? Follow-up: How would you do the job your way? Ages 7 to 12.
Which Christmas song would you teach a friend? Follow-up: Which part do you sing the loudest? Ages 3 to 6.
Which ornament would you make this year, and what from? Follow-up: Where on the tree does it go? Ages 7 to 12.

Imagine if 16

If a snowman came to dinner, what would he eat? Follow-up: Where would the snowman sit? Ages 3 to 6.
If an animal you like wrote a Christmas list, what would be on it? Follow-up: How would the list get mailed? Ages 7 to 12.
If an elf moved into our house, which room would it pick? Follow-up: What would the elf do in there all day? Ages 3 to 6.
If Christmas came twice a year, when should the second one be? Follow-up: What would be different about the second one? Ages 7 to 12.
If the tree could sing, which song would it sing? Follow-up: Who would sing along with the tree? Ages 3 to 6.
If you built a gingerbread town, which building would you make first? Follow-up: Who would live in that building? Ages 7 to 12.
If you could add a new reindeer to the team, what would its name and talent be? Follow-up: Where in the line would it run? Ages 7 to 12.
If you could decorate anything in town, what would it be? Follow-up: What would you put on it? Ages 3 to 6.
If you could invent a new Christmas treat, what would be in it? Follow-up: What would you call the treat? Ages 7 to 12.
If you could shrink and spend a day in a snow globe, what would you do in there? Follow-up: What happens when someone shakes it? Ages 7 to 12.
If you could spend Christmas anywhere, where would you go? Follow-up: What would you bring from home? Ages 7 to 12.
If you had a sleigh, who would pull it? Follow-up: Where would you fly first? Ages 3 to 6.
If you made up a new Christmas song, what would it be about? Follow-up: How would the first line go? Ages 7 to 12.
If you were a tree ornament, what would you look like? Follow-up: Which branch would you hang on? Ages 3 to 6.
If you were in charge of wrapping paper, what would you print on it? Follow-up: Who would get the first sheet? Ages 7 to 12.
If your stocking could talk, what would it say? Follow-up: What voice would the stocking have? Ages 3 to 6.

For a whole class 20

How could our class make someone's December brighter? Follow-up: What would we need to do it? Ages 7 to 12.
How could you surprise a classmate with kindness this week? Follow-up: When would be the best moment for it? Ages 3 to 6.
If our class had a winter party, what should we do at it? Follow-up: What job would you take at the party? Ages 7 to 12.
What are you thankful for as this year ends? Follow-up: Who would you like to tell? Ages 7 to 12.
What book, show or project are you saving for the break? Follow-up: When will you start on it? Ages 7 to 12.
What can you do this December that you could not do last December? Follow-up: Who noticed you getting better? Ages 7 to 12.
What do you enjoy most about this time of year? Follow-up: What makes it feel special to you? Ages 7 to 12.
What do you like to watch out the window in winter? Follow-up: What have you spotted lately? Ages 7 to 12.
What food tastes like this season to you? Follow-up: When do you get to eat it? Ages 7 to 12.
What is one thing you hope to do before school starts again? Follow-up: What do you need for it? Ages 7 to 12.
What is the first thing you put on when the cold arrives? Follow-up: Where are you headed in it? Ages 3 to 6.
What kind act did someone do for you this month? Follow-up: What did you say back to them? Ages 7 to 12.
What shape would you press into fresh snow? Follow-up: How deep would the snow need to be? Ages 3 to 6.
What sound do you hear only in winter? Follow-up: Where do you hear that sound? Ages 3 to 6.
What warms you up after coming in from the cold? Follow-up: When do you get to have it? Ages 3 to 6.
What will you do in your pajamas over the break? Follow-up: Who will do it with you? Ages 3 to 6.
What would you like to learn or try during the break? Follow-up: Who could help you with it? Ages 7 to 12.
What would you put in a winter care package for a friend? Follow-up: What would the note inside say? Ages 7 to 12.
Where do the brightest lights shine in our town this month? Follow-up: What do they look like up close? Ages 3 to 6.
Which board or card game comes out when school is closed? Follow-up: Who taught you to play it? Ages 3 to 6.

How this list was compiled

Written for this page by the Game Night Generator editors in October 2026; no question or follow-up is copied from another list. The questions are for children of about 3 to 12, asked by a parent, a grandparent or a teacher, and each has its own follow-up. No card says whether Santa is real, and none asks what a child was given, what a child wants to be given, or what anything cost. Every line was screened against the site's rules for children's pages: nothing frightening, nothing about a child's body, money or faith, no real people, no film, song, book or product named. The 20 cards under For a whole class name no holiday. Levels are age bands set by the editors, not a measurement: Easy for ages 3 to 6, Medium for ages 7 to 12. On 2026-10-02 a script compared every question and follow-up with every other list on this site, and lines that repeated one elsewhere were rewritten. Licence: own work