Questions to Ask Your Grandchildren

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These 150 questions to ask your grandchildren are sorted by age, with sets for a phone call, a stay at your house and the two of you: which of my stories do you want to hear again?

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Press Age or set. Little ones, ages 3 to 6 need a word or a point: which of your toys is the hungriest? School age asks for a sentence, and Teenagers and Grown grandchildren ask for an opinion: what are you tired of being asked? Under Age band, Easy, Medium and Hard keep to the same ages inside the other sets.

A call, a stay, or the two of you

On a phone or video call has things to show and tell: what is the weather doing outside your window? When you come to stay plans the visit together. You and me turns the questions around: what do I do that no other grown-up does?

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What are fun questions to ask a small grandchild?

Playful ones a small child can answer in a word: Whose shoes are bigger: yours or mine? What do you turn into when you put on a cape? What sound does a sleepy cow make?

What can I ask a teenage grandchild?

Questions that ask for an opinion: What are you into at the moment that I have probably never heard of? What is one thing you would like me to stop doing? Teenagers holds them, and none is about grades.

What can I ask grandchildren on a video call?

Things they can show: What can you show me on the screen right now? What toy is nearest to you right now? For older grandchildren, On a phone or video call asks what photo you should each send the other afterward.

What do the questions leave out?

Health, bodies, money, faith, grades and love lives, and anything about trouble between a grandchild's parents. The cards ask about the grandchild's day, likes and plans, about the two of you, and a few playful things for little ones.

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Little ones, ages 3 to 6 24

  • How many hugs do I get today? Follow-up: How big is the last hug?
  • What can you do now that you are bigger? Follow-up: How do you do it? Show me.
  • What did you bring to show me today? Follow-up: Where did you get the thing you brought?
  • What did you dream about, or what would you like to dream about? Follow-up: Who else was in the dream?
  • What do you call me, and what would be a funny new name for me? Follow-up: What would I call you back?
  • What do you think is cooking in my oven right now? Follow-up: What would you put in the pot?
  • What do you turn into when you put on a cape? Follow-up: What is your power in the cape?
  • What is hiding in your pocket today? Follow-up: How did it get into your pocket?
  • What is on your shirt today? Follow-up: Who picked that shirt?
  • What is the best thing about being as old as you are? Follow-up: What will be good about next year?
  • What is your teddy or doll called? Follow-up: What does your teddy do while you sleep?
  • What makes you giggle the most? Follow-up: What does your giggle sound like?
  • What shall we feed the birds? Follow-up: Which bird will come first?
  • What shall you and I pretend to be this afternoon? Follow-up: Who has the first turn?
  • What should we draw together? Follow-up: Which part do you want me to draw?
  • What song shall we sing in the car? Follow-up: What comes after the first line?
  • What sound does a sleepy cow make? Follow-up: What sound does a sleepy cat make?
  • What treat should we share after lunch? Follow-up: Who gets the bigger half?
  • Where does the moon go in the daytime, do you think? Follow-up: What does the sun do at night, then?
  • Which animal would you like to pat? Follow-up: What would its fur feel like?
  • Which of your toys is the hungriest? Follow-up: What does that toy like to eat?
  • Which picture book shall we open on the sofa? Follow-up: Which page do you want to stay on?
  • Who did you wave to on the way here? Follow-up: What did they do back?
  • Whose shoes are bigger: yours or mine? Follow-up: How many of your feet fit in my shoe?

School age 24

  • How do you imagine my classroom looked when I was in school? Follow-up: What do you think we did without screens?
  • What are you collecting or building right now? Follow-up: How many pieces do you have so far?
  • What are you looking forward to about being a teenager? Follow-up: What will you miss about now?
  • What are you the class expert on? Follow-up: How did you become the expert?
  • What can you teach me that I do not know? Follow-up: How long will it take me to learn?
  • What do grown-ups keep explaining that you already know? Follow-up: What do you think we get right?
  • What do you get up to when nobody is organizing you? Follow-up: How long can you keep at it?
  • What does your teacher say so often that you could say it for them? Follow-up: How do you sound when you say it?
  • What game is everyone at your school playing right now? Follow-up: How do you win that game?
  • What have you made lately that I could put on my wall or shelf? Follow-up: Where on the wall should it go?
  • What is something you are proud of that nobody clapped for? Follow-up: How should we celebrate it now?
  • What is the best thing you have learned since I last saw you? Follow-up: Who or what showed you how?
  • What is your favorite lunch, and who makes it? Follow-up: Which part of it do you swap with a friend?
  • What made your whole class laugh lately? Follow-up: Who laughed the loudest at it?
  • What question have you been wanting to ask a grown-up? Follow-up: Who do you think knows the answer to it?
  • What riddle or joke are you saving up to tell me? Follow-up: Who told you that joke?
  • What sport, instrument or club are you doing now? Follow-up: What part of it is the most fun?
  • What took you the most tries to get right this month? Follow-up: What did you change on the last try?
  • What would you change about your bedroom if it were up to you? Follow-up: What would stay exactly where it is?
  • What would you put on the menu if you cooked for the whole family? Follow-up: What would I be asked to bring?
  • Where would you like to go with me, only you and me? Follow-up: What should we bring with us?
  • Which job at home would you swap with me, and for what? Follow-up: Which chore would you hand to me?
  • Which of my stories do you want to hear again? Follow-up: Which part should I not leave out?
  • Who are your friends these days, and what do you do together? Follow-up: Which of them would I get along with?

Teenagers 22

  • What are you good at now that would have surprised you at ten? Follow-up: What surprised you about getting good at it?
  • What are you into at the moment that I have probably never heard of? Follow-up: How would you explain it to someone my age?
  • What are you saving your energy for this year? Follow-up: What can I do to help with it?
  • What are you tired of being asked? Follow-up: What would you rather be asked?
  • What do grandparents in general misunderstand about teenagers? Follow-up: What do we manage to get right?
  • What do people your age argue about that would surprise me? Follow-up: Which side are you on?
  • What do you do when you need a quiet hour? Follow-up: Where do you go for your quiet hour?
  • What do you want to do after school ends, even if it changes next month? Follow-up: What pulls you toward it?
  • What do your friends bring out in you? Follow-up: How did you and your friends find each other?
  • What gets squeezed out of your week that you would like back? Follow-up: What would you drop to make the time?
  • What is going well for you that nobody asks about? Follow-up: How did you get it going?
  • What is one opinion of yours that you would like me to take seriously? Follow-up: What would change if I did?
  • What is one thing you would like me to stop doing? Follow-up: What should I keep doing?
  • What is taking up most of your thinking these days? Follow-up: What would make it easier to think about?
  • What is the most interesting thing a teacher said this semester? Follow-up: How far do you agree with it?
  • What job, real or odd, would you like to try for a summer? Follow-up: What would you learn from a summer of it?
  • What music should I listen to if I want to understand your week? Follow-up: Which part should I turn up?
  • What was I doing at your age, do you suppose? Follow-up: How close do you think your guess is?
  • What would you cook for me if I came to dinner at your place someday? Follow-up: What would we talk about over that dinner?
  • What would you like to be trusted with? Follow-up: What would you do with that trust?
  • What would you like to know about our family that nobody has told you? Follow-up: Who should we ask together?
  • Where do you want to have set foot by the time you finish school? Follow-up: Who would you take with you?

Grown grandchildren 20

  • How does a normal Tuesday go for you these days? Follow-up: Which hour of it do you like best?
  • What are you waiting for this season with real impatience? Follow-up: Who will be there with you?
  • What are you working on that you are glad to be working on? Follow-up: What is the next step in it?
  • What do you know now that you wish you could tell your teenage self? Follow-up: How would your teenage self have taken it?
  • What do you miss from when you were small? Follow-up: What would you bring back if you could?
  • What do you remember about visits to my house when you were little? Follow-up: What did my house smell like?
  • What do you think you got from me? Follow-up: What did you get from the other side of the family?
  • What family habit have you kept without meaning to? Follow-up: When did you catch yourself at it?
  • What have you learned to cook, fix or grow since you moved out? Follow-up: Who or what was your teacher for that?
  • What have you read, seen or heard lately that stayed with you? Follow-up: What about it would not leave you alone?
  • What is the best thing within a short walk of where you live? Follow-up: When can you take me there?
  • What is the hardest decision you have made on your own so far? Follow-up: What helped you make that decision?
  • What is your home like, and what do you like about coming back to it? Follow-up: What would you show me first there?
  • What part of your work or studies would I find most surprising? Follow-up: How would you explain it to me over tea?
  • What recipe, tool or photograph of mine would you like to have one day? Follow-up: Where in your home would it live?
  • What tradition of ours would you like to keep going? Follow-up: What would you change about that tradition?
  • What would you like to know about my life at your age? Follow-up: What do you guess the answer is?
  • What would you like us to do together now that you are grown? Follow-up: When shall we do it?
  • Which of my memories should I put on paper for you? Follow-up: Which story should come first?
  • Who are the people you spend your weekends with? Follow-up: What do you all do together?

On a phone or video call 20

  • What are you about to go and do when we hang up? Follow-up: What would you rather be doing?
  • What can you carry to the camera that you made this week? Follow-up: What went into making it?
  • What can you show me on the screen right now? Follow-up: What is behind the thing you are showing me?
  • What did my call pull you away from? Follow-up: Where will you pick it up again?
  • What did you do today that you could teach me over the phone? Follow-up: What do I need to have ready?
  • What guessing game could the two of us play over the phone? Follow-up: Who starts the game?
  • What is on your desk, your wall or your floor at the moment? Follow-up: What does it say about your week?
  • What is one good thing and one annoying thing from this week? Follow-up: Which one are you still thinking about?
  • What is the news from your street, your class or your team? Follow-up: Who told you the news?
  • What is the view from where you are sitting? Follow-up: What would you change about the view?
  • What is the weather doing outside your window? Follow-up: What are you wearing for that weather?
  • What noise shall we both make into the phone on three? Follow-up: Which animal should I do for you?
  • What photo should we each send the other after this call? Follow-up: What should my photo show?
  • What shall I draw for you and hold up to the camera? Follow-up: What color should my drawing be?
  • What should I read, watch or listen to before we talk again? Follow-up: What should I notice in it?
  • What toy is nearest to you right now? Follow-up: What is that toy's name?
  • What was the best bite you ate today? Follow-up: Who was sitting with you?
  • What was the best conversation you had this week, apart from this one? Follow-up: What made that conversation good?
  • What will have happened by our next call that I should hear about? Follow-up: When will you know how it went?
  • When in your week is a call from me most welcome, honestly? Follow-up: What does that hour usually hold for you?

When you come to stay 20

  • What bedtime story shall I tell: a made-up one or a true one? Follow-up: Who should be in the story?
  • What do you remember from the last time you stayed? Follow-up: What should we do again this time?
  • What do you want to do here that you cannot do at home? Follow-up: What do we need for it?
  • What do you want to help me with in the kitchen or the garden? Follow-up: What is your job going to be?
  • What goes on the list for this visit: one outing, one meal, one lazy thing? Follow-up: Which of the three comes first?
  • What is allowed at my house that is not allowed at yours? Follow-up: Which way do you like better?
  • What old thing of mine would you like to look through? Follow-up: What do you hope we find?
  • What should we bake, plant or build while you are here? Follow-up: What do we need to get ready?
  • What should we cook together that neither of us has tried? Follow-up: Who reads the recipe out?
  • What should we do if it rains the whole time? Follow-up: What should we do if it does not?
  • What should we have for breakfast on the first morning? Follow-up: Who stirs and who pours?
  • What should we take on our walk? Follow-up: Where shall we walk to?
  • What should we talk about late at night when everyone else is asleep? Follow-up: Where shall we sit for it?
  • What time do you actually want to get up while you are here? Follow-up: What should I not plan before then?
  • What would make my place feel like your place for a few days? Follow-up: What should I move or clear?
  • What would you like me to show you how to mend, sew or grow? Follow-up: What tool does that job need?
  • What would you like to take home with you from this visit? Follow-up: What would you like to leave behind for me?
  • Where do you like to sleep at my house? Follow-up: What do you need next to you there?
  • Which box from my game closet shall we open? Follow-up: Who deals or sets it up?
  • Which neighbor, store or park near me do you want to visit? Follow-up: What do you want to do there?

You and me 20

  • What do I do that no other grown-up does? Follow-up: What do you think of it?
  • What do I say when I answer the phone? Follow-up: How do I say it? Show me how.
  • What do you and I both like to eat? Follow-up: Which of us likes it more?
  • What do you like best about coming to see me? Follow-up: What do I like best about it, do you think?
  • What do you think I liked to play when I was little? Follow-up: How do you think that game went?
  • What do you think you and I have in common that skipped a generation? Follow-up: Where do you see it most?
  • What do you want to ask me that you have never asked? Follow-up: What do you guess I will say?
  • What do you wish I had told you sooner? Follow-up: What would it have changed?
  • What favor would you like to return to me when you are older? Follow-up: What can I do for you now?
  • What have I taught you already without knowing it? Follow-up: When do you use it?
  • What is something you and I disagree about, in a friendly way? Follow-up: Who is closer to winning?
  • What is the best hiding place in my house? Follow-up: Who hid there last?
  • What part of my life do you find hardest to picture? Follow-up: What would help you picture it?
  • What shall I teach you: a song, a game or a trick? Follow-up: When shall we start?
  • What should I learn from you? Follow-up: How patient will you be with me?
  • What should I teach you before you are grown? Follow-up: When shall we have the first lesson?
  • What should the two of us begin doing every time we meet? Follow-up: What would we call our tradition?
  • What story about our family do you want to hear from the beginning? Follow-up: Who do you think is the hero of it?
  • Which moments with me do you hope will stay sharp when you are old? Follow-up: How shall we keep the memory?
  • Which of my habits would you like to have when you are my age? Follow-up: Which one will you leave to me?
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. Every card is worded for a grandparent to say to a grandchild, and each has its own follow-up. Four sets follow the grandchild's age and three follow the occasion: a phone or video call, a stay at the grandparent's home, and the two of you. Levels follow the age bands and are an editor's choice, not a statement about how children develop: easy cards are for little ones of about 3 to 6, medium cards for school age, hard cards for teenagers and grown grandchildren. Every line was screened against the site blocklist: nothing about a grandchild's body, health, money, faith, grades or love life, nothing about trouble between parents, nothing frightening, no real people and no brand names. 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