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Summer Would You Rather Questions for Pool Days, Camp and July 4

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Summer Would You Rather Questions for Pool Days, Camp and July 4

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Pool and beach 18

  • Would you rather blow the lifeguard whistle all day or never hear it blown at you again?
  • Would you rather cross hot sand barefoot or cross a rocky beach barefoot?
  • Would you rather do a cannonball off the high dive or go down the twistiest water slide?
  • Would you rather eat a sandy sandwich every beach day or swim through seaweed every time?
  • Would you rather find a whole sand dollar or find a message in a bottle?
  • Would you rather float on a giant flamingo all day or float on a giant pizza slice?
  • Would you rather get buried in sand to the knees or build a sand car you can sit in?
  • Would you rather have a pool with no deep end or have a pool with no shallow end?
  • Would you rather have a wave pool in your yard or have a lazy river around your house?
  • Would you rather jump waves all afternoon or hunt tide pools all afternoon?
  • Would you rather lose your sunglasses to a wave or lose your sandwich to a gull?
  • Would you rather pack the beach bag for six or haul it all from the car in one trip?
  • Would you rather snorkel over a coral reef or paddleboard across a glassy bay?
  • Would you rather sunscreen four squirmy kids or shake sand out of the car for a week?
  • Would you rather swim in water as warm as soup or swim in water as cold as a snow cone?
  • Would you rather swim only before breakfast all summer or swim only on cloudy days?
  • Would you rather swim with a sea turtle or surf next to a dolphin?
  • Would you rather win the biggest-splash contest or win the silliest-dive contest?

Camp and campfires 17

  • Would you rather braid fifty friendship bracelets or tie-dye fifty camp shirts?
  • Would you rather camp a week with no sleeping bag or camp a week with no flashlight?
  • Would you rather catch dinner with a stick and string or find camp with only a compass?
  • Would you rather do a month at camp with no screens or do a month at home with no plans?
  • Would you rather drop the kids at camp for a week or go to camp yourself for a week?
  • Would you rather earn the archery award or earn the fire-building award?
  • Would you rather eat every marshmallow burned black or eat them all barely warm?
  • Would you rather get a camp care package of cookies or get a ten-page letter from home?
  • Would you rather get the top bunk by the window or get the bottom bunk by the door?
  • Would you rather hear a twig snap outside the tent or hear nothing at all, all night?
  • Would you rather hike ten miles with a heavy pack or wash camp dishes for fifty all week?
  • Would you rather make a s'more with cookies or make a s'more with a peanut butter cup? A s'more is a toasted marshmallow and chocolate between graham crackers. The name is a contraction of some more, and a 1925 newspaper described Girl Scouts eating Some-mores.
  • Would you rather pitch the tent in the dark or pitch the tent in the rain?
  • Would you rather sleep in a hammock between pines or sleep on a cot in a screen cabin?
  • Would you rather tell the campfire ghost story or sing the campfire song solo?
  • Would you rather tip your canoe at the dock or freeze halfway up the climbing wall?
  • Would you rather wake up to a loon on the lake or wake up to the camp bugle?

Road trips 15

  • Would you rather be the one who reads the map or be the one who picks the music?
  • Would you rather change a flat tire in the rain or wait out a two-hour traffic jam?
  • Would you rather count every cow you pass or wave at every truck you pass?
  • Would you rather cross the desert with no AC or cross the plains with no music?
  • Would you rather drive eight hours in one day or drive two hours a day for four days?
  • Would you rather eat every meal at gas stations or eat every meal from one cooler?
  • Would you rather feel queasy on every curvy road or need a rest stop every half hour?
  • Would you rather hear Are we there yet all day or hear one song on repeat all day?
  • Would you rather play the license plate game all day or play I spy all day?
  • Would you rather ride by the window with no snacks or ride in the middle with all of them?
  • Would you rather ride in a camper with a bunk bed or ride in a convertible, top down?
  • Would you rather share the back seat with a drooly dog or share it with a snoring cousin?
  • Would you rather stop at every giant roadside statue or stop at every ice cream stand?
  • Would you rather visit every national park or visit every state capital?
  • Would you rather visit the biggest ball of twine or visit the biggest frying pan?

Ice cream and cookouts 15

  • Would you rather chase the ice cream truck six blocks or hear it and never find it?
  • Would you rather eat a sundae the size of your head or eat a yard-long banana split?
  • Would you rather eat corn on the cob with no butter or eat a hot dog with no bun?
  • Would you rather eat vanilla all summer long or eat a new flavor daily, no repeats?
  • Would you rather flip burgers for fifty guests or shuck corn for fifty guests?
  • Would you rather get brain freeze from every cold sip or never taste anything cold again?
  • Would you rather get three scoops and drop one or get one scoop and keep it?
  • Would you rather give up ice cream all summer or give up swimming all summer?
  • Would you rather host the whole cookout or bring one side and leave early?
  • Would you rather own ice cream that never melts or own a freezer that never runs out?
  • Would you rather pick peaches off the tree or pick blackberries off the bramble?
  • Would you rather sell snow cones at the ballpark or sell lemonade at the beach?
  • Would you rather share your picnic with ants or share your picnic with geese?
  • Would you rather taste-test pickle ice cream or taste-test sweet corn ice cream?
  • Would you rather win the watermelon seed-spitting contest or win the pie-eating contest?

Bugs, heat and storms 14

  • Would you rather find ants marching to your juice or find a bee circling your ice pop?
  • Would you rather get a sunglasses-shaped tan line or get a sock tan that lasts till fall?
  • Would you rather get ten mosquito bites on one ankle or get one bite on your nose?
  • Would you rather glow like a firefly or sing like a cicada?
  • Would you rather have a dragonfly land on your hand or have a moth land on your nose?
  • Would you rather hear cicadas all day or hear crickets all night?
  • Would you rather lose mosquitoes and fireflies both or keep them both forever?
  • Would you rather lose power on the hottest night or lose the pool on the hottest day?
  • Would you rather pay a giant July electric bill or sleep in the basement until fall?
  • Would you rather sit on a hot vinyl car seat or grab a hot metal seat-belt buckle?
  • Would you rather sleep in front of three fans or sleep with an ice pack on your pillow?
  • Would you rather sweat through your shirt by 9 a.m. or have frizzy hair until September?
  • Would you rather watch heat lightning from the dock or watch a storm cross a wide field?
  • Would you rather wear jeans on a 100-degree day or wear wool socks on a 100-degree day?

Long days and summer nights 14

  • Would you rather be bored for a week of summer or be busy every minute of it?
  • Would you rather get a free outdoor concert weekly or get a free outdoor movie weekly?
  • Would you rather get a six-month summer alone or get a six-week summer with friends?
  • Would you rather have sunset at 10 p.m. all summer or have sunrise at 4 a.m. all summer? The June solstice falls between June 20 and 22. In the Northern Hemisphere it is the day that has the most daylight.
  • Would you rather learn to whistle with grass or learn to skip a stone ten times?
  • Would you rather live next door to the pool or live next door to the ice cream stand?
  • Would you rather play flashlight tag until ten or play kickball until dark?
  • Would you rather ride every ride at the fair twice or eat one of everything at the fair?
  • Would you rather sleep on the porch all summer or sleep in a yard tent all summer?
  • Would you rather spend the summer as a lifeguard or spend the summer as a camp counselor?
  • Would you rather take every summer Friday off or take all of August off?
  • Would you rather trade a week of summer for no homework or keep the week and the homework?
  • Would you rather watch the Perseids from a blanket or watch a drive-in movie from the car? The Perseid meteor shower peaks between August 9 and 14, with 60 or more meteors an hour at the peak.
  • Would you rather win the library reading challenge or beat every level of one game?

This or that 80

  • Archery or arts and crafts?
  • Badminton or beach volleyball?
  • Beach umbrella or beach tent?
  • Berry trifle or cherry pie?
  • Big finale or slow build?
  • Bike parade or pet parade?
  • Boardwalk or lighthouse?
  • Box fan or cold shower?
  • Brass band or pops orchestra?
  • Bucket and spade or boogie board?
  • Cabin porch or hotel balcony?
  • Canoe or kayak?
  • Car games or headphones?
  • Charcoal grill or gas grill?
  • Cheeseburger or bratwurst?
  • Drive-through or picnic table?
  • Farm-stand tomatoes or farm-stand corn?
  • Ferris wheel or carousel?
  • Fireflies or crickets?
  • Fireworks over water or fireworks over a field?
  • Fishing pole or crab net?
  • Flashlight or lantern?
  • Flying disc or kickball?
  • Front seat or back seat?
  • Funnel cake or kettle corn?
  • Glow stick or pinwheel?
  • Goggles or nose clip?
  • Grilled corn or baked beans?
  • Hammock or porch swing?
  • Heat wave or a week of rain?
  • Highway or back roads?
  • Hiking boots or trail sandals?
  • Ice pop or frozen yogurt?
  • Iced coffee or iced tea?
  • June or August?
  • Lap lane or open swim?
  • Last day of school or first swim of summer?
  • Lawn chair or blanket for the fireworks?
  • Library or arcade on a rainy day?
  • Log flume or bumper cars?
  • Low tide or high tide?
  • Malt or milkshake?
  • Mini golf or batting cages?
  • Mint chip or cookie dough?
  • Morning at the pool or evening at the pool?
  • Mow at dawn or mow at dusk?
  • National park or theme park?
  • Paper map or GPS?
  • Parade fire trucks or parade tractors?
  • Parade or fireworks?
  • Patio dinner or blanket dinner?
  • Peach cobbler or berry pie?
  • Pencil dive or belly flop?
  • Pink lemonade or limeade?
  • Pontoon or sailboat?
  • Pool noodle or kickboard?
  • Potato salad or coleslaw?
  • Red ice pop or blue ice pop?
  • Relish or grilled onions?
  • Roadside diner or food truck?
  • Rope swing or zip line?
  • Salt water or chlorine?
  • Seashells or sea glass?
  • Shade or sun?
  • Shooting star or field of fireflies?
  • Sleeping bag or air mattress?
  • Snow cone or slushie?
  • Soft serve or hard scoop?
  • Souvenir magnet or postcard?
  • Sprinkler or kiddie pool?
  • Sprinkles or hot fudge?
  • Summer camp or summer job?
  • Sun hat or baseball cap?
  • Sunflower field or lavender field?
  • Tank top or T-shirt?
  • Town picnic or backyard cookout?
  • Trail mix or jerky?
  • Tubing or water skiing?
  • Water balloons or squirt toys?
  • Watermelon or cantaloupe?

4th of July 21

  • Would you rather be in charge of the grill or be in charge of the playlist?
  • Would you rather bring the potato salad or bring the blueberry pie?
  • Would you rather build the town's July 3 bonfire or ring the town bell at sunrise? Once, the night before the Fourth was the focus of the celebrations. New England towns stacked barrels into tall pyramids and lit them at nightfall.
  • Would you rather celebrate on July 2 instead or celebrate on both July 2 and July 4? Congress voted for independence on July 2, 1776 and approved the wording of the Declaration on July 4. John Adams expected July 2 to be the day celebrated.
  • Would you rather comfort a scared dog all evening or miss the show stuck in traffic?
  • Would you rather count a fifty-shot salute at noon or hum along to a brass band at dusk? A salute of one shot for each state, known as a salute to the union, is fired at noon on Independence Day at military bases able to do it.
  • Would you rather decorate a flag cake with berries or decorate your bike for the parade?
  • Would you rather fire a cannon in the 1812 Overture or crash the cymbals at the finale? In 1974 cannons and fireworks were added to the Boston Pops July 4 concert on the Charles River Esplanade, fired during the 1812 Overture.
  • Would you rather get fireworks every Friday in July or get one show that lasts two hours?
  • Would you rather host a family reunion of eighty or travel to one a thousand miles away?
  • Would you rather leave early and miss the finale or see the finale and sit in traffic?
  • Would you rather ride the fire truck in the parade or throw candy from the last float? Fourth of July parades are often held in the mid to late morning, before the get-togethers. Bristol, Rhode Island has held its parade since 1785.
  • Would you rather see a huge show from a mile away or see a tiny show from the front row?
  • Would you rather sign the Declaration first and huge or sign it last and tiny? Most historians conclude the Declaration was signed on August 2, 1776, nearly a month after it was adopted.
  • Would you rather sing the anthem solo at the ballgame or throw out the first pitch?
  • Would you rather spend the Fourth at a carnival or spend the Fourth at a ballgame? The day usually means fireworks, parades, barbecues, picnics, carnivals, fairs, concerts, baseball games and family reunions.
  • Would you rather watch the fireworks from a boat or watch them from a hill out of town? Fireworks displays typically happen in the evening, at parks, harbors and sporting venues or off boats.
  • Would you rather wave a tiny flag from the curb or carry the banner at the front?
  • Would you rather wear a light-up necklace all night or wear a foam star crown all day?
  • Would you rather wear red, white and blue all week or wear face-paint stars all day? Decorations for the day are generally red, white and blue, like the American flag.
  • Would you rather win the sack hop at the picnic or win the water balloon toss? Families often mark the day with a picnic or barbecue, as hosts or guests.

How it works

Own ice cream that never melts or own a freezer that never runs out? These 194 summer would you rather questions cover pool days, camp, road trips and cookouts, and the 4th of July has a topic of its own.

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Six topics that name no holiday

Pool and beach, Camp and campfires, Road trips, Ice cream and cookouts, Bugs, heat and storms and Long days and summer nights name no holiday. Easy holds 110 picks. Hard holds 13 that cost something either way, such as Give up ice cream all summer or give up swimming all summer.

A set for adults, and 13 checked notes

Summer would you rather questions for adults sit under For adults: 17 cards on the July electric bill, hosting the cookout and a flat tire in the rain. Thirteen cards carry a checked note in the list under the deck, ten of them on the 4th of July.

  • On a drive, press Road trips and let the front-seat passenger read. The driver votes out loud.
  • At a fire circle, deal Camp and campfires. Campers vote by shuffling to one side of the ring.

Questions and answers

What are some summer this or that questions?

Press This or that for 80 quick pairs, such as Canoe or kayak, Pencil dive or belly flop, and Seashells or sea glass. Twelve are 4th of July this or that questions, such as Parade or fireworks.

What are some 4th of July would you rather questions?

Press 4th of July for 33 cards about parades, picnics, flag cake and fireworks, such as Ride the fire truck in the parade or throw candy from the last float. It is the only American topic in the deck.

Is the deck clean enough for camp?

Yes. There are no dares, and no card lights a firework or a sparkler. The kids deck has its own Summer topic: 20 cards in shorter words.

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