Would you rather be a slow turtle or a fast cheetah?
Would you rather be a tiny ant or a huge whale?
Would you rather eat with a pig or with a duck?
Would you rather feed a baby goat or a baby cow?
Would you rather find a nest or a rabbit?
Would you rather grow a tail or wings?
Would you rather have a long giraffe neck or a long elephant trunk?
Would you rather have a pig or a goat?
Would you rather hug a panda or a koala?
Would you rather moo like a cow or oink like a pig?
Would you rather nap with a bear or with a kitty?
Would you rather ride a horse or a cow?
Would you rather see a red bird or a blue fish?
Would you rather swim with a dolphin or fly with an eagle?
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Move your body 14
Would you rather clap your hands or stomp your feet?
Would you rather crawl like a crab or slither like a snake?
Would you rather go fast or slow?
Would you rather hop like a frog or waddle like a duck?
Would you rather jump or spin?
Would you rather jump up and down or run and play?
Would you rather march or dance?
Would you rather roll like a log or spin like a top?
Would you rather skip to school or gallop to school?
Would you rather stand on one foot or touch your toes?
Would you rather stomp like a dinosaur or tiptoe like a mouse?
Would you rather swing high or slide fast?
Would you rather take ten tiny steps or two giant steps?
Would you rather wiggle your whole body or freeze like a statue?
Food 14
Would you rather drink milk or water?
Would you rather eat a crunchy carrot or a squishy banana?
Would you rather eat a giant strawberry or a tiny watermelon?
Would you rather eat a red apple or yellow corn?
Would you rather eat blue spaghetti or drink green milk?
Would you rather eat cake or ice cream?
Would you rather eat cereal for dinner or pizza for breakfast?
Would you rather eat hot soup or cold ice cream?
Would you rather eat something sweet or something salty?
Would you rather eat toast or pancakes?
Would you rather have a picnic outside or a picnic in bed?
Would you rather pick blueberries or strawberries?
Would you rather sip soup through a straw or eat noodles with a spoon?
Would you rather stir the batter or crack the eggs?
Colors and shapes 12
Would you rather color the sky green or the grass blue?
Would you rather draw a circle or a square?
Would you rather eat only round food or only square food?
Would you rather find five circles or five triangles?
Would you rather have a pink room or an orange room?
Would you rather have a red car or a blue boat?
Would you rather have a star-shaped cookie or a heart-shaped cookie?
Would you rather have rainbow hair or rainbow shoes?
Would you rather live in a triangle house or in a round house?
Would you rather mix red and yellow or blue and yellow?Red and yellow make orange. Blue and yellow make green.
Would you rather paint with red or with blue?
Would you rather wear all yellow or all purple?
Count and compare 14
Would you rather be big or little?
Would you rather be first in line or last in line?
Would you rather be the tallest or the fastest?
Would you rather blow a giant bubble or pop a hundred bubbles?
Would you rather build a tall block tower or a long block road?
Would you rather carry one heavy box or five light boxes?
Would you rather count to ten or to one hundred?
Would you rather go first and lose or last and win?
Would you rather have a cookie now or two cookies later?
Would you rather have more crayons or more stickers?
Would you rather have one big balloon or ten tiny balloons?
Would you rather have one big eye or four feet?
Would you rather hide under the table or behind the door?
Would you rather keep one favorite toy or get three new toys?
Outside and weather 15
Would you rather be the sun or the wind?
Would you rather catch a snowflake or a raindrop?
Would you rather dig in the sand or in the mud?
Would you rather fly a kite or blow bubbles?
Would you rather go out at night or out in the morning?
Would you rather go to a farm or to a garden?
Would you rather go to the beach or to the park?
Would you rather look at the stars or at the clouds?
Would you rather pedal a trike or push a scooter?
Would you rather plant a flower or a tree?
Would you rather play in a tree house or in a big box?
Would you rather play in the snow or in the rain?
Would you rather ride in a boat or in a car?
Would you rather roll in the grass or wade in a creek?
Would you rather splash in a puddle or crunch through dry leaves?
Pretend 13
Would you rather be a baby again or a grown-up now?
Would you rather be a knight or a wizard?
Would you rather be a pirate or an astronaut?
Would you rather be the teacher or the bus driver?
Would you rather chat with a squirrel or with your teddy?
Would you rather drive a fire truck or a tractor?
Would you rather fly a rocket or drive a train?
Would you rather have a robot helper or a magic wand?
Would you rather jump on the moon or sit on a star?
Would you rather live in a castle or on a spaceship?
Would you rather ride a unicorn or a dragon?
Would you rather walk a dinosaur or a dragon?
Would you rather wear a crown all day or a cape all day?
School and home 19
Would you rather be the snack helper or the calendar helper?
Would you rather clean up the blocks or the crayons?
Would you rather get a new toy or a new game?
Would you rather give away a toy or a book?
Would you rather have a duck at school or a rabbit at school?
Would you rather have a party at home or a party at school?
Would you rather have one friend over or go to a big party?
Would you rather have story time or music time?
Would you rather help make the bed or make the bread?
Would you rather look out the window or under the bed?
Would you rather make a cake or a picture?
Would you rather paint a picture or play with clay?
Would you rather play with a ball or with a doll?
Would you rather read a book or build with blocks?
Would you rather share your snack or your toy?
Would you rather skip recess today or snack today?
Would you rather sleep in a sleeping bag or in a top bunk?
Would you rather stay up late once or sleep in late once?
Would you rather whisper all day or sing all day?
How this list was compiled: Written for this site for ages four to six, to be read aloud by an adult; nothing was copied from another list. Every option is five words or fewer and names something a child can picture or act out. No card asks for a name, needs reading or typing, or has a right answer, and each was read against the site's family-safe rule and run through a word blocklist on 2026-09-19 with no hits. Topics follow what kindergarten classes work on in the Common Core State Standards, read on 2026-09-19 in the standards documents at https://corestandards.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Math_Standards1.pdf (kindergarten: counting to 100 and comparing numbers, comparing length and weight, naming shapes, and position words such as under, behind and beside) and https://corestandards.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ELA_Standards1.pdf (kindergarten language standard 5: sorting things into categories such as shapes and foods, opposites, and acting out verbs for the same action, such as walk, march, strut and prance; speaking and listening standards 1 and 6: taking turns and speaking up clearly). This site is not affiliated with the authors of the standards, and the cards are a game, not a lesson plan. Sight words only follows one rule: a card gets the tag only when every word of both options is on the Dolch pre-primer list, primer list or noun list, as printed on 2026-09-19 at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolch_word_list (Edward William Dolch, first published 1936). One card carries a note in the list: red and yellow paint make orange, and blue and yellow make green, as the paint-mixing table shows at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_color (read on 2026-09-19). Preschool picks is our tag for the simplest cards: both options are three words or fewer and need no counting. Difficulty is our judgment: easy is two everyday things, medium is sillier or needs imagining, hard asks a child to give something up. Licence: own work
How it works
These are would you rather questions kindergarten children can answer without reading a word. An adult reads the card aloud, and each choice is five words or fewer: Ride a horse or Ride a cow, Jump or Spin.
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Say it twice, then count hands
Say both choices twice, so the first is still fresh when the second ends. Hold up your left hand for the first choice and your right for the second, then press once per raised hand. At circle time, skip the hands: children stand on the left or right side of the rug and you count heads.
Ten topics, Animals to Preschool picks
Eight topics follow the kindergarten year, from Animals and Food to Colors and shapes and Count and compare. Every Move your body card can be acted out. Sight words only marks 25 cards built from Dolch pre-primer, primer and noun words. Preschool picks marks 32 preschool would you rather questions with choices of three words or fewer, such as March or Dance.
After Have a cookie now or Have two cookies later, ask which side has more hands, and how many more.
Ask one child from each side to say why, in a whole sentence that starts with I would rather.
Stay on Easy in the first weeks of school. Hard holds 10 that ask a child to give something up.
Questions and answers
What ages suit these would you rather questions for kindergarteners?
Ages four to six, with an adult reading aloud. Nothing is scary, no card asks for a name and there is nothing to type. For ages six to ten, the kids deck has longer questions.
Can children read the cards themselves?
Some can. Press Sight words only for 25 cards where every word of both choices is on the Dolch pre-primer, primer or noun list, such as Play in the snow or Play in the rain. Read the words Would you rather for them.
Which cards fit a math or language lesson?
Count and compare has counting, size and position cards, such as Carry one heavy box or Carry five light boxes. Colors and shapes names circles, squares and triangles. The cards are a game, not a lesson plan.