These conversation starters
will help you connect during
family meals!
Family Meal
Conversation Starters
Week 1
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Where is your favorite place in the world? Why?
How do you know when you’re grown up?
If you could eat dinner with any president who would you choose?
What is your favorite Dr. Seuss book? Why?
What is one thing you would like to accomplish in the next year?
Week 2
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What place would you most like to visit? Why?
What is your favorite season? Why?
Which of your five senses would be easiest to live without?
If you could change one law which law you change? Why?
What would you like to invent?
Week 8
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In our family, is it better to be the youngest? Oldest? Middle child?
If you could speak any language what would it be? Why?
Name the two most important people in history. Why?
If you could cure one disease what would it be? Why?
What is your most valued possession? Why?
Week 9
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If you could have any type of car, what would it be?
Tell about a day when you went fishing or swimming.
Tell about a movie or TV show that made you cry.
Describe something nice someone did for you.
Name someone you would consider a hero. Why?
Week 3
Week 10
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What is the best way to relax?
What is your favorite thing to do when you are alone?
Describe your favorite sandwich.
What do you love about school/work?
What is your favorite holiday? Why?
Week 4
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What is your favorite board game? Why?
What kinds of books or reading do you find more enjoyable?
Name two things that you do that help you relax.
What is your favorite music? Why?
What is one thing you really believe in? Why?
Week 5
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Who is your favorite athlete?
What is your favorite vegetable?
Name three animals that have toes. Name three that don’t.
What special talents do you have?
What planet would you like to visit? Why?
Week 11
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What is your favorite website? Why?
What does being a good sport mean?
What is the best costume you have ever worn?
What is the dumbest thing you have ever done?
What does bullying mean to you?
Week 7
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What would a perfect weekend be like for you?
Tell about one of the best gifts you have ever received.
Tell about one of the proudest moments of your life.
What is your favorite holiday? Why?
Would you like to travel to the moon? Why?
Do you think there is life on other planets? Why?
Who is one of the kindest person you have met? Why?
Describe something you like about one of your relatives.
What is something you have memorized and still remember?
What is your favorite season? Why?
Week 12
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Week 6
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Who is the most courageous person you have ever met? Why?
Tell about a time when you got in real trouble at home.
If you were a food, what would you be?
Describe what it means to be a best friend.
What is your earliest childhood memory?
Who is your favorite movie star?
Who is your favorite muppet?
What is your favorite book from childhood?
What is your favorite fruit?
What is one of your favorite eating places outside of your home?
Why?
Week 13
• Which chores to you like to do most? Why?
• What is your favorite season? Why?
• If you had $100 to spend on anything, would you spend, save,
or give it away?
• If you had to move to another state, which one would you
choose?
• Describe one of the best decisions you have ever made in your
life.
Week 14
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If you could change your name what would you change it to?
Do you really think all snowflakes are a different shape? Why?
Who is the most influential person in recent history? Why?
Do animals speak a language with each other that they can
understand?
• If you had to be named after one of the 50 states, which one
would you choose? Why?
09/07/2009