Conversation Starters

1. Where is your favorite place in the world? Why?
2. If you were ruler of the world for a day, what three things would you do?
3. Who do you think is happier – a dog or a bird?
4. What is good about having brothers and sisters? What is good about being an only child?
5. Can you name five kinds of trees?
6. What would your life be like if there were no telephones?
7. Why do we dream?
8. Name three things that you have never done.
9. Can you name your five senses? Which one do you think it would be easiest to live without? Which one would be most difficult?
10. Which members of your family came to the U.S. from far away? Where did they come from? When? Why?
11. Is there somebody you know who could use some help? Is there a way that you could help them?
12. When were "the good old days?"
13. How do you know when you're grown up?
14. Who is your best friend, and why?
15. What do you think about toenail polish?
16. Is lying always wrong?
17. If you are short, talk about what it would be like to be tall. If you are tall, what would it be like to be short? If you are medium height, choose one extreme.
18. What does charity mean? What's a good kind of charity? What's a kind that isn't so good?
19. Why do people run marathons? What have you done that was like that for you?
20. What would you like to invent?
21. What is the difference between work and play? How are they alike?
22. What is important? What is not important?
23. What makes a family?
24. How do you think the belly button got its name?