Icebreaker questions for teens come in handy when conversing with peers. They help teens socialize better in new situations at home, school, or work.
If your teen is shy, introduce them to icebreaker questions to help initiate meaningful social interactions. This should aid in cooperative learning where teens can ask each other questions and wait for their turn to express themselves.
Ice Breaker Questions for Teens
These icebreakers play a vital role in creating new relationships as teens will eventually bond over shared interests. For instance, you’re most likely to get along with a kid that has a similar music taste to yours.
Explore these interesting icebreaker questions for teens that could help them break out of their shells and make new friends.
1. What Netflix show did you binge embarrassingly quickly?
2. What was your favorite game when you were a kid?
3. What is your favorite sport to play?
4. What gets sharper the more you use it? Your brain
5. It lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward. What is it?
6. What do you fear the most?
7. Who is your favorite movie star?
8. If you could live on any planet, which one would it be and why?
9. What fruit is always sad? Blueberry
10. If you could have dinner with anyone in the world, who would it be and why?
11. What is your biggest hope for the future? Does its room have no doors or windows? A mushroom
12. If you had to change your name, what would you change it to?
13. What would people on social media say about you based on your posts?
14. Who is your favorite vlogger?
15. Animal voice swap: Which two animals would you have swap sounds?
16. What is your favorite meme and why?
17. What is the last song you sang out loud?
18. Who’s your all-time favorite YouTuber?
19. What is your favorite quote?
20. Which cartoon character do you wish was real?
21. When you wake up in the morning, what are you most thankful for?
22. What is the wildest dream you have ever had?
23. How would you spend a rainy day?
24. What has 13 hearts, but no lungs or stomach?
25. There was a greenhouse. Inside the greenhouse, there was a white house. Inside the white house, there was a red house. Inside the red house, there were lots of babies. What is it?
26. Describe your perfect day.
27. What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever done?
28. What are you most likely to argue about?
29. If you had a superhero ability, what would it be?
30. What are the top two songs on your playlist right now?
31. Name three things you and I appear to have in common.
32. How do you feel about cleaning your room?
33. What show are you most likely to binge-watch?
34. If you could change anything about your childhood, what would it be?
35. What kind of food do mummies like to eat? Wraps
36. What is your greatest accomplishment?
37. What do teens say when they have trouble with even numbers in their math class?
38. Would you rather take a train, plane, or boat somewhere?
39. Which family member are you most proud of?
40. If you could build a house out of anything, what would you choose?
41. What is your most treasured childhood memory?
42. Which family member are you closest to?
43. What has to be broken before you can use it? An egg
44. If you could know the future, would you choose to find out?
45. Where did you buy your pencil/laptop case from?
46. I have cities but no houses. I have mountains but no trees. And, I have water, but no fish. What am I? A map.
47. What are your plans after you graduate?
48. What was your favorite book you read this summer?
49. Would you rather take a train ride or a boat ride?
50. A man shaves many times during the day, but at the end of the day, he still has a beard. How is this possible?
51. When are you most likely to cry?
52. What is the scariest movie you’ve seen?
53. What do you take really seriously? Joke about?
54. I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood always. Everyone uses me. What am I?
55. What kind of tree can you carry in your hand? A palm
56. Which TV or movie character would you be friends IRL with?
57. What is your go-to karaoke song?
58. What is something you have always wanted to do, but have never done before?
59. What are the top 3 songs on your playlist?
60. When you are at a party, where are you and what are you doing?
61. What do you say when you talk in your sleep?
62. What’s your most creative accomplishment?
63. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries? A towel
64. What’s something that you have in common with the person next to you?
65. What makes you happiest?
66. Do you do any extracurricular activities? If so, which one is your favorite?
67. Do you think the world expects too much of young people?
68. When’s the last time you laughed really, really hard, and what happened to make you do so?
69. In what ways do you think differently or the same as your parents?
70. If you were an animal what would you be?
71. If you could move anywhere in the world, where would it be?
72. If a theme song played every time you entered a room, what song would you choose?
73. What is your dream car?
74. If you could get rid of one food forever, what would it be and why?
75. Do you think the world expects too much of young people?
76. What are you most excited to do this school year?
77. Which Disney character is most like you and why?
78. Who was your favorite teacher?
79. What favorite project are you working on right now?
80. Tell me about the last thought-provoking text you read.
81. What are three adjectives that describe you?
82. What is your favorite location in the school building?
83. Who do you wish you could see in concert?
84. What’s one thing you want to learn this year (either in school or outside of it)?
85. Would you rather pet a shark or stare down a tiger?
86. What is it that has a bottom at the top of them? Your legs
87. What makes the world go round?
88. If you had the opportunity to visit Mars, would you?
89. If you had a TV show, what would it be called and who would play you?
90. Why is 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 8 9
91. First, you eat me; then you get eaten. What am I? A fishhook.
92. What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to you?
93. If you could design the ultimate treehouse, what would it look like?
94. What is between here and there?
95. What is your least favorite subject in school?
96. Which is better: finding a folded chip in the chip bag or a pencil with a really good eraser?
97. What is your biggest phobia?
98. What is better than sliced bread?
99. Who do you admire in your life and why?
100. If you had to re-make the world out of only one food, which one would you choose?
101. During which month do people sleep the least? February (There are fewer nights in February.)
102. What is the craziest hairstyle you have ever got?
103. Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?
104. An Uber driver is going the opposite way down a one-way street. He passes five policemen along the way, none of which stops him. Why not?
105. What’s the grossest food you tried?
106. What’s black and white and red all over? A newspaper
107. Have you ever been told you looked like someone famous? If so, who was it? Do you agree?
108. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
109. Would you rather be the funniest or smartest person in the room?
110. Would you rather eat a sweet snack or a salty snack?
111. Oreos wants to make the grossest flavored cookie ever. What flavor would you pick?
112. What do you use to take notes in class?
113. Would you rather be a great singer or a great dancer?
114. A seven-letter word containing thousands of letters?
115. What are you good at?
116. If you had to delete all but three apps from your phone, which three apps would you keep?
117. If you could make up a holiday, what would it be?
118. What do you do every morning before school?
119. What is your favorite season?
120. If you could give your past self advice, what would it be?
121. What do you find at the end of the line? The letter E
122. If you could eat one dessert every day for the rest of your life, what would it be?
123. What has 13 hearts, but no other organs? A deck of playing cards
124. What makes you happiest?
125. What is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to you?
126. How can a man go seven days without sleep? He only sleeps at night.
127. What is the best joke you know?
128. What is your favorite color?
129. Would you rather speak 4 languages or play 4 musical instruments?
130. What do you usually buy for lunch at your school cafeteria?
131. What is the dirtiest place you have ever visited?
132. What is full of holes but still holds water? A sponge
133. If they made a TV show about your school, what would it be called?
134. If you could make water smell like anything, what would it smell like? (Remember, you have to shower in it!)
135. If you were invisible what would you do?
136. I come from a mine and get surrounded by wood always. Everyone uses me. What am I? Pencil lead.
137. What is your favorite memory?
138. What is full of holes but still holds water?
139. How many letters are in the alphabet? There are 11 letters in “the alphabet.
140. Would you rather have dinner for breakfast or breakfast for dinner?
141. Which class do you excel in?
142. Which topping is the best to put on pizza?
143. Who would you invite to your talk show?
144. What spot would make the best secret hideout?
145. What did the beach say when the tide came in? Long time, no sea
146. What’s the funniest pick-up line you have either heard or used?
147. If you could meet any famous person (past or present), who would you meet?
148. What can you hear but not touch or see? Your voice
149. If you had three wishes, what would you wish for and why?
150. What do you like to do before you go to bed?
151. What can make an octopus laugh? Ten tickles
152. Which animal do you think is unique and why?
153. If you have it, you don’t share it. If you share it, you don’t have it. What is it?
154. What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it? Silence
155. I have no doors but I have keys, I have no rooms but I do have a space, you can enter but you can never leave. What am I?
156. What number has all its letters in alphabetical order when spelled out? Forty
157. If you knew your parents would say yes, what would you do today?
158. If you were to give your family a nickname, what would it be?
159. What is your favorite subject in school?
160. Where do you most like to listen to music?
161. What would you name your new animal?
162. What song do you not like that gets stuck in your head?
163. What would be your dream concert to attend?
164. What is your favorite thing to do outside?
165. Where is your favorite place to eat?
166. If you could move anywhere in the world, where would it be?
167. If someone texted you right now, who would you want it to be?
168. What is your favorite sport to watch?
169. If you were a famous person, what would you be famous for?
170. If you could have a superpower, but one you couldn’t use to help anyone, what would it be? (i.e. flawless complexion)
171. What three things would you save if your house were burning?
172. What is your dream car?
173. What’s on your bucket list and why?
174. What was your favorite cartoon as a kid?
175. What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up? An umbrella
176. What is the sweetest and most romantic fruit? Honeydew
177. Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks? Neither, they both weigh one pound.
178. Do you eat with your mouth open?
179. What should you break before you use it?
180. What are your favorite and least favorite classes at school?
181. What is the worst thing you have ever done?
182. What is the craziest thing you have ever seen?
183. What is your biggest pet peeve?
184. What’s the best gift you’ve ever received?
185. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have nobody, but I come alive with the wind. What am I? An echo.
186. What rule makes no sense to you?
187. Who is your favorite band/singer?
188. In what ways do you think differently or the same as your parents?
189. What’s the weirdest/craziest fashion trend you tried?
190. What do you want to be known for?
191. If you worked at the zoo, what would you want to do?
192. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
193. What has a head and a tail, but no body? A coin
194. If you had as much money as you wanted for one day only, what would you do?
195. What is the most disgusting food you ever tasted?
196. If you had as much money as you wanted for one day only, what would you do?
197. Are you a breakfast person?
198. How do you think the world will end?
199. What is one weird thing you do (that other people may not do)?
200. Pick 3 animals to put together to create a new animal. Which animals would you pick?
201. What do you get when you cross a vampire and teacher? A blood test.
202. What’s the most unusual thing in your room right now?
203. You measure my life in hours, and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. The wind is my enemy. A candle.
204. If you could only keep 2 apps on your phone, what would they be?
205. What’s your favorite part about school?
206. What’s one adventurous thing that you’d love to try?
207. What did English say to Algebra when they were arguing? Don’t change the subject.
208. What is your absolute favorite sound in the world?
209. What’s something you have in common with the person next to you?
210. What was something great that happened to you this week?
211. What is the weirdest thing you have ever done?
212. What are the social groups (cliches) in your school, and are you in one?
213. What’s the most unusual thing in your school bag right now?
214. What’s the best thing going on in your life at the moment?
215. What are you most looking forward to in becoming an adult? What are you least looking forward to?
216. If you could be eating any food from the world right now, what would it be?
217. Which three words describe you best?
218. What are the three best decisions you’ve made in your life?
219. What’s something you would never do in life?
220. What’s a decision you made that didn’t work out but you learned from?
221. Do you prefer morning or night showers?
222. Do you prefer sweet or salty foods?
223. Who do you admire in your life and why?
224. Would you fit in with the crowd or stand out on your own?
225. If you could take out something from your typical day, what would it be?
226. Do you have any siblings? How are they?
227. What’s the funniest thing you did as a kid that your parents or family still talk about?
228. What do you like the most about your schedule this year?
229. What’s the grossest food you ever had to eat to be polite?
230. What incredibly foolish thing have you done recently?
231. If you could put anything on a billboard that others would see, what would it be?
232. If you were a store at the mall, which one would you be?
233. What is your best feature?
234. What is a habit you picked up from childhood that you still do?
235. What’s your favorite flower or plant?
236. What’s the best gift you’ve ever received?
237. What does your backpack say about your personality?
238. Who do you admire?
239. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
240. What is your ideal day?
241. Does your name have a special meaning, and or were you named after someone special?
242. What has been the biggest challenge you’ve overcome?
243. What are you most excited to do this year?
244. What is your guilty pleasure?
245. What’s the worst thing you ever did as a child and got away with?
246. What was the worst purchase you ever made?
247. What food do you love that a lot of people might find a little odd?
248. If you took a year off and could do anything you wanted for a year, what would you do?
249. Which is that food that you would never try?
250. Show me your phone’s wallpaper?
251. What do you most love to do in your free time?
252. Which common saying or phrase describes you?
253. What is something you hate to do in your free time?
254. What’s your caffeinated beverage of choice? Coffee? Cola? Tea?
255. What’s your favorite part about school?
256. What’s your favorite way to get to school? (walk, bike, bus, or skateboard)
257. What clubs or activities do you participate in?
258. What’s the best prank you’ve ever played on someone?
259. If you could tell your 15-year-old self one thing, what would it be?
260. What was the funniest thing you’ve seen online?
261. What would you want people to say about you when you’re gone?
262. What is the craziest dare you have ever taken?
263. What was the worst style choice you ever made?
264. What event do you look back on and are thankful you’re still alive?
265. If you had $100 that you had to give away today, who would you give it to?
266. What is the funniest advertisement you’ve seen?
267. How many countries have you visited?
268. What commercial jingles or theme songs get stuck in your head?
269. What is one thing you’ve done that terrified you at the time?
270. What was the worst haircut you ever had?
271. Are you a cat person or a dog person?
272. If you were the eighth dwarf, what would people call you?
273. Which bad habits of people drive you crazy?
274. If you started a club or group, what would it be about?
275. What makes the world go round?
276. If someone came up to you and said, “Hey, do that thing you do!” What thing would pop into your head first?
277. If you could ask any person in the world one thing, who and what would you ask?
278. If you could trade places with anyone for a day, who would it be?
279. What’s your happiest life memory?
280. If you had a huge amount of money, what unnecessary thing or experience would you indulge in?
281. What’s the last dream you had?
282. If you had to eat a crayon, what color would you choose?
283. What’s the most embarrassing fashion trend you used to rock?
284. If you started a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?
285. The zombie apocalypse is upon us. Which three people would you band with?
286. Are you a person that likes to set goals? What about New Year’s Resolutions?
287. What goal are you most proud of accomplishing?
288. If people started colonizing Mars, would you go?
289. If you could time travel in your own life only, what time period would you go to?
290. What does your name mean? (Has it been passed down? Does it have a story?)
291. Do you believe in ghosts?
292. What is the most unusual thing in your wallet, pocket, or purse right at this moment?
293. Which law do you think needs to be abolished?
294. If you could design the ultimate treehouse, what would it look like?
295. If you have a significant other, where did you meet?
296. What’s the most annoying machine you deal with regularly?
297. If your life became an action movie, which fictional character would you want to be?
298. When you are nervous, do you talk a lot or are you quiet?
299. What are you hilariously bad at?
300. What do you feel about clowns?