10 Conversation Starters for Family Dinner

Family dinner is so important and so good for us - but sometimes bickering or lack of good conversations make it seem less enjoyable for everyone. Here are some ideas to get everybody talking and engaged!

1. If you could live in any book...what book would it be, and why?

(Alternative: If you could live in any movie...what movie and why?)

2. What is your favorite memory? Or, what was your favorite thing this week (or today)?

3. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?and why?

4. If you wrote a book - where and when would the story take place?

5. If you were in the Great British Baking show - and you could bake whatever you wanted - what would you design to impress the judges?

6. What is your favorite song and why? Can you sing it for us?

7. If you could have any animal as a pet - what would you pick?

8. If you could have one superpower...what would you choose? And why?

9. If you could turn into any animal for a day - what would you pick?

10. Would you rather live in the castle from Beauty and the Beast, after the spell was broken, or the house from Tin-Tin?

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