A question for every winter day
December Question of the Day
Winter fun, year-in-review, kindness and silly questions for the last month of the year — sorted for kids, classrooms and teams.
Published November 8, 2026
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December questions work best when they fit a busy month: quick winter prompts for mornings, kindness questions for the giving season, and a few deeper year-in-review questions for the last week. These 40 original questions are tagged by audience and answer time, and they are written to include everyone whether or not they celebrate a particular holiday.
Every item follows the site's published editorial standards: open-ended, usable without specialist knowledge, safe for the named audience, and paired with a way to keep the discussion moving.
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Today's December Question
The same question for everyone today. Filter by who is answering and how long you have, or build a five-day plan in one click.
40 matching questions · no repeats until the matching set is complete
Today's prompt · Saturday, November 7
What is one way the team could make January easier for each other?
Follow-up prompts
- Who could start it?
Build a five-day plan
Keep a question you like for Monday, swap individual days, then take the questions and follow-ups into your next session.
Choose your audience and theme ↑40 matching questions. Changing the filters clears the plan, so copy or print it first.
How to run a December question of the day
Keep it to one question, the same time each day, and let anyone pass. A seasonal theme gives the ritual a reason to feel new without making it longer.
Step 1
Pick today's question
Use the daily question so the whole group sees the same prompt, or filter by audience and answer time first.
Step 2
Post or read it once
Write it on the board, drop it in the team channel, or read it at the table. One sentence of context is enough.
Step 3
Give everyone a turn
Go around the circle or collect replies in a thread. Short answers count; passing is always fine.
Step 4
Ask one follow-up
Every question comes with a follow-up. Use it when the room is warm, skip it when time is short.
How this collection was curated
- All 40 questions are newly written for December and are not copied from the general question-of-the-day bank.
- Every question is tagged for kids, teens and adults, classrooms or work, plus a 30-second, 1-minute or 3-minute answer time.
- Questions avoid money, religion, politics and private family details, so they work with mixed groups and coworkers.
- The full list stays visible and printable; the daily pick and the five-day planner are free with no sign-up.
Browse all 40 questions
The complete collection is visible and printable; filters above simply make it faster to choose.
Winter Fun
10 curated questions
- 1
Would you rather build a snowman or have a snowball fight?
Kids · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: What is your secret technique?
- 2
If you could build anything out of snow, what would it be?
Kids · Question of the Day · 1 min · Medium
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Follow-ups: How long would it take?
- 3
What is the best thing to do on a snow day?
Classroom · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: Who would you do it with?
- 4
If you could design a new winter sport, what would the rules be?
Classroom · Question of the Day · 1 min · Medium
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Follow-ups: What would players wear?
- 5
Cozy night in or winter night out?
Teens & Adults · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: What makes it perfect?
- 6
What is your favourite winter smell?
Teens & Adults · Question of the Day · 1 min · Medium
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Follow-ups: What memory does it bring back?
- 7
What is your go-to warm lunch in December?
Work · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: Would you recommend it to the team?
- 8
Where would you go if you could work from anywhere cold and beautiful for a week?
Work · Question of the Day · 1 min · Medium
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Follow-ups: What would you do after work?
- 9
What do you think penguins do for fun?
Kids · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: Would you join them?
- 10
Ice skating, sledding or staying firmly indoors?
Teens & Adults · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: Why?
Year in Review
10 curated questions
- 1
What was the best day you had this year?
Kids · Question of the Day · 1 min · Medium
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Follow-ups: What made it so good?
- 2
What is something you got braver about this year?
Kids · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: How did it feel?
- 3
What is the most interesting thing you learned in class this year?
Classroom · Question of the Day · 1 min · Medium
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Follow-ups: Where could you use it?
- 4
If you could give advice to yourself on the first day of this school year, what would it be?
Classroom · Question of the Day · 3 min · Deep
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Follow-ups: Would you have listened?
- 5
What is one moment from this year you want to remember in ten years?
Teens & Adults · Question of the Day · 1 min · Medium
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Follow-ups: How will you keep it?
- 6
What did this year teach you about what you actually need?
Teens & Adults · Question of the Day · 3 min · Deep
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Follow-ups: What will you do differently next year?
- 7
What is a work win from this year you are quietly proud of?
Work · Question of the Day · 1 min · Medium
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Follow-ups: Who helped make it happen?
- 8
What should we keep, stop and start doing as a team next year?
Work · Question of the Day · 3 min · Deep
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Follow-ups: Which one matters most?
- 9
What was the best thing you read, watched or listened to this year?
Teens & Adults · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: Who would you recommend it to?
- 10
Sum up your year at work in three words.
Work · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: Which word do you want for next year?
Kindness & Giving
10 curated questions
- 1
What is a kind thing you could do for someone today?
Kids · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: Who would you choose?
- 2
If you could give everyone in your class a non-wrapped gift, like a skill or a feeling, what would it be?
Kids · Question of the Day · 1 min · Medium
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Follow-ups: Why that one?
- 3
What is one way we could make school nicer for someone this week?
Classroom · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: Can we do it today?
- 4
What is the kindest thing someone has done for you at school?
Classroom · Question of the Day · 1 min · Medium
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Follow-ups: How did it change your day?
- 5
What is a gift you received that cost nothing but meant a lot?
Teens & Adults · Question of the Day · 1 min · Medium
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Follow-ups: Who gave it to you?
- 6
What does generosity look like when you have very little time or money?
Teens & Adults · Question of the Day · 3 min · Deep
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Follow-ups: Who models it well?
- 7
Whose help this year deserves a shout-out?
Work · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: What would you say in one sentence?
- 8
What is one way the team could make January easier for each other?
Work · Question of the Day · 1 min · Medium
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Follow-ups: Who could start it?
- 9
Would you rather give a present or get one?
Kids · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: Why?
- 10
What is a small kindness from a stranger you still remember?
Teens & Adults · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: Have you passed it on?
Fun & Silly
10 curated questions
- 1
If a reindeer came to school, which class would it like best?
Kids · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: What would it eat at lunch?
- 2
If you could invent a new holiday treat, what would be in it?
Kids · Question of the Day · 1 min · Medium
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Follow-ups: What would it be called?
- 3
Would you rather have a snow day every Monday or a pizza party every Friday?
Classroom · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: Why?
- 4
If our classroom had a winter mascot, what would it be?
Classroom · Question of the Day · 1 min · Medium
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Follow-ups: What is its catchphrase?
- 5
What is the worst possible holiday song to have stuck in your head?
Teens & Adults · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: Why that one?
- 6
If you hosted a December party with a strange theme, what would the theme be?
Teens & Adults · Question of the Day · 1 min · Medium
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Follow-ups: What would guests bring?
- 7
Which holiday-movie character would be the best coworker?
Work · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: Which would be the worst?
- 8
If the team had an end-of-year awards show, what silly category would you add?
Work · Question of the Day · 1 min · Medium
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Follow-ups: Who would win?
- 9
What would a snowman want for a present?
Kids · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: Why?
- 10
Ugly sweater: yes, no, or only ironically?
Teens & Adults · Question of the Day · 30 sec · Light
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Follow-ups: Do you own one?
Frequently asked questions
What is a good question of the day for December?
Mix quick winter questions (snowman or snowball fight?), kindness prompts (whose help this year deserves a shout-out?) and a few year-in-review questions for the final week. Keep most answers under a minute.
Are the December questions holiday-neutral?
Mostly. Winter, kindness and year-in-review questions work for any group. For Christmas-specific questions, use the Christmas question of the day page.
Can teams use these in Slack or Teams?
Yes. Filter by Work, copy the question in one click, and paste it into your team channel. The planner builds a Monday-to-Friday set without repeats.
How many December questions are there?
40 original questions — enough for every day of December with spares — in four themes and three answer times.
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