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20 Questions for Kids to Ask Their Grandparents

Updated: Jul 24

The questions will help your kids learn more about their grandparents and family history. You might learn something new too!


Grandmother and granddaughter at a table

Here's a great opportunity for kids to spend quality time with their grandparents. We've put together 20 questions to help kids learn more about their grandparents' lives when they were growing up.


Kids have questions on a variety of topics, including family life, historical events, school experiences, and more. Grandparents also have the opportunity to share the best advice they received as a kid and what they would like to share with your kids.


The PDF file is three pages long. While it's not necessary to cut out the individual questions, doing so makes it easy to distribute questions to everyone or put them in a basket that the kids can pull from.


The questions are listed below. Scroll down to the print button to print the file.


List of 20 Questions for Kids to Ask Their Grandparents


  1. How did you meet Grandma/Grandpa?

  2. What food did you not like when you were a kid?

  3. What was your nickname when you were growing up?

  4. Have you ever won any awards or medals?

  5. What was it like living in the 40s/50s/60s?

  6. What is something special you grew up doing every year?

  7. What was your favorite thing to do in the summer?

  8. What are some things we have now that you didn't have growing up?

  9. What chores did you do when you were a kid?

  10. What did you do for fun when you were my age?

  11. What was your favorite food growing up?

  12. What famous events happened when you were younger?

  13. Who were your best friends in school?

  14. What were your best subjects in school?

  15. What was the best advice you received as a kid?

  16. Where did you go on your first trip?

  17. What were your hobbies growing up?

  18. What kind of music did you listen to as a teenager?

  19. Who were your heroes or role models when you were a kid?

  20. What advice would you give me about growing up?


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