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| Dressed up super fancy to eat at a local burger place |
When it comes to date nights, my husband and me are not the best planners. For special occasions, we can plan really excellent days, but from week to week, our time together can seem a little uninspired. This is mostly because we aren't too good at coming up with ideas on the spot. I decided to put together an exhaustive list of things we can do. Some things I found ideas for elsewhere, many I came up with on my own. I will sort them by ones to do at home and ones that mean going out.
If you want cheap, free, interesting, kid-inspired, kid-friendly, intimate, flexible... it's all here :).
I am chronically ill, so a lot of things many active couples would do aren't on this list. Also note that some of the home dates require getting things beforehand.
Right now, there are 99 ideas; I may add more on as I think of them or they are suggested. Have fun!
Date: Going Out
- Have a letter date (everything we do/wear/eat starts with the same letter)
- Random word date (one of us picks a random word and we go through each letter, picking an activity that starts with that letter)
- Set a budget for Goodwill and find a "make it better" project
- Go to a concert
- Go to a tea shop
- Go to a drive-in movie
- $10 gift date night challenge
- Do the "Bookstore date"
- Set a budget and shop at (insert favourite store)
- Have a photo shoot
- Go garage sale-ing
- Mall scavenger hunt
- Food crawl (have each part of meal (drink, appetizer, main dish, dessert) at a different restaurant or fast food place)
- Go out for coffee
- Use only $5 in grocery store to buy complete dinner (main dish, side, dessert, drink)
- Go for a long walk
- Go to open houses with the baby
- Each take $5 at Dollar Tree and buy gifts for one another
- Have a DIY drive-in at the park (use laptop)
- Take $10 each (insert favourite store) and buy something for one another
- Leave surprise flowers outside someone's door
- Walk to bookstore and find a book to read to our baby
- Go to a $5 movie
- Go to JoAnn's and find fabric for dream curtains
- Buy outrageously expensive orange juice to try (we LOVE orange juice... you could pick something different)
- Go eye-bombing
- Thrift store outfit (each get $5-$10 to buy outfit for other person to wear for the rest of your date)
- Photo scavenger hunt
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| At a drive-in movie |
Date at Home
- Put together a care package for someone random
- Make homemade butter (or something else you haven't tried)
- Make a "soundtrack of our marriage" CD (can include proposal, wedding, first night, first anniversary, children, etc,)
- Write out fun or interesting conversation cards for company
- Make our own "25 words or less" cards
- Write out a review of last year, as a keepsake
- Write down 15 words to describe one another
- Sharpie art night
- Babysit for someone
- Take child/children for a walk
- Put together a concert program with a theme
- Choose a well-known poem and use a "random word" online generator or dictionary to change words to make it funny
- Write a new story to go along with the pictures of a children's book
- Watch movie in bed
- Get fancy chocolate to have with wine
- Make postcards to send to random people
- Take fun pictures of child/children
- Read book and/or poetry together
- Write a story together in mad lib
- Have a cookie cook-off and give the end results away
- Rent a movie
- Video record the story of how we met and got to know one another
- Write prayer list and pray together
- Set timer and write "10 things I love about you" for one another
- Have a photo shoot
- Play "two truths and a lie"
- Play timed strip scrabble (remove clothing item for each word under 15 points)
- Play a board game
- Draw each other's portraits w/non-dominant hand
- Do a craft project together
- Design our own canvas photo
- Play "2 minutes in Heaven"
- Play "get to know me"
- Make and decorate a cake to give someone
- Send a card of encouragement to someone who needs it
- Play "Chopped" - give one another 4 ingredients and 30 minutes to make a dish with only those ingredients. Alternately, put together a Masterchef-style mystery box with ten ingredients they must use at least some of to prepare a dish (you can decide whether or not to include staples alongside those).
- Put together a care box for Pastor's family ($50 limit)
- Do abstract canvas art together
- Draw fake tattoos on one another
- Get a "choose your own adventure" book and take turns choosing
- Use books to make a card house
- Listen to a modern sonata we've never heard (Like this one!)
- Make a CD for each other of songs we think the other has never heard
- Make croquet field in living room and push ball through only using our heads
- Try sex in a new position or place
- Make ice-cream
- Experiment and make our own popcorn with a unique flavour
- Pick possible names for next baby
- Make our own "guess who" with pictures of family and friends
- Make polka dot paintings with our noses
- Drink hot chocolate and watch TED talks
- Make bird-feeders out of Popsicle sticks
- Put together and frame a really difficult puzzle
- Play pictionary blindfolded
- Pot a new houseplant
- Make creative crepes
- Build a marble run or elaborate domino course
- Play "six degrees of Wikipedia"
- Write poem using first shorter sentence in randomly selected books.
- Make Gak!
- Make egg geodes
- Make dancing oobleck
- Make a jellyfish in a bottle
- Put together our own "Eye Spy" book
- Write limericks about friends and family members
- Play "dots and boxes"
- Play a card game (like Golf)
- Make up a matching game with cards or pictures (if you put together half of two decks, this could be more challenging)
- Each write a scavenger hunt list of things we would be able to find in our home and see who can find the most things in 10 minutes (or see who can find everything first)
- Do hard maze puzzles
- Play with clay
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| At a botanical garden for our anniversary - me six months pregnant |
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