It is hard to be creative some times on dates so here is a list of dating ideas from which to choose. You can tweak them however you would like or join a few of them, but at least you will have a beginning idea. Hopefully they will help trigger the perfect idea for your date…Brandon…ha ha! If you have any other dating ideas please let me know so the list can grow!
Categories:
Arts
Crafts
Creative
Relaxing
Town and History
Service
Spiritual
Adventure
Sports
Outdoor
Games
Seasonal/Holiday
Arts:
Have dinner and write poetry
Write a song together
Visit an Art Gallery
Film Festival
Go see a play/musical
Attend a concert
Go dancing
Take a dance class and learn a new dance.
Sketch nature, buildings, or each other
Karaoke night
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Crafts:
Scrapbook
Origami
Friendship Bracelets
Make T-Shirts
Make Candles
Ceramics
Write a story book (children or adult) together with illustrations
Paper Airplanes and see which ones fly best
Paper Boats and float them to see which models work best
Grab a camera and take photos of the beauty of the earth and make a collage.
Buy coloring books and crayons (or my preferred colored pencils.)
Buy paints and two paint brushes and paint pictures.
Make clay/play dough sculptures
Make and Fly Kites
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Creative:
Like seen on apartment swap, decorate another couples room/s (nothing
permanent) and see who did the better job
Go to a restaurant and write a detailed time-line of life story and ask
questions
ABC activities- 26 activities starting with A and going to Z
Do a photo shoot in random clothes and costumes
Swap embarrassing stories
Cook a meal from your mission and teach her words from your mission language
Go to a Park and people watch, make your own captions for what they say
Go to the library and read favorite kids books
Test drive cars
Plan a themed party
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Relaxing:
Go to an open-mike night at a local café
Get ice cream and go for a walk
Put a puzzle together with snacks
Picnic
Cloud Gaze
Make Cookies
Visit a Comedy Club
Share baby pictures, photo albums, and stories
Watch the sunset
Drive in Movie
Make dinner and watch a movie.
Yoga
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Town and History:
Tour the city
Ride the bus around town talking…
Take a train ride
Be Part of a Parade
Amusement Park
Aquarium
Arcade
Auction
Botanical Garden
Circus
Dog Show
Factory Tour
Fair/Carnival
Farmers Market
House Hunt
Mall
Museum
Pet Store
Planetarium
Water Park
Zoo
Look in the paper for upcoming events in the area
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Service:
Pick out flowers at garden center then visit a cemetery (or other place) and
plant flowers
Clean a park together
Volunteer
Visit and cheer up seniors citizens
Plant plants or flowers
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Spiritual:
Go to a Devotional
Discussion on Religion
Read Scriptures
Temple
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Adventure:
Walk the sewer under campus
Murder Mystery Night
Go Carts
Bumper Cars
Stock Car Races
Sky Diving
Hot air balloon ride
Water balloon fight
Go garage sale hunting
Go DI shopping pick out an outfit for the other without their knowing and go do
something in the outfit.
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Sports:
Air Hockey
Badminton
Batting Cages
Bocce Ball
Bowling (regular/creative i.e. Skittle or M & M bowling)
Croquet
Go to a Football game/Basketball, etc
Foosball
Frisbee
Horse Shoes
Laser Tag
Mini Golf
Driving Range
9 Hole Golf
Go to the Gym
Pool
Racquetball
Rollerblade
Roller Skate
Swimming
Table Tennis
Tennis
Volleyball
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Outdoor:
Rock Climbing
Caving
Geo caching
Bike ride (tandem or separate)
Running
Hiking
Archery
Star Gazing
Bonfire
Bird Watch
Fishing
Boating
Canoeing
Rafting
Water/Jet Skiing
Pedal Boat Ride
Float a canal/river
Para-Sailing
Scuba Diving
Snorkeling
Go to the Beach
Build a Sandcastle
Skip rocks
Horseback riding
Camping
Four wheeling
Off Roading
Shooting
Paint ball
Build a Snowman
Snow shoeing
Sledding
Skiing
Snowboarding
Ice Blocking
Ice Skating
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Games:
Night games w/ partners – fugitive, murder in the dark, sardines
Scavenger hunt
Crossword
Mad Lib
Truth or Dare
Video Games
20 Questions
Make pizzas and play card or board games
Create your own board game
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Seasonal/Holiday:
Valentines Cards
Paint Easter eggs
Have an Easter egg hunt
Plant a Trees
Hay ride
Corn Maze
Carriage Ride
Carve pumpkins
Ghost hunt in the local cemetery
Haunted house
Trick-or-Treat in Halloween costumes
Watch a Halloween movie and answer the door for trick-or-treaters
Make Christmas Tree Ornaments
Ongoing date of 12 days of Christmas
Christmas caroling
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