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Creative Dating Ideas
* Make a “Date Dare” or “Bucket List” of romantic things to do together.
* Spend an afternoon playing together. Have fun playing a board game, card game, miniature golf, or just wrestling and tickling each other.
* Play romantic music and dance together
* Spend time praying together together
* Sing worship songs together
* Have a pillow fight
* Plan a secret, special evening, make all the arrangements and then “kidnap” your spouse and drive to your secret location
* Before your husband gets home, arrange for a babysitter to take the kids, and set up a candle light dinner for just you and your husband. Welcome him at the door with a smile and a romantic atmosphere.
* Take an evening stroll after dinner and stop to gaze at the starts together
* Send your spouse on a scavenger hunt that leads to you. You can wait at a hotel or at a restaurant
* Bubble bath for two. . .candlelight. . .Champaign. . .need we say more?
* Have a candlelit picnic in your backyard after dark
* Invent your own special holiday – choose a day of the year, give it a name, choose a theme, and celebrate!
* Read the Bible and spend time praying together.
* Eat an ice cream cone together – one cone that you eat together at the same time.
* Read a book together – one chapter each night.
* Grab a kiss while you wait. If your sitting at a red light or cross walk, the gas station, or the drive through, use it as an opportunity to kiss.
* Take a shower together – take turns washing the other person.
* Get into the habit of taking walks together every evening (or on a certain day of the week)
* Go out after dark and gaze at the stars or a full moon.
* Eat dinner by candlelight (even if it’s just leftovers)
* Run through the sprinkler together on a hot day.
* Do something with your husband that he really likes to do even if it doesn’t interest you personally.
* Watch the sunrise or sunset together.
* Build a snowman, rake leaves, build a sand castle by the beach, or do a seasonal activity TOGETHER.
* Get a book of love poems from the library and take turns reading them to each other.
* Go for a bike ride together.
* Put on old clothes and go out and play in the mud together (then help each other wash up afterwards).
* Tickle-
* Play a board game together.
* Discover 10 new uses for popcorn
* Read a book together
* Watch a sunset
* Play capture the flag
* Share an ice cream cone
* Ride on a Ferris Wheel
* Sing in the rain
* Make a couple’s video
* Build a blanket fort
* Stargaze
* Watch fireworks
* Go Christmas caroling (any time of the year)
* Have a paint war
* Do some baking together (cookies or bread?)
* Go dancing (find a place that offers lessons)
* Slow dance
* Play board games
* Go on a Starbucks date
* Have a picnic
* Put together a puzzle
* Go shopping for matching outfits
* Sing a song REALLY loud
* Fly kites
* Play croquet (or Boche Ball) in the dark
* Go to a museum
* Check out newspaper for local event ideas
* Have a water balloon fight
* Visit a hospital and cheer someone up
* Play on a playground
* Doorbell-
* Go to the zoo
* Play mini-
* Have a sand-
* Visit the arcade
* Play blind volleyball (put a blanket over the net)
* Go sledding
* Make sidewalk chalk drawings
* Explore a cave
* Have a paper airplane contest
* Paint each other’s faces
* Have a ping-
* Jump in a pile of leaves
* Go hiking on nature trails
* Have a snowball fight
* Race toy boats
* Watch a children’s cartoon
* Try a hand at origami
* Go horseback riding
* Double-
* Go biking (see about getting a 2-
* Carve pumpkins, dye eggs, or make decorations for whichever holiday is coming up next
* Go swimming (try to kiss underwater)
* Color in coloring books
* Go canoeing or sailing
* Explore caves
* Play hide-
* Go for a romantic stroll in a park
* Take personality quizzes
* Make a snowman and drink hot cocoa
* Build snow forts and have a snowball fight
* Race Go-
* Go to the gym / exercise together
* Make a gingerbread candy house
* Roast marshmallows
* Go rock climbing
* Try dutch oven cooking
* Go to the library and read your favorite children’s books
* Set up a tent and camp in your backyard
* Wash and wax the car (have a water fight while you’re at it!)
* Make a bonfire and have campfire devotions and sing camp songs (don’t forget the marshmallows)
