Creative Dating Ideas

CREATIVE DATING IDEAS

Play UNO in the middle of the mall
Go with a group on a moonlight hike
Mud football then swimming in the lake to clean off
Order Chinese, then eat it on the floor.
Pots and Pans Dinner. Set a table with pans instead of plates, and spatulas instead of forks, and so on. Put a sheet aver the table to hide the utensils. Have the couples come in and pick a seat, since they won't know what's going on. Serve spaghetti Make them eat dinner with what's in front of them. Serve drinks in vases. Embarrassing and FUN!
Help someone with a home repair project.
Play Easter Bunny for your grown-up friends. Deliver baskets at night
Read a book together and discuss it.
Work on a car engine together.
Plant a garden
Christmas Carol in July.
Finger painting party - with toes. Dinner after,
Make posters together for an activity one or the other is involved in.
Prepare Easter Baskets and take them to the Hospital. Go to a play on the crucifixion after.
Walk the Downtown mall and listen to the street musicians Sample ethnic foods along the way.
Go to the Symphony.
Go to a Play.
Visit the State Capitol and the Legislature.
Have a mission party. Invite RM's to bring their photos or slides (don't worry... they would love to!!), music and their favorite dish from their mission.
Ice Cream sculpting - Each person brings 1/2 gallon of ice cream and a candy topping.

Split up into groups of 4 – 6 and see who makes the best work of art. Eat the ice cream after the judging.

$2 date - Each couple has $2 to spend on a 1-hour date. Afterwards, share what you came up with (We photocopied our hands at the library, then took a ride on kiddy toys outside K-Mart)

Shopping race: Each couple fills a cart at the grocery store with something from each isle. Trade carts with another couple who have to put everything back in the right place before anyone else can.
Get 6 guys and 6 girls and play basketball or touch football then go inside for hot chocolate
Go to someone's house and bake sugar cookies and decorate them. Then deliver them to members of the ward or take them to a nursing home.
Drive around town. Stop at car lots and check out your dream car.
Cruise all the parks in the area Rate the best swings, slides, etc. Have a cookout at the best one
Fast Food Craze Hit 5 or 6 of the fast food places around. Go through be drive-through and get a drink and one straw. The next place get a burger, and so on until everyone has a full meal
Broom Hockey
Parachuting
Repelling
Cave exploring
Go see the Visitor's Center at the temple
Tell funny stories about your past
Act out a play or a movie.
Putt-Putt - Create your own course in someone's back yard. Instead of a hole, place a Dixie cup on its side and putt into that.
Bike ride to the park - Bring a picnic
Wash each other's cars. (Be sure to have a water fight and lunch)
Ice blocking (Sledding on grass with a block of ice)
Bowling
Go to a second hand stare and pick out an out6t. Go to the airport in it
Formal dinner during a balloon ride.
Go hiking, have a camp fire and roast marshmallows while telling stories.
Go hiking and at the end of the trail have a nice dinner already set. (Have a friend set it up for you.)
Kidnap your date
Rollerskating
Food eating contest
Play board games (Scrabble, Balderdash etc.) Have a different game at different tables. You can split up into teams
Play 'Capture the Flag"
Play "Twister". Change the body parts (i.e. "right hand" becomes "nose") to make it more challenging.
Play 'The Dating Game".
Pizza party - See which couple can create the best pizza
Play tennis in the snow.
Window shopping.
Racquetball
Tennis
Make something creative with your hands - a great time to talk
Old square dance dressed in old garb
Have a party with 5 - 10 couples at one person's house. Play games such as "murder in the dark"
Cartoon Date: Couples meet at 9:00 am and watch cartoons and eat their favorite cereal. They have to come in pajamas. You can rent the cartoons
Get a raft and put it in a pool. Everyone get on it and watch "Jaws" on the side of the house.
Get dates and split up into 2 - 4 groups and go on a sound scavenger hunt. Pizza later.
Go water-skiing with a group and have a cookout.
Spend time with another person's family in an activity such as Family Home Evening, scripture chase, cycling, etc.
A day of horseback riding.
Canoeing
Airplane ride over the city and dinner afterwards
Go to a dance – But first, go a field to pick a corsage
Go to a dance dressed like you're ready to disco
Movie night – Go to see a Disney movie or other children's film, then to McDonald's for dinner and play on the playground.
Waffle Party: Hostess provides the waffle batter, drinks and necessities.
Photo Fun: Go to the park, beach, or the mountains, Take pictures of each other and the places you go. Pack a lunch.
Go to historical sights.
Skiing
Go-cart riding
Golfing
Ice-skating
Shop at furniture stores.
Have a pool tournament.
Make tin-foil dinners and have a cookout
Take coat hangers out of someone's closet and go roast marshmallows.
Go to the park - feed the ducks, play on all the toys then have a candlelight picnic.
Catch and watch fireflies together.
Go to the mall and have a game of tag on the escalators.
Ride the trolley.
Have a road rally.
Have a scavenger hunt! You can call on phones to get clues, or find them in a store in the mall etc.
Have a sound scavenger hunt. Take a tape recorder around, tape different sounds on your lists
Have a water balloon fight
Go to the mall and act like mannequins in a store.
Set up a lemonade stand.
Get a pizza and drive to the airport to watch planes take off.
Try on formal clothes.
Stay home and watch open-heart surgery on TLC.
Go to the library and look in dictionaries. You can each make a list for the other
person to look up.
Tubing in the snow.
Visit the art museum.
Bring lawn chairs to the mall and watch people get their hair cut
Get some HUGE pants, and hop around the mall in them
Go trick-or-treating in any month BUT October.
Have a picnic in the mall
Watch PBS together.
Scuba dive at a public pool
Watch people
Watch airplanes take off. Describe your best and worst vacation.
Have a scavenger hunt
Go tubing in the winter, followed by a hot lunch.
Tour an art gallery, pick an artist, and find out all you can about them
Go out looking for beautiful settings to photograph
Have a talent show. Make it really informal and sit on pillows or on the floor.
Have a UN-TALENT show. Everyone has a weird thing they can do.
Karaoke night – Try using primary songs and jazzing them up.
Fun With Food: Teams compete in LifeSaver passing with a toothpick, cherry or watermelon seed spitting, pie throwing, and other games. Be creative!
Go to the planetarium or observatory.
Refinish a piece of furniture
Go to a basketball game.
Visit your date's grandparents and take a tape recorder. Ask them to tell you about dating when they were growing up.
Fix a gourmet dinner together.
Couples bring their favorite stories, poems, or musical pieces. Put on a special presentation for each other, telling why this particular song, poem, story etc. does something for you.
International Dinner: Each couple brings food from a different country, giving some background on the culture. Rent a film with subtitles to watch later.
Color Easter Eggs
Make Valentines
Go the the Family History Library and look up your ancestors.
Look for constellations.
Tackle Football - ON YOUR KNEES
Play childhood games like, "Duck, Duck Goose", Tag amd "Red Rover".
Skateboarding
Dancing in a parking lot.
Go to the fair, and try to stay away from the midway.
Ride around the city in a trolley, or take a bus.
Candlelight dinner by a lake
Play Trivial Pursuit.
Have a dance IN a swimming pool.
Wear rollerblades all night long.
Make a movie. A couple of weeks later, get together to watch it.
Have a marshmallow fight.
Sailboating
Wind surfing
Frisbee football
Double with your parents
Pick a family in need and play Santa. The date is to wrap and deliver the gifts anonymously.
Go to the zoo, and take kids from the local boy' and girls' clubs.
Feed cows.
Rake leaves in the fall, and then jump in them.
Go formal to McDonald's
Make and eat taffy.
Have a nighttime squirt gun fight.
Have a treasure hunt in the park. Hide clues under rocks, in branches, etc.
Have a pinata party.
Have a sing-along.
Make up a survey, then go out and get people to answer your questions.
Go to a rodeo.
Have a study group on interesting and varied subjects.
Go rock and fossil hunting.
Have a private dinner and dance in a football field.
Help someone move or rearrange furniture.
Go walking in the rain. Jump in mud puddles.
Pick out Christmas trees you like.
Carve a pumpkin.
Scrub the kitchen table, and serve dinner without plates. Use only forks to eat with.