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