Q: Can you compile a list of ideas for taking girls on dates?
A: Going on dates is fun, but it can be easy to get stuck in a rut of the same old things: dinner, movie, movie, dinner, etc… So here is a list of 96 creative (and for the most part affordable) dates that you can go on. I know some of these dates are seasonal, but I wanted to give you a lot of ideas so that you could pick and choose. I really hope this helps. Have fun and may the odds be ever in your favor!
- Make and go on a picnic
- Go to the zoo
- Drive around and look at Christmas lights
- Take up a hobby like disc golf
- Go play mini golf or ‘putt putt’
- Go to a driving range
- Set up a projector in your backyard to watch a movie
- Go for a walk in the park
- Set up hammocks in the park and hang out
- Make dinner together
- Go pick strawberries
- Go pick apples
- Go race go karts
- Go to the arcade
- Go play laser tag
- Go to a sporting event
- Make a fire in your backyard (in a fire pit, of course…)
- Go bowling
- Go play pool
- Go on a church tour – hit up 5 daily masses at 5 different churches a week
- Take a bike ride around the city
- Go on a city tour
- Go hiking
- Go to a waterfall
- Go feed ducks at a park (bonus points: have a duck-naming contest)
- Go canoeing
- Go paddle boating
- Go sailing
- Go for a ride in a hot air balloon
- Go thrift store shopping (bonus points: pick out what the other person has to wear to dinner)
- Go to a concert
- Go get snow cones
- Do a painting class together (bonus points: try to sell your paintings to people on the street)
- Go get ice cream or frozen yogurt
- Find a local art gallery
- Tie-dye something
- Volunteer somewhere
- Go fly kites
- Hit up a coffee shop with live music
- Go ice skating
- Go to a museum (bonus points: play museum bingo – make up a board before you go)
- Find local community things like a concert or movie in the park
- Go to a play
- Go to a bingo night
- Laugh your heart out at a comedy show
- Go on a Rosary walk together.
- Make up a scavenger hunt (can be different every time and works great for museums, public parks, or bookstores)
- Play ‘Sumo Checkers’ – put on a piece of clothing every time you lose a piece until you can’t move
- Go GeoCaching
- Get even nerdier and go GeoHashing (check it out here and here)
- Make homemade sling shots and have a marshmallow fight
- Have a silly string fight
- Have a water gun fight in the park (bonus points: bring extra water guns and invite other people join in)
- Play Nonsense Scrabble (use fake words and make up definitions for them as you go)
- Go eye-bombing
- Play hide and seek in the park
- Go to a bookstore
- Bake some cookies (bonus points: take some of them to the neighbors)
- Plant something together: a flower, a tree, a garden, a farm
- Set up a free lemonade stand
- Go to a farmers’ market
- Go to a flea market
- Go to a botanical garden
- Color a whole coloring book – there’s a Harry Potter coloring book now, and it’s awesome.
- Play in the park: you know, swings and slides
- Throw a frisbee
- Kick a soccer ball
- Play chess
- Get a tour of a cathedral
- Play Monopoly all the way until someone wins
- Build a snowman (you know you want to)
- Go sledding
- Make your own pizza night
- Visit a chocolate/candy factory (this usually means you get to eat some, too)
- Go rock climbing
- Do a puzzle
- Make ice cream sundaes
- Go to a local fair or carnival
- Go horseback riding
- Drive somewhere new using paper maps – leave your phones in your pockets for this one
- Take turns showing each other new music
- Hit up a paint and bake pottery studio
- Grab some sidewalk chalk and make a masterpiece or play hopscotch
- Play War with 3 decks of cards
- Go to a haunted house
- Go to an elderly home and hang out with the residents
- Sit on a bench in the city and make up stories about the people who pass by
- The King Midas Date: Find things from a thrift store and spray paint them gold
- Buy a pack of Post-it notes, write positive things on them and stick them around town
- Learn a magic trick (bonus points: impress your friends)
- Go on a backwards date. Start with dessert and end with dinner.
- Buy flowers and give them to random people on the street who seem like they need pick-me-up
- Go to your local animal shelter and play with the animals
- Film and edit a Western in your backyard
- Go to adoration
- The Choose Your Own Adventure Date: have 3 options for each part of the date, put them in envelopes and let her choose (hint: they can be things from this list)
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