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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-wrestle in bed.

* 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-ditch treats to a neighbor

* Go to the zoo

* Play mini-golf

* Have a sand-castle making contest

* 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-pong tournament (or darts)

* 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-date with your parents or friends

* Go biking (see about getting a 2-person bike)

* 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-and-seek

* 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-Carts

* 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)


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