Things to do on a date

(These activities are for fun, romantic, holiday, and group dates)

• Ride through the park after dark in a horse drawn carriage.
• Discover an out of the way cafe.
• Enjoy a sunset walk in a park on a hill.
• Make a list of your favorite songs, then record a tape.
• For a panoramic view, climb a lookout tower.
• Play lacrosse.
• Team up to wax your car in the park.
• Make s’mores over a campfire.
• Put the rest of the world on hold and walk leisurely through the woods.
• Shake the winter doldrums by shopping at a greenhouse.
• Visit a national park together.
• Start the day off right with a sunrise picnic.
• Try cross country skiing.
• Try fishing at a fish farm.
• Get away for a jeep ride in the desert.
• Make discoveries at a planetarium.
• Enjoy the view of your city from an overlook.
• Enjoy the splendor of autumn with a foliage drive.
• Go all out and dine at a five-star restaurant.
• Get lost in the delightful sounds of a symphony concert.
• Enjoy a stage musical.
• Experience the magic of the opera or plays.
• Dress formally for a meal at Burger King.
• Ask your date out with a formal invitation.
• Meet for an early morning walk.
• Kick off your shoes and enjoy yourselves at a Japanese restaurant.
• Brush up on your knowledge of history by visiting a historical monument.
• Dress as tourists and ask strangers to take pictures of the two of you all over town.
• Go on a scavenger hunt.
• Crash a wedding reception.
• Tour a historical building.
• View the city lights at night from a skyscraper.
• Enjoy a meal at an outdoor cafe on a nice evening.
• Hunt for great buys at an outlet mall.
• Attend an antique show and be amazed by the prices.
• Get in the spirit and make Christmas decorations.
• Host a Friday the 13th party.
• Experience the down to earth fun of a mud drag.
• Bury your own time capsule of mementos of your relationship.
• Browse another city’s newspaper to find something unusual to do.
• Do something silly enough to get in your local newspaper.
• Celebrate Ground Hog Day by checking for his shadow.
• Stop an elevator between floors and have a picnic for two.
• To find something different to do, flip through your city’s magazine.
• Make sugar cookies using fun cookie cutters.
• Enjoy Mcdonald's by candlelight on the living room coffee table.
• If you love Perry Mason, try the real thing by observing a trial in progress.
• To get your heart pumping, go through a haunted house.
• Throw a backwards party, where everyone comes dressed with their clothes inside out walks backwards and speaks in Pig Latin.
• Do doughnuts in a parking lot after a snowfall.
• Make a jack-o-lantern.
• For an easygoing afternoon, play Uno.
• Grab your camera and go to the zoo for a great afternoon.
• Watch an entire mini-series.
• Go bowling.
• Spread a blanket on the living room floor and have an indoor picnic.
• Spend a Sunday afternoon touring the Parade of Homes.
• Steady your hands and build a house of cards.
• Host a "We finally completed the….” party.
• Enjoy the charm of a historical house tour.
• Examine the treasures at a local museum.
• Donate Blood.
• Help the homeless by volunteering at a shelter.
• Volunteer to assist the Special Olympics.
• Stop by to brighten the day of someone in a nursing home.
• Branch out from your routine by planting a tree.
• Teach each other to dance.
• For absolutely no reason at all, throw a party.
• Spend a Saturday morning searching for garage sales.
• Join some friends for a day of boating.
• Try adventure dining look in the yellow pages to discover a new restaurant and then go.
• Have a ball at a tailgate party.
• Sit side by side on a park bench and watch the world go by.
• Play a game of tennis.
• Splish splash at a water park.
• Round up your friends for a Wild West party.
• Spend a Saturday afternoon shopping for Christmas gifts.
• Host an around-the-world party.
• Help each other clean out closets and choose which items to give to the D.I.
• Sail away.
• Go windsurfing.
• On cold nights, work out together at the gym.
• Go rainbow watching after a storm.
• Celebrate Leap Year on February 29th.
• Hold a brainstorming session on how to improve your relationships.
• Be a true friend to each other during a tough time.
• Pray for each other.
• Go to Temple Square.
• Do baptisms for the dead.
• Take the day off to cure spring fever.
• Always keep your word to each other.
• Slow down from life’s fast pace by fasting together.
• Visit a live nativity scene to help experience the real meaning of Christmas.
• Enjoy a rooftop picnic.
• Observe the Sabbath.
• Tour the historical churches in your area.
• Share a recliner to watch a scary movie.
• Carry mistletoe and use it.
• Drive around on a December night to enjoy the Christmas lights.
• Go to the best deli in town to order their biggest sandwich and split it.
• Kick off your holiday celebration by dyeing Easter eggs.
• Have a squirt gunfight.
• See all of the movies that were nominated for Academy Awards this year.
• Create a photo montage of your dates together.
• Experience a scenic chair lift ride.
• Share a hammock on a summer day.
• Have an impromptu picnic in the car when the rain interrupts your plans.
• Tie dye your t-shirts.
• Engage yourselves in a competitive marbles match.
• Head on over to a demolition derby.
• Explore the countryside on horseback.
• Pop popcorn without using a microwave oven.
• Enjoy a romantic dinner dance aboard a paddle wheeler.
• Shoot baskets.
• Go to a part of town you’ve never visited.
• Unwind together in a whirlpool.
• For breakfast anytime, have a meal at a pancake. house.
• Capture your favorite spot on canvas with your own oil paintings.
• Search for hidden treasures with an old map.
• Enjoy the fresh air of a springtime lawn party.
• See who can create the best culinary masterpiece at a salad bar restaurant.
• Escape your day to day hassles by playing the game of Life.
• Be clowns at a children’s hospital.
• Experience a fine meal at a German restaurant.
• Discover more about yourselves with the results of an aptitude test.
• Learn to drive a standard shift car.
• Spend a Saturday afternoon making homemade ice cream.
• Bake a pie together.
• Learn to waltz.
• Snuggle on a hay ride.
• Join a square dance club.
• Watch a silent film and enjoy talking through a movie for a change.
• Roast marshmallows over the fire.
• Throw horseshoes.
• Have a box-lunch date.
• Roller skate.
• Share the shade under an oak tree on a hot summer day.
• Enjoy a Coke on the front porch.
• After the movie, stop for a milkshake.
• Take turns on a tire swing.
• Prepare an elaborate gourmet meal together.
• Float away on a hot air balloon.
• Sip hot cider with cinnamon by the fire.
• Drink in the fresh air while dining on the patio.
• Have a friend chauffeur you and your date around for the evening.
• Reserve a private dining room for a dinner for two.
• Enjoy the magic of a candlelight picnic.
• For an adventurous day of exercising, go mountain biking.
• Experience the exhilaration of white water rafting.
• Get out and enjoy the fresh air while mountain climbing.
• Watch your favorite college sports team in action.
• Work on a term paper together.
• To help ease the tension, go to a finals week party.
• Eliminate the decision of what to wear by throwing a toga party.
• Discover an out-of-the-way spot for a campus picnic.
• Check out a College Union happening.
• Look through family photo albums.
• Learn about each other’s character by playing the game of Scruples.
• Take a Sunday afternoon drive.
• Stroll through a formal garden.
• Spend the day at a carnival.
• Walk her home after school and carry her books.
• To satisfy your sweet tooth, make candy.
• Play croquet on the front lawn.
• Meet for a Sunday brunch.
• Check out an expo.
• Reminisce about your past dates together.
• Listen to Mystery Theater on the radio.
• Lift off from your regular routine by launching a model rocket.
• Experience a relaxing scenic train ride.
• Watch the sub marine races.
• Sit back and watch the fog roll in over the lake.
• Share an elegant dinner aboard your yacht (a rented row boat will do.)
• Go to a concert.
• If you need a break, shoot pool.
• Support your local Civic Theater.
• Have your friends prepare and serve you two a romantic dinner.
• Serve up a volleyball party together.
• Have a mystery date’ – a friend makes all of the arrangements.
• Shape up together at a Weight Watchers class.
• Share a blanket while listening to the rain fall on a tin roof.
• Brighten someone’s day by visiting an orphanage.
• Host a Sunday supper for your friends.
• Have a doughnut hole breakfast before church.
• Play Chinese checkers on a cold night.
• Watch a Western.
• Make your own Candid Camera show using a Camcorder on your unsuspecting friends.
• Attend a political debate.
• Donate plasma.
• Flip over each other on a trampoline.
• Pack a lunch and spend the day 4-wheeling.
• Turn off the lights and spend a summer evening thunderstorm watching.
• See the latest museum exhibit.
• With a telescope, astronomy book, munchies, and a warm blanket look at the stars and moon.
• Go fishing together before the sun comes up.
• Host a pajama party for your friends.
• Get a compass, drive a convertible, and hunt for UFOs.
• Enjoy a romantic moonlit picnic.
• Host a “Christmas in July party.
• Attend a church social.
• Become entangled with a game of Twister.
• Kick off a sporting event with a pre-game party.
• Crash a formal party.
• Shake the winter doldrums by hosting an indoor beach party.
• Relax yourselves in a hot tub.
• Take advantage of a windy March day by sailing model boats on a take.
• Listen and laugh to a comedy recording.
• Cover the floor with newspapers and finger paint a masterpiece.
• Make a meal entirely out of grocery store samples.
• Be adventurous and go to an acupuncture clinic.
• Flip a coin to decide what to do on your date.
• Don’t just hang around the house all day; go bungee jumping.
• Crash a large family reunion, then eat and run.
• Host a goldfish race party.
• Enjoy Gary Larson’s The Far Side.
• Go Hawaiian by hosting a luau.
• Host a hillbilly party.
• For a date that’s right on target, play darts.
• Play Parcheesi.
• Run barefoot through the park.
• For a color night out, pick a color, then choose a restaurant that is decorated in that color and wear that color and go.
• Have a food fight.
• Finger paint with pudding.
• Make a homemade pizza.
• Walk around your neighborhood to enjoy the Christmas lights.
• See a summer play at an amphitheater.
• Go fly a kite.
• Race to the bottom of a water slide.
• Bundle up and go outside to play in the snow.
• Enjoy the sunshine while throwing a Frisbee in the park.
• Wash your hair together in the pouring rain.
• Snuggle up next to a campfire on the beach.
• Get up and go after learning how to water ski.
• Experience the thrill of inner tubing behind a speedboat.
• Host a BYOF (fireworks) extravaganza on Uncle Sam's birthday.
• Sneak away for a picnic in the middle of a football field in an empty stadium.
• Get away for a Saturday canoe trip.
• Pick out and address Christmas cards.
• Make a create as you go spaghetti sauce”.
• Team up to aid the Red Cross during a disaster.
• Sneak away for the day together after calling in sick.
• Design a couples Halloween costume for the two of you.
• Spend the day parasailing.
• Help him shop for clothes.
• Browse through an art gallery.
• For a day of adventure, go yachting.
• Experience a Mexican fiesta.
• Look through your high school yearbook and share memories.
• Rent a video camera to record the highlights of your date.
• Start a scrapbook of your dates together.
• Have your caricatures sketched by a street artist.
• Team up to play an elaborate practical joke on a good natured friend.
• Dress up in costumes to have your picture taken at a custom photo booth.
• Rent an expensive sports car and drive by your friends’ houses.
• Hang out at the Student Union with the gang on a Saturday afternoon.
• Write to your favorite celebrity.
• Treat your date to their favorite dinner.
• Observe Memorial Day together by laying wreaths on the graves of your loved ones and sharing fond memories.
• Read Garfield.
• Attempt to win a prize at the carnival.
• Videotape your date playing sports.
• Share Oreo cookies and milk after a long day.
• Spend the day at a theme park.
• View a touring exhibit at the museum.
• Share expenses on a Dutch treat date.
• Amuse yourselves at an amusement park.
• Treat yourselves to a Dairy Queen Blizzard.
• Join the crowd at a New Year’s Eve party.
• Spend a quiet afternoon together in the library.
• Dazzle each other with your knowledge while playing Trivial Pursuit.
• Help each other pick out perfume and cologne.
• Buy matching watches.
• Tell Santa what you want for Christmas.
• Catch some rays together.
• With lawn chairs in hand, get a good spot to enjoy a local parade early.
• Sing together in the local choir.
• Spend a spring afternoon bird watching.
• Throw a BYOB/BYOG party (old boyfriends & girlfriends) to introduce your single friends to each other.
• Accompany your date to a reception.
• For a bow-wow bonanza, throw a birthday party for your dog.
• Play charades.
• With steady hands, stack dominoes.
• Spend a delightful evening decorating a Christmas tree.
• Share egg nog by the tree.
• Go to a Christmas tree show to gather ideas on decorating your tree.
• See The Nutcracker Suite at Christmastime.
• Browse a boat show.
• Jump into the fun at your neighborhood pool.
• Be entertained with the show at a water theme park.
• Play racquetball for a good workout.
• Enjoy an autumn day of paddle boating.
• Even at the risk of getting an egg on your face, enter an egg toss contest.
• Practice for a kissing marathon.
• Engage in a battle of laser tag.
• Play ping-pong.
• Snap photos of each other.
• Play football.
• Play double solitaire.
• Enjoy an afternoon of backgammon.
• Explore an unknown path through the woods.
• Take a portable grill to the park and fix a fun feast.
• Dodge raindrops together.
• Trace your family trees to uncover any nobility.
• Celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas.
• Go out for an anniversary dinner.
• Exercise together to shed a few pounds.
• Try Latin dancing.
• Buckle up and take off on a three-wheeler adventure.
• Spice up your evening by dining at a Mexican restaurant.
• Spend the day on a houseboat.
• Team up in a wheelbarrow race.
• Enter a three-legged race together at a picnic.
• Challenge each other to a pogo stick race.
• Race go-karts at an amusement park (the loser gets a chance to get even at bumper cars).
• Drop in on old friends.
• Invite your bishop along to lunch.
• Play Pictionary.
• Make a fun prank phone call to a friend.
• Share a blanket on a cold night at a football game.
• Be a sport and rub Ben Gay on sore, aching muscles.
• Enjoy being comfortable enough that you don’t feel like you must talk all of the time.
• During a tough time, go out of your way to cheer each other up.
• Surprise her with a ride home from work.
• Spend a carefree day lounging by the pool.
• Be silly together in a photo booth and capture the fun on film.
• Build a model.
• Ride the kiddie train around the zoo.
• Blow bubbles, and imagine you’re on the Lawrence Welk Show.
• Compete at video games.
• Have fun at the circus again.
• Play badminton.
• Attend the Democratic or Republican convention.
• Zoom off to a Star Trek convention.
• Stay up late to watch David Letterman.
• Watch Saturday morning cartoons and share a box of doughnuts.
• Tour a local television station.
• Attend a high school play.
• Stay at home for Saturday Night Live.
• For a change, attend a variety show.
• Slide on down to an ice show.
• Attend a motion picture premiere.
• Break through your winter routine by ice fishing.
• Celebrate the arrival of spring by hosting a garden party.
• Enjoy the quiet beauty of a sunrise.
• See how many times you can make a rock skip across a pond.
• Chase butterflies.
• Rejuvenate yourselves at a mineral spring.
• Try rock collecting. (we recommend diamonds)
• Sneak away for an outdoor nap.
• Enjoy hiking for the exercise and fresh air.
• Ask your date out in a spectacular way by hiring a skywriter.
• Soar off to an aviation show.
• Take a helicopter ride and enjoy the view.
• Catch some rays on the roof of a skyscraper.
• Set the mood by burning incense.
• Act crazy by riding up and down in a glass elevator several times while enjoying the view.
• Go plane watching at the airport late at night.
• Enter a kite flying contest.
• Entertain your friends at a rooftop party.
• Challenge each other to a watermelon seed spitting contest.
• Lie on your back and pick out cloud formations.
• To avoid the risk of blindness, keep your eyes closed and kiss during a solar eclipse.
• Curl up together next to a window and watch it snow.
• Play miniature golf.
• Have a snowball fight.
• Head for the slopes to do some skiing.
• Challenge each other at Nintendo.
• Chill out together on a hot summer day by going swimming.
• Build a snow fort.
• Enjoy a picnic at a scenic spot inside a chauffeured limousine.
• Make your date's birthday a festive occasion.
• Host a sympathy party for a friend who has just split up with their significant other.
• Have the unending patience to teach your date how to water ski on one ski.
• Bake a birthday cake together for someone special.
• Make a late night doughnut run.
• Experience the thrill of an ultralight plane ride.
• Enjoy a spring afternoon row boating.
• Kick off your shoes to play sand volleyball.
• Watch real life cowboys in action at a rodeo.
• Write your initials in wet cement inside a heart.
• For a date that is right on target, try archery.
• Bring your date a chocolate rose.
• While at the mall, split up for fifteen minutes to buy each other a fun five-dollar gift.
• Enjoy the beauty of a sunset picnic.
• Learn to hang glide.
• Rent a hearse to go to a Halloween party in style.
• Watch an ice hockey game.
• Relax yourselves in a sauna.
• Give each other a haircut.
• Wash your cars in the pouring rain.
• Try jet skiing.
• Make homemade root beer.
• Give each other a facial.
• Share a milkshake at a soda fountain.
• Make Christmas stockings to get ready for Santa.
• Put on your overalls and go to a barn dance.
• Tell ghost stories on a stormy night.
• Spend a rainy afternoon hay lofting.
• Watch a classic movie.
• Go ice skating at a local rink.
• Put together a 1000-piece puzzle in one night.
• Play bingo together.
• Visit with your family.
• Compete at a friendly game of pinball.
• Be pirates and go on a treasure hunt.
• Shop at a Five & Dime store.
• After checking each one, select and chop down a Christmas tree.
• Enjoy a meal at a country inn.
• Try candle making together.
• Play hooky together.
• Work together in a dark room and see what develops.
• Tour a local mansion and imagine what your life would have been like had you lived there.
• Share the fantasy of how you would spend a million dollars in one week.
• Dress up and shop for something that you can’t afford.
• Check out the new sports cars at an auto show.
• Nap on a lap.
• Venture to the park together on a cold night with a thermos of hot chocolate.
• Kidnap your date from work.
• Try your hand at snow sculpting.
• Go trick or treating again.
• Relax on a riverboat cruise.
• Create a blanket fort.
• Geocaching.
• Make an ice cream sculpture.
• Chalk drawings at the park.
• Get tested for COVID-19 together.
• Create ice sculptures together.
• Get a drink, appetizer, entree, and dessert at 4 different locations.