Date Night Ideas!!!

Indoor Picnic: Have a picnic on the floor with blanket, lit candles, and maybe even play a CD of ocean sounds!  Since you’ll be indoors, try making hamburgers or grilling chicken.  End with playing a card game or other game like Yatzee.

Dessert for Two:  Make a homemade dessert together and eat it while watching a movie (with popcorn too of course and a yummy drink). 

At-home Spa Date: Give each other relaxing massages while playing beautiful/ classical music.  The wife could give her husband a full out pedicure and he could “try” to paint her nails.  Put on facemask treatments – basically use whatever “spa” items you have.  Eat yummy finger foods and appetizers. 

Dancing at Home:  Rent a movie from your local library that teaches you step by step how to dance together.  Or, just look up a tutorial video on youtube.  Country or ballroom dancing moves could be fun to learn!

Trip to Thrift Store: Go to the Thrift Store each with a certain amount of cash (like $5 each) and secretly buy a gift for each other.  It’s also fun just to browse the store together. 

Cuddle Up & Read: Choose a book to start reading together – like maybe a little each night. 

Recreate your First Date:  What were you wearing?  Where did you go?  What did you do or talk about?  You could even try to recreate in your very home.

Musical Night: Find out when a local high school is putting on their musical production or attend a low-cost concert open to the public. 

 

Git Fit: Exercise to a work-out video together. Then enjoy a protein shake or fruit smoothie afterwards....

 

Dream House: Sketch your dream-house floor plan and talk about the possibilities of each room.

Winter Snowman: Build a snowman together, then enjoy hot cocoa.

 

Spouse Sleepover:  Drag your mattress or air mattress into the family room.  Have treats, games, movies, and drinks just like you used to do when you were little.  For the game you could play “Cheez-it Scrabble” – the crackers each have a letter on them.  Wake up to breakfast in bed! 

“Pep Rally” Date: Have pizza and appetizers, listen to jock jams to pump you up, wear the school’s colors, and go to a local high school’s sporting event. 

Make life lists: A life list is when you sit down and brainstorm all of the things that you've never done which you'd like to do before you die. Things on the list can be as mundane and extraordinary as you want. Make your life lists separately and then share them; you'll be amazed how much you find out about each other.

Make Summer Plans: Plan where you want to travel and explore this spring/summer.  You could even buy your state map and mark where you’ve been and where you want to go.   Make sure you save your list!

Back to the ‘50s Date: Turn your kichen into a diner with burgers, fries, and shakes/malts.  You could even have a babble gum blowing contest and dance to ‘50s music.

 

Travel from your Home:  This fun date night can be done multiple times with different countries you are interested in.  All dates could include eating food from that country, learning interesting facts about the country, watching a movie based there or about it, printing off some pictures, watching a short youtube tour of that country or famous city, and maybe even dancing to their music!  It’s so fun to learn about different places!  Some examples would be:

Italy – homemade pizzas, play Andre Bocelli music, painting or making play dough sculptures

France – French bread, cheese, fruit, and sparkling apple juice, watching Ratatouille, dancing to French accordian music

Indoor Campout: When it’s too cold to campout, enjoy making tin foil dinners in the oven followed by making smores (with your oven broiler)!  If you’d like, you can go all out with the air mattress, glow in the dark stars, reading a book together, and burn a CD of outdoor noises for fun.

Dollar Date: Go to the dollar store and both spouses get to pick out one thing (and perhaps children).  Go to a fast food restaurant and order items from the dollar menu.  Then go to the dollar movies!

 

Bake cookies together and make ice cream sandwiches. 

Light some candles for fun and have a SPA NIGHT.

PLAN an UPCOMING TRIP together, whether it’s just a one-day adventure or a couple day mini vacation with your kids.

PAINTING PARTY.  Paint a piece of your furniture or grab some cheap canvas and paints and have fun!  They could even become wall décor.

Recreate some of your dates from back in the day… even at home.  I want to make tacos at home and wear the exact shirt I wore on our first date – and have a taco eating contest again!   

PIGGY BANK.  Create some kind of “piggy bank” where you can start putting all your spare change.  Decide as a couple something fun you want to start saving for!  

When it's warmer, bring the monitor and a blanket, and go in your backyard and TALK UNDER THE STARS

PICK OUT A BOOK.  Find a book that you would both enjoy and start reading it together.  On nights you feel like it, you can continue reading!

Interview each other!  Whip out the video camera and ask each other lots of interesting, fun questions. Your kids and you will love watching this in the future!  I got this one from this website - she has some great ideas