178 Fun & Creative Dating Ideas

Its difficult to come up with fun cheap or even creative dating ideas on the fly. I have created this list to help you get started planning your next date, and making sure its a good one!

Below are a ton of dating ideas from the following categories that I hope will help you out:

• Adventure
• Arts
• Crafts
• Creative Ideas
• Games
• Outdoor Dating Ideas
• Relaxing
• Seasonal/Holiday
• Service
• Spiritual Dating Ideas
• Sports
• Town/History

Adventure Dating Ideas:

• Bumper Cars
• Go Carts
• Go DI shopping pick out an outfit for the other without their knowing and go do something in the outfit.
• Go garage sale hunting
• Hot air balloon ride
• Murder Mystery Night
• Sky Diving
• Stock Car Races
• Walk the sewer under campus
• Water balloon fight

Art Dating Ideas:

• Attend a concert
• Film Festival
• Go dancing
• Go see a play/musical
• Have dinner and write poetry
• Karaoke night
• Take a dance class and learn a new dance.
• Sketch nature, buildings, or each other
• Visit an Art Gallery
• Write a song together

Craft Dating Ideas:

• Buy coloring books and crayons (or my preferred colored pencils.)
• Buy paints and two paint brushes and paint pictures.
• Ceramics
• Friendship Bracelets
• Go to a Pottery Class
• Grab a camera and take photos of the beauty of the earth and make a collage.
• Make and Fly Kites
• Make Candles
• Make clay/play dough sculptures
• Make T-Shirts
• Origami
• Paint Pottery
• Paper Airplanes and see which ones fly best
• Paper Boats and float them to see which models work best
• Scrapbook
• Write a story book (children or adult) together with illustrations

Creative Dating Ideas:

• ABC activities- 26 activities starting with A and going to Z
• Cook a meal from your mission and teach her words from your mission language
• Do a photo shoot in random clothes and costumes
• Go to a Park and people watch, make your own captions for what they say
• Go to a restaurant and write a detailed time-line of life story and ask questions
• Go to the library and read favorite kids books
• Like seen on apartment swap, decorate another couples room/s (nothing permanent) and see who did the better job
• Plan a themed party
• Swap embarrassing stories
• Test drive cars

Game Dating Ideas:

• Create your own board game
• Crossword
• Mad Lib
• Make pizzas and play card or board games
• Night games w/ partners – fugitive, murder in the dark, sardines
• Scavenger hunt
• Truth or Dare
• 20 Questions
• Video Games

Outdoor Dating Ideas:

• Archery
• Bike ride (tandem or separate)
• Bird Watch
• Boating
• Bonfire
• Build a Sandcastle
• Build a Snowman
• Camping
• Canoeing
• Caving
• Fishing
• Float a canal/river
• Four wheeling
• Geo caching
• Go to the Beach
• Hiking
• Horseback riding
• Ice Blocking
• Ice Skating
• Off Roading
• Paint ball
• Para-Sailing
• Pedal Boat Ride
• Rafting
• Rock Climbing
• Running
• Scuba Diving
• Shooting
• Skiing
• Skip rocks
• Sledding
• Snorkeling
• Snow shoeing
• Snow fort
• Snowball fight
• Snowboarding
• Star Gazing
• Visit an Orchard and pick fruit
  
• Water/Jet Skiing

Relaxing Dating Ideas:

• Cloud Gaze
• Drive in Movie
• Go for a drive
• Get ice cream and go for a walk
• Go to an open-mike night at a local café
• Make Cookies
• Make dinner and watch a movie.
• Picnic
• Put a puzzle together with snacks
• Share baby pictures, photo albums, and stories
• Visit a Comedy Club
• Watch the sunset
• Yoga

Seasonal/Holiday Dating Ideas:

• Carriage Ride
• Carve pumpkins
• Christmas caroling
• Corn Maze
• Ghost hunt in the local cemetery
• Haunted house
• Have an Easter egg hunt
• Hay ride
• Make Christmas Tree Ornaments
• Ongoing date of 12 days of Christmas
• Paint Easter eggs
• Plant a Tree
• Sleigh Ride
• Trick-or-Treat in Halloween costumes
• Valentines Cards
• Watch a Halloween movie and answer the door for trick-or-treaters

Service Dating Ideas:

• Clean a park together
• Pick out flowers at garden center then visit a cemetery (or other place) and plant flowers
• Plant plants or flowers
• Visit a Day Care
• Visit and cheer up seniors citizens
• Volunteer

Spiritual Dating Ideas:

• Discussion on Religion
• Go to a Devotional
• Read Scriptures
• Temple

Sports Dating Ideas:

• Air Hockey
• Badminton
• Batting Cages
• Bocce Ball
• Bowling (regular/creative i.e. Skittle or M & M bowling)
• Croquet
• Driving Range
• Go to a Football game/Basketball, etc
• Go to the Gym
• Foosball
• Frisbee
• Horse Shoes
• Laser Tag
• Mini Golf
• 9 Hole Golf
• Pool
• Racquetball
• Rollerblade
• Roller Skate
• Swimming
• Table Tennis
• Tennis
• Volleyball

Town and History Dating Ideas:

• Amusement Park
• Aquarium
• Arcade
• Botanical Garden
• Auction
• Be Part of a Parade
• Circus
• Dog Show
• Factory Tour
• Fair/Carnival
• Farmers Market
• House Hunt
• Look in the paper for upcoming events in the area
• Mall
• Museum
• Pet Store
• Planetarium
• Ride the bus around town talking…
• Take a train ride
• Tour the city
• Water Park
• Zoo

Please again if you have any Dating Ideas you would like to add please let me know! Click here for more LDS Dating Ideas!