35 Date Ideas for Date Night

It’s time for a date night!

In honor our new book, 175 Best Date Ideas we’re sharing a bunch of awesome date ideas and resources, like the best games and movies for date night too!

Prepare:

Make a date jar and fill it with all of the following date ideas. Read completely instructions on how to make one here.

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35 Totally Awesome Date Ideas

Game Night Ideas

• Put on white shirts & get ready for some messy twister.
  • You’ll need: a twister board & paint for each color.
  • Prepare: drip corresponding paint into each twister circle.
  • Play as usual but enjoy getting messy together.

• Would You Rather is a fun card game full of “mind-boggling questions” to ask each other. Hop in the car, stop by the convenient store to grab some snacks & drive to a park to people watch while you ask the questions back and forth.

• Card games are always a great fall-back — here’s a book of 2 Player Card Games if you need some new ideas. Take your deck of cards to the coffee house with you, order drinks and play a game.

• Cribbage is an oldie but goodie. Since we don’t own a game board we snagged an app for our iPad and use that to play.

• Monopoly is always fun. To give it a twist add a second game board and create a crazy eight effect (this is especially perfect for double dates). Don’t forget to double the money so you can afford all the added properties!

• Settlers of Catan has become a recent favorite around here. Although we haven’t figured out a twist for this one quite yet.

At Home Date Night Ideas

Have an indoor campout together with Indoor S’mores & a movie.

Make a DIY project together — here’s a list of 20 fun ones that will spruce up your home.

Start a Smash Book together. Write each other a love letter and let that be the first thing you “smash!”

Exercise together — here’s a couples yoga routine that you have to try!

Frisbee golf in the backyard with a twist.

Cook together. Homemade pizza and banana splits in a great one to start with.

Make a popcorn bar together!

Date Night Movies — Our Favorite Romantic Comedies

Movie themed date — pick a movie and theme dinner & snacks around the movie. Did you know you can rent movies from amazon? Here are a few of our favorite date night movies:

• The Proposal
• How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
• Hitch
• Failure to Launch
• Knight and Day
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith
• Killers
• The In-Laws
• Date Night
• Sweet Home Alabama
• Fool’s Gold

Have a favorite date night movie to add to the list? Leave us all a comment.

Date Night Ideas — Out-and-About

Each date in the book is labeled with either a “Go Out” or “Stay In” doodle so you can choose depending on your mood! Here are a few fun ones:

Food crawl — appetizers, dinner and dessert at three different places.

Go wine tasting.

Picnic & hiking.

Park hopping — swings at this park, slides at the next, and finish up with a seesaw at the last park. Chat in the car while you drive between.

Watch a sports game together (baseball, basketball, football, hockey, etc).

Shopping date — start with $5 each and play this fun game while you shop.

Head to a driving range and hit a bunch of golf balls together!

Intimate date ideas:

Romantic Games for the Bedroom — via the Dating Divas

The Game of Love — a DIY game board on your sheets!

Love these? Click over to read more about our book:

175 Best Date Ideas — the ultimate bucket list of dates for couples! Can you do them all?

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