Date Jar

How many times have you had a date night where you go back and forth with "What should we go do?" Well this will solve the problem. Make a date jar :-) You can color code them for different things. Here is what I did.

You need a mason jar, colored Popsicle sticks, a fine sharpie, cute ribbon.

I color code mine this way;
Green= Money needs to be spent (these are great to use on birthday's, anniversary, special holidays or just for fun)
Yellow= Doesn't take too much money and can be spontaneous dates
Blue= Stay at home dates with little to no money spent

You can decorate the jar anyway you want or keep it simple with a fun cupcake liner under the lid.

Here are some ideas to get you thinking on some for your date jar :-)

• Bed and Breakfast
• Dinner at a fancy restaurant
• Hotel stay for the night
• Tickets to a sports game with hubbys team
• Concert and dinner (his choice)
• Concert and dinner (my choice)
• Weekend away
• Couples Massage
• Takeout and board games
• 1,000 piece puzzle and pizza
• Football game and nachos
• Popcorn and a chick-flick
• Crosswords and breakfast for dinner
• Make a dessert together
• Homemade pizzas and an Italian movie
• Dinner and a movie (my choice and his choice)
• Laser tag and go carts
• Drive-In date
• Dessert only date
• Window shopping for the house
• Bowling
• Go to a parking lot and turn up your music in the car and dance in the moonlight
• Go for a bike ride in your neighborhood—maybe find a tandem bicycle to borrow or rent.
• Go look for luck by hunting for some four-leaf clovers.
• Go to the park and feed the birds
• Play “Tackle Football” - ON YOUR KNEES
• Go to random spots in your hometown and take pictures
• Find inner tubes and float down a nearby river
• Go ice blocking—slide down big hills on a large block of ice
• Go on a picnic, but choose somewhere extremely random--like on your roof
• Go on a nature hike—pick wild flowers or have a picnic 
• Watch the sunrise—watch the sunset
• Find a muddy area, dress in old clothing and have a mud fight.
• Play your favorite sport together
• Play capture-the-flag or hide-and-seek in a park
• Play croquet at a park
• Go rollerblading – better yet, go roller-skating!
• Go fishing
• Wash your cars together—It's always fun to play with water
• Have a water balloon fight or set up a slip-in-slide
• Build a snowman—Have a snowball fight
• Find a big hill and go sledding
• Rent a paddle boat or canoe
• Go boating
• Water parks
• Outdoor Water balloon volleyball date   
• Rock Climbing
• Go to the library
• Horseback Riding is a great outdoor date idea
• Dance in the rain
• Hike to see waterfalls or wildflowers
• Lie in the grass and find shapes in the clouds
• Have a Tin-foil dinners...cookout
• Go to the park, feed the ducks, play on ALL the toys
• Have a whipped Cream fight.. Buy at least 3 bottles per person, they go really fast. See who can stay the cleanest
• Dodge sprinklers on the public golf course or Public Park and see who can stay the driest.
• Have a pie fight with lots of pies made in advance. Surprise your date when you throw the first pie!
• Picture scavenger hunt- Double date, split into couples and take pictures (within a defined area) and then swap cameras with the other couple and see who can be the first to find where the pictures were taken and imitate them.
• Go to a lake and dance on the dock.
• Make a time capsule to put in a park or just your own backyard full of pictures and objects that represent your relationship and then dig it up for a big anniversary.
• Go on a nature hike—pick wild flowers or have a picnic
• Do some service. Rake leaves, plant flowers for a neighbor, shovel snow on all the walks of a given street.
• Go to a public place, like Starbucks, and just hang out and talk
• Draw pictures of each other... show off that artsy side. 
• Play UNO in the middle of a public place
• Visiting a nursing home or a rest home can be a surprising fun cheap date idea
• Describe your life in pictures by cutting them out of magazines or make up a story from the pictures.
• Watch the sunrise—watch the sunset
• Play Board games—Monopoly, Candy Land, Sorry
• Pick Wild Berries
• Find a muddy area, dress in old clothing and have a mud fight.
• Tour Historical Buildings
• Play capture-the-flag or hide-and-seek in a park
• Play croquet at a park—maybe on your school campus grounds
• Go rollerblading – better yet, go roller-skating!
• Play pool, foosball, or Ping-Pong
• Go visit your local planetarium
• Play Guitar Hero or Rock Band
• Free factory tours
• Have a coupon date – go through the local newspaper together and find coupons to use on your cheap date
• Go fishing
• Find a good service project or volunteer activity in your area
• Walk through the library or a bookstore—Find a corner to sit and read a children’s book together
• Have a cotton ball fight—buy several bags of cotton balls to throw at each other (or marshmallows)
• Draw Pictures with Sidewalk Chalk
• Build something together out of play dough
• Blindfold your date for a surprise dinner and take them to McDonalds. Only, make your table really fancy with a tablecloth, nice dishes and cups, etc.
• Go jogging to an interesting building or landmark, or a simple 'walk in the park'
• Make a homemade pizza together then sit down for a candle light dinner with some nice Italian bread and freshly made tossed salad.
• Go "people watching" at the mall—it can be fun to just sit and talk. 
• Make life lists together—all the things you want to do before you die
• Visit a nursing home or a rest home
• Go to an IMAX movie
• Karaoke
• Order Chinese, then eat it on the floor 
• Go to a comedy club—look for a local group, there are a lot of fun comedy groups especially at local universities. 
• Have a cookie-baking contest
• Directions: each couple chooses a recipe -- go to the store and have fun finding all the items you need, then return home and bake the cookies (play games or watch a movie while they bake).  Try each other’s cookies and have someone outside of your group choose a winner