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
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
