First Dates can be a wide variety of activities. Many great ideas for a first date are listed in the other date category pages that may be perfect for your first time out.

Rather than repeating ourselves, this page is specifically focused on suggestions and tips of how to decide on the best first date choice for you. Continue to look through the rest of the categories to find a the perfect first date to fit your situation. 

5 Things to Consider Before Deciding on your First Date Activity.  

TIP 1: Generally speaking, first dates are best in a group settings. This can take awkwardness out of first date conversations and creates a comfortable environment. Click here for Group Games!

TIP 2: Plan your activity in terms of your date's interests: If you know your date is athletic, they may be more adventurous with outdoor or physically involved activities. If they are a creative type and lean toward the arts, you can't go wrong with a show or play, art date, or taking a stroll in a park to enjoy nature. Doing something your date is interested in allows them to feel comfortable and confident so that you can get to know their personality better. Check out our selection of Date Activity Kits that are great for first dates!

TIP 3: Plan activities that will allow conversation to flow freely and spark interesting topics to talk about. 

TIP 4: The purpose of a first date is to get to know the person and decide if you are interested in going on follow up dates, and then potentially having a relationship. You don't need to feel obligated to spend a lot of money on the first date. Something as simple as a lunch date will achieve this purpose. Once you have decided you have an interest in dating this person again, planning dates that are more costly aren't as risky of an investment. 

TIP 5: Avoid going to an expensive restaurant for dinner. Though this may seem flattering and the ideal, this puts a lot of pressure on your date to act with perfection. It is also makes your date feel akward when choosing a menu item. They may want an expensive item but don't want to come off a certain way, so they struggle if they should order a different menu item the may not even want just to be considerate. Your date may also be thinking too much about what they look like eating in front of you or the quantity of how much they eat. On the first date you want your date to feel relaxed and comfortable so that you can really get to know their true personality. This does not create the ideal situation. Choose to make dinner together instead. It is much more interactive and less formal which makes conversation come more naturally.  

First Date Conversation Suggestions

TIP 1. Find common interest or groud. Even though you may be totally different in many areas, find something that is of intesest to both of you. 

TIP 2. Avoid negative or crude topics. 

TIP 3. Fill in the blank conversation spots with things that you observe about the environment around you. 

A Few First Date Ideas:

• Make a food item together: Make dinner, desert, or a baked good that you share with your neighbors or just eat yourselves. This is a hands on activity that requires participation of both people and a fun environment to talk and laugh together. Play a card game after you are done. Suggestion: Make sugar cookies and cut out the dough into a shape and paint it with frosting. 

• Mini Golfing- classic, but it works great! See if there are dating deals in your area.

• Lunch Date: Take your date to lunch and go for a walk around a surrounding area afterwards.