• Game night! Games never get old and are a lot of fun! Click here to go to our Game Center where you will find 100's of the best games for dating and group activities! 

• Build a fort in your living room with blankets: Roast mini marshmallows over a candle ( these can actually get pretty hot!) Use teddy grams and small chocolate chips to make mini smores. Play games or watch a movie in your fun fort!  

• Egg drop: Gather supplies of your choice and have a contest of creating a structure to put an egg in. Drop it from 9 ft. and see who's egg can survive the drop. Click here for a list of egg drop supplies and other fun things to drop.

• Plastic cup mini golf: Go to a building in the evening such as a campus building, church etc. Set up a golf course with plastic cups then start at the beginning and golf. (can get really cheap clubs at DI) A fun date to get to know each other. 

• Mini pinewood derby: Time to bring out those boy scout skills once again to impress your date once and for all!  Click here for Date Shoppe's Mini Pinewood Derby date kit, a fun time she has always had a secret desire for.  

• Put together a puzzle: You can find cheap ones at the dollar store, or go all out and get a 10,000. 3-D puzzles are fun too! Put a movie on in the background or just talk. Have a bowl of mms or your favorite munchies to munch on while putting together your puzzle. 

• Go to the library and pick out some fascinating picture books on topics that interest you such as travel,animal, national geographic, etc.  This is bound to spark a good conversation. 

• Go bowling with handcuffs or other fun bowling games. Click here for fun games to play while you bowl.

• Create a Build-A-Bear together ( usually located in a mall): Mix your personalities when creating the bear. 

• Go to the circus.

• Play Pictionary with play dough: Click here for several fun variations of the well loved game Pictionary!

• Art date: Finger paint, play with playdough, color with crayons or markers in a coloring books or make your own pictures. Don't stress about making a pretty picture or having mad art skills, just have a good time getting your hands messy with art! You can decide on a theme or just color away! Click here for a great Art Date Kit

• Paint a customized paint by number: Choose a photo of yourself or of you and your date together and paint this photo just like a real paint by number. Click here for your customized paint by number date kit! 

• Blast from the past: Pull out your old school yearbooks. This date becomes really fun when you try to guess each others age in the picture. Talk about funny school stories. For an activity, remake a project you made when you were little like glued beans or macaroni around the frame of a picture, fruit loop necklaces, homemade butter by make butter or ice cream by shaking the bag etc.Click here for a fun blast from the past scavenger hunt and conversation cards! 

• Have a karaoke night: Many restaurants or other venues have a night of the week dedicated to karaoke. If you don't want this, have your own! You can make this humerous by having people sing in different accents, really fast, really slow, or other stipulations etc. Make it a funny and relaxed, not an intimidating time where your date feels like they have to show off their singing skills. 

• Go to a gym together: Depending on the gym there are a variety of activities offered such as court sports like basketball, racquetball, wallyball, zumba, areobic dancing, swimming, hot tubbing, rock-climbing, and working out. If you need a membership and don't have one, tell them you are looking to try out the gym. Most gyms will usually give you a free week pass to come and try anything out in the gym. 

• Go to an indoor fun center that has activities such as mini golfing, bowling, billiards, lazer tag, golf simulator, ropes course, go carts, arcades or other activities of your choice. Click here to see if there are dating deals in your area!

• Winter time feeling bleak? Start at Hot Chocolate Club. Invite friends and or romantic interests to come enjoy the warmth of hot chocolate and fun conversation. Provide an assortment of hot chocolate options. Play games, talk, or whatever else you would like to do at your new formed club. Click here for your own Hot Chocolate Club poster and starter kit! 
• Movie theme night: Ex. Watch Nacho Libre and have nachos

Food Dates

• Mix it up! Have a breakfast date: Let your date come in pajamas and make breakfast together. Turn on music to get the atmosphere hopping with fun. Crepes are great breakfast choice and are extra tasty! Click here for an easy crepe recipe.

• Make cookie portraits of each other: Get materials that would be good for hair teeth and eyes. Make different color frosting to paint your cookie with. Click here for the cookie portrait date kit.

• Fondue Night: There are many variations of fondue recipes from chocolate to cheese fondue. You can find many great recipes on the internet orclick here for our personal favorite fondue recipes and fondue making kit.  

• Homemade pizza: This is really easy. You can buy dry packages of pizza crust mix at Walmart for a dollar. Get the rest of ingredients and have fun forming and shaping your pizza just the way you like it. 

• Cake decorating competition: Make two teams. Choose the type of cake you want to make. Have food coloring and each team can mix their own frosting colors. Have tools to decorate with. Put frosting in sandwich bag and cut a tiny hole in the corner. Squeeze slowly to get a decor effect. 

• Pick and exotic recipe that you think looks cool or sounds good that you have never tried and make it. Don't limit this to dinner. Deserts can be fun to! The experimentation makes it a fun date. 

• Have a scone night. Mmm mmm good.

• Go to an indoor swimming pool. Swimming games

• Go to and indoor iceskating or rollerblading rink. 

• D.I. Dress Up: choose a theme and then go to a second hand store to find an outfit that fits your theme. DI Dress Up Scavenger Hunt