Some friends put our heads together and came up with a list of our favorite date ideas. Enjoy! And happy dating! :)
From Olivia Mayer
-Attend a local high school sports game
-Choose a new recipe from your country of choice and make it together
-Make a camp dinner on a fire or a picnic and eat it in a tent
-Take dance/workout class together; sometimes for your first time there they're free!!
-Attend an open house showing of a house that's for sale in your area together
-Adopt a grandparent aka visit the elderly in a retirement home
-Have a game night with friends
-People watch over smoothies at the mall
-Take a homeless person to dinner with you and your date then get to know them
From Evelyn Kamurasi
-A game of sardines at IKEA or any large store!
-Go opera singing at an underground parking lot then get milkshakes at the local creamery!
From Dave Gray:
-Dumpster diving for pizza and doughnuts in the winter... Not when it's warm out!!! (Looking in dumpsters behind pizza places and bakeries for their leftovers.) "The most pizza I've gotten in one night was like 20 hot and readys and 5 papa johns pizzas."
-Putting coins on a railroad track, going to ice cream and a dollar movie, then going back to collect the flattened coins afterwards.
-Going on a fun run, walk, or hike to a cool place together.
-Nerf gun fight in a public place
-Prepare tin foil dinners then go make a campfire to cook them and enjoy the outdoors.
-Volunteering to help out at a race or somewhere else.
From Alex Fajardo:
-Rope swinging!
-paint rocks with glow-in-the-dark paint and go rock skipping at night. Throw glow sticks in the water to light it up and jump in to get them afterwards!
From Mark Mellville:
-Carving watermelons like pumpkins
-Seeing a cheap star show and looking through professional telescopes.
-Going to free concerts of local artists
-Making homemade rafts (like out of popsicle sticks) and floating them down a stream.
-Free museums at colleges or other places.
-After dinner, sharing a few of your favorite YouTube videos to each other.
-Go to a thrift store and buy each other ten dollar outfits that you have to wear to a movie or another public activity.
From Jordan Alexander
-Make cake balls (or another dessert) together then deliver them to people by doorbell ditching them. Hide behind the bushes to see their reactions.
-Go to a youth sports game where you don't know anybody and try to beat out the parents with your cheering. (Making a sign is recommended).
-Ask get-to-know-you questions and answer them by drawing pictures with sidewalk chalk. Then enjoy your masterpieces over some ice cream.
There are much more dating ideas and fun stuff Mormons do coming up on this blog! Stay tuned :)
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