I fully understand the struggle for date ideas especially after a couple has been together for some time. Even if you and your partner are incredibly fun people, it can still be tough to think of something different.
A long time ago, on a different blog, I came up with a long list of date ideas that I thought would be fun, and categorized them by cost and the amount of planning needed. That blog is long gone, but I decided to bring the list back and add some more from my own mind, and also, the internet.
Most of these ideas can be used for time alone with your SO, or on a double/triple date with some friends!
Some of the ideas are specific to Edmonton. I have italicised those so anyone who lives elsewhere can ignore them (or use them next time you’re a tourist in my town!). The list is real long. Hope you’re ready!
PS. If you're looking for at home date ideas for your time in quarantine, I have a list of over 50 at home date ideas for you to check out!
Cheap/Free and Spontaneous
Skating
Art Gallery
Swimming
Work out
Do an art project
Go for a walk
Sing a duet
Write a song
Build a blanket fort
Build an outside fort
Hot Yoga
Get in trouble
Stargaze
Split a milkshake
Play a drinking game
Have a fire pit
Paint war
Read a book out loud
Take pictures to create evidence of an adventure that never happened
Plant something
Climb trees
Kidnap a friend
Graffiti the sidewalks with chalk
Create obstacle courses for each other
Bike Ride
Watch a movie outside
Moustache movie drinking game – Tape a couple of moustaches onto your TV screen and every time it lines up on someone’s face, drink.
Picnic
Ice cream sundaes
Design your dream home on paper or in Sims!
Make vision boards
Make couple goals
Driving Range
Explore the River Valley – Instead you can just explore a local area that has been kept natural
Walk around West Edmonton Mall
Taste oil&vinegar at Evoolution
Urban Goose Chase photo scavenger hunt
Watch a really old lame horror movie
Build a snowman/fort
Make ice bubbles
Wii Game Night
Guitar Hero
Scary Movie
Sad Movie
Action Movie
Homemade pizzas
DDR (Dance Dance Revolution)
Homemade ice cream
Make Banana Bread
Walk around a camping store
Walk around a furniture store
Mario Kart
Play Lego
Paddle Boating
Sledding
Watch a documentary
Play a collaborative video game - (We like Don't Starve Together)
Create something
Draw each other
Have a Popsicle stick bridge building competition
Paper plane competition
Decorate cookies to look like your friends and deliver them
Play “Bigger or Better”
Aquarium
Assign each other an art project
Croquet/other backyard games
BBQ
Antiquing
Look at vintage stuff
Waterfight
Volleyball
Stereotypical girl’s night
Stereotypical guys’ night
Frisbee Golf
Garage Sale-ing
Hunt for your dinner – You each get $5 and an assigned course (protein, salad, dessert, whatever) and whoever gets the best food closest to the limit, wins! The loser has to actually make the food.
Truth or dare in the mall
Photograph each other – It’s nice to see yourself through the other’s eyes
Feed the ducks
Café Haven – Go to a cafe that feature’s local bands
Do a YouTube tutorial
Tennis
Curling
Pop some tags (a la Macklemore)
Play hide and seek at IKEA
Pretend you’re spies in public.
Invent a mystery
Do a colouring book
Visit the Greenhouse
Cheap/Free and Minimal Planning
Gymnastics
Humane Society (puppies!)
Have a Nerf gun fight
Try partner acro yoga
Day Hike
Try a new fitness class
Sleep outside or in a truck bed under the stars
U-Pick farm
Test drive an expensive car
Drop in Dance Class
Wine & Beyond Event
UofA observatory
Go all out for a sports game
Cheese tasting at the cavern
Volunteer Somewhere (This involves lots of planning)
Free Movie Tuesdays on the Square
Farmers Market
Karaoke
Estate Sale
Corn Maze
Roller Skating
Rodeo
Go to a show home
Make a time capsule
Homemade movie
Fly a kite
Circus class
Let go of a floating lantern
Babysit (lots of planning)
Puppy-Sit
Moderately Priced and Spontaneous
VIP movie theatre
Go shopping, pick outfits for each other
Waterpark
Minigolf
Build-A-Bear
Go to an Amusement Park
Golf course
Go to the Zoo
Trampoline park
Eat Somewhere we’ve never heard of
Jurassic Forrest
Fort Edmonton Park
Patio lunch
Telus World of Science
Casino
Puzzle & Pizza night
Bowling
Museum
Fondue Night
Hot Stone
Go out for Dessert
Play Pool
Karaoke
Ukrainian village
Go Carting
Line dancing
My Drunk Kitchen (a la Hannah Hart)
Buy roses and give them to people in the street
Muttart conservatory
Master Chef drinking game
Car Show
Lazertag
Whyte Ave date
Paint Pottery
Go Fishing
Moderately Priced and Minimal Planning
Try a date box from DateNiteCo
Virtual flower arranging workshop
Buy the cheapest bus ticket, spend the day there
Escape room
Do a river float
Swing Dancing
Salsa Dancing
Go Clubbing
Head to your local ski hill
Bake
Cook a new, weird recipe together
Take a Train
Kickboxing
Go skiing
Set off fireworks
Day trip to the Beach
Local theatre
Local IMPROV
Drop in class at art gallery
Craft class at Michaels
Museum after Dark
Beer Tasting
Go to one of your city's many festivals!
Go to a shooting gallery
Kayak or Canoe
Jetski
Ghost tours
IMAX
Snowshoeing
See comedy
Get a photoshoot done
Strawberry Picking
Batting cages
Photography class
Local artist concert
Cook for each other (one course each)
Rock Climbing
Bouldering
Moderately Priced and Lots of Planning
Ride Horses (Lots of Planning)
Host a Party (lots of planning)
Go Camping (Lots of Planning)
Host a murder mystery Party (lots of planning)
Expensive and Minimal Planning
Spa Day
Paintball
Take a cooking class
Go Paddle Boarding
Classy-ass date - (Dress to the nines, eat at a fancy restaurant and order the best wine)
Surfing lessons at West Edmonton Mall
Expensive and Lots of Planning
Dinner theatre
Other High end theatre
Skydive
Go to the Melting Pot
See a hockey game
Go to a concert Sign up for a crazy 5k
Do a multi-day hike
I hope that this list proves to be useful to someone (even if that’s just me). But I’m always looking for more ideas so please if you have a date idea, or recently had an awesome date, comment! Find quarantine approved date ideas on my list of over 50 at home date ideas for you to check out!
XO, Tara
P.S. If you like date nights and couple blogging, you might like my parent's blog Happy Midlife Couple, from the Gen X perspective! Also check them out on Instagram