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Crafts

Antique hunting

Candle making

Collecting things

Cross-stitching

Drawing

Flower arrangements

Macramé

Make t-shirts

Painting

Pottery

Quilting

Refinishing things

Scrap-booking

Sculpture

Cultural

Concerts, free community concerts

International culture dinner

Learn new ethnic dances

Local tours

Museum

Opera

Play music on a or corner together. If you are good you might make money.

Plays - professional or school plays

Shakespearean festival

Group Games

Build cars from a cardboard box and have a destruction derby

Capture the flag

Charades

Children’s Games

Cinderella dates - guys pick 1 shoe from a pile – the girl whom the shoe belongs is his date.

Cops and robbers

Costume party

Couples hide and seek

Cram as many people as you can in a small area like a phone booth or Volkswagen.

Egg, water balloon toss

Food, tomato, egg, fights - get bulk cheap outdated food at a grocery store.

Fugitive

Get-to-know-you games or party games

Group art project

Hide and Seek

Human Knot

Kick the can

Laser tag

Pillow fight

Play a mock game show - Family Feud, Jeopardy, and

Millionaire

Play bingo

Sardines

Scavenger hunt - using video, audio, objects or bigger and better.

Sing-a-longs

Tag - regular, freeze, or missionary tag

Throw a block party

Twister

War between two teams using PVC pipe and small marshmallows

Water balloon battleship

Water fight, water balloon fight

Instructional

Free community education events

Go to a free cooking class

Go to a library, genealogy library

Have a study date

Read and share in a bookstore

Teach each other a hobby

Tour a fire station, government building, or police station

Write a play, song or story - record it, act it out and watch it later

Meal Related

Cook tinfoil dinners, dutch oven cookout, roast marshmallows, smores outside

Early morning breakfast party

Eat with alternative utensils

Eat with your hands tied

Eat without utensils

Feed each other

Follow a treasure map to the dinner location

Formal mystery dinner with costumes

Go to a great restaurant

Have a BBQ

Have a contest, the loser makes dinner

Have friends dress up and be your hosts

Home cooking together

Homemade ice cream

Hunting for recipes

Location dinner - dinner on a beach, golf course, playground, esplanade

Picnic

Potluck

Progressive dinner - go from location to location, future locations can be identified by clues

Reactions -each person has to do a pre-assigned action in response to another person’s actions.

Taffy pull

Topics and Phrases - each person has to say an off-the-wall comment or story when someone says a specific

word or does a certain action

Other

Board games

Build cars from cardboard boxes and have a mock drive-in

Build forts from cardboard boxes and have a pillow war

Card games

Chalk drawing on a sidewalk

Elevator, escalator races

Glue a coin to the sidewalk; watch people try to pick it up

Horseshoes

Join a picket

Look at old photo albums

Paper airplane flying contest

Photo shoot

Pillow fight

Puzzle night

Toilet paper something

Outdoors

Beach bikes

Bird watching

Bonfire

Build fly kites

Canoeing

Catch Bugs

Climb trees

Feed ducks

Fishing

Flower hunting

Fly Kites

Four wheeling

Gardening

Go carts

Go for a drive

Go for a walk

Go to a lake

Go tubing in a stream or river

Hiking

Horseback riding

Hot Air Balloon ride

Ice-blocking

Inner-tubing

Leaf collecting

Make boats for a lake and have races

Rake leaves and have a leaf fight

Rock climbing

Running / jogging

Star watching - find constellations

Tandem bikes

Trampoline games

Water Skiing

Places To Go

A different town

Arcades

Beach, river, lake

Corn maze, hedge maze

County fair

Dancing - swing, country - dress the part

Ferry ride

Flower gardens, nature preserves

Hay ride

Imax theaters

Laser shows

Orchard

Playground

Sand Dunes

Scenic train, boat, or bus ride

Sporting Event

Test-drive cars

Theme park

TV or movie taping

Volunteer at local sporting events, plays Zoo

Role Playing/ Theme Dates

Act something out in a public place

Do some impersonations and quess who they are.

Dress in the style of a specific era or theme - 1920's 1950's, hillbilly, disco, and do related activities – Talk with accents

Dress-up - model outrageous styles of clothing

Go to the airport and have fake reunions

Pretend you are a reporter or shooting a documentary - make movies or commercials with video cameras in public

Role reversal - girl takes out the guy

Service

Babysitting

Help them do something they are working on.

Make care packages

Put on a fundraiser

Visit a nursing home or children’s hospital read to them – show magic tricks.

Volunteer at a homeless shelter or soup kitchen.

Shopping

Go shopping and pretend to be a married or engaged couple

Go to a flea market

Go to fashion stores and pick outfits for each other - bring a camera

Just go shopping and talk

Play chase, hide and seek, or fugitive in a mall

Restocking race - divide into two groups. Each group picks out 10 items and then gives them to the other group to restock. Whoever finishes first wins.

Spend less than 1 dollar each

Spiritual

Church bookstore

Church visitor’s center

Firesides

Go to church together

Go to the temple together

Read scriptures together and discuss them

Sports

Baseball - use child pools as bases and wet slide as home.

Basketball

Batting cages

Blind volleyball – put blankets over the net so you can' t see the other team

Bowling

Broom ice hockey

Bumper boats

Bumper cars

Croquet

Exercise - Bikes, Running, Rollerblading, Swimming, weights

Frisbee - ultimate frisbee

Golf

Ice skating

Marco polo

Miniature golf

One on one football

Paintball

Ping pong

Pool (billiards)

Racquetball

Roller skating

Sand volleyball

Skateboarding

Sports in mud, snow, or a pool

Squash

Swimming

Teach, learn, or practice self defense, karate

Tennis

Three-legged sports, potato sack sports

Tournaments

Variations - use a die in any of the above to play with a different style - left handed, backwards etc.

Wacky Olympics

Wallyball

Winter

Build a snow cave, igloo

Build a snowman - Snow family

Cross country skiing

Ice fishing

Ice sculpting

Make snow angels

Sledding

Snow football

Snow Skiing

Snowball fight

Tackle snowmen, go on a late night snowman hunt

Work

Build something

Clean the garage

DJ a dance

Hold a carwash

Paint a house

Wash your dog

Yard work

Date ideas from guests

Backpack into a wilderness area and explore some caves! 
 - NiceGuy84414
 
 See how fast you can eat 
 - BOB
 
 eat spaghetti on a table cloth without plates or utensils, with your hands tied up
 
 - Waldo
 
 Have dinner on a medium strip, or in the middle of a round about.   
 - Katie Bates
 
 Have a candle-light dinner setup in the back of a pickup truck at the mall.  
 - Garrett Bradham
 
 go out with a girl somwhere. It is really awsome.  
 - joey jo-jo jeramiah
 
 Go christmas caroling off-season. You get the coolest looks!
 
 - Lael Boudwin
 
 Bob for Apples at a wedding!!! 
 - Kurtus T Thorne Jr. III
 
 potato gun contests 
 - lilkim
 
 these are really bad ideas!  Who wants to do yard work on a date.... good try though... kind of. 
 - jo jo jo mouth
 
 go and chill and watch movies!!! 
 - me
 
 Make dinner together, with appetizers and desserts, etc... 
 - Carrie
 
 Have a candle light dinner at McDonald's! 
 - Josh
 
 Set a seat in the back of a pickup and let one couple fly kites as the other couple drive and then switch. 
 - Daron
 
 Man, that kite idea sounds sweet.  I'm going to try it.  It's like making your own wind!
 
 - Bill
 
 go on a scavenger hunt in a walmart, or at the mall... then go to a park and have a picnic     
 - alake 
 
 be chaste......... 
 - don juan
 
 get in your pj's and eat cereal while sitting in a movie 
 - susy
 
 Have a water gun fight!! then go in a public place to eat soaked!!  
 - Rachel
 
 go on a dubble date and see which coupple can buy the most things with 2$, then go and have an expensive dinner!! 
 - fishbabe
 
 How do you play missionary tag? 
 - Bear
 
 go to the beach and stay all night out with friends, then go to IHOP in the middle of the night
 
 - crystal
 
 go to the lake and take a picnic with you. 
 - mikki
 
 Play Computer games on a network! 
 - Jimmy Raynor
 
 go 2 a hi skool football game...then go 2 a coffehouse til midnite and talk... 
 - jenni
 
 my brother and his friend, took their dates to wash stop signs. you should have seen their faces! p.s. good for those who wrote what christ would have wanted them to write. to those whom didn't, i wish i could help you. 
 - the great shella
 
 UNO BOWLING 
 - Owen
 
 Watch the sunrise and watch all the city lights come on from the top of a mountain. (south mnt.)
 
 - matt reese
 
 ICE CUBES!! HAHAHA 
 - smitty
 
 find a steep hill and go ice blocking 
 - karen

Get in a Row Boat and push off.  Do an all-nighter campout in the boat under the stars.  Let the current guide you and then figure where on earth you are in the morning. 
 - Bufus
 
 Renact some scenes from a favorite TV show, movie, or broadway play at a local mall or in a parking lot of a grocery store. 
 - simontempler
 
 Thanks for all the great ideas! 
 - Candi
 
 Wear matching pajama bottoms, and go to an institute dance. 
 - Jen
 
 Have Food Olympics (Pie eating contest, jello eating contest, egg toss, bobbing for apples, condiment art, fish out hidden coin in flour with tied hands, make the alphabet out of gnawed pretzels, etc).  Well, it should be fun.  
 - Judd Brown
 
 Go to the thrift store and pick eachothers outfits and then go door-to-door and sell toilet paper to people for 25 cents a sheet. Then go to dinner with the money that was earned. 
 - Aaron Young
 
 Go to a store or the mall with your date having one dollar each to spend. The only rule is the best item bought with one dollar is the winner. Its kind of fun to see what your date can find. 
 - Lynn B
 
 Drive to the city with your date and each choose you favorite number. Say the numbers are 16 and 21 this means to drive and make 16 right turns and 21 left turns. While driving it gives you time talk and when your number of turns are done find a place with in this block to do something. 
 - Brinlly Hansen
 
 Play Rummoli with edible treats like M&Ms or candy. 
 - teddy
 
 Read a book out loud to each other, or go to the bookstore together and pick out a book for each other.  Another one is have a contest and whoever wins that's there day and they get treated like the king or queen, you do whatever they want for the whole day. 
 - one2smile
 
 Play volleyball in a gym with all the lights off. Wear white shirts, turn on a black light, and use a glow in the dark ball! 
 - Monkey?
 
 croquet. but a different way...... pick out several parks around town. and play a round of croquet or even putput golf at each park. you can play anywhere you want i guess. i once played a round at a real ritzy hotel. it is pretty fun but dont get caught. 
 - bubba
 
 get a group of guys to abduct the girls from their houses in the wee hours of the morning(parents consenting, of course). then have breakfast whilst watching the sunrise at the beach(or other notable scenic place).
p.s make sure parents pack them a bag with their swimmers etc....
 
 - greemountainboy
 
 For a fun double date, one couple climbs in a stream at a park and starts quacking like ducks while the other couple stands on the shore and throws bread to them! It's lots of fun! 
 - ~BRITTANY~
 
 go geocaching.  You need a GPS and go to www.geocaching.com to find a site near you. 
 - smiley
 
 dancing the oldies... 
 - Cinzia
 
 Go to a playground and play on the toys.  Swings are fun too. 
 - Roger
 
 go feed ducks 
 - smeagle
 
 date deprivation--
Get the ingredients for an easy meal like sanwiches or hawaiin haystacks-(rice(preheated) and chicken with cream of chicken(preheated) covered with peppers, pinapple, chow mein noodles, etc).  Eat the meal and talk with you and your friends on one side of a chain-link fence and your dates on the other side.  You serve them, but it takes teamwork for them to eat.
Don't know if it works.. try it!
You may need a blessing on the food.  : - ) 
 - legato
 
 Dress up like old people and play bingo at the old folks home. 
 - Michael
 
 Have a study date. Help each other with homework. 
 - Nerd
 
 Go to the nearest water front and have an under water basket weaving contest. 
 - basketcase
 
 If this is supposed to be a site for -LDS- singles, you need to screen the guest ideas better. Had a look at those lately? 
 - Jon
 
 Is there a site for how to get good LDS dates? 
 - Yo Mama
 
  some of these ideas are great! just not for the inmature ones. I am going to have a lot of fun with these ones, Here is one- (i live in Id and we can do most of this stuff) go fishing even if you hate that kinda stuff, or race carts at k-mart or walmart! or even get really fun and have a shaving cream fight! This is so much fun! 
 - Lizzz
 
 Go to walmart and play with all the kids toys till you get kicked out. 
 - Jen
 
 Make cookies and cards, and then deliver them to some elderly people.
 
 - Bill
 
 This is one of my favorite ideas. Go fishing with gummy worms. Find some sticks, tie the strings and go!!
Great chance to talk and get some one on one time!
Make sure your at a park or someplace nice. 
 - Trent
 
 Also try a minture picnic.
This idea worked out great!
Grab dinner rolls and mini sausages--hotdogs
grab bags of mini-chips---chips
mini-oreos---dessert
candy soda drinks----drinks
wash cloth---blanket
mini packets of ketchup and mustard---condaments
and so on..... 
 - Trent
 
 My brother once told me he made paper airplanes with his date and then they went to a high building and threw them off.  The person whose airplane went the shortest distance, has to buy dinner at Wendy's and pay for the dollar movie.  He said it was super fun and he got some play from her.  I wish I could get a date, That would be super cool.   
 - big red
 
 Go mailbox bashing, the huck eggs at bikers up a canyon, then go home and have a smash fest 
 - Reed 
 
 go to www.fanta.dk and make funny movies about each other, you'll laugh a lot.  I think it's great.  I make funny movies there but I still don't have a date.  It's super cool anyways.

Another cool idea would be to find a friend who has an XBOX, network them and play HALO.  My brother said it's so fun to play steal the flag with your date against another friend and their date.  You can then make a bet (with no money) that the winner gets some play.  That would be super cool if that happened to me but I don't dare to talk to girls.  
 - big red
 
 You will get play with this one:  I work for a Landscaping company and we have a dumptruck.  Sometimes I steal the dumptruck and put a matress in the back.  We pick-up our dates and go to the drive-in in the back of the dumptruck.  We usually park in the front row to piss off cars behind us.  Afterwards you and your date can get dirty!!!  No pervert, it gets pretty dirty in the back of a dumptruck. 
 - » »Teddy « «
 
 go to a tall building and have balloons, helium filled or not. Write with a ballpoint pen your wishes, then let the balloons go together. 
 - Kristi
 
 Play! 
 - convertpower
 
 Get some use out of your formal wear that's collecting dust in your closet. Wear your prom dress and get your date to wear his tux from his prom. Go out to eat either at a fancy resturant or go to BK(and go play put put afterwards). I live in Alabama but hey, if you live in Utah you can always walk around temple square. 
 - Stefanie
 
 This is mostly for a double date! You and your date take a penny as well as your "tag-alongs" and you go down opposite sides of a street and knock on doors saying "I have a penny. Do you have anything better?" The people with the most money at the end of the street wins and has to buy dinner! Or the Dollar Movie!! 
 - Kevinator
 
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 - james
 
 hello 
 - james
 
 are  there  g  here 
 - james
 
 Watch General Conference together 
 - Cynthia
 
 attend Endowment sessions together. 
 - eternally
 
 hi mom 
 - loser
 
 tape quarters down at a store and watch people try to pick them up.  its funny 
 - matt
 
 If you have a church calling that requires research (e.g teacher), you could help the research. 
 - Cynthia
 
 why not walk dogs together? Take them for a walk or enter them both in the agility trials or join a dog club together? 
 - maria france
 
 Make s'mores over a gas stove 
 - Katie
 
 My sister has a project which requires her to create a 3D example of a maze. She has chosen to do "How to wash a dog" her friends project has been completed but she has no idea how to demonstrate it. This maze is the maze with steps like the ball rolls and hits the switch that releases water on to the dog. Please help out we are getting nowhere with this. THANK YOU!!!You should add on activities that children can use to make 3D mazes. 
 - Tatiauna 
 
 Get a life!  Act like mature single adults!  Half of these suggestions sound like crap ideas for a date...perhaps if I was ten or twelve years old or mentally impaired!

Grow up, go out, enjoy yourselves.  This can be done without being perverts... 
 - sensible
 
 "go to a tall building and have balloons, helium filled or not. Write with a ballpoint pen your wishes, then let the balloons go together. "
 - Kristi

That sounds like great fun.  How long does this last?  5 minutes - 10 minutes...
 
 - sensible
 
 "go to a tall building and have balloons, helium filled or not. Write with a ballpoint pen your wishes, then let the balloons go together. "
 - Kristi

That sounds like great fun.  How long does this last?  5 minutes - 10 minutes...
 
 - sensible
 
 pick strawberries make sure not ntoo many misquitos
 
 - cody Z
 
 bake cookies then door bell ditch members of ur ward leaving a plate of cookies on their steps and run like crazy.. if ur caught u lose!p.s. dress in black to make it mission impossible like 
 - Shantra
 
 get two or more couples and a video camera and make a movie (it might take some good planning beforehand.  Otherwise you just waste time). 
 - Zoity

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