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Lists in General (The 500 Date Idea List)

“Teach your date to…” find something that you can teach your date
A barn dance
A valley-wide treasure hunt
Act like a tourist in your own town
Arm wrestle, thumb wrestle, Indian leg wrestle
Attend a demolition derby
Attend an ice show
Attend the ballet, a symphony concert, the opera, or theater
Attend the circus
Attend the Messiah together
Attend the temple/do baptisms
Baby-sit a relative’s children (Good test for both of you)
Bake cakes. Decorate them blindfolded
Bake cookies and take them to a parking attendant or a ticket seller at a theater
Bake notes into cookies and send them to people
Be clowns in a parade
Bottle fruit
Break a horse
Build a “home” out of cardboard boxes
Build a clubhouse for neighborhood kids
Build a crystal radio
Build a dam in a stream, then swim or wade
Build a model plane or car
Build a raft and use it
Build a rope swing and play on it
Build a snow fort and have a snowball fight
Build a snowman on a park, hospital, or school lawn
Build a tree house
Build snow sculptures at the dorms or institute
Build something together (maybe a last relationship)
Built a float for Homecoming or some other parade
Buy a coloring book and color at an ice cream parlor; have a stranger judge your work
Buy KFC and eat it on the water tower
Buy plain shirts and make each other a shirt for the date
Catch butterflies and start a collection
Catch caterpillars and watch them turn into butterflies
Challenge them to Nintendo games
Change a tire or work on a car together
Change regular tires to snow tires and vice versa
Choose a time-period and dress appropriately for dinner
Choose several hamburger places. Buy one thing from each place and eat at a park
Christmas Caroling party
Clean out his glove compartment (amazing what you can learn about him)
Clean the fridge and eat leftovers
Clean the garage
Climb a hill and watch the sunset
Collect recyclable bottles to buy penny candy
Color Easter Eggs
Color in coloring books
Conduct science experiments (mentos and coke)
Cook for each other’s roommates
Cops and robbers
Count satellites
Cowboys and Indians
Create a homemade band
Create a new food recipe
Cut dolls or snowflakes out of paper, or try origami
Cut out pictures from a magazine. Tell a story with them
Cut out pictures from ads, hide the product and try to guess what is being advertised
Cut up a newspaper and make a story about your date with the pieces
Decorate your date’s room
Design your dream house
Develop film in a darkroom
Discuss current events
Do a scavenger hunt in which you have to get ingredients for your dinner (split up
Do fly-typing
Do homework together
Do Macrame or a string design
Do something together neither one has ever done (5K, marathon)
Do the wash in a Laundromat
Do yard work
Dodge sprinklers on campus
Double with your parents
Draw pictures of each other
Dress up as Mr. and Mrs. Claus and go to the children’s hospital (or just walk up and down the street)
Dress up elegantly and go someplace very inexpensive for dinner
Dress up in pioneer clothes and go for a picnic to a ghost town
Dress up like a gangster and kidnap your date. Take them out for dinner and old movies
Drive out to the desert and spell words with rocks
Drive to another town for dinner
Dry flowers in a microwave and arrange them
Entertain at hospitals or care centers
Exchange white elephant gifts
Explore caves
Fashion show
Feed the birds
Feed the cows together
Figure out some April Fool’s pranks
Find a candy recipe and make it together
Find a place with an echo and have a jam session
Find little unknown restaurants to eat at
Find words in license plates, or find the alphabet in order
Finger-painting. Try it with your toes
Fix a meal for your date and his/her parents
Fix dinner and watch a movie
Fly electronic airplane models
Four squares
Fox and geese
Freeze tag
Frost graham crackers and take them to someone
Gather a load of firewood for you parents or neighbor
Gather pine nuts
Gather rocks and identify them. Also, try polishing them
Get a load of firewood and cut logs for the fireplace
Get a permit and chop down your own Christmas tree
Get several couples and go on a day hike
Give each couple $1 and go buy something for dinner. Regroup and put it all together
Give everyone a church magazine and have them share an article from it
Go arrowhead hunting
Go backpacking
Go bird watching
Go boating
Go bowling
Go bowling until midnight and have breakfast afterwards
Go bug collecting
Go camping with the family
Go canoeing in the moonlight
Go canoeing or sailing
Go Christmas shopping
Go country-swing dancing
Go cross country skiing
Go cycling
Go early to a parade and fix breakfast and play games while you wait
Go fishing
Go for a drive without destination in mind. Stop at places that look interesting
Go for a walk
Go four wheeling or off-roading
Go golf ball hunting
Go grocery shopping
Go horseback riding
Go hot tubbing
Go ice blocking
Go ice fishing
Go ice skating
Go jogging together
Go looking for furniture in furniture stores
Go miniature golfing
Go mountain climbing
Go on a date that you don’t like, but you know they love
Go on a date where you don’t spend more than $1.00
Go on a hayride
Go on a hike and cook dinner
Go on a hike to a local State or National park
Go on a moonlight hike
Go on a moonlight walk
Go on a nature walk. Try to identify flowers
Go on a safari: set up a tent in your front room with all the plants you can find
Go play at a park
Go rappelling
Go rock climbing
Go rollerskating/blading/boarding
Go sand-surfing
Go shopping and buy a cheap surprise for each other
Go shopping for a family member
Go sledding
Go snipe hunting
Go swimming
Go target shooting with a .22
Go through a catalogue and pick items out to learn about each other’s tastes
Go to a bookstore and have them pick out their favorite books by categories (missed childhood memory, future, etc…)
Go to a cemetery at night and talk
Go to a dates house, listen to them practice a musical specialty
Go to a Disney movie in a Disney costume
Go to a drug store and read all the greeting cards. Buy one for her parents
Go to a free concert
Go to a garage or rummage sale or bazaar
Go to a lecture and discuss it
Go to a rodeo
Go to a school play
Go to a stock-car race
Go to a store and fill carts with a variety of stuff. Then regroup and switch baskets. The first team to return the stuff to their proper place wins a prize
Go to a store and play “The Price is Right”. Take turns guessing the prices of items. Prizes for the winner
Go to a wedding reception of a stranger
Go to an arcade
Go to an athletic contest at half time
Go to an institute dance
Go to an old folks dance – remember the foxtrot and the waltz?
Go to church or the Sunday firesides
Go to DI. Give each person $5 to buy an outfit. They wear that the rest of the date
Go to junk stores find something unusual and fix it up
Go to some natural hot springs
Go to the county fair
Go to the dollar theatre
Go to the driving range
Go to the Genealogy Library
Go to the gym
Go to the mall and just walk around
Go to the pool or beach in an old fashioned swimsuit
Go to the supermarket and give each person $1 or $2. Have them buy their favorite food without letting the others see. Take them home to share
Go tree climbing
Go trick or treating for Halloween, Or anytime
Go tubing down a stream
Go tubing in snow
Go waterskiing with a group and have a cookout
Go window shopping
Have a “come as you are” party. Call the couples around the dinner time the night before the dinner. Have them come in what they were wearing
Have a backwards party. Do everything backwards
Have a backyard BBQ and lawn games
Have a BBQ and play games at a park
Have a blindfold dance
Have a bread and milk supper
Have a bubble blowing contest (gum or bubble blow)
Have a cabin party with eats, games, and movies
Have a campfire testimony meeting
Have a cheerleader tryout; make up cheers and routines
Have a Chinese dinner, with chopsticks and fortune cookies. Sit on the floor
Have a corn roast
Have a dinner in a field and eat pork and beans from the can
Have a dinner party. Surprise the boys by “letting” them cook. Provide aprons and recipes
Have a dinner with all the food and decorations the same color
Have a dress-up formal dinner complete with waiters and violins (have your friends help) serve hamburgers
Have a Dutch over cookout
Have a fake date over the phone (great for long distance)
Have a fondue party
Have a formal dinner followed by a Rook tournament
Have a grass fight or a fall leaf fight
Have a group dinner where everyone brings their favorite food. Don’t tell what it is, but a have a rhyme about it. The rhymes are drawn out of a hat. The group guesses what it is. Eat the items in the order they are drawn
Have a gymnastics contest. Take pictures
Have a hat party. Try making your own hats
Have a hobo dinner: cook everything in one pot and eat out of empty tin cans
Have a hula hoop contest
Have a jacks or tiddlywinks tournament
Have a Jell-O fight
Have a kazoo band – a drummer helps
Have a knot tying contest (for knots to tie, look in the Boy Scout handbook)
Have a luau
Have a miniature dinner on doll plates. Cornish game hen, little gelatin molds, birthday candles for a centerpiece, little pies
Have a mixed up dinner, the menu in riddles, food in strange sizes and colors
Have a number’s dinner. Each item is represented by a number on the menu. The food is eaten in the order the numbers are chosen.
Have a paper-airplane contest
Have a party where Santa gives out presents to all
Have a pet show with kids in the neighborhood and award prizes
Have a picnic lunch raffle. Eat with the girl whose lunch you buy
Have a pirate party. Have a treasure map with treasure at the end
Have a pizza decorating contest
Have a popcorn-sculpting contest
Have a pot-luck dinner
Have a progressive dinner going from one room to another. Decorate each room differently
Have a pumpkin carving contest. Display them afterwards
Have a road rally where you switch between navigating and driving the course
Have a Sadie Hawkins dance or party
Have a shoe-shining party
Have a smile contest
Have a squirt-gun fight
Have a star party. Get several telescopes and locate constellations
Have a talent show
Have a tall-tale contest, the winner gets a prize
Have a treasure hunt in a park. End up at a campfire for special goodies
Have a tug-of-war. Try it over a creek
Have a vegetarian party
Have a waffle supper
Have a Western dinner, with beef stew and biscuits. Prepare a mess kit for each guest.
Have an audio or photo scavenger hunt. Have a list of sounds or scenes and send groups out with a recorder or disposable camera (try having a time limit)
Have an Easter Egg hunt
Have an ice cream sculpting contest
Have an international dinner party with RM’s sharing their favorite dishes
Have an outdoor square dance
Have dinner at a hospital snack bar, then visit patients
Have dinner on a card table in a school parking lot
Have tennis tournament (add breakfast for before school/work)
Have your own dance party
Have yourself delivered to your date in a box
Help a farmer take care of his animals
Help a sheepherder sheer his sheep
Help someone rearrange their furniture
Hike to a waterfall and see if you can follow the feeding stream
Hopscotch
Hunt
Hunt for fossils
Hunt for four-leaf clovers. Make wishes
Hunt for night crawlers together
Hunt for wildflowers. Have field guide to identify them
Ice skate
If you date a school teacher, help them grade papers
Invite several couples over. Have them bring their favorite recipe. Prepare them together
Jump rope. Don’t forget the rhymes
Keep a scrapbook or journal or your activities together
Landscape a yard
Learn a new talent or craft at a hobby shop
Learn magic tricks and put on a show for the neighborhood kids
Look at family or childhood pictures
Look in the paper for free events and attend all you can in one day
Make a movie then watch it
Make a spook house for Halloween
Make a terrarium
Make bread
Make candles
Make cookies and deliver them to a widow or a friend having a birthday
Make crafts, or mold clay
Make creations out of dirt or sand
Make donuts
Make holiday decorations
Make holiday decorations and deliver them to a hospital or rest home
Make homemade ice cream
Make jerky out of a deer roast
Make kites and fly them
Make mobiles
Make mud pies
Make pizza
Make posters to advertise an activity at a church or school
Make posters together for an activity one or the other is involved in
Make pottery
Make puppets and put on a show
Make soap sculptures
Make taffy or honey candy. Pull it and eat it
Make tinfoil dinners up the canyon
Make up captions for pictures in family albums
Make up recipes and eat them
Make Valentines
Mow your initials in her lawn
Organize a Sub for Santa. Wrap and deliver the presents together
Organize your junk drawer
Paint a barn door or a house
Paint a room together
Paint addresses on curbs
Paint house trim for a neighbor
Paint-by-number
Pan for gold
Park and listen to the Mystery Theater
Park down town and observe people
Pass out bubblegum on Main Street
Pick a historical figure and learn about them together
Pick and bottle or dry fruit
Pick berries and make jelly
Picnic at your own house
Picture-taking
Plan a pretend trip
Plan a street dance (Permit required)
Plan a weekend together with a huge group of friends
Plant and care for flowers
Plant or harvest a garden
Play “around the ping-pong table”
Play “To Tell the Truth”. Each person passes in five funny but true experiences, the head person picks three people. Each of the three gives his version of the story and the group tries to identify the right one
Play a football game in the snow
Play basketball
play board games with your date’s family
Play broom hockey
Play Charades
Play checkers or chess in the park or on a rock in the mountains
Play computer games
Play five-step with a football. Kick the ball back and forth. Each time you catch it you move five steps closer to the other person’s goal
Play flag football
Play Frisbee football or golf
Play games and pop popcorn with background music
Play Gospel Games on Sunday. Try “Mormon Baseball”
Play handball
Play hide and seek
Play hide and seek, tag, or cops on horseback
Play hockey in a vacant street
Play hole-in-one in the backyard
Play in the sand dunes
Play kick the can
Play marbles
Play Monopoly with another couple
Play mud football or volleyball. Go swimming after to clean off
Play on a trampoline
Play Ping Pong
Play pool
Play racquetball or croquet
Play Red Rover
Play soccer
Play softball
Play tennis at night. Play doubles with others
Play the alphabet game in an art museum with things in the paintings
Play the commercial game
Play the piano and sing together
Play three-legged basketball
Play truth or consequences
Play TV game shows: The Price is Right, Hollywood Squares, Deal or No Deal, Jeopardy, Family Feud
Play ultimate Frisbee
Play ultimate Frisbee
Play volleyball
Play water balloon basketball
Play water balloon volleyball or feather volleyball
Play water basketball
Prepare a Passover feast
Prepare a Sunday School lesson together
Prepare and share a candlelight dinner
Prepare banana splits
Prepare holiday treats and take them to the hospital or care center
Pretend to be an interior decorator and plan the interior of your future home
Pretend you are engaged and go test drive cars, try on rings, and check out apartments
Put notes in helium balloons and set them loose
Put together an ant farm
Puzzles, put one together or make your own
Rake leaves or shovel snow for someone in need
Read a Book of Remembrance together
Read a book together and discuss it
Read a funny children’s book together
Read magazines together at the library
Read the newspaper together. Include the kids section and the comics. Pick your favorite item out of the want ads. Shop for groceries from the ads
Read the scriptures together
Read to a blind person
Read your grandparent’s or other ancestor’s journal
Refinish a desk or other furniture
Repair a bike
Re-shingle a roof
Ride a bicycle built for two
Ride in a horse drawn sleigh
Roast hot dogs and marshmallows
Roast marshmallows on toothpicks over a candle
Roller-skate
Run errands for your parents, take your date
Run, sheep, run
Scrub and wax floors
Send an invitation to a date in balloons-each balloon has a note, but only one has the invitation
Send your date an anonymous reserved seat ticket to some event and when they arrive, sit down next to them
Sew matching shirts
Share mission pictures
Show movies or slides of your childhood days
Show slide or pictures of vacations, or world wide adventures
Sing around a campfire and have smores
Skip stones on a lake
Snowmobile
Spend a survival day in the wilderness
Spend an evening at the gym
Statues
Study together
Style each other’s hair. Put her makeup on for her
Swing at the park
Take a class together
Take a day trip out of state
Take a family member to a ballgame
Take a geology field trip
Take a long ride or walk with your date and several little children
Take a sight-seeing tour of your city
Take a sunrise hike and have breakfast
Take a sunrise hike then have breakfast
Take a survey you have made up or an opinion poll
Take a tractor ride at a farm
Take dance lessons
Take fake wedding pictures and then send them to friends
Take instant pictures of people and give the pictures to them
Take the tram to the top of a ski lift in the summer and hike down
Take them home and share all of your childhood memories with them
Take your date to a game you are playing in
Target shoot
Teach a boy to dance
Teach your date how to drive a stick shift car
Teach your date to knit
Tie a quilt
Tip-toe through the sprinklers
Tour Mountain Meadows
Tour the county jail
Tour the temple grounds
Train a dog
Try a reverse dinner. Dessert first
Try a role reversal – let him clean up the dishes while she relaxes and reads
Try some musical duets
Try to catch a greased pig
Try waffles with lots of different toppings or ingredients
Try walking on stilts
Use your imagination in having dinner in the following places: McDonald’s, mountains or hill, back of a pick-up or car, card table at your school, yacht club, barn, tent, semi-trailer, “deserted island”, golf course, under a waterfall, tree house, snow covered mountain, giant tree, appliance box, empty swimming pool
Usher at a symphony or other civic event
Using a clipboard, go to a fair and act like a judge
Vacuum or dust
Visit a bakery
Visit a cemetery. Look at old names and dates and make up stores about the people
Visit a cemetery. Show your date your family plot
Visit a City Council or school board meeting
Visit a dam on a big river
Visit a humane shelter or an animal hospital (buy a dog or cat if desired)
Visit a milk-processing plant
Visit a newspaper or other printing plant
Visit a police station or a fire station
Visit a rest home. Read or sing to them. Ask them to tell you stories
Visit a sewage-processing plant
Visit a state or national park
Visit a TV, radio or movie studio
Visit a water treatment facility
Visit all the local temples together
Visit children in a hospital and read to them if allowed
Visit historical sights
Visit Indian ruins
Visit lakes and ask the tour guides questions
Visit the Brigham Young home and Jacob Hamblin Home in St. George
Visit the observatory
Visit your date’s Grandparents and take along a tape and ask them to tell you about dating in the good ol’ days
Walk in the rain; jump in the puddles
Walk the canyon trail
Walk through the city and see how many people you can talk to
Walk to an ice cream shop
Wallpaper a bedroom
Wash a car, tune the engine, clean the inside and outside of a car. Have a water fight afterwards
Watch a cultural presentation on TV
Watch clouds and identify shapes
Watch General Conference
Watch passing cars. Each person chooses a color. See who can count the most in their color
Watch people and airplanes at the airport
Watch Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, or Saturday Morning cartoons on TV
Watch TV with a shut-in
Whipping cream or shaving cream fight. Be sure to dress for it (or go to the river and do it there)
Word searches, crossword puzzles, dot-to-dots, etc.
Work on a church welfare project
Work on your personal histories
Work together on a research paper
Wrap presents for older people and leave them on their door step; ring the bell and run
Write a thank you note to your Bishop
Write to missionaries
Write to Santa

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