Discover 80+ Fun date ideas
Tired of the same old dinner and movie routine? It's time to inject some excitement and adventure into your dating life! Welcome to "Sparks Fly," where we've curated a sensational list of fun date ideas to ignite laughter, connection, and unforgettable memories.
Whether you're planning an outing with a long-time partner, embarking on a first date, or simply looking to spice up your relationship, our collection of date suggestions offers something for everyone. From offbeat and quirky experiences to outdoor adventures and cultural explorations, we've thoughtfully selected activities that guarantee a great time.
Join us as we explore the world of unconventional dating and discover the joy of creating shared experiences. Say goodbye to the mundane and embrace the extraordinary with our handpicked selection of fun date ideas.
Whether you're an adrenaline junkie, a foodie, or an art aficionado, our suggestions will help you infuse fun and excitement into your dates. So, let's dive in and embark on a journey to create memories that will last a lifetime!
DIY Murder Mystery Night
Create or purchase a murder mystery kit ($20-$50) and play detective at home. Add costumes and themed snacks for extra fun.
Cheese-Making Workshop
Learn to make mozzarella or ricotta cheese. Cost: $50-$75 per person. Bonus: Enjoy your homemade cheese with wine afterward.
Perfume-Making Workshop
Craft custom scents together. Cost: $50-$100 per person, including materials. Take home your signature fragrances as a memento.
Indoor Skydiving
Experience the thrill of skydiving without jumping out of a plane. Cost: $50-$100 per person. A fun and safe introduction to free-fall physics.
Horseback Riding
Go horseback riding together. Lessons or trail rides typically cost around $40-$70 per person.
Aquafitness Class
Try a fun and energetic aquafitness class together. Classes usually cost around $10-$20 per person
Aquarium Visit
Spend a day exploring an aquarium. Entry fees are usually around $15-$25 per person.
Retro Game Night
Dust off old gaming consoles or find emulators for retro games. Compete in classic titles like Mario Kart or Sonic. Costs are minimal if you already own the games.
Ropes Course
Challenge yourselves on an outdoor ropes course. This adventurous date costs around $40-$70 per person.
Birdhouse Building
Build and paint birdhouses together. Kits cost around $20-$40, and you can enjoy this creative project at home.
Escape Room
Work together to solve puzzles and escape from a themed room. This engaging activity typically costs $25-$35 per person.
Axe Throwing
Try your hand at axe throwing at a local facility. It's a fun and challenging activity that costs around $20-$30 per person.
Visit a Cat Café
Enjoy some furry company while sipping coffee at a cat café. This cute and cozy date costs around $10-$15 per person for an hour of cat time, plus any food or drinks. It’s a perfect date for animal lovers.
Ghost Tour
Explore the spooky side of your city with a ghost tour. This intriguing and slightly eerie date costs about $20-$30 per person. Choose a historic area with rich, ghostly legends for the best experience.
Glassblowing Workshop
Create your own glass art pieces in a glassblowing workshop. This unique and artistic experience costs $50-$100 per person. Wear closed-toe shoes and be prepared for a fascinating, hands-on activity.
Trampoline Park
Bounce around and relive your childhood at a trampoline park. This energetic date costs about $15-$25 per person for an hour of jumping. Wear comfortable athletic clothes and be ready for a workout.
Virtual Reality Arcade
Dive into a different world with a virtual reality arcade experience. This immersive adventure costs around $20-$40 per person for an hour of play. Choose games that you can play together for added fun.
Geocaching Adventure
Use GPS coordinates to find hidden "treasures" in your area with a geocaching adventure. It's free or requires a minimal cost for a premium app ($10/year). Bring a small trinket to leave behind and wear comfortable shoes for walking.
Mini Golf Madness
Head to a local mini-golf course for a fun and lighthearted competition. Spice things up with silly challenges for each hole, like putting blindfolded or using unconventional items as clubs (such as a baseball bat, or a broom)
Neighborhood Scavenger Hunt
Create a list of quirky items or landmarks to find around your neighborhood. Set a time limit and race against each other to see who can find them all first. These can be graffiti places, specific plans or flowers or even romantic memories, such as the place of your first kiss.
Art Jamming Session
Visit a local art supply store and pick up some inexpensive supplies ((A canvas and some brushes and colors should costs about 20$). Set up a canvas at home or in a park and spend the afternoon creating art together. No experience necessary—just let your creativity flow!
Mystery Picnic
Prepare a picnic basket with assorted snacks and treats, but keep the location a mystery until you arrive. Make sure to select a place with both sun and shade, and check if the ground is dry enough for a picnic.
Bookstore Bonanza
Spend an evening browsing your local bookstore together. Each pick out a book for the other to read, then enjoy a cozy reading session together with hot beverages like cocoa and coffee. If you want to make it even cozier, get into a small cafe.
Midnight Snack Adventure
Plan a late-night adventure to explore the city's best spots for midnight snacks. Whether it's a 24-hour diner, a food truck hotspot, or a hidden gem known for its late-night eats, indulge in delicious bites under the stars.
Cooking Class with a Twist
Take a cooking class together, but with a unique theme like sushi rolling, pasta making, or chocolate truffle crafting. Learn new culinary skills while bonding over delicious food. Cooking classes go from 30$-100$ depending on location and cousine, you can find something that will fit your budget.
Dessert Tasting Night
Set up a dessert tasting station at home with a variety of sweet treats like chocolates, pastries, and cakes from different bakeries or dessert shops. Rate each dessert and discover your favorites together - you can even do ratings for look, taste and price/quality ratings.
Cocktail Mixology Class
Sign up for a cocktail mixology class and learn how to craft your favorite drinks together. Experiment with unique ingredients and techniques to create custom cocktails that reflect your tastes. The mixology classes go for about 100$ per class.
Mystery Ingredient Cooking Challenge
Pick out a few mystery ingredients from your pantry or local grocery store, and challenge each other to come up with a delicious dish using only those ingredients. Get creative and see what culinary masterpieces you can whip up together!
Music-inspired Treasure Hunt
Each time you find a hidden treasure, perform a spontaneous dance together inspired by the song lyrics you're following, making the hunt even more joyful and lively.
Thrifty Art Challenge
Exchange the items you find at the thrift store and challenge each other to create something unexpected out of them. Maybe a skirt can become a scarf, or leggings can become a headband. The sky is the limit! You can get some crafty ideas from Pinterest.
Poetry Picnic in the Park
Each time you read a poem, try to interpret it in the most dramatic or exaggerated way possible, making the experience entertaining and lively.
Go to an Open Mic Night
Write a short poem or story on the spot and perform it together at the open mic event, embracing the spontaneity and creativity. Open Mic Nights are usually free to enter, you can see if there are any available ones on Facebook or you can google nearby places.
Cultural Costume Date
Attend a cultural event in funny, mismatched costumes or outfits to add a playful twist to the cultural experience. Try to see if there are any events nearby on Facebook or take a look at the events happening soon on Google.
Museum Mystery Date
Turn your museum visit into a mystery adventure, where you make up stories about the exhibits as if they're clues in a detective game.
Silent Movie Night
Host a movie night where you watch classic silent films and provide your own humorous commentary and sound effects.
Art Gallery Scavenger Hunt
Turn your art gallery tour into a fun scavenger hunt by creating a list of quirky things to find in the artworks.
Geological Adventure
Collect interesting rocks and minerals or go fossil hunting at a local nature reserve.
Botanical Garden Exploration
Visit a botanical garden and try to identify as many plant species as you can. Take photos of your favorites.
Glow-in-the-Dark Mini Golf
Try a round of glow-in-the-dark mini golf for a twist on the classic game.
Zoo Date
Visit a zoo or wildlife sanctuary and challenge each other to identify the most animals by their scientific names.
Indoor Rock Climbing
Challenge each other's strength and agility by trying indoor rock climbing at a local gym.
Have a cooking challenge
Have a cooking competition where you both prepare a dish using random ingredients from your kitchen. Then, judge each other's creations.
Plant a graden/herb/plant
If you don't have a garden find a pot and plant a nice plant or herb into it. It will be such a nice reminder to look back to when you planted something together the first time. You can even plant a small tree in the park and get back to it once years go by
Learn a tiktok dance
Yes, it is cringe - but it is also FUN. Make it for the sake of your happiness. Share the video only if you dare!
Create an at-home video
Find a topic/style you both like and create your at-home video. Maybe a cooking video of your favourite recipe or a maybe a cute footage of you to together
Listen to a podcast together
Create some topics you are both interested in, draw from the options and listen to a podcast together. It can be jokes, how-to's, skincare routines or maybe a podcast about your favourite series
Plan a weekend away
Make a list of places you would like to visit for a weekend away, put them in a hat and draw the one you will pick! It can be romantic, adventurous or even scary!
Visit a historical place
Find a historical ruin, castle, slot, ... around your area. Try to speak as you were in those times to make the visit more fun.
Dance like you have never done before
Hit the road and find a dance club that seems really out of your comfort zone. Maybe some line-dancing or R'n'B ?
Build a Lego together
Get a complex lego piece and build it up together from scratch
Play tennis or badminton together
Find a pitch which you can reserve and have an epic tennis or badminton match together. Get your competition on!
Visit the ZOO
Try to find each animal and learn some fun fact about them during your trip there.
Take a paint and sip class
Find a paint and sip class near you, or purchase the ingredients and watch a Bob Ross video together.
Do a pub crawl
Try out some underground bars or hidden pubs and find their most interesting tap beer or cider.
Have a snowman building contest
You can go casual with building a typical snowman, or you can pick a character that you both have to re-create from the snow.
Ice skating
Find an ice rink close to you that is open to the public and bring your partner skating. Try making some figure skating moves - it will definitely make the date fun!
Build a fort
You can finally create your dream fort in the living room. Try to make it extra special with fairy lights, blankets and fluffy pillows. You can also get the TV on and watch a movie from your built fort.
Go to a drive-in movie
Find the closest drive in in your area, bring blankets and snacks.
Go stargazing
Pick two star constellations each before the evening. The one who finds both their constellations first wins!
Make a new dish
Randomly pick a country! Your task will be to make a dish based on the country's cousine.
Play "Know my taste"
Pick a restaurant you had been at before. Both of you should order for the other one. Can you guess what they would like the most?
Have a campfire night
Get some pillows, blankets, smores and play some guitar covers in the background. Coziness guarenteed!
Read to each other
Pick a book with some spicy parts. Start reading to each out and let yourselves live in the moment. Choose books from Ana Huang, Sarah J. Mass or Hannah Grace.
Have a baking contest
Pick a dessert you both have to prepare. Taste them blindfolded - and try to be objective with your feedback
Try couples yoga
If you are afraid to go to class, you can just try it out at home. Let's see how bendy you can get!
Play "lights out"
Pretend the power is out (yes, even the phones). Light some candles and try to focus on each other.
Go get ice cream
Go for at least an hour walk and find the most delicisously looking ice-cream. Simple yet amazing!
Go window shopping
Imagine your are crazy rich! Which items would you like to buy and why? Go window shopping and discuss your dream life!
Be kids in an amusement park
Get the weirdest looking ride for kids (where you are still allowed to sit in) and give it a go!
Play minigolf with your wrong hand
If you are pro minigolf players - start playing with your wrong hand. Laughs are guarenteed - and the score won't even matter anymore. Beginners may play the normal way.
People watch from a cafe
Find one of those cafes that the option to look at people walking by. Discuss who they can be and where they are headed.
Visit a shelter
Find a shelter close to you that allows brining dogs for a walk or playing with them. Prepare for a cuteness overload! Most shelters are happy to have volunteers and will allow you to play with the animals. Make sure to go at a time when they are open.
Watch childhood cartoons
Create a list of your 5 favorite cartoons you watched as a kid. You can even show off one or two episodes. Don't forget to sing the theme song! Was it Donald Duck, Phineas & Ferb or Barbie?
Visit an escape room
A great opportunity to work together and to find out how your partner's mind is wired
Interview each other
Prepare some question beforehand. Use a brush/bootle to be your microphone. You can also film it if you dare!
Play video games
Get your Xbox fired up, or an old PC game you haven't played in ages. Don't forget the snacks! There are plenty of games free online, or you can download games from Steam
Highligt moments
Make a Top 5 moments board based on your favorite memories that happened in the past year together. Either write them down and pin it on a board or save it digitally.
Test hot cocoas
Find at least 3 different hot-cocoa making recipe. Try all of them out and rank them from best to worst! Hot cocoa is super easy to do, as you only need simple ingredients like cocoa and sugar as well as milk. All of the ingredients can be found in a supermarket.
Quiz each other
How well do you know your partner? Find out with some quiz questions you set up about yourselves! You can also download the Trivia Games app, or the Trivia Star app. If you have time and creativity, you can even make up your own questions.
Have a tea-time afternoon
Make a cozy afternoon tea date with biscuits and enjoy each other company. Perfect for a rainy day! Go for some romantic tea types like fruits, chocolate flavoured tea or orange tea.
Attend a comedy show
Try to find a comedy show near you, it can be an open-mic kinda thing or some famous comedian. You choose! You can visit a famous comedian for about 150$ or an up-and-coming entertainer for 30-50$
Take an exercise class
Attend and exercise class together. Write down all options for classes and pick out the winner from the bowl. Exercise classes go from free up to 60$. You can find them on Facebook events, or just check out some gyms around you, maybe your membership already allows it.
