Dates That Rate
Something New, Different, and Creative
- Mission Impossible: When your date comes to the door she
finds a tape recorder and an envelope with your picture in
it. She will hear a taped message: "Good evening, Ms.
___________. The picture you see before you is your date.
Your mission Ms.___________, should you choose to accept it
is to find him." (Elaborate on this) Then send her all over
the neighborhood with clues. Have people in trench coats to
assist in her search. During this time you can be watching
from a safe observation point. When she finally finds you
have a candlelight dinner waiting.
- Six people go to a drive in restaurant. Don't take a car,
but pretend you are in one. Position yourself as if you were
in a car. "Drive into a parking spot and order. Be very
serious. When finished back up and skid out of driveway.
- Pack a lot of people into a small car and go buy one small
drink with lots of straws.
- Go shopping and see who can find the weirdest and cheapest
item for the other person.
- Grab a book-climb a tree and read together.
- Have a whipped cream fight with pressure cans
- Draw pictures of each other
- Have a mud bowl game: play football or soccer in the mud and
go swimming afterward to clean off.
- Go shopping and pretend you are married
- Rent a bus. Meet and board the bus. Drive to another city
and go roller skating. On the return trip, eat dinners made
previously, and have bib making contest.
- Cut out pictures from a magazine to tell your life story, or
make up a story from them.
- "Kidnap" ˙our parents and take them to dinner.
- Go bowling in formal attire.
- Wrap presents for older people and leave them on their
doorsteps; ring the bell and run.
- Play red rover red rover send______________ right over.
- Play five step with a football: kick the ball back and
forth. Each time you catch it move five steps closer to the
other person's goal. When you kick over without your
opponents'catching it you score a point.
- Have a ping-pong tournament.
- Ice Skate
- Ice Block
- Spend an evening at a spa or sports facility.
- Fly kites you made yourselves.
- Go hang gliding.
- Bowl
- Play racquetball or handball.
- Roller Skate/Roller Blade
- Go hot-air ballooning.
- Play "äround the pool table". Several people run around the
table and hit the ball just once; when you miss your out.
- Play frisbee Football
- Play Frisbee Golf.
- Have a Jello Fight.
- Swim
- Take a Boat Trip.
- Scuba Dive
- Canoe
- Sail
- Surf or Body Surf.
- Ride Motorcycles
- Fish
- Play Miniature Golf
- Ride Horses
- Go Mountain Climbing
- Go rock rappelling
- Go on a nature hike
- Go backpacking with several couples. Learn tolerance levels,
interpersonal relationship skills, patience
- Bicycle to a park or canyon and have a picnic
- Have an outdoor dinner and watch oldtime movies outside.
- Have a water fight with hose ballons, squirt guns or in a
pool or stream.
- Picnic in a park
- Miniature golf
- Croquet in someones yard.
- Badminton.
- Ultimate Frisbee
- Softball
- Group games e.g."Pictionary" or "Guesstures"
- Scavenger hunts
- Rent an old Disney Movie
- Dinner for $5.00 at the grocery store.
- Get a group and go to the zoo for a picture scavenger hunt.
- Video scavenger hunts
- Murder Game
- Make Pizza(use English Muffins for individual size pizzas.)
- Make Banana Splits
- Go Country Line Dancing
- Go Ballroom Dancing
- Water Gun Assassination
- Ice Skating
- Barbecues in the yard
- Carnival type games at someone's house
- Costume party
- Progressive dinners
- Fondue Dinners
- Pretend to be a tourist in your own city-visit the travel
bureau for pamphlets and information on where to go. Take
your cameras.
- Play Soccer, or Basketball with crazy rules and handicaps
- Walk railroad tracks
- Walk through the park and try to find the most interesting
stick, stone, leaf, etc.
- Play Childhood at a park i.e. hide and seek, kick the can,
red rover, field hockey, etc...
- Combine various ideas for a personal twist
AND HAVE FUN!