Dates That Rate
Something New, Different, and Creative

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Pack a lot of people into a small car and go buy one small
    drink with lots of straws.
  4. Go shopping and see who can find the weirdest and cheapest
    item for the other person.
  5. Grab a book-climb a tree and read together.
  6. Have a whipped cream fight with pressure cans
  7. Draw pictures of each other
  8. Have a mud bowl game: play football or soccer in the mud and
    go swimming afterward to clean off.
  9. Go shopping and pretend you are married
  10. 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.
  11. Cut out pictures from a magazine to tell your life story, or
    make up a story from them.
  12. "Kidnap" ˙our parents and take them to dinner.
  13. Go bowling in formal attire.
  14. Wrap presents for older people and leave them on their
    doorsteps; ring the bell and run.
  15. Play red rover red rover send______________ right over.
  16. 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.
  17. Have a ping-pong tournament.
  18. Ice Skate
  19. Ice Block
  20. Spend an evening at a spa or sports facility.
  21. Fly kites you made yourselves.
  22. Go hang gliding.
  23. Bowl
  24. Play racquetball or handball.
  25. Roller Skate/Roller Blade
  26. Go hot-air ballooning.
  27. Play "äround the pool table". Several people run around the
    table and hit the ball just once; when you miss your out.
  28. Play frisbee Football
  29. Play Frisbee Golf.
  30. Have a Jello Fight.
  31. Swim
  32. Take a Boat Trip.
  33. Scuba Dive
  34. Canoe
  35. Sail
  36. Surf or Body Surf.
  37. Ride Motorcycles
  38. Fish
  39. Play Miniature Golf
  40. Ride Horses
  41. Go Mountain Climbing
  42. Go rock rappelling
  43. Go on a nature hike
  44. Go backpacking with several couples. Learn tolerance levels,
    interpersonal relationship skills, patience
  45. Bicycle to a park or canyon and have a picnic
  46. Have an outdoor dinner and watch oldtime movies outside.
  47. Have a water fight with hose ballons, squirt guns or in a
    pool or stream.
  48. Picnic in a park
  49. Miniature golf
  50. Croquet in someones yard.
  51. Badminton.
  52. Ultimate Frisbee
  53. Softball
  54. Group games e.g."Pictionary" or "Guesstures"
  55. Scavenger hunts
  56. Rent an old Disney Movie
  57. Dinner for $5.00 at the grocery store.
  58. Get a group and go to the zoo for a picture scavenger hunt.
  59. Video scavenger hunts
  60. Murder Game
  61. Make Pizza(use English Muffins for individual size pizzas.)
  62. Make Banana Splits
  63. Go Country Line Dancing
  64. Go Ballroom Dancing
  65. Water Gun Assassination
  66. Ice Skating
  67. Barbecues in the yard
  68. Carnival type games at someone's house
  69. Costume party
  70. Progressive dinners
  71. Fondue Dinners
  72. Pretend to be a tourist in your own city-visit the travel
    bureau for pamphlets and information on where to go. Take
    your cameras.
  73. Play Soccer, or Basketball with crazy rules and handicaps
  74. Walk railroad tracks
  75. Walk through the park and try to find the most interesting
    stick, stone, leaf, etc.
  76. Play Childhood at a park i.e. hide and seek, kick the can,
    red rover, field hockey, etc...
  77. Combine various ideas for a personal twist

AND HAVE FUN!