Dating Ideas
1 Igloo building contest, have a picnic lunch inside the one that doesn't collapse.
2 Snowmobiling at island park, identify different trees and animals, have a picnic lunch
3 Off-roading, then have a picnic lunch (bring dramamine if the girl gets car sick)
4 Ride quads, then have a picnic lunch
5 Sledding off huge snow piles at alberstons parking lot.
6 Playing at the dunes, sledding, snowball fights, bonfire. frisbee.
7 off roading to the Ice caves, then spelunk. bring headlamp and a change of clothes.
8 Civil defense caves, with or without glowsticks, have a picnic lunch inside.
9 Sing “I love to see the temple” as you walk around the temple
10 Hike “R” mountain to see the sun rise/set (sunrise is better, because you don't have to hike down when it's dark)
11 Hike the Tetons, or any of the surrounding valleys, bring a picnic lunch, and lots of water.
12 Go to Yellowstone, have a photo scavenger hunt for animals, then identify them by their scientific names.
13 Go to Jackson Hole, see the Bar J Wranglers, then eat at Charlies (best burgers in the world)
14 Play Frisbee at the park, then have a picnic lunch
15 Go see a school performance of a play or dance showcase, like EXTRAVADANCE march 5th, 6th, and 7th.
16 Volunteer at the old folks home, read books, paint nails, talk
17 Rock Climbing/Rapeling at Heise, then hit up the Heise hot springs
18 Green Canyon Hot Springs (backflip contest off the diving board)
19 Learn how to longboard
20 Go to the gymnastics center on Wednesdays
Extras, just in case...
Go latin dancing, then go out to mexican food
Make pizza from scratch
Read a Harry Potter book together, then watch the movie, then compare and contrast the two.
Donate plasma together, afterwards drink juice and make cookies.
Go to the mall, get carmel apple cider from starbucks, walk around to try and find the ugliest sweater, in a store, or on a person.
1. Go to Ramierz and drink Horchata.
2. Taste test different brands of rootbeer to find out which is your favorite.
3. Make Pita's
4. Fly Kites
5. Paint with your toes
6. Go see a concert at the Locus
7. Pull a prank on your roomates
8. Introduce each other to new types of music that you enjoy.
9. Go service tracting to people in your ward.
10. Make Bubble Tea
11. Have a tapioca ball war.
12. Play Kickball in the Snow.
13. Go to Texas Roadhouse and try something you have never had before.
14. Go to a concert in IF
15. Tour the Teton Dam Flood Museum
16. Make your own cookie monster dessert
17. Read the comics together.
18. Read the newspaper and then discuss current events.
19. Make cobbler, and tell ghost stories.
20 Make doughnuts.
Go snowmobiling mesa falls
Go shoot guns
Bon fire at dunes
Go fishing
Go bowling dressed up like the 80's
Go hiking
Go ice fishing with hot chocolate
Make a three corse meal together
Do a walk and talk trough the park
Go to the Dam museum
Go to the Dam site
Go swiming
Make a movie together with other dates
Go to a dance
Go shoping
Go for lunch
Go on a horse ride
Go for a walk in the country side
Listen to music
1. throw boulders off of Palasades dam
2. Eat at Jill's Place (st. anthony)
3. Go for a scooter ride
4. Jump off a bridge
5. Go to a intramural flag football game
6. put on some music and dance
7. make a pizza
8. Explore houses being built
9. Play Rummicub
10.Learn/teach how to play guitar
11. go grocery shopping
12. play slap jack
13.go for a run
14. ride go carts
15. build picture frames
16. makea craft
17. go ring shopping:)
18.go to a show on campus
19. make brownies and give them away
20. shovel old peoples drive way
1. Go find the biggest icicles hanging from buildings and try and get them down without breaking
2. Build an ice cave
3. Go sledding down the upper playing fields
4. Have dinner during the evening in one of the big elevators on campus (the Ricks is good).
5. Build a fort in one of the buildings and have a picnic (Rick foyer also good)
6. Play hide-and-go sick in one of the buildings (hinckley)
7. Set up a video scavenger hunt
8. Reverse shopping date (start out with grocery carts full and see who can return all the items in the store the fastest.)
9. Go to Reed's Dairy for ice cream.
10. Buy a cheap kite from Wal-Mart and put it together flying it outside a car as you drive up the parking lots.
11. Buy various nuts, and shell them with a hammer, seeing who can do the cleanest
12. Go catch snowflakes on your tongue
13. Visit a photo booth in the mall
14. Make Valentine cards, using crate paper but cut with your non-dominant hand
15. Go to the Cocoa Bean, and choose the drink the other gets without telling them what it is.
16. Do a 40's date: Suit and Rat-pack hat, polka dot dress
17. Do ice cream sculptures with cartons of icecream
18. Go to a nursing home and play board games with them for and hour or two.
19. Play piano duets (if you play)
20. Feed the ducks at the nature park
$3 Thursdays at the Rex-- Bowling and a Movie
Watch the sunset with a picnic
Cook dinner together
Do finger painting together
Make a music video
Walk up to the temple and talk
Play mini golf
Go on a motorcycle ride
Hike R mountain
Fly kites at the Sand dunes
Find out that person's favorite food and cook it for them
Have a cake decorating contest with another couple
Play board games in the Hinckley building in front of that big window.
Go to the park and make one of those tie fleece blankets together
Have an icebreaker date... Go Ice skating, and make ice cream together
Watch movies together
Go 4 wheeling up to look out point and watch the sunset
River Baseball
Play sports together
Go to school events
1. Go ice climbing and bring some canned oysters
2. Make some Thai food and bring it to gardens with teh movie, "The Bishops' Wife" to play on a projector.
3. Go ice skating and drink vanilla-almond hot chocolate
4. Play sardines with a big group of people
5. Pick your date up, take her to the Gardens underneath a wheeping willow tree where there is a small table all set for dinner or breakfast...with a rose of course, and your frind dressed in a tux holding an umbrella over the tableto act as your waiter. It's awesome, I promise:) This will catch any girls heart:)
6. Go on a sleigh ride with two horses leading the sleigh. While on teh sleigh ride, observe all of the beautiful things around you and comment on them with oneanother.
7. Go on a horse ride at the Live stock center and bring a picnic basket full of fruit and sparkling martinellies.
8. Have a rotating food day. Go to Florences chocolate and let your date choose any candy she would like, and then surprise her with a box of chocolates. After that go to teh cocoa bean cafe and get a delicious cupcake,a nd then go to dinner for appetizers:) YUM. Maybe you can top teh night off with a Jamba Juice, or a Hot chocolate depending on teh season.
9. Go bridge jumping and bring Kool aid ice cubes
10. Go rock jumping and bring a video camera, then make a documentory.
11. Go swing dancing and get all dressed up like your going to a dance.
12. Take a dance lesson together...bring a "getting to know your moves" game:)
13. Go bowling and dress up in vintage, thrift store clothing that you got from D. I. Then keep track of the amount of people that look at you funny.
14. Go running together around Porter park.
15. Play bump at the park and see who wins best out of three. Winner gets to choose what to do next:)
16. Go to Johnny Carinos because that is my favorite restaurant and order the bread pudding. Share it:)
17. Go walk the green belt and feed the fish...tallk about your childhood
18. Go floating down the snake river and take some fishing poles and go fishing while you float. Don't forget the bate...I did that before:(
19. Go to Rigby Lake and go "body floating" down the river..take things to BBQ
20. Go snowboarding at Kelly Canyon and compete at going off of the jumps. Don't forget the gloves.
1. Watch pride and prejudice, the long version.in fifty minute (one VHS tape) segments a night for six days. On the seventh day, watch the new version and compare.
2. each get a mop or a broom and go dancing in the quad with it.
3. invent a new flavor of hot chocolate using spices and other ingredients from your kitchen
4. Stick duct tape to the bottom of your shoes and go sliding on the ice in the parking lots... be sure to strap a pillow to your rear and wear a helmet!
5. Go to the hart pool and ask to use the water aerobics equipment. Take turns being the instructor
6. Create a synchonized swim dance and practice it then perform it for your roommates.
7. play ultimate spoons at the pool, trick is.. the spoons go to the bottom of the pool!
8. color each other pictures and then post them on the fridge and have your roommates judge them.
9. create a new meal, only have your roommateschoose the ingredients
10. Go to the Kirkham and create an interperative dance
11. create a quote calendar for each other
12. have a peanut butter themed meal
13. Do a movie night based off of a theme, you must dress, eat and talk according to the theme
14. Have a readathon. either childrens stories from the DI or a short novel
15. make fridge magnets out of random craft stuff that are a picaso type rendering of each others faces.
16. create a treasure hunt on campus where you have to follow clues and act like secret agents including dressing up.
17. work together to create a stunt, play or dance and then audition for battle of the dance.
18 Go shopping at the DI and the dollar store and throw a random birthday party for each other
19. have a paper airplane contest, include appearance, distance, and ingenuity
20.do each others hair in a new and exciting way. he gets to do her makeup and she gets to pick out his clothes. you can get outfits from the DI
1. Teach boy how to do figure skating tricks
2.Make snow animals
3. Do a Service Scavenger Hunt
4. Paint toys for needy children
5. Make a movie/ music video
6. Attempt to ride tandum bikes
7. Make an iglo
8. Play Settlers of Catan (you learn their stratigies and motives)
9. Make desserts for dinner
10. Learn a trade that each other like
11. Dance to no music under the stars
12. Go star gazing at the Romney
13.Write letters to elderly in the nursing homes
14. Make puppets from paper bags
15. Make Pipe Cleaner Figures
16.Attempt to make snow angels
17. Volunteer to babysit for married couples
18. Go dance with the elderly at the nursing home
19. Play 21 question while drinking hot chocolate with marshmellows
20. Doing random acts of kindness the entire night for other people.
1) Make sand castles at the dunes (in the summer)
2)Paint snow. (mix food coloring with water, can put in waterguns)
3) Dress up as old people and play bingo.
4) Make jello pops
5) Play resturant (good group date)
6) Dress up like cowboys and go to the Dude Ranch Cafe in Malad.
7) Make homemade fortune cookies. Write each other's fortunes!
8) Have a casual dinning night. (eat spaghetti)
9) Learn a dance from High School Musical!
10) Go to the open pool kayaking.
11) Go to the TV museum in Rigby.
12) Go to the air museum in Rexburg.
13) Dress up in 50's clothes and go rollerskating.
14) Make a cardboard chair! (sooo hard!)
15) Build a fort in the living room, roast marshmallows over the stove and pretend like you're camping.
16) Make a kite and fly it!
17) Play kick the can.
18) Go to the mall and people watch.
19) Go play on a playground!
20) Wash a car together!
1. Make a cardboard doghouse and go door to door trying to sell it.
2. Go shop at DI and find the most ridiculous outfit.
3. Attend the weekly Latin dance instruction at 9pm and dance.
4. Build an igloo together.
5. Play a game or two of billiards (teach him/her if they don't know how).
6. Go see the Teton Dam Museum.
7. Plan to see an indoor game dressed in the team colors and paint your faces (Be hardcore, it's funnier if you don't know anyone on the team:).
8. Spray paint and stencil t-shirts.
9. Watch the sunrise from the stadium.
10. Go spanish stadium singing (8:45pm) and have hot chocolate afterwards.
11. Babysit for a young couple so they can have a night out, and play games with the kids.
12. Go golfing in the snow. Set up the holes and play with bright golf balls.
13. Visit the horticulture gardens in the Benson building.
14. Attend a cultural association together.
15. Read "Joyful Noise" by Paul Fleischman; it's a book of poems for two voices, and the poems have an insect theme.
16. Take a trip to the art gallery and have a picnic out on the Spori lawn.
17. Set up an overhead projector and watch a movie in a car.
18. Attend Comic Frenzy.
19.Find a good fishing spot, and fish by the bank with a picnic afterwards.
20. In the fall, go the Haunted Mill.
1.) Watch a Disney movie on mute and make up your own dialogue to the movie.
2.) Put duct tape on the bottom of your shoes and go sledding down a hill with snow on it.
3.) Go horseshoe tossing on the upper fields
4.) Buy glow in the dark stars from Walmart, then make your own constellations on the ceiling that illustrate a memory from your past.
5.) Go out to the sand dunes and jump off the tops of the hills into the snow.
6.) Human Croquet (using hangers as the goals, tie yourself together with your date and kick a soccer ball through the gates).
7.) Paintball sling shot war in canoes.
8.) Have your friends cater a dinner in the middle of a football field.
9.) Go to a racquetball court and play racquetball with bouncy balls.
10.) Fill the back of a pickup truck with water and have a mobile pool party.
11.) Wind surfing (with a tarp) on roller blades.
12.) Paint balloon battle on a group date (guys vs. girls).
13.) Make cookies together and then leave them on random people’s doorsteps.
14.) Using PVC pipes, play blow dart tag using shotgun cartridge replacements.
15.) Try and catch frogs at the nature park.
16.) Eat chili for dinner and then have a gas passing contest later that night.
17.) Go to the park and make mudmasks, then talk about your most embarrassing memory while waiting for it to dry.
18.) Go hiking to the wind caves in Driggs and see how far into the cave you can go without a head lamp.
19.) Paint each other’s toe nails and make them keep it on for at least a week.
20.) Go to the library and find your favorite childhood books and read them together.
1. A picnic in the park and play Frisbee or another sport
2. Play card or board games making up your own rules
3. Watch a movie muted and make own your own dialogue
4. Go for a walk and explore places you haven't been before (don't get lost)
5. Star gazing in the Romney or find someone who has a microscope
6. Make something together (like dinner, snow fort, etc.)
7. Do an act of kindness for others (ex: ding-dong ditch treats/around holidays is better for this activity)
8. Sing a primary/hymn song together on a Sunday afternoon (or stadium singing)
9.Make a story with only one line at a time (each person says one sentence to the story)
10. Service project together (ex: visit the Upper Valley Industries)
11. Have a dinner on a table in the bed of a truck
12. Play a sport together (this could be more of a group date)
13. Go on a scavenger hunt for random items
14. Treasure hunt date (Use a map to find where the dinner and activity will be)
15. Make a splatter painting together (pin up balloons with paint or use paint balls)
16. Both dates bring small items and tell a story of why you have it or it is important
17. Play "Name that Tune" or "Name that Movie" quotes
18. Have a clay contest (making a person, place, or thing)
19. Together mail off letters to your date, friends, bishopric, or family
20. Plan a trip to somewhere neither one of you have been (foreign or in the states)
21. Go on a hike to the local Buttes
22. Learn to play an instrument or new song together
1. go sledding at bear gulch
2.go climbing at sticks and stones
3.go snowshoeing to mesa falls
4.go snowmobiling at island park
5.go slacklining
6.go mountain biking at kelly canyon
7. go snowboarding at jackson pass. (free!!!)
8. eat at big judds and leave nothing on the table