Date Jar
This Date Jar will hopefully help you and your significant other make plans for your evenings and weekends without asking, what do you want to do?
Every night when my husband is on his way home from work he calls me and asks “What are our plans tonight?” And I, being the antisocial that I am, don’t typically plan anything so I respond with “I don’t know” or “What do you want to do?” After a couple weeks of the SAME question every night I made a jar of dates and I labeled it, “What are our plans tonight?”
I used cute design scissors and cut out a bunch of strips of different colored paper and wrote every idea I could come up with on them. I wrote down ideas for all the seasons and I tried to make cheap or free dates.
Here are some ideas of what I included in our date jar:
Drive in movie
Do a scavenger hunt
Do something nice for someone
Go to a symphony
Play a video game
Redesign a room
Get ice cream
Corn maze
Build a snowman
“Chopped” dinner, pick food items for the other person to make a meal
Hockey game
Make bread
Mini golf
Go to an open house
Childhood movie marathon
Create a scavenger hunt for the other person
Make dinner together
Go to a special place during our dating days
Go to a store, you each get $5 and have to find as many things for the other person as you can
Swimming
Try a new restaurant
Camp inside
Go paddle boating
State fair
Walk around a park
Picnic in the park
Go to the temple
Make caramel corn
Plan a future vacation to take one day
Go bowling
Family night with parents or siblings
Redbox and junk food
Do a puzzle
Watch a scary movie
Go for a bike ride
Make pizza
Romantic dinner
Make a new recipe
Spa night- do face masks
Go for a drive
Go star gazing
Watch a movie at home you haven’t watched in a long time
Make dinner for someone else
Go to a city 30-40 minutes away and have dinner
Go dancing
Camp in the backyard
Go golfing
Go for a hike
Watch the sun set or rise
Snow ball fight
Water fight
Play paint twister
Get in the car, flip a coin for right or left and get food or a drink where we end up
Ice skating
Go feed the ducks
Go shooting
Browse a farmers market
Take pictures in a photo booth
Go to a restaurant you’ve both been wanting to try
Remake our first date
Get take out
Start a scrapbook
Make a huge breakfast and eat outside
Fondue night
Go get a smoothie
Dress up fancy and go out to dinner
Play a board game
Go to a playground and play basketball, swing on the swings, etc.
Invite friends over
Go hammocking
Indoor picnic
Write each other letters for the other to open at a certain time, such as open when you need to know how much I love you
Write each other a letter for five years from now
Create a time capsule
Make root beer
Make ice cream
Roast marshmallows and make s’mores
Play a card game
Go window shopping
Go on a one day road trip- pack snacks and drinks. Get lost and eat at a local restaurant
Make dessert
Go to temple square
Find a hot spring to go sit in
Have a BBQ
Go to the gym
Go to a movie
Build a fort
Start a new TV series together
Make and decorate cookies
Outdoor concert or local event
This was so easy and fun to make! I hope you love making it too!
