Fun Dates

Ideas for Dates:

Try some of the following suggestions for creative dates:

Plan a group date. Have someone drop you off at your first location (such as Burger King). Tell the group you're going cheap, and didn't have rides so you're going to hitch-hike. Be really serious and stick out your thumbs. Pre-arrange for a friend to pick you up, a stranger to everyone else of course. Have that person drop you off at the next location, and hitch again from there, etc. Hitchhiking is against the law in most states, so be careful.
Instead of going out to dinner, set up tables in the living room. Use nice china, crystal, etc., to set them. Bring out serving dishes: Under the turkey pan, have Big Macs. Under the vegetable dish, have French-fries. Pour soda into the goblets, etc. Get a dressed-up friend to serve everything to you.
Pick up your date on a bicycle built for two, without his expecting it.
Have a picnic by a lake. Feed the ducks. Have a rock skipping contest.
Have a big water fight. Get all the kids in the neighborhood involved.
Have an old fashioned taffy pull. Most people have never done it. It's great! Use marshmallows and pinch-and-pull them until they make taffy.
Stay at home. Pop some popcorn, and play games like UNO, Monopoly, Charades, Go Fish, Twister, etc. You all have games hidden in that closet of yours. Go find, and use them.
Go to a historical farm and ride a horse drawn carriage. At the front of most Yellow Pages, you should find places in your community to go on free tours, etc.
Take a tour of your town.
Make cookies at your house and invite more of your friends up for games and food.
Put a Boom-Box in your garage and have friends over for a garage party.
Make dinner at his house and serve his parents.
Plan a surprise dinner in the canyon for another couple. You and your date serve.
Take a midnight hike in the mountains with flashlights. Tell ghost stories around a camp fire. The more people the better.
Have a sunrise breakfast in the mountains or on the beach. Be sure to listen to, and appreciate the sounds of nature.
Play tennis at the local High School after school hours. Try playing at night.
Make homemade ice cream.
Go fishing.
Take your younger brothers and sisters to the zoo or to a children's museum.
Dress formally, take candles, and go to Carls Jr. or Mc Donalds. Have a candlelight dinner at one of their outdoor tables.
Group Date--the guys take the girls blindfolded to the grocery store. Each girl (blindfolded) picks out one or two things. The guys pay for them at the check stand. Take the girls blind folds off in the kitchen back home. The girls have to cook dinner for the guys using whatever they picked out.
Go historic sight hunting. You would be surprised at how many historic sights there are in your area. Once again, check out the Yellow Pages.
Have a picnic in the snow; complete with cheese and crackers.
Make a home movie. Did you ever have to make a movie for film class in school? Do it again. Try, 'A Day In The Life Of Gumby.' Or how about, 'Hacienda Heights 91745?' Who knows, you might even rival 'The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.'
Get on your bikes and go for a ride around town. Tell each other which houses you like best and why.
Color Easter eggs.
Have a costume party. Who cares what month it is. It's fun, so do it.
Have a Backwards party. Try to do everything backwards. Such as, your guests bring the chips and dip. Wear your clothes backwards. Walk backwards. Play games reversing the rules, etc.
Go on a photography date. Each of you has a camera and a roll of film. Take pictures all over the valley. Get them developed at a 1 hour film developing place and compare (the most unusual, funniest, etc.). Put the pictures in a cheap album and keep them forever! Memories are great.
Go fly kites. It's even more fun if you make them first with some newspaper and sticks.
Go on a double date with your parents. You'd be surprised at what good friends they can be!
Go shopping and buy something for each other with a $5.00 limit. See who can get the most for their money.
Have a candlelight dinner in the back of a pick-up truck. Complete with tables and chairs overlooking the city lights at night. The time I did this, the police stopped and talked to us for a few minutes. He seemed delighted that there were some kids that he didn't have to worry about. He was happy to see us having some real fun.
Take a generator, TV and VCR to the mountains. Watch a movie up there. Bring popcorn, and blankets. Once again, there is safety in numbers. Bring your friends.
Play cops and robbers on horseback. No horses? Use your bikes and squirt guns at the local elementary school.
Have a dog wash. Wash the neighborhood dogs.
Go swing at the park. Bring a basketball or Frisbee to play with also.
Race toy cars or trains.
Build Lego cars and have a smash-up-derby in your driveway.
Drop leaves into a gutter with running water and follow them as far as you can.
Make mud pies and have a mud fight. Get as dirty as you can. Hose each other off afterwards.
Play in a fountain.
Go skate-boarding or roller-skating.
Play croquet or golf in the dark with flashlights.
Go river running. Canoeing.
Wash each others cars.
Go Ice blocking or ice sliding. Buy a big block of ice, fold up an old towel and place it on the block of ice, sit on it and slide down a steep grassy hill.
Visit an amusement park or water park. Ask if they give free tours.
Pick any antique and go find as many as you can. Try and find the oldest one around.
Have a banana split making contest.
Visit a rest home and bring treats for the people.
Go visit children in the hospital. Bring treats and books and read to them.
Go to a rest home and talk to the older people sitting in the lobby. I guarantee you will make their day.
Go to breakfast in dinner clothes.
Have a progressive dinner. Go to one house or restaurant for an appetizer, the next place for the main meal. Next, someplace where there is dessert.
Play hide and seek in a department store.
Go to drag or stock car races. Boat races. Jet ski races, etc.
Go to a hotel lobby or department store and watch television.
Go Christmas caroling in August.
Build an igloo.
Go to a rodeo.
Tie a quilt.
Go water or snow skiing.
Visit a ghost town.
Go get a library card and check out a video or some children's books and read to each other.
Have a get-together with some friends. Sit in a circle and talk about each others lives. The one rule you must obey is that you can not talk about anybody who is not in the circle with you unless it's good.
Go to the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in L.A. Ride up and down in the elevators and sit in the rotating lounge for an hour drinking sodas. 402 S. Flower St., L.A. 90071 (213) 624-1000
Go to the Temple Visitor Center and watch videos all day. Walk around the grounds, sit in front of the temple and talk about life and spiritual things. (If someone asks if you want a free tour of the Temple Visitors Center, humor them and take em' up on the offer. Private Joke, right Meredith?)
While waiting for the box office at the Pantages Theater to open so you can get tickets to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, walk along Hollywood Blvd., brows through the stores, step on all the stars and talk. P.S. The Pantages doesn't accept personal checks. Another private joke.
Ride the Metro Rail. Take a day trip to San Diego on the train, or a Harbor cruise at night.
Brows through the Points of Interest section of the Thomas Guide. Find something to do that looks like it would be a lot of fun, AND GO DO IT.

Use your imagination, get permission (parents, property owners, etc.), use good taste & judgment, and have a great time!!!

Asking the person out:

Send him a baby picture of yourself with a poem or note saying that this little baby will cry if he doesn't go to _____ with you. Give him clues as to who the baby is. Tell him the final clue of the babies' name will come tomorrow. The next day, send him a recent picture of yourself.
Send her an invitation for the date written in a different language. Include a list of translators. The invitation could also be delivered by someone in native costume. A girl did this for me and had my best friend deliver it to me. He was disguised so well that I had no idea it was him.
Send him a sweepstakes letter. "Congratulations, you are the lucky winner of a date with ______." (Include the details of the date.)
Bake him a plate of cookies with the invitation baked into one of them saying something like "There's a little cookie who'd love to go out with you."
Replace a message inside a fortune cookie with your invitation. Good Luck!
Have a bouquet of balloons delivered by clown. Message: "I'm not clowning around; I'd like to go to _____ with you." Put the message inside one of the balloons so they have to pop it to get it out.
Buy a small puzzle, put it together and write your message on the back of it. Take it apart and return it to the box to give to them. Or send it to them a piece at a time until they get the whole thing. ("Are you puzzled by who wants to take you to _____ ")
Carefully open a box of Cracker Jacks and replace the prize with your invitation. Reseal the box carefully. ("To go with you to _____ would be better than any prize".)
Send her on a treasure hunt. ("I'll treasure the night you go with me".)
Get a few of your friends who sing well. Have them go into his room early in the morning and wake him up with a serenade. (With the parents permission, and check before you go in of course.) They could even serve him breakfast in bed afterward to lessen the shock.
Get some invisible ink and write your invitation to her. Give her a little private-eye kit to make the ink visible. (A q-tip dipped in lemon juice will give you the invisible ink. Holding the paper very close to a light bulb will make the juice turn light brown so they can read it.)
Write your invitation on a tiny piece of wrapping paper. Wrap it in a tiny box. Wrap that box in a little bigger box, than a larger box, etc., etc., etc. The note could say, "I'd be honored by your 'presents' at _____ with me."
Have your invitation delivered by Federal Express, or by special delivery mail, or registered where they will have to sign for it.
Kidnap her pillow and leave a ransom note. Tell her that she has to go to the dance with you if she ever wants to see her pillow alive again.
If you have a family friend who is a police officer, have them park down the street from your would-be date at a time you know they will be driving. Have the cop pull them over and give them a "citation," -- your invitation to the dance.
Go into their bathroom when they are not home and steam it up real good. Ask them out by writing on the bathroom mirror. Using an anti-fog would be best. The next time they walk out of the shower they will see your invitation right in front of their face.
Hang a banner on an overpass or a big building you know he will drive by. (Get permission first.)
Rent an advertising bus stop bench.
Ask a Disc Jockey of his favorite radio station to ask him for you over the air.
Make a movie note. Go to the movie section of the newspaper and cut out the movies and make a poster or note with them: "The secret of my success" would be to take you to _____. I know it would be kind of a "Blind Date," but I promise not to bring any "Lethal Weapons." Etc.
Make a candy note. Do the same thing as above, but use candy instead. Paste the whole candy (wrapper and all) to a big poster-board with your invitation written on it and have that delivered to them in the middle of class.
Give him a box full of different kinds of balls with a note saying: "If you would go to the _____ 'ball' with me, we would have a bouncing good time.
Fill a small bucket with salt water taffy and put a note on it saying, "I'll cry a bucket of tears if you don't go to the dance with me.
Hide an alarm clock in their room set to go off at 4:00 AM. Put a note on it saying, "Is it to early to ask you to the dance?" You better hope they have a sense of humor. My date didn't, and boy did I hear about it later that day.
Have a letter written in old style on parchment. Roll it in a scroll and tie it with a ribbon. Have someone ride to her house on a horse and deliver it. You can even have a trumpet sound and a "Hear ye, Hear Ye."
Have one of the school counselors call him into his/her office to talk about graduation requirements. Have him/her tell your date that he is not going to graduate unless he takes summer school, etc. Have the counselor give him a note to take home to explain the situation to his parents and to have the parents sign it. Have him read through the note before leaving the office. The letter should say something about poor grades, disruptive, etc., and that he must make up the work and to report to counselor so-and-so (you) on Date at the _____ dance..., you get the idea.
Get a Christmas stocking and fill it with goodies and a poem. For example:
     Twas' the night before Christmas and all through the Heights
     Not a person was sleeping not even Holly Price.
     Piled with homework, every kid in the city
     Was sulking and pouting and feeling self pity.
     For this was the eve of December 3rd
     And the weather outside was surely absurd
     It is for you ma'am that I pity most of all
     Cause this poem is totally off the wall.
     I've tried and I've tried to think of a rhyme,
     But all I've come up with is not very fine.
     So here it is as plain as can be:
     Will you go to the Christmas dance with me?

The Answer to The Asking:

Use any of the ideas in "The Asking," only adjust them to give your answer.
If you can't go, but would like to go with them, go to the grocery store and get a Rain Check Ticket, write your answer on it, give it to the person that asked you and ask for a Rain Check.
Give him a jar of jelly beans, and tell him to count them. Odd means No you can't go, Even means Yes. (Make sure he gets Yes. The person who did this didn't know their little sister ate some of the jelly beans before they could give their date the jar).
Cover a can with those small, craft, goggly eyes. Tell him to figure it out. "Eye Can." (I can.)
Make your answer from dry alphabet noodles. Make a sentence and dye those letters all one color. Dye all the rest of the noodles other colors and put them in a jar. Tell them to sort out the letters to get their answer. (They will have to unscramble them.)
When saying "yes," give him a poem beginning "In the days of old when knights were bold..." Tell him he has to accomplish some feat before you'll go, to prove himself! Example: I'll go if you can beat me at a game of bowling. (if you want to go, make sure he wins.)
After the date: Say thank you with a "thank you" booklet. Have each page decorated with stickers, drawings, etc. and have quotes or phrases referring to parts of the date. The girl who received this "thank you" from a guy, than put a huge banner in his yard that said "Your Welcome!!"