40 Date Night Ideas to Spice It Up

Recently I wrote a blog for Everyday Faith, over at Concordia Publishing House - 

Spicing Up Date Night (check it out here!)

Here I'd like to offer the list of fun and spicy date nights contributed by young and old alike at Sammi and Craig's wedding. See photo of them above... #seriouslyadorable.

So, are you ready to Spice Up your date nights this summer? Dave and I are planning on using at least one of these ideas a month for the coming months. Which ones would you choose? What ideas would you add? 

                  40 DATE NIGHT IDEAS

1. Rent a limo or car just for fun
2. Paintball or laser tag
3. Dance at a country hoedown & eat BBQ
4. Take a mime class together
5. Date night at home
   1. Grill pizzas, it tastes like wood oven pizza
   2. Have a bottle of wine
   3. A good movie or a card game
6. Make homemade ice cream & watch a Disney movie
7. Go to the farmer’s market & cook with your finds
8. Go back to high school
   1. Go out for ice cream
   2. Go putt putting
   3. Go to a PG13 movie
9. Drive In
10. Take a sleigh ride & drink hot cocoa
11. Roll in the hay #literally
12. Muddin with an awesome off-road vehicle
13. Make a dish from a cooking show together
14. Zip line together
15. Do a factory tour, especially any place with samples
16. Try new candy bars and walk them off together
17. Create your own cheese of the month club - buy 3 new and creative cheeses to share together each month...enjoy with wine! 
18. Board games & local microbrews
19. Go to a coffee shop one morning & get a beverage to share
20. Ride a tandem bike & eat ethnic foods
21. Go camping & eat s’mores
22. Explore hiking areas or metroparks
23. Recreate the first date you had together
24. Go to a museum
25. Pottery/painting or stained glass class- create something together!
26. Sushi rolling class, followed by dessert at a restaraunt
27. Breakfast Date
28. Beach day on Lake Huron (or your nearest body of water)
29. Taco Night with homemade sangria
30. Shop for ingredients and build your own creative martini bar
31. Build a birdhouse together
32. Do a progressive dinner, try a few new restaurants
    1. Do one restaurant for appetizers
    2. Another restaurant for a meal
    3. Another restaurant for dessert
    4. Lastly a different restaurant for drinks
33. Go fishing
34. Go for a moonlight (or daytime!) canoe ride
35. Go to the theater & watch a movie with popcorn, candy, and a giant pop! Try doing a double feature.
36. Go to a concert & don’t leave until your feet hurt from dancing
37. Find a magazine with the best restaurant list, see how many you can visit in a year
38. Get some pillows, blankets and snacks for a midnight picnic & watch the stars
39. Get a green screen & take pictures of yourselves in front of it. Then Photoshop really cool stuff in behind you. Like the Eiffel Tower, the sinking of the Titanic, a car crash, or prehistoric dinosaurs
40. Create a Chopped basket for each other and get creative in the kitchen

*photo by Melissa Sue Ripke at http://www.melissasphoto.com/