26 Original Date Ideas for Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day has gotten too boring. Candy, flowers, dinner blah blah blah. Break out of the same old with some original date ideas this Valentine’s Day! Here’s 26 that will be a lot more fun than another dinner out:

 

People Watching Bingo

People Watching Bingo

This is a really fun and cheap way to make your date interesting. Print out two bingo cards with things to look for while people watching. Mix it up with mundane things like “Person walking a dog” to stranger stuff like “Nose pick (ew).” Then give each person a pen and mark them as you see them. The winner gets dinner at the restaurant of their choice! Makes a coffee date way more interesting and will spark some fun conversations. You can make your own bingo cards here: http://myfreebingocards.com/

 

Book store scavenger hunt

Bookstore Sacavenger Hunt

A cute idea for all of the book lovers! Create a list of things to look for in the bookstore: books that start with the letter Z, book art that features an elephant, a book you want to be turned into a movie etc. Then each of you take a list and go hunting. Come back together and go through your lists together talking about why you picked the books you did. You’ll both get to learn more about each other and maybe find your next great read.

 

Snapchat hide and seek

Snapchat Hide and Seek

Snapchat isn’t just for sending ugly photos and poorly drawn art. Go to a park and play hide and seek! Snap a picture of where your hiding to your partner and see if they can find you. Make it super hard by only letting the picture last for 1 second! You’ll have so much fun you’ll feel like a kid again.

 

Cook a dinner with only $10 in ingredients

Ingredients

Sometimes the best way to spice up your relationship is with literal spices, in the kitchen. Go to the store with only $10 and pick out ingredients together that you think would make a great meal. Then head to the kitchen and whip it up together. Cooking is a great way to bond and you’ll feel awesome if you make a delicious meal so cheap!

 

Create a fantasy league for Netflix TV show

Cutthroat Kitchen

Finally, a reason to watch all of those terrible cooking show competitions on Netflix. Pick out one of the shows and have each person “draft” a team of the contestants. Then create a point system based on how well they do. Put some money down to make it really interesting. If you’re the couple that gets too competitive though there’s always…

 

Netflix series drinking games

Netflix Portlandia Drinking Game

Pick out a Netflix series you’ll both enjoy and make a drinking game around it. This can make watching The Office for the 6th time waaaaay more interesting.

 

Go to IKEA and design your dream living room

IKEA

Maybe you don’t have $8,000 to drop on a new living room, but you can always pretend that you do! Head to your local IKEA and design your dream room together. Color scheme, furniture, TV, right down to the table decorations. You’ll both discover a lot about each others tastes.

 

Break a world record

Guiness World REcord

There’s tons of world records you can attempt to break at home. From “Most socks put on one foot in one minute” to “Fastest time to place 24 cans in a fridge” you can become a world record holder without too much effort. Explore some of the options here: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/explore-records/challengers-records

 

Make up your own world records – Log them in a book

World Record

If you’re more creative you can come up with your own world records and log them in a book you create. Come up with some fun challenges for you and your partner and see how crazy it can get!

 

Play Nonsense scrabble

Nonsense Scrabble

Just like regular Scrabble except none of the words you play can be in the dictionary! Make it so that you have to define the nonsense words you come up with and them record them in a dictionary for future use.

 

Wine and painting

Wine and Painting

This can be done at a class or at home. For the DIY version go to your local art supply and get canvases. Then grab a bottle of wine and paint something. You could paint portraits of each other, your backyard or whatever comes to your imagination. When it becomes too abstract (crappy) just blame it on the wine!

 

YouTube latte art tutorials

Youtube Latte Art Tutorial

Thanks to YouTube you can make caffeinated concoctions as good as that hipster barista at your local coffee shop. If you have an espresso machine already then great! Otherwise you can use an AeroPress or strongly brewed coffee to mimic espresso. Steam up some milk and try to make some cool designs. If you get good enough maybe consider opening up your own coffee shop.

 

Look up Instagrams from your city and take a picture where they were taken

Pixifly

When it comes to searching by location Instagram is pretty clunky. Luckily there’s the Pixifly app that will allow you to search locations and see photos taken around there recently. Download it and see what photos were taken near you recently. If there are some cool ones why not go there and recreate the photo for yourself! If your neighborhood is lacking in interesting pictures don’t worry, you can search a different location on the map and see what’s going on there. Definitely a fun way to explore your city and have some new experiences.

 

Go geocaching

Geocaching

Geocaching has been around for a while now but if you still haven’t participated in one of the fun scavenger hunts then try it out this Valentine’s Day! Just go to the website (https://www.geocaching.com/play) find your location and go on a hunt! A really fun way to spend a day.

 

Go to a record store

Record Store

Record stores can be a great place to hang out. Ignite your nostalgia by looking for old albums, compare music tastes with your partner by picking out your favorites or if you don’t have a turn table, pick out cool album art that you can hang on the wall. Radioactive Records in Fort Lauderdale is a great destination if you want to try this out!

 

Learn to make cocktails

Cocktail

Going out for drinks can get expensive quick and it sucks when you pay a lot of money for a drink and it’s not so good. Well if you’ve ever thought to yourself “I can make a better drink than this” then why not give it a try? Go to your local liquor store and pick up some bottles. Then find recipes online and practice dialing them in. You’ll end up with a well stocked bar and some impressive party skills. More fun than going out too!

 

At home wine tasting

At Home Wine Tasting

When you buy wine do you always stick with a tried and true bottle? Branch out a little with an at home wine tasting. Go to a Total Wine and pick out a few different bottles that you’ve never had before. Then go home, taste and rate them blindly! This will show you who has the better palette and allow you to drink some (hopefully) good wine. A fun time and you might just find your new favorite!

 

Go to an international grocery store to make dinner

Asian Grocery

Forget the same old chicken recipes. Go for something exotic by hitting up your local international grocer and getting your dinner ingredients there. You might just find your new favorite meal.

 

Go to a thrift store, buy board games and create your own rules

Chardee MacDennis

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia isn’t exactly well known for inspiring romantic ideas. However There is one great idea that we think can be adapted to make a fun date! CharDee MacDennis is an insane mashup of different games that the crew makes up to entertain themselves on rainy days. While most of the challenges are too twisted, weird and violent for any sane person to play the core principle is still cool. Head to a local thrift shop and pick up a bunch of different board and card games for cheap. Then make up an insane hybrid inspired game by mashing up the rules. A lot of fun and depending on how risque you want to get could be quite interesting 😉

 

Write a ridiculous screenplay

Screenplay

For the creative types this is a fun way to see where each others imaginations will roam. Start by having one person start the screenplay and then hand it off to the other person to keep adding to it a la Exquisite Corpse. Go a paragraph at a time until you have a completely insane collab screenplay. Then if you’re really ambitious you can try to shoot it.

 

Conduct a fake interview with made up personas

Interview

This one is at least partly inspired by the crazy couple that is Parks and Rec’s Andy and April. Create made up personas and then hold a fake interview for a made up job. Then see where it leads…

 

Learn a foreign language together

Duolingo

Have you ever wanted to talk about other people right in front of them? Yes you have and don’t try to lie like you haven’t. Well if you both learn a foreign language you can do that. Of course, with South Florida being such a melting pot that can still be dangerous so if you want to be super safe you can…

 

Make up your own language

Made Up Language

Nobody will be able to figure out what you’re saying this way. Go ahead and talk about that person’s fashion decisions freely. Just be careful with the pointing.

 

Let him do your makeup

Guys do Girlfriend's Makeup

This one always produces hilarious results. Let him do your makeup and explain what he’s doing as he’s doing it. It will be great. One word of advice though, maybe go buy cheap makeup beforehand so he doesn’t ruin your MAC palette.

 

Or do his makeup

Girlfriend does Boyfriend's Makeup

If he’s willing to be so bold and adventurous you can do his makeup. Again, the results will be hilarious.

 

Recreate 90’s TV show intro

Full House

Ah 90’s TV. An era of really corny freeze frame montage intros. Why not recreate one frame by frame together? It will be completely ridiculous and really funny. Raid your wardrobe for some different clothes, grab your iPhone and recreate that Full House intro in all of its glory.

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