1. Take a walk in a park. Perhaps use a shallow stream as your walkway if the weather is warm.
2. Take a 1 or 2 hour drive through the most undeveloped area you can find.
3. Cook something for the fun of it and enjoy it as part of a meal.
4. Have a small party at your house. Invite your date to the party. Buy some pre-made pizza crusts, pizza or spaghetti sauce, and toppings (sausage, pepperoni, cheese, mushrooms, etc.) Have each person make half of a pizza with whatever toppings they like. Bake the pizzas and enjoy.
5. Visit the zoo.
6. Explore/observe a natural habitat.
7. Go fishing.
8. Play golf, basketball, bowling, pool, tennis or other sport.
9. Go to a flea market.
10. Go to a fair or amusement park.
11. Divide up 40 or more pennies. Take them to a wishing well. Take turns saying a wish and tossing a penny.
12. Rent a small boat and take a cruise.
13. Make a bonfire and roast marshmallows or hot dogs.
14. Go walking in a nearby park.
15. Sit and watch the sun set or rise.
16. Launch a model rocket.
17. Go down the giant slide ride.
18. Throw a frisbee.
19. Check out a bookstore.
20. Enjoy the view from a lookout tower, skyscraper observation area, or scenic lookout.
21. Go canoing.
22. Go for a walk through a woods, along the beach at sunset or through your neighborhood.
23. Have a cookout.
24. Raft ride down a creek.
25. Go shopping at a greenhouse: even better in the winter.
26. Visit a state or national park or forest.
27. Have a picnic at sunrise or any other time.
28. Do a slow tour of a botanical garden.
29. See a planetarium show.
30. Enjoy an overlook view of your city.
31. Wander along following a creek examining whatever catches your interest.
32. Go sightseeing in a nearby town.
33. Find something to do by checking out a local visitors center.
34. Pitch and catch.
35. Visit a museum, art gallery or science center.
36. Write the stories of your lives – Each of you use paper and pen to write one to three pages of whatever seems to best describe your life. After half an hour or so, read each others life story. Then ask each other questions.
37. Write a fictional but plausible life story. Take a digital camera somewhere people are out and about. Take pictures of the people. Each of you take copies of the pictures. In your spare time before the next date, write stories (or just one story) about one or more of the people in the pictures. On the next date for each story, maybe display the picture on a computer screen and read the story aloud.
38. Start a new hobby together – it might last long beyond your first date.
39. Go on a hike in the woods.
40. People watch at the Mall
41. Go explore some not developed Historical Sites.
42. Window shop at the mall.
43. Go to the Art Museum
44. Have a grass fight
45. Volunteer at the library to do storytelling for an hour once a week.
46. Have a water balloon fight.
47. Fly paper airplanes.
48. Make a craft (finger painting, jewelry making, play dough).
49. Play hopscotch in an empty parking lot.
50. Play croquet in the dark using flashlights.
51. Have a nerd contest. Set a five dollar limit and go to a thrift shop. Then go somewhere wearing the outfits you bought on your date.
52. Go to a concert
53. Go to a theatre and watch a play.
54. Check out your favorite childhood books from the library and read them to each other.
55. Go ice blocking (sliding down big hills on a large block of ice).
56. Go fishing
57. Take a drive in a canyon or through a scenic area.
58. Climb trees.
59. Play Charades.
60. Go caroling, even if it isn’t around Christmas.
61. Play board games.
62. Make a home video.
63. Make snow sculptures.
64. Build an igloo or fort.
65. Go ice skating.
66. Play video games together.
67. Make presents for an upcoming birthday or holiday.
68. Play balloon volleyball inside with yarn for a net.
69. Go on a picnic.
70. Go on a prearranged scavenger hunt to the Mall.
71. Go on a Video Scavenger hunt.
72. Play a new sport together.
73. Cook dinner together.
74. Take a drive to look at the Christmas decorations.
77. Play cards
78. Watch a movie together.
79. Go outside and have a snowball fight.
80. Go sleigh riding.
81. Work out or exercise together.
82. Review or create a photo album or scrapbook of your memories together.
83. Work on a remodeling project together.
84. Plan and complete a yard work project together.
85. Do the spring cleaning together
86. Put on old clothes and mud wrestle after some drenching rain.
87. Go to a car dealer and test drive the car of your dreams.
88. Shoot basketball together.
89. Dance together.
90. Go to a mall and have a contest to see which one of you can get the most free samples. 91. Go rollerblading or bike riding.
92. Go to a free outdoor event
93. Lie on a blanket outside and watch the clouds or stars.
94. Watch a fireworks display.
95. Sit by the water somewhere.
96. Have a water balloon fight.
97. Spend an evening just talking with each other. Talk about the things you have done, plans you have for the future, important people in your lives or current events.
98. Take a drive and find the potential in old houses and their properties.
99. Play in the fallen leaves.
100. Paint a picture together