Blanket fort
Build a fort of blankets and pillows, switch off the big light and have dinner inside by fairy lights.
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118 date ideas at home, in town, outdoors and long distance. Draw one, or plan the whole evening in three steps: a warm-up game, the date and three questions to finish.
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Blanket fort
Build a fort of blankets and pillows, switch off the big light and have dinner inside by fairy lights.Ideas for every occasion
Date ideas at home
50 date ideas at home, from a blanket fort to dinner from another country.
50 ideasCheap dates: free and low-cost ideas
105 free or cheap date ideas.
105 ideasWinter date ideas
23 winter date ideas: an ice rink, sledding, a Christmas market, hot springs and warm evenings at home.
23 ideasLong-distance date ideas
34 long-distance date ideas: a synced film, a video call dinner, online games and small everyday rituals.
34 ideasFirst date ideas
35 first date ideas: light, with something to talk about and easy to extend.
35 ideasRainy day date ideas
68 date ideas for when it rains: at home, at the cinema, in a museum and in a café.
68 ideasValentine’s Day
A Valentine’s evening plan, printable bingo and questions.
💘 14.02All ideas
🏠 At home
Dumplings from scratch
Make dumplings from scratch together, each of you inventing a secret filling. At the table, guess whose is whose.
Home cinema with tickets
Draw tickets, make popcorn and pick the film in turns: one of you chooses the genre, the other the title.
A restaurant in your kitchen
One of you cooks, the other is the guest. A handwritten menu, a waiter with a tea towel over one arm, the bill paid in compliments.
Blind tasting
Buy five kinds of chocolate, cheese or fruit and taste them blindfolded. One point for every right guess.
Living room karaoke
Put on karaoke versions of your favourite songs and sing your hearts out. A hairbrush microphone is perfectly fine.
Home spa
Face masks, warm socks, calm music and hand massages in turns. Phones stay in the other room.
🔗 Handy: Breathe togetherMemory night
Scroll your phone photos back to the very beginning and pick three favourites each. Tell each other what happened just before and just after.
36 questions by candlelight
Dim the lights, light a candle and go through 36 Questions for Love. Finish with four minutes of looking into each other’s eyes.
🔗 Handy: 36 Questions for LoveThree-game tournament
Three games, three rounds and a prize for the winner agreed in advance. For example Ludo, Categories and a deck of cards.
🔗 Handy: CategoriesPicnic on the floor
Lay a blanket in the middle of the room, make sandwiches and fruit, and play forest sounds in the background.
Dinner from another country
Draw a country at random, find one simple dish and some music from there. A bonus point for a few words of that language at the table.
Speed portraits
Sit facing each other and draw each other in two minutes. Then in one. Then with your eyes closed.
A shared bucket list
Write a list of 20 things you want to do one day. From small ones for this month to big ones for a lifetime.
Time capsule
Write letters to yourselves a year from now, add a ticket, a photo and a small thing from today. Seal the box and write the opening date on it.
An online dance lesson
Pick a dance neither of you knows and learn the basic step from a video. Salsa, swing or waltz.
Baking almost without a recipe
Bake a cake or cookies and look at the recipe only once. Intuition and laughter do the rest.
Horoscope and tea
Make tea, check your couple horoscope for today and talk about what it got right and where the stars overdid it.
🔗 Handy: Couple horoscope for todayA puzzle and a podcast
Spread out a 500-piece puzzle and play a podcast or audiobook in the background. The conversation comes by itself.
A two-cocktail bar
Each of you invents one cocktail or alcohol-free drink and names it after the other. A tasting with marks from 1 to 10.
Breakfast in bed
One of you gets up earlier and makes breakfast in bed, and next weekend you swap. Crumbs are part of the plan.
Pilot night
Pick a series neither of you has seen and watch only the first episode. Then vote: do we keep going?
Treasures from the drawer
Dig out old keepsakes: tickets, letters, childhood photos. Every item is a story the other might not know yet.
A windowsill garden
Buy pots, soil and herb seeds, plant them together and give every plant a name.
Open-when notes
Write each other three notes labelled: open when you feel sad, when you miss me, when you have a bad day.
The quiz about you
Prepare ten questions about yourselves each and see who knows whom better. Whoever loses makes the tea.
🔗 Handy: How Well Do You Know Me?The playlist of your story
Make a playlist together: one song for every important moment, from the first message until today.
Candles on a regular Tuesday
No occasion and no big cooking. An ordinary dinner, but with candles, a tablecloth and phones in a drawer.
Four secret ingredients
Each of you secretly picks two ingredients at the shop. Dinner is made from those four things plus whatever is at home.
Would You Rather over dinner
Play Would You Rather while you eat. Reveal your picks on three, and every difference is a topic for a longer chat.
🔗 Handy: Would You Rather?Screen-free evening
Switch off every screen and the big light for the evening. Candles, board games and talking stay.
Five minutes of breathing together
Sit back to back and breathe in one rhythm for five minutes. The first minute feels odd, then it gets very soothing.
🔗 Handy: Breathe togetherA test and a talk
Take the Love Styles test separately, then compare results over tea. The differences are the interesting part.
🔗 Handy: Love Styles testA clay gift
Buy air-dry clay and make each other a gift. However it turns out, it stays on the shelf.
Role swap evening
Swap your everyday roles: whoever usually cooks picks the film, and whoever usually cleans gets to rest this time.
A language for one evening
Choose a language neither of you speaks and learn 20 words. In the evening, talk using only those.
A comic about you
Draw a comic about your first meeting together. Four panels, speech bubbles are mandatory, talent is not.
A song about you
Write a verse about yourselves to a melody you know well. Recording it as a keepsake is mandatory.
Fridge poetry
Buy word magnets or cut words out of magazines and make each other poems on the fridge.
A short phone film
Shoot a three-minute film: a script on paper, roles, props from home. The premiere is in the evening, with popcorn.
Massage night
Oil, a towel and one rule: each of you gets fifteen minutes of massage, unhurried and with no talk about work.
Bubble bath and a playlist
Hot water, lots of bubbles, a favourite playlist and a mug of something warm. The rest of the world can wait.
Letters on paper
Write each other real letters, with a pen, on paper, and post them. Even if you live together.
Gratitude meditation
Ten minutes, two cushions and a short meditation for couples. At the end, one sentence each: what I am grateful for today.
🔗 Handy: Couple meditationKitchen dance
Leave the dishes, put on one song and dance in the kitchen. Three minutes that change the whole evening.
Dream trip planning
Pick a dream country and plan the route day by day, as if the trip were next month. Who knows, maybe it will be.
Dice date
Write down six date ideas, number them and roll a dice. The result is sacred.
Gingerbread portraits
Bake gingerbread and decorate it with icing portraits of each other. The artist eats the ugliest one.
Cocoa and plans for next year
A mug of cocoa and one sheet of paper: three things you want to do together next year. The sheet goes on the fridge.
One-director marathon
Pick a director and watch three of their films in a row, with breaks for food and for rankings.
🏙️ In town
Tourists in your own city
Explore your city like tourists: a guidebook, photos at the monuments and lunch at the place you always walk past.
Random stop
Get on the first bus or tram and get off at a stop chosen by a dice roll. Find a coffee there.
Food market
Go to a food market, each buy one thing you have never tasted, and share it.
A museum mission
In a museum, each of you looks for the piece that most resembles the other. Then a presentation with reasons.
Mystery screening
Go to the cinema for a film you know nothing about. No trailers, no reviews, just the title.
Bowling for dessert
Bowling, pool or mini golf, with dessert after the game at stake. Whoever loses pays, no arguing.
Ice rink and hot chocolate
Laps on the ice, holding hands for safety and hot chocolate to warm up.
A book for each other
In a second-hand bookshop, each of you picks a book for the other, for 20 zł at most. Swap them over coffee.
A themed photo walk
Pick a theme, like red doors or cats in windows, and hunt for photos for an hour. Choose the best one in the evening.
Café ranking
Visit three cafés in one afternoon and score them: coffee, cake, atmosphere. The winner becomes your café.
A one-night workshop
Sign up for a one-off workshop: pottery, sushi, candles or dance. New things are easier to learn together.
Escape room
An escape room is a quick teamwork test: who leads, who searches, who gets the idea first. Debrief over dinner.
A blind gig
A small gig in a club or café, by a band you don’t know. Best if you buy the tickets without listening to a single song first.
A board game café
Many cities have board game cafés. Pick a game you don’t know and ask the staff to explain the rules.
A three-stop dinner
Starter in one place, main course in another, dessert in a third. The walk between them is part of the dinner.
A library date
Each of you picks a book for yourself and one for the other, then an hour of reading side by side.
Ten-zloty gifts
Split up at a mall or market for half an hour. Each of you buys the other a gift for 10 zł at most.
Go-karts
Short, loud and full of adrenaline. Swap stories after the race and book the rematch.
A planetarium night
A sky show at a planetarium or an observatory. Then a walk to find the Big Dipper in the real sky.
Takeaway coffee and a walk
The simplest first date: coffee to go and a walk. Easy to extend and easy to end.
Two scoops, two new flavours
Each of you orders a flavour you have never tried and gives the other half.
A flea market
A flea market is a treasure trove of topics: every object is a question, a story or a joke. The limit is one thing to buy each.
A Christmas market
A Christmas market, mulled wine or hot cider in a mug and one ornament that will remind you of this evening every year.
Hot springs in midwinter
Thermal baths or a pool with a hot tub while it is freezing outside. Warm water, steam and cold air all around.
Back to where it started
Go back to where your first date was and order the same as then, if you can remember.
A yes afternoon
For one afternoon you only say yes to each other’s suggestions, within reason and budget.
Rollerblades or scooters
Rent rollerblades or scooters and ride along the river. Whoever falls buys the ice cream.
🌳 Outdoors
Sunset from above
Find the highest spot around: a hill, a viewpoint or a car park roof, and watch the sunset with a thermos.
A surprise picnic
Each of you brings one secret thing to the picnic: a snack, a game or something to read. The reveal happens on the blanket.
Sunrise
Get up before dawn, take a thermos and a blanket and watch the world get light. Breakfast right after tastes better.
A bike ride for ice cream
Plan a route to the farthest ice cream place you can reach in an hour. Ride back slower.
Stargazing
On a clear night, drive out of town, lay out a blanket and count shooting stars. August has the most.
A phone-free walk
An hour in the woods or a park, phones silenced at the bottom of a backpack. Whoever spots something unusual first picks dinner.
A two-person kayak
A kayak trip is a communication exercise: who steers, who paddles, who apologises for the splashing.
A peak with a view
Pick a short trail with a view at the end. At the top, each of you names one thing you are grateful for.
A campfire and stories
A campfire, roasting sticks and three stories by the fire: the scariest, the funniest and the most embarrassing.
Sledding like kids
Find a hill, borrow a sled and ride until your noses freeze. Then hot tea with raspberry syrup.
A snowman with character
Build a snowman that looks like one of you. A photo is mandatory, and so is a caption.
Geocaching
Get a geocaching app and find three hidden caches nearby. A real treasure hunt.
A botanical garden
A walk among the plants with one task: find the plant that has the other’s personality.
A day by the water
A lake, a river or the sea, a blanket, books and nothing to do. The best dates are sometimes about nothing at all.
Mushroom picking
A basket, wellies and the forest in the morning. Whoever finds more doesn’t clean them. Only pick the mushrooms you know well.
An autumn walk with a thermos
Ginger tea in a thermos, chestnuts in your pockets and a walk through the prettiest park around.
The sea off-season
In winter the beach is empty and beautiful. A walk along the shore, fish from a place that is still open and a talk by the sound of the waves.
A train to somewhere new
Buy a day ticket to a town neither of you has visited. The plan only gets made on the platform.
An open-air cinema
In summer many cities have outdoor screenings. A blanket, snacks and a film someone else picked.
Camping at home
Pitch a tent in the garden, on an allotment or even on a balcony and spend the night in it. A torch and stories are mandatory.
A walk in the first snow
Go out as soon as the first snow falls. Footprints on an empty pavement, a snow angel and back home for hot tea.
A first ski lesson
If neither of you skis, book one lesson together. Falls are guaranteed, and so is laughter.
A walk in the rain
Raincoats, wellies and a walk where every puddle is the goal. Then dry socks and something warm.
A shelter dog walk
Many animal shelters welcome people to walk their dogs. An hour with a dog does good for the dog and for you.
A question-for-question walk
On a walk, every answer ends with a new question. Whoever hesitates buys the coffee.
📱 Long distance
A synced movie night
Pick a film, press play at exactly the same second and text each other comments. The popcorn break is shared.
A video call dinner
Cook the same dish from the same recipe, each in your own kitchen, and eat it together on camera.
A puzzle parcel
Send each other parcels with five little things and one riddle. Open them together, on video.
An online game night
Play together online: Ludo, Who’s More Likely or Categories. Whoever loses plans the next date.
🔗 Handy: Who’s More Likely…A walking call
Go for a walk at the same time, each in your own city, and describe to each other what you see as you go.
Countdown to the next visit
Set a shared countdown to your next visit and plan one thing for each day you will have together.
A map of your places
Pin on a shared map every place that reminds you of each other, and one you want to visit together.
Bedtime reading
Choose a book and read it to each other over the phone in turns, a chapter before sleep.
36 questions on video
36 Questions for Love works long distance too: take turns asking, then finish with four minutes of looking into the camera.
🔗 Handy: 36 Questions for LoveA breakfast call before work
Once a week, have breakfast together on video, even if it is just fifteen minutes before you leave.
Truth or Dare on camera
Truths work over the phone as they are, and pick dares that can be done in front of the camera.
🔗 Handy: Truth or DareAn online course together
Sign up for the same free online course, cooking or photography for example, and do the lessons at the same time.
Same photo, two places
For a week, send each other a daily photo on the same theme: the sky, your mug, the view from the window. Make a collage at the end.
The same sky
Step outside at the same time in the evening and find the Moon. Yes, it is the same one.
First Dates questions
Open the First Dates set and take turns asking. Light, funny and without awkward silences.
🔗 Handy: First DatesTwo truths and a lie
Each of you tells three things about yourself, and one of them is made up. A great way to get to know each other and laugh.
🔗 Handy: Two Truths and a LieWhat is the best first date idea?
One that is easy to extend and easy to end: takeaway coffee and a walk, a food market, a museum mission or an escape room. A ready topic helps too, like the questions from the First Dates set.
How do you plan a date that is not boring?
Add one element of play or surprise to an ordinary plan: a museum task, a secret ingredient, a random stop. The evening plan on this page puts together the date, a warm-up game and questions to finish.
Does a good date have to cost money?
No. More than half of the ideas on this page cost nothing, and almost all fit a small budget. Attention matters more than the bill.
A date is just the start
In Liskove a game, a question and a small ritual wait for every evening. After the date there is your shared fox, which grows with every moment together.