A windowsill garden
Buy pots, soil and herb seeds, plant them together and give every plant a name.
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Spring date ideas
26 ideas for a spring date, when everything wakes up after winter and the days keep getting longer. First picnics, trees in bloom, bikes pulled out of the basement and walks you finally don’t need a hat for.
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A windowsill garden
Buy pots, soil and herb seeds, plant them together and give every plant a name.Spring date ideas
Food market
Go to a food market, each buy one thing you have never tasted, and share it.
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.
Sunset from above
Find the highest spot around: a hill, a viewpoint or a car park roof, and watch the sunset with a thermos.
Rollerblades or scooters
Rent rollerblades or scooters and ride along the river. Whoever falls buys the ice cream.
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.
A bike ride for ice cream
Plan a route to the farthest ice cream place you can reach in an hour. Ride back slower.
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 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.
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 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.
Forest cleanup for points
Bring bags and thick gloves and clean up a stretch of your favorite woods or riverbank. Every piece of trash scores a point, and the weirdest find of the day scores five.
A walk under blossoming trees
Magnolias and cherry trees bloom only briefly, so in April, watch for them on every walk. Whoever finds the prettiest tree in bloom nearby invites the other to sit under it at sunset.
The radish race
Sow radishes in two pots, one for each of you. They grow fast, so you will know the winner in a few weeks. Whoever has the slower pot makes the other a buttered radish sandwich.
Opening the bike season
Get the bikes out of storage, pump up the tires and oil the chains. The first ride of the year ends with the season’s first picnic in a meadow or by the water. Whoever has the dustier bike carries the food.
A morning with the birds
In spring, birds sing loudest at dawn. Sit in a park or at the edge of the woods, take a few slow breaths and listen for fifteen minutes. Record one song and look up the singer at home.
🔗 Handy: Breathe togetherDandelion crowns
In May, dandelions bloom so thickly that lawns turn yellow. Sit on the grass, weave each other crowns and wear them all the way home, right through the neighborhood. The sap stains, so wear something dark.
The first coffee outside
Treat the first truly warm day of the year like a holiday. Drop everything and sit at the first café patio that has opened, even if you keep your jackets on.
Five signs of spring
Each of you lists five signs of spring for the other to find, like catkins, crocuses, a stork, a ladybug or the first butterfly. Photograph them, pick nothing. The first to finish a list gets ice cream from the other.
Dinner until dark
When the evenings get longer, have your first outdoor dinner of the year on the balcony or in the yard, sweaters on if needed. One rule: nobody leaves the table before dark, so every week dinner lasts longer.
A green spring dinner
At the market, buy only the first spring vegetables: new potatoes, dill, chives, asparagus, young beet greens. Cook a dinner where every dish is at least a little green, and bake something with rhubarb for dessert.
Easter eggs with a secret sign
Boil eggs in onion skins until they turn rusty brown, then scratch patterns into them with a needle, the old Polish Easter way. Each of you hides a tiny sign on your egg that only the other will get.
An orchard in two seasons
When the apple trees bloom, head out of town and walk down a road past the orchards, among white and pink blossoms. Remember the spot and come back in the fall, when the same trees are full of apples.
Giant soap bubbles
Mix water with dish soap and a pinch of sugar, and make a bubble wand from two sticks and some string. In the park, see who can make the biggest bubble. A still day works best.
A few tips
- In spring the sun can feel warm while the ground is still cold and damp. For a picnic, bring a thick blanket or a camping mat and an extra layer for the evening.
- Blossom season is short, and the trees are at their best for only a few days. When the first flowers appear nearby, don’t put the walk off until next weekend.
- If one of you has a pollen allergy, go for walks after rain, when there is less pollen in the air, and move the date indoors at peak pollen season.
What to do on a spring date?
Spend as much time outdoors as the weather allows: walk among blooming trees, have the first picnic of the season or go for a bike ride out of town. For cooler and rainy days there are museums, indoor markets and cafés.
Where to go on a spring date?
Anywhere you can best see nature waking up: a park, a botanical garden, an arboretum or a riverside. Gardens bloom most in April and May, and many arboretums lie outside the big cities, which makes a good excuse for a short trip.
How should a couple spend majówka, the long May weekend?
With a short trip or a series of small dates close to home. Many Poles head to the mountains and the seaside for majówka, so it gets crowded there and it is best to book a place to stay early. If you stay in town, a quiet morning in the park and a picnic make a great plan.
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.
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