Creative Date Ideas for Utah Valley
Adapted from Brother Goodman and Brother Allen's listwith additions by Ben Larson
last updated 9/4/2018
Outdoor Activities
- Airplane (sky diving)
- Alpine slides / Alpine coaster - Park City Mountain Resort
- Barbeque
- Batting cages
- Beach volleyball at Little Sahara sand dunes
- Bike riding
- Biking
- Build a fort and share favorite kid stories
- Build a tree fort competition
- Bungee jumping
- Camping
- Canoeing
- Capture the flag
- Carriage ride
- Catch fish with hands
- Chalking
- Climb
- Cow tipping
- Cross country skiing
- Dinner on a baseball field
- Do something in the natural surroundings, snowman contest/rake leaves, etc
- Dump
- Fishing
- Fly a kite
- Fly in an airplane, $75 for 1 hour at the
- Football
- Fossil Digging
- Four
- Frisbee and picnic at the park, then play cards or tag
- Frog hunting
- Get in a water fight
- Give $10, $5, or $2 to your date and see what they will do with it
- Go to a parade
- Go to a rodeo
- Go to the top of Key Bank in
- Go up the canyon and paint with water colors
- Golfing
- Have a candle-light dinner on an overpass
- Heber Valley Railroad (Heber Creeper)
- Hike Timpanogos in the snow (moonlight optional)
- Hike
- Hiking in the mountains and roast hotdogs or tin foil dinners, then make s'mores
- Hiking in the snow
- Hogle zoo - take pictures
- Horseback riding
- Hot air balloon ride
- Hot tubbing as the sun is going down
- Ice blocking
- Igloo building
- Kanarraville Falls
- Kayak in a flooded park
- Kayaking in the river
- Lagoon
- Make a cardboard car and go through the drive-thru
- Make boats and float them down the river
- Make sandwiches and punch then drive to the
- Manti Pageant
- Monopoly under a light post
- Motorcycle ride
- Mud wrestling
- Night skiing
- Paintballing
- Park swings
- Parking lot dance
- Photography from the top of the
- Picnic in the median, or on an island in the middle of a river or Deer Creek
- Play bigger or better: Give each couple something small (candy etc ) Give a set time to meet back. Then go out door to door trying to find something bigger or better until time is up
- Play football in the snow
- Play night games
- Play on toys at the park
- Rabbit hunting
- Rafting
- Rake up leaves and jump in them
- Rappelling
- Read a book together in the park with a picnic
- Rent a tandem bike and go for a ride
- Rent a U-haul and have a candlelight dinner in the back. Then attend a drive in movie
- Ride Trax
- Riding horses somewhere
- Road Trips
- Rock Hounding (Hunting)
- Rollerblading on the trail in
- Rope Swing on
- Run through sprinklers
- Shooting the stuffed animals with squirt guns, they are the food in the trees
- Sidewalk Chalk Contest
- Skeet shooting
- Skiing
- Skiing with a picnic backpack
- Sledding
- Sledding at the Sand Dunes
- Sliding Rock
- Snow shoeing
- Snowball fight
- Snowboarding
- Snowmobiling, 4 wheelers (be careful)
- Spelunking
- Sporting Events
- Star Gazing
- State or county fair
- Stinking Springs
- Surfing
- Take a picnic dinner to Sundance and see an outside play
- Take Kids to the Zoo
- Target Shooting
- Tarp on the hill with a running hose (huge slip 'n' slide)
- Thanksgiving Point Farm Country
- Themes: Fiesta, Walt Disney, etc
- Toilet Papering
- Tour the
- Tour the
- 801-852-6780 - ask about tours
- Tracy Aviary
- Trick-or-treating
- Tubing down
- Tubing/sledding
- Tunnel singing –
- Twister on a trampoline
- Video party in the mountains with generator and sheet
- Wakeboarding
- Walk around the temple
- Walk in the Woods
- Wash your cars
- Watch a scary movie in a cornfield
- Watch fireworks
- Watch sunrise or sunset
- Water Skiing
- Young Living Farm
Indoor Activities
- ABC mall game
- All out dress up night (fancy)
- Attend a service ball- Have a dance for handicapped. Dance with each other and the youth
- Baptisms for the dead
- Bowling
- Breakfast and Saturday morning cartoons
- CHARACTER DATE: Get 15 men and 15 women, or as many as you want and pick 15 famous couples For example, Mickey and Minnie Mouse or Hans Solo and Princess Leia, make a list, of the guys for the guys and a list of the girls for the girls. Each person picks who they want to be and on the night of the date show up dressed as that person. You are matched to your date by showing up dressed and finding your match. This means there is no telling who you are until the night of the party. Then you can either go for a night on the town or have your own dinner and party.
- Chuck E. Cheese
- Circus
- Coloring
- Comedy Sportz
- Cook the meals together, not just the girl doing it all
- Cosmic Bowling
- Fat Cats: http://www.fatcatsfun.com/
- Country dancing
- Crash a stake dance
- Decorate a cake blindfolded
- Disco Skating
- Disney on Ice
- Draw each other
- Dress up and go reception hopping
- Dress up in strange clothes then go bowling
- Escape Room
- Feed breakfast to the Salvation Army
- Fill grocery cart & switch with another couple and see who can put everything back first
- Finger Painting
- Fix dinner together and serve it to a needy family
- Formal McDonalds
- Games at the Airport
- Get a lobster from Albertsons look up in a cook book how to cook it
- Get dressed up in formals, and go to a fast food restaurant
- Girls go to DI and buy clothes for the boys. Take them to the boys and have them put them on and then go disco roller skating or movies or dinner
- Go Christmas caroling even though it's not Christmas
- Go hear the Tabernacle Choir on a Thursday night
- Go on a hay ride-or in the winter a sleigh ride. (They are offered at Thanksgiving Point)
- Go see the Joseph Smith movie at the Joseph Smith memorial building
- Go the humane society and give the dogs a bath
- Go to a fireside
- Go to a school play
- Go to an Institute dance
- Go to church meetings, testimony meeting, or general conference together
- Go to Hard Rock Cafe on a crazy night
- Go to high school dance
- Hale Centre Theater
- Handcuff bowling
- Hang Time Trampoline Park
- Have a Mexican fiesta with a piñata and dancing
- Have a picnic on an elevator
- Have to eat dinner with hands tied together, or frost cookies after dinner
- Hide and seek at the airport
- How to Host a Murder Party
- Hypnotist
- Ice capades
- Ice skating at the Peaks
- Instruments - make a song
- Jazz game
- Karaoke
- Karate Kid - Have a friend teach you and your date some karate moves, we watched the Karate Kid I and ate Chinese food
- Kidnap girls in the morning, cook breakfast in P J' S
- Latin Dancing
- Leatherby’s
- Lip sync contest
- Live Clue
- Lowes Xtreme Airsports
- Make a foreign cuisine
- Make a movie - Saturday Night Live
- Make breakfast at night in your pajamas
- Make cookies together and leave them on doorsteps
- Make dinner for girl from where you served your mission.
- Make hand made holiday cards. (take some to a rest home)
- Make ice cream
- Make pizza
- Make-overs
- Stuff Skittles two at a time in your mouth but don’t chew until you get 2 of the same color.
- Movies
- Nickel arcade
- Nickel City Orem - http://www.nickelcityorem.com/
- Nickel Mania Springville - http://nickelmaniagames.com/
- Pictionary
- Picture fashion contest
- Pie eating contest with hands tied together
- Pin the Tail on the Donkey
- Pirates of the
- Planetarium
- Play board games
- Play crazy games like psychiatrist, zoom or the question game
- Play dress up at the mall
- Play in Airport - Pretend Your Friend Just got Home
- Play ping pong
- Play pool
- Play card games, Nertz, Sushi Go!, etc.
- Plays, musicals and concerts
- Princess Bride theme
- Pudding Painting
- Puppet Show
- Raquetball
- RC Willey Hot Dogs
- Read to Kids at the Library
- Rename the utensils and food on the menu
- Rent a limo and go somewhere fun to eat dinner, a park, or your house, anywhere fun
- Rollerblading in the Airport
- Scavenger Hunt in the
- See a Play
- Send guys or girls to the store with $10.00 in quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies to buy a meal they want to eat and then they bring it home and you cook it for them
- Serve Food to the Homeless
- Service - Visit Elderly or a Hospital
- Spontaneously go to Village Inn at 12:30 am
- Sumo wrestling
- Symphony Hall
- Thanksgiving Point Museum of Natural Curiosity
- Theater
- Theme movie – dress up as characters in that movie. For instance, go see Tarzan and dress up as Tarzan and Jane.
- Tie a quilt together
- Tie-hands Cook Dinner
- Tie-hands Eat Dinner
- Tie-legs bowling
- Tie-legs Twister
- Tour the Beehive House
- Tour the USPS sorting facility in
- 800-ASK-USPS - ask about a tour
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- Uno bowling - Take uno cards and assign a different type or way of bowling to each color. (Granny bowl, etc.)
- Visit a local museum
- Volunteer to read to children at the Primary Children's Hospital
- Walleyball
- Watch and play Family Feud
- Wedding Proposals
- Wedding ring\ pretend engagement
Either Indoor or Outdoor Activities
- 3 legged basketball, tied to your date
- Appliance charades
- Babysitting
- Basketball game
- Bummin' in
- Carve pumpkins
- Cops and Robbers
- Cowboys and Indians
- Dancing
- Do a service related activity
- Do activity with each others family or with children
- Do something to show a competitive side, like a snowball fight Dress up as a famous couple for a night
- Dress up in formals and take cool pictures – submit them to iStockPhoto or Dreamstime.
- Easter egg hunt
- For a group date: Give everyone a dollar and go to a store and see who can purchase the most items with one dollar
- Glow- in -the-dark volleyball
- Go Dancing
- Go miniature golfing
- Go somewhere and learn something
- Go swimming
- Go to a haunted house
- Go to DI, buy a couch, buy some clothes, and go do something together
- GROUP DATES
- Have a camera race
- Have a murder mystery date.
- Have a night full of holidays: throughout the night you celebrate holidays. Start out with Cinco de Mayo, have salsa and chips, have Mexican music and play with a piñata. Next comes Christmas, have a nice dinner, sing around the piano. Then it’s Halloween, have costumes for everyone, go trick or treating. Fourth of July comes next, have sparklers and firework End the night with the New Year
- Have an un-birthday. Go to All-a-Dollar, get little presents, then make a cake, enjoy
- Have best pictures contests, doing it scavenger hunt way
- Heart attack someone that you know, (bishop, institute/seminary teacher, etc)
- Hide and seek
- Kidnap date
- Living Planet Aquarium
- Make home videos
- Make stilts and learn how to walk with them
- Make the date a surprise destination. Blind fold your date until you reach it
- Oktoberfest at Snowbird
- Participate in service projects
- People watching
- Picture Scavenger Hunt - Video Scavenger Hunt
- Piñata
- Play cards
- Play games and have spaghetti
- Play games in a big group
- Play volleyball with a glow in the dark ball
- Pretend that you are married or engaged and go car shopping or ring shopping
- Rambo/Commando
- Rappelling
- Read a Book
- Rock climbing
- Sports games
- Spy Date
- Take Surveys
- Take your siblings out with you. See how do they treat them?
- Taking the other person to their comfort zone, clothes/shopping, mechanical shop
- Treasure Hunt
- Watch Jaws in a swimming pool
- Water Volleyball
