Mini Golf - Date Idea #14

Mini-Golfing is the perfect date! It is less expensive than regular golf and is geared towards fun rather than skill. Enjoy this easy sport while walking through a beautiful nature course. Mini-Golf is simple to play and uses very little equipment (you only have to carry around your golf club!) Go on a double date or take a big group! Keep score and trash talk as you make sweet puts or miss by a long shot =) Enjoy a little adventure outside while you talk with your date and hit the ball on the course.

Cost: Low (for club, ball, and pass)

Dress: Casual

Snowshoeing - Date Idea #9

Let's face it, Winter is just absolutely gorgeous and the forest is so beautiful. Combine the two and you get beau-geous (which sounds really bad when you say it but clearly it means very pretty=) Walking in the woods in the cold air and discovering the snow covered landscape is such a wonderful experience. Take pictures, snowball fight, talk together, and enjoy the winter wonderland. 

Get a whole group together to tromp around the forest! Afterwards, warm up at a friend's house and eat some soup, drink some hot cocoa, and play some games!

Cost: Medium (for equipment)

Dress: Warm Layers

Tubing - Date Idea #8

It's like a water slide at a water park, but frozen!!! The thrill of the speed, the drop that scares you, the snow that sprays in your face--this is snow tubing! Snow Tubing is crazy cool...sliding down the slope mixed with the laughter of friends. Any size group can go to have a blast during this cold time of the year. 

Tubing is the winterized water slide! 

Cost: Medium (for equipment and pass)

Dress: Warm Layers

Ice Skating - Date Idea #7

'Skate' to the rink for this super 'cool' date!!! Ice Skating is a time-tested, all-around favorite date of generations. You can't go ice skating without seeing a couple or two whirling around together on the ice. Everyone loves the chance to test their abilities, whether they are hockey/figure skate champions or first-time learners. 

If she hasn't learned yet she will jump at the chance of going with you to the rink. 

Hold hands, fall down, and laugh as you skate on the ice.

Dress: Warm

Cost: Low

Cookie Caroling - Date Idea #3

Get together to spread some holiday joy! Grab a date and other couples that are great cooks (and singers) and bake some treats! Make some cookies, decorate them, and go out to people that need some cheering up. Sing a carol or two and give them a plate of delicious cookies you have made! You will get to taste some of your hard work, sing together, and give some service all in one day! The rewarding experience of helping others and working together will be rewarding!

Bonus Idea: If you aren't musically inclined, take your treats and doorbell ditch.

Dress: Layers (for when you go to deliver the goodies)

Cost: Price of Cookie Ingredients and Frosting

Ginger Bread Houses - Date Idea #2

Ginger Bread Houses! Decorative, fun, creative, festive and delicious. This date idea is a blast!!! It provides a chance to create together something magical. A beautiful masterpiece that tastes SO GOOD!

This activity can be very low cost. Do a potluck! Have everyone bring something to use to decorate (you provide the gingerbread and icing, and they bring the toppings) Take your gingerbread, design your house, and build! After you get the structure, then use the decorations to make it look amazing.

Get together a group of couples and begin celebrating the upcoming holidays! A warm inside activity with laughter and anticipation as you make your Ginger Bread House.

Bonus Idea: Work together as a couple to make a gingerbread house. At the end give out prizes for most creative, best looking, biggest house, etc!

Here are some ideas for gingerbread houses to inspire your own decorating.

Cute Mountain Cabins

'Over the Top' Ginger Bread Castle!!

Dress: Casual

Cost: Gingerbread and Icing