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Readers Respond: There's Nothing Like Injecting Some Fun Into A Date
Responses: 11

By Bonny Albo, About.com

From the article: Fun Date Ideas

Set a Limit

Anotehr idea is to take along a small amount of money and see how many things you can do within that limit. This forces both people to be creative and have fun doing it!
—Guest Johanus

Coffee

Go to a coffee house and have a smoothie or coffee.
—Guest Theo

99 red balloons

go to party city, and buy 99 helium balloons and send them to heaven. have a water gun fight. saran wrap and duct tape eachother and see who takes longest to escape.
—Guest Cassidy

Another date idea

My favorite date idea is cooking together! Quite simple, but perfect in my opinion!
—Guest Stefan

Magic Mountain

I stay in northern california and my friend luves in san diego. He flew me out to LA for the weekend. We went to magic mountain, to the beach, and we also went to a lounge. He then flew me back that sunday. That was the best first date of my LIFE!!!
—sexylee87

fun

you can always go to a dinner like a italian restaurant you can have a lot of fun especially with spaghetti
—Guest lee

romantic dinner and movie

have a dinner in your bedroom with the spread all laid out on your bed and it can be even cheap stuff. and then have a movie ready set up in your room so that way you can get kozy under the covers!
—Guest Brittany

Small-Town Dates

If you live in a small town and there's nowhere to go, try some of these: have a paint balloon war like on 10 things i hate about you (wear old clothes and fill up a ton of balloons with paint diluted with water. try boys against girls), Find a tree either in the mountains or someone you know's backyard and decorate it for them with christmas ornaments, try giving each other make-overs then take pictures. you'll laugh at the outcome. take your dates hostage: go to your dates house, have a friend go get them at their door and tell them to turn around. then, blindfold them and lead them out to a van with the seats taken out. drive around in circles so they're lost and then drop them off somewhere that they've never been or someplace close, but in the dark. leave them with instructions on how to get to to a certain spot. When they've finally found you, have dinner made and a warm fire. it's hilarious!
—blondechika

Fake Camp-Out

It works best when it's warm out and when it's later in the evening, but set up a tent in your backyard and set up the sleeping bags and prepare a sort of picnic dinner. Spend the night as if you were camping out, and then the end of the night you just camp out (assuming it's warm enough).
—Guest Marie

chocolate covered bananas

You know a guy's in love with you when he submits to making chocolate covered bananas. If you're looking for a true test to find out if your guy really likes you, invite him over to make bananas. If he says yes, you've got a keeper!
—Guest Joan Silvester

Horror Festival

Horror movie festival. These are very fun if you have one in town.
—Guest Lisa

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