The Ultimate List of Warm Weather Date Nights

There’s something about a light breeze and the sun’s golden rays that makes me want to escape for some time alone with my husband…one of the main reasons we live at the beach!  Yet last summer, on a much-needed break from the kids, we sat in the parking lot of Wal-Mart desperate for something to do together.  We ended up having an impromptu brainstorming and planning session to come up with some fun warm weather date nights before we finally settled on our activity of choice.

However, spending quality time together doesn’t have to be difficult or cost a ton of money.  May this list of creative date nights help you reconnect whether you’re staying at home or having a night on the town.

The Ultimate List of Warm Weather Date Nights

Free or frugal date nights

1. Get a new Christian marriage devotional and read it outside as a couple
2. Go for a hike

3. Mini Skillet Pizookie Date — say whaaat? Just trust us, it’s amazing!

4. Sit by the pool for an afternoon without kids (even if it’s the kiddie pool in your own backyard!)
5. Watch a movie under the stars
6. Have a caramel apple date night
7. Go geocaching
8. Create an outdoor scavenger hunt
9. Take a prayer walk together and cover each room of your house in prayer
10. Use a date night jar to help keep your date nights fresh
11. Go camping
12. Take a “dream home tour” of open houses in your favorite neighborhood
13. Go for an evening stroll without kids and make sure to hold hands
14. Dance under the stars
15. Have a bonfire, make s’mores, and discuss your life
16. Go the park and play on the equipment (no kids allowed!)
17. Cook your favorite summer recipe together or experiment with a new one
18. Visit a local airport and watch the planes take off
19. Window shop and pick out an item that reminds you of your spouse (without actually buying it!)
20. Go on a bike ride
21. Have an ice cream date
22. Grab a bucket of sidewalk chalk and see who can make the best creations
23. Have a water gun fight in your own yard
24. Do your favorite exercise together
25. Watch the sunset
26. Take a drive with the windows rolled down and the music cranked up
27. Visit a local festival
28. Refinish an old piece of furniture together
29. Visit yard sales or thrift stores
30. Go to a free outdoor concert in your local area
31. Head to the mall and people watch
32. Tour a bookstore and browse for new reads together
33. Fly a kite in the park
34. Visit a pet adoption and “window shop”
35. Head to a local farmer’s market
36. Volunteer for a local cause
37. Put together Blessing Bags for the less fortunate and pass them out
38. Train for and run a 5K together
39. Have a picnic in the backyard or a nearby park 
40. Plant a garden
41. Make an outdoor scavenger hunt of fun surprises for each other
42. Have a “compliment day”, where you leave sticky note compliments all over the house for each other

Fun Activities Out on the Town

1. Take a hot air balloon ride
2. Visit the zoo
3. Take a tour of a botanical garden
4. Go skydiving
5. Sail down the river on a local river cruise
6. Take scuba diving lessons
7. Be a tourist in a nearby city or town
8. Take dancing lessons
9. Go ice skating
10. Tackle a home improvement project together
11. Go to an outdoor concert or movie
12. Do an Ancestry DNA Kit and each make a food dish of your predominant ethnicity
13. Recreate your 1st date and try to be as authentic as possible
14. Take a helicopter ride
15. Be creative at a Paint & Sip art studio
16. Go rollerskating
17. Rent a convertible for the night and ride with the top down
18. Play mini-golf
19. Dress up and go to a museum
20. Play laser tag (no kids allowed!)

Whether you stay at home or have an adventure on the town, may the warmer temperatures help you reconnect and have fun as a couple!