Date Ideas — Free Idea Cards for Couples Online

Walk a route neither of you has taken, no map, no destination.

Cook the strangest thing in the cupboard and rate the result out of ten.

Take the last bus to the end of the line and walk back.

Read to each other from a book neither of you has opened.

Find the highest point you can reach on foot and watch the light change.

Reorganise one room together and put music on loud.

Do the whole evening by candlelight with every screen switched off.

Go to a supermarket and each pick three things the other must eat.

Sit in a busy place and invent the life story of everyone who passes.

Learn one card trick from a video and perform it badly for each other.

Write your bucket lists separately, then swap and steal from each other's.

Take photographs of each other in five completely different places.

Go to a library and each choose a book for the other, no negotiation.

Make a playlist together where you alternate songs and can't skip.

Cook the meal you had on your first date, or the closest you can manage.

Watch the sunrise, then go straight back to bed.

Pick a country and spend the evening only eating and listening to things from there.

Draw each other's portrait in five minutes without looking at the paper.

Walk somewhere at night just to see how different it is.

Build the best blanket fort you can and stay in it all evening.

Book a cooking class for a cuisine neither of you can pronounce.

Do an escape room and find out how you both behave under pressure.

Go to a pottery studio and make something deliberately terrible.

Take a dance lesson for a style you'd never normally try.

Rent bikes and follow a river as far as you can get before turning back.

Book a table at the strangest restaurant within an hour of you.

Go to a comedy club and sit close enough to be picked on.

Do a wine or whisky tasting and pretend to know what you're saying.

Spend a day in a city neither of you has visited and get deliberately lost.

Book a photo session and get pictures of yourselves that aren't from a phone.

Go to a live gig for a band you've never heard of.

Take a boat out on water, however small the boat and the water.

Do a full spa day, phones locked in the car.

Go to a museum after hours if your city does late openings.

Try axe throwing, archery, or something else with a satisfying thud.

Book a night somewhere within two hours of home and treat it like abroad.

Do a food tour of one street: starter, main and dessert at three places.

Go to the theatre for something you'd normally scroll past.

Take a pottery, glass or woodwork workshop and come home with an object.

Go to a rooftop bar, order the most expensive thing, and stay for one drink.