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The Best Date Jar Ideas For the Entire Year: DIY Your Own Date Jar

If you are struggling with coming up with date night ideas and are looking for a super fun and easy way to get date ideas, then look no further!!

In this post, you will find date jar ideas that will help guide you through creating your very own personalized date jar that you can fill with a variety of fun and romantic date ideas to do with your significant other!

There is also a long list of date ideas listed down below for at home dates, going out dates, and dates for every season throughout the year.

So, get ready to transform your date nights with a personalized date jar, or if you are just looking for date ideas, we have got you covered!!

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DIY Date Jar Ideas

How to Make a Date Jar

Supplies needed:

  • Mason jar
  • Cut up pieces of paper or popsicle sticks
  • Markers or paint
  • Amazing date ideas

Making your own date jar is super easy to do!

First, decide whether you want to use popsicle sticks or cut up pieces of paper as the base to write your date ideas on.

Next, you want to come up with some fun date ideas that you know you and your partner would want to do together.

(We have a list of fun and romantic date ideas down below for at home dates, going out dates, and dates for every season throughout the year!)

If you want to get creative and pretty with your date jar, then you could use paint, markers, stickers, or pretty paper.

You can also color code for each date idea category.

For example, at home dates could be the color blue, going out dates could be the color green, fall dates could be the color orange, summer dates could be yellow, and so on.

Once you finish making the popsicle sticks or pieces of paper, add them to your jar, and your DIY date jar is complete!!!

A date jar filled with paper slips that have date ideas on them.

At Home Date Ideas

1. Take a virtual cooking class together or look one up on Youtube

2. Have a video game competition and play your favorite video games together

3. Build a fort with blankets and pillows and have a cozy night in

4. Have a themed dinner night, such as Italian or Mexican cuisine and desserts

5. Set up an indoor or outdoor picnic with a blanket and basket of your favorite snacks

6. Create your own DIY indoor mini-golf course using household items

7. Have a comedy night by watching a stand up special or a funny movie

8. Practice yoga or meditation together for a relaxing evening

9. Have a candlelit dinner with a bunch of candles and a home cooked meal

10. Have a DIY wine and paint night

11. Have a themed movie night and watch films from a particular genre or decade

12. Have a DIY cocktail or mocktail making night 

Going Out Date Ideas

1. Have some fun at a mini golf course

2. Go boating or kayaking together

3. Attend a trivia night at a local pub or bar

4. Explore a local art gallery

5. Enjoy a romantic dinner on a boat

6. Take a dance class together (ballroom, salsa, swing, etc)

7. Spend a day at the beach

8. Go bowling together

9. Have lunch at a new trendy restaurant

10. Go axe throwing

11. Stay at a bed and breakfast for the weekend

12. Take a pottery class together

Fall Date Ideas

1. Go apple picking together

2. Visit a winery or brewery and enjoy seasonal drinks

3. Attend a local farmers market and pick up fresh food and treats

4. Attend a local fall festival together

5. Take a scenic drive to admire the fall scenery

6. Visit a sunflower field or a flower farm 

7. Try a new fall recipe together like pumpkin soup or apple pie

8. Have a wine and cheese tasting night at home

9. Go on a weekend getaway to a cozy cabin

10. Attend a local Oktoberfest celebration

11. Do a corn maze together

12. Have a DIY fall themed spa night together

Halloween Date Ideas

1. Have a Halloween themed picnic

2. Do a scary board game night

3. Make DIY Halloween decorations together

4. Do a pumpkin carving contest

5. Have a bonfire and make s’mores

6. Have a Halloween themed wine or beer tasting

7. Do an escape room together or with a group of your friends

8. Visit a Halloween themed pop up bar

9. Do a haunted house together

10. Bake Halloween themed treats

11. Have a scary movie marathon night

12. Do a ghost tour

Christmas Date Ideas

1. Create an advent calendar for each other

2. Take a cozy evening walk to see Christmas lights in your neighborhood

3. Have a movie night with classic holiday films

4. Make DIY ornaments together 

5. Have a game night with holiday themed games

6. Recreate both you and your partner’s favorite childhood Christmas traditions

7. Attend a local holiday parade or festival

8. Have a bookstore date where you spend an afternoon picking out books for each other and drinking coffee

9. Build gingerbread houses together

10. Have a romantic dinner at home with candlelight and festive dishes

11. Buy Christmas decor or Christmas treats at Target dressed in your pajamas

12. Go on a winter hike and enjoy the beautiful scenery

Winter Date Ideas

1. Have a winter picnic in the park with blankets and hot chocolate

2.  Have an at home wine and paint night

3. Make a winter themed recipe together

4. Go ice skating at a local rink

5. Visit an aquarium together

6. Plan a winter camping trip

7. Make homemade winter themed cocktails together

8. Set up a stargazing session with blankets

9. Do a winter themed puzzle together with wine

10. Go antique shopping or visit a nearby flea market

11. Relax one cold winter night in a hot bath or a hot tub together

12. Host a New Year’s Eve party either together or with friends and family to countdown to midnight, pop some champagne, and get ready for the New Year

Valentine’s Date Ideas

1. Have a DIY pizza night and make personalized heart shaped pizzas with your favorite toppings

2. Have a sushi night and try making sushi rolls at home together

3. Build legos together

4. DIY matching couple’s hoodies together

5. Have a DIY spa night and relax with homemade face masks, candles, and soothing music

6. DIY chocolate covered strawberries together

7. Have a fondue night with cheese, chocolate, bread, and a variety of sliced meats

8. Visit a local winery or create a wine tasting experience at home

9. Enjoy a relaxing bath with candles and bubbles together 

10. Make a couple’s scrapbook together

11. Go hiking, biking, or try an adventurous activity like zip-lining

12. Meet up for happy hour drinks at a new bar or restaurant

Spring Date Ideas

1. Go berry picking 

2. Make breakfast in bed

3. Try out some new food trucks

4. Have a day road trip by going to a nearby town

5. Go to a vineyard and taste wine together

6. Have a finger food date night

7. Do a DIY project together

8. make easter baskets for each other

9. Visit a botanical garden

10. Go fishing together

11. Start a garden together

12. Attend an outdoor concert

Summer Date Ideas

1.  Enjoy a day at the zoo

2. Have a wings and wine or wings and beer movie date night

3. Go mini golfing together

4. Hike to find a waterfall

5. Go skinny dipping at night

6. Go tubing down a river

7. Make a refreshing summer drink together

8. Play cornhole together

9. Go glamping

10. Do a morning run or a sunset walk together

11. Go on an outdoor picnic date and paint or read together

12. Go happy hour bar hopping

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