Cheap Date Ideas, in our opinion, are dates that can be had for under $10.00.
It is possible to find cheap and fun date ideas that are special and won't end up costing you a small fortune. Some of our ideas are even free!
We've come up with a fairly large list of options for you. No, you probably won't like every single one, but that's why there is a list. Pick what you and your date like, and never mind the rest. Those inexpensive date ideas are there for someone else to try.
Attend a trivia night
Blow bubbles
Baby-sit together
Be a counselor for a day camp
Buy a dozen flowers and randomly give them to people. Or, go to the airport and give them to people getting off the plane with no one waiting to greet them
Buy a frozen pizza and a bottle of pop, rent a video and have your date over to watch. Snuggle under a nice cozy blanket, and afterward enjoy a glass of wine together, or go out for a cup of coffee
Climb a tree
Clean out a closet together
Color in a coloring book
Cook together, or...
Cook a meal for your date
Create scavenger hunt for one another
Debate
Do random acts of kindness for others
Draw pictures for each other
Drive around and look at houses in ritzy neighborhoods
Drive around the countryside
Dye your hair
Eat at a fast-food restaurant and order from the dollar menu
Get ice cream or frozen yogurt and feed it to each other
Go biking
Go bowling
Go camping
Go fishing
Go jogging
Go rollerblading
Go sledding
Go swimming
Go to open houses
Go to a park or conservation area for a walk (city, county, or state/provincial parks are all options
Go to a park and watch ducks
Go to garage sales and see what you can buy for under $5.00 that would make a good gift for someone you know
Go to a restaurant and just order appetizers
Go to the Zoo (check prices, this could get expensive!)
Go to the beach
Go to the discount movie theater
Go to McDonald's for breakfast
Go four wheeling if you or someone you know owns one you could borrow
Go on a double date
Fly a kite
Have a water fight
Hiking
Host a game night
Imitate animals and try to guess them
Jump in leaf piles (only good in the fall!)
Look at Christmas lights (only during Christmas, of course!)
Make a cake
Make sock puppets
Make a time capsule
Make a silly video
Paint a mural on your bedroom wall
Picnic; one of our favorite cheap date ideas, we do this every Friday night, "Picnic Night!" Kids love this.
Pick apples at a local orchard, for yourselves or others
Pitch horseshoes
Play board games
Play charades
Play childrens games
Play Frisbee
Play hide and seek
Play basketball
Play baseball
Play miniature golf
Play mud volleyball
Play with play-dough
People-watch (at the mall, downtown, wherever lots of people congregate)
Put a jigsaw puzzle together
Rent a video
Swing on swings; good exercise too!
Stargaze
Tie-dye
Visit a brewery, free alcohol and appetizers!
Visit a coffeehouse and sip cappuccino
Visit a friend
Visit caves
Visit an art museum (some are free all of the time, others on certain days or evenings)
Visit historic sites; inexpensive date idea that is sometimes free!
Visit a winery, if you have any in your area (a favorite cheap date idea!)
Volunteer at a soup kitchen (or other community service)
Walk around the mall
Wash a car
Watch airplanes take off and come in (if you live near an airport)
Watch TV
Write a story together
Write a song together, then record yourselves singing it
Suggestions from our Fun Date Ideas Visitors:
"An idea for a date under $10.00 is to drive out somewhere and have a picnic and watch a movie from a laptop"
~Ashley
"Watch construction crews working. The ultimate guys date"
