A week away from Valentine’s Day, and many of us find ourselves turning toward hearts and flowers and togetherness.
If your heart is turning but your mind just isn’t quite there, perhaps something on this list may help.
50+ Things to Do Together
- Attend church
- Bake: brownies, cookies, cupcakes – from scratch
- Clean: the attic, basement, closets, drawers, garage, whatever needs it!
- Coffee date
- Cook dinner
- Create your own smoothies or sundaes
- Dance in the kitchen
- Dream: create bucket lists, make vision boards, set goals
- Dress up and go out… or stay in!
- Eat in bed
- Enjoy a picnic
- Get active: play basketball, run a 5K, take a boat ride
- Go bowling
- Go for a drive
- Go to the ball park: major league, minor league, or local high school
- Head to the batting cages
- Hike the mountains or a nearby trail
- Indulge in a chocolate fondue night
- Journey out on a dinner boat or train
- Kiss in the rain
- Learn something new
- Look through old photos
- Make breakfast
- Meander through a flea market
- “Ooh” and “Aah” at a fireworks display
- Paint a room
- Pick fruit: apples, blueberries, strawberries
- Plant: a flower bed, a garden, a tree
- Play an indoor game: Scrabble, Go Fish, Yahtzee
- Play an outdoor game: Cornhole, Croquet, Frisbee
- Play pool
- Play video games
- Read a book
- Research your family genealogy
- Ride bikes
- Savor some popcorn with a movie
- See a play at a local theater
- Sit by the fire
- Spend the night in a local bed and breakfast or hotel
- Spend time in a local park: concerts, movies, swings
- Star gaze
- Stay active: go-cart, ice skate, putt-putt golf
- Stroll around the block or through the nearest shopping mall
- Take a day trip
- Take lessons: cooking, dancing, painting
- Take the scenic route
- Visit: an amusement park, art exhibit, planetarium, the zoo
- Volunteer at a local charity or ministry
- Wander through a local museum
- Watch a sunset (or a sunrise)
- Watch your wedding video
- Work a jigsaw puzzle
Grab an idea and plan some “together” time — on Valentine’s Day, on the following Saturday, or every day of Valentine’s week.
While you are at it, plan some “together” time, ANYTIME. It isn’t just for Valentine’s.
Download the 50+ Things to Do Together list HERE.
12 comments
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Michele Morin
And you even alphabetized them for us!
messymarriage
Love the ideas, Deborah! Pinning to my Dates for Mates board! Thanks for inspiring us to make our marriages a priority!
helloredds
What a great list of things to do together!
We just saw an opera together – for the first time. It was a lot of fun!
Hope you have a blessed day~
Melanie
Lauren Sparks
Great ideas! Visiting you from Deb Wolf’s link up. laurensparks.net
Rebecca Hastings
I love this list. It’s so simple, yet somehow we make it so complicated! Grateful we can encourage one another to find things that work in real life!
lifeloveandlittles
Eating in bed, that sounds like a plan! Great list!
Deborah
Thank you for the”chuckle” this morning ????. You know the alphabet just draws me in!!
Deborah
Thank you for sharing!
Deborah
Thank you for stopping by and for sharing today, Melanie! An opera, huh? That’s one we haven’t done yet, but I do love trying new things together!!!!
Deborah
Rebecca, I’m so glad you stopped by today. Thank you for the encouragement. You are right, this is what life is all about!
Deborah
lifeloveandlittles, I like the way you think! Thanks for visiting today. Enjoy your breakfast in bed!