We are experiencing a new-normal and want to provide some fun ways to help your marriage and family thrive. These current days seem like they carry worry, fear, and stress with them. Those emotions and feelings often carry over into our home life. You most likely are finidng yourselves spending more time together in this season. We can either let life-circumstances discourage us or we can ask God to help us thrive!
Let’s take the opportunity to discover something new about our spouses. Below you will find some suggestions for date nights at home. Just try one of them. Don’t expect your spouse to take the lead, show up and try one out tonight, tomorrow, or over the weekend. We would love to know how it goes! Tag us in a photo over on instagram @capitalculture.
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From Mad Libs before dinner, to Would You Rather during dinner, followed up by Cranium for dessert, this fund download will keep you laughing and engaged all night!
10 DATE NIGHT IDEAS
1- Have an at-home ice cream bar with a movie. Go all out on the topping selection!
2- Exchange pedicures with each other. Break out some foot scrub, moisturizing lotion and some nail polish. Give your best at home pedicure experience!
3- Play a Board Game together. Click here for a list of 20 2-player games for a date night.
4- Blind taste testing. Have one of you wear a blindfold, while the other feeds you food you have on hand.
5- Learn a dance routine together. Pick a type of dance you both are up for learning, it could be salsa, hip hop, belly dancing, etc. Then, spend a night learning the moves (think YouTube videos)!
6- Come up with a bucket list together. What things do you want to do in your lifetime? Write them down along with your partner’s goals.
7- Go all out and make an epic pillow fort. Round up all your chairs and sheets to make the most impressive fort you can. After you’ve completed your masterpiece, you can both get comfy inside with a movie and take a photo!
8- Compete against each other in a game of “Chopped”. Ever watch that TV show called Chopped Create your own cooking competition for an at home date night! Find instructions for how to do it here.
9- Watch your Wedding Video and look through Wedding Photos. Grab a stack of post-it notes and write down memories about the pictures to keep with them. Reminisce and laugh over the memories!
10- Have a YouTube scavenger hunt. This at home date idea is easy and fun! The Dating Divas came up with this game, check out all the details here.