100+ At Home Date Night Ideas

Tight finances, new babies, or various health issues can make it hard to head out of the house on a date. Here are 100+ at home date night ideas to help you connect at home!

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We’ve experienced quite a few different phases of marriage. We’ve lived near and far from family, been tight on finances while still finishing school, and have brought home five little babies. Because of this, we’ve had a number of times when we’ve relied on at home date night ideas to stay connected and close.

The next few weeks (months?) surely will mean a lot of family togetherness as we’re all confined to home. But sometimes all that togetherness means the time we do have together isn’t very intentional! Especially if you have kids at home, it might feel impossible to connect before you’re exhausted at the end of the day.

That’s why intentional date nights have become so important for us. Even when we’re in a phase when we can’t leave home – whether because of sheltering in place, a new baby, or tight finances – we try to find time to regularly and purposefully connect. Here are over 100 at home date night ideas you can do right from the comfort of your own home. And most of them are totally FREE!

Happy dating!

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100+ AT HOME DATE NIGHT IDEAS

Learning & Cultural At Home Date Nights

Do a virtual museum visit
Join and discuss with the Next Big Idea Club
Visit a VR World Heritage Site
Read a book together
Watch a documentary
Learn about constellations and go backyard stargazing
Watch a performance online (such as the Met Opera or your favorite band!)
Shop your home bookshelf (or a digital version from your library!) and pick out books for each other to read
Read poems out loud
Have a typing competition
Code together
Make a blanket fort and read books inside
Take a class together
Wikipedia Surprise Me lesson
Watch an online live theater performance
Do or plan out some family service

Travel Dates at Home

Play the Geoguessr game to figure out different sites around the world
Plan your next vacation
Consider your travel bucket list
Round out your travel essentials repertoire
Put together a photo album from a recent trip
Reminisce about your honeymoon and recreate a meal from it
Watch a travel documentary or video (here are a few options)
Make food from a location you have visited or would like like to visit
Learn some phrases in a new language
Learn about the history of a different country
Play a game from another country
Explore a country from home

Connective and Romantic At Home Dates

Write each other letters
Or, better yet, write together in a Love Journal!
Give each other massages and facials
Look through your wedding album
Interview each other about your childhoods
Take a personality test
Do some family history

Artsy & Creative At Home Date Night Ideas

Use paint markers to decorate mugs
Do a home decoration or renovation project
Create photo or sketch portraits of each other
Learn how to knit
Do watercolor paintings
Watch a drawing tutorial online
Take a lettering course
Pot some indoor (or backyard) plants
Sing songs or play instruments
Watch the Great British Bake Off and replicate one of their creations
Make homemade paper and write letters to loved ones
Color in an adult coloring book together
Make something out of modeling clay
Do some home organization or hang some artwork
Make different playlists – work out, driving to the beach, etc.

Games to Play for a Date Night at Home

Do a puzzle
Build with your kids’ toys (LEGOs, anyone?)
Put together an Erector set
Play a game (THIS is one of our favorites that can just be played with 2 people, here’s one to connect, or here’s a whole list of great games for couples!)
Play Minute to Win It
Do karaoke
Record a Tik Tok
Play the newlywed game

Home Date Nights that Get You Moving

Have a dance party
Practice meditation
Move your bodies to an active virtual game
Play basketball or catch in your yard, or try indoor basketball with a trash can
Play croquet in the backyard
Do a circuit training challenge, such as with how many sit ups or push ups in a minute
Have an indoor or backyard camp out
Take an online social dance class
Go on a scavenger hunt in your house
Play badminton in the backyard
Use some pillows and old t-shirts to sumo wrestle
Set up a slackline
SLEEP…or more than sleep
Do yoga or an online aerobics class together
Play indoor mini golf

Home Date Night Ideas with Screens

Watch reruns of an old favorite show (or a childhood show!)
Play a video game
Do a video call double date
Project a movie in the backyard (we love our projector!)
Buy birthday gifts for family and friends

Dessert & Dinner At Home Date Night Ideas

Create a cheeseboard
Homemade pizza
Do a taste test of at least 3 of the same type of food (root beer, cheese, chocolates, etc.)
Create a meal from a place you have visited or want to visit
Grab 5 ingredients for each other from around the house and make something with them
Homemade pasta
Make your own sushi
Do a Spanish tapas night
Get one burger from 3-4 different places and taste test them
Meal plan and create a grocery list for the next month
Bake a pie
Have fondue
Make specialty popcorn and watch a movie
Have a fancy candlelight dinner
Make s’mores in a backyard fire pit or over the stove
Make homemade ice cream
Have an indoor picnic
Get takeout from a fancy restaurant
Make freezer meals for the week or for a friend in need
Eat sweet cereal for dinner
Perfect your go-to chocolate chip cookie recipe
Taste test different percentages of chocolate and make hot cocoa with them (white hot chocolate is unique and fun!)