Let me make a few suggestions before I give you any ideas about creative dates or creative activities. You need to remember that if you were to duplicate these ideas and your girlfriend found out where you got the idea, you're in big trouble. Most girls want their boyfriends to be original, a "one-of-a-kind" type of guy. They want to know it's really "him" and not some other guy (that has all the great ideas) that they are falling for. So take these ideas and put your own twist on them, and then they are yours.

By the way, a great book that every guy should own is 1001 Ways To Be Romantic by Godek. Most big book stores will have it.

So, here goes - just a few ideas for your brains to play with.

Creative Dating Ideas

Go for a drive
Drive to the beach
Drive to mountain
Snowmobile ride
Airplane ride
Canoe ride
Row boat ride
Sail boat ride
Bike ride
Camera (take pictures of things that are red (or her favorite color), little kids, stores, mothers with kids, animals, dogs, rocks, barns etc.)
Take pictures of you both with a policeman, fireman, teacher, man mowing lawn, librarian, mailman, mother with two kids, five dogs at same time, etc.

Dinner

Nice restaurant
Top of building
Back of long haul truck
On top of mountain
In a tree house
In a boat (or raft) on a lake
Formal dinner in back yard or ….?

Go to the Movies

Watch at her house
Watch in your car in garage
Watch with house full of friends
Go to as many movies as you can in one night
Make your own movie
Where you first met
First kiss
First dinner out
When you first said I love you

Go Dancing

Dancing lessons
Take her to dance
Have your own dance at your house (formal?)
Dance in park with car head lights on

For Her Birthday

Have surprise party
Make video of her baby pictures
Do a “This is your life”
Have pictures of her at various ages (people guess the order)
Put them on her locker or all over the school
Make video of her friends saying nice things about her
Have people send you letters for her saying nice things about her
Make her a calendar with pictures of the two of you
Buy fireman calendar - put in your picture instead of fireman’s
Send her one rose each day of the week before her birthday

For Your Anniversary

(See “For her birthday”)
Keep book of all the things you’ve done together
Give her a rose or chocolate for every month you’ve been together
Have friends deliver flowers one at a time at lunch time
Give her hand made valentine
Fireworks (or just sparklers)
Visit place of first kiss, or “I love you” (be playing her favorite music)
Write her a poem or song
Make her a poster for over her locker
Breakfast in bed (ask her mom first)
Take her window shopping in big city
Rent her favorite romantic movie, make popcorn etc.

Asking Girlfriend Out in Creative Way

Block of ice (hammer/chisel/note – “find message inside”)
Phone under desk
Tape recorder under desk
Pass note in class
Treasure hunt with tickets to ____ waiting
Make video with you asking her to prom
Steal her prized possession and leave ransom note (“Meet me at bridge with
Ice cream…”)
Leave note at locker (or ?) telling her what to wear, when to meet, at what time.

Asking New Girl Out in Creative Way

“Will you marry me this Friday?”
“Want to watch the sun go down with me…at the ocean? I’ve got hot chocolate!?”

Doing Something For Someone Else

Buy two dozen roses (Costco $12) and give away to people you don’t know
Take bubbles to park for little kids
Cook dinner for her parents
Wash her car or someone else’s car (ask first)
Wash every car in neighborhood (ask first)
Take grandmother out for treat or just go visit or play a game
Mow lawn together
Shovel snow off sidewalk
Clean up the trash in the park
Walk-a-thon for some cause
Write thank you note to someone that has been very helpful to you (teacher,
parent, youth pastor, etc.)
Brush her hair
Send her mom flowers
Send someone else a valentine (someone who normal wouldn’t get anything)

Fights

Marshmallow fight
Rubber band fight
Water fight (squirt guns)
Paint ball
Laser tag

Races
Rafting
Tricycles
Ice blocking
Car rally

Other
Water skiing
Snow skiing
Snowmobiling
Skiing
Hiking
Fishing (boat or stream)
Go to store and try to find the worst (ugliest, gosh) item in the store (split up)
Go for a walk
Ice blocking

Gifts
Flowers
Cards (hand made or bought)
Tickets to play/concert
Jewelry
Sweat shirt
Book
Empty book for journaling
Poster
Plant
Magazine subscription
Gift card to Starbucks
Teddy bear or…
Give her a sun flower

Group Dating
Hay ride
Swim and then a bonfire
Water slide
Dance in circle of car lights
Slip-n-slide
Murder party
King of the raft
Board game
Guys put make up on girls
Girls put make up on guys
Theme dance
From own cheer squad at her game
Go to golf range
Water fight
Make a video together
Pick 10 items for each other then time how long to put them back
Make Ice cream
Capture the flag
Mud football
Christmas caroling…in July
Road rally
Hide-and-go-seek
Prom dress football
Polaroid scavenger hunt
Make dress and tux out of duct tape

Exotic Ideas

Parasailing behind snowmobile
Fill her room up with balloons/newspaper
Drive around town with just married all over car
“Favorite spot in town”
Scuba diver with row boat
Pool and “Jaws” movie
Go rollerblading between towns
Inner tubing (river or snow)
Drive in theater in garage
Two famous people going to theater
Clover shaped field for dinner
Policeman pulls girlfriend over
Pay phone and message/poem
Singing telegram
“I’ll take a Mary special”
“Love Ya” in lawn
M&M’s
Glow sticks into ball
Fireman calendar
Get her magazine before she does, put your picture all over
Kidnap and take to breakfast
Kidnap her and watch sunrise
Used trophy
Cut out funny head lines
Poster of nice things about her
Write poem on parchment and have it framed
Have her picture appear everywhere
Grow own flowers for her
Origami
Send a love letter in the mail (not email)
Indoor golf
Fly a kite
Sand castle
Card castle
Climb a tree
Pick berries and make a pie
Ice skating
Train to Portland
Ferry boat ride
Go to the zoo
Look at her baby book
Start a scrapbook for mementos from all your dates
Give her a foot message
Take her chocolate covered strawberries and wake her up in the morning
Get all dressed up and go out for ice cream

Proposals
Bridge with ring on a string
It’s melting (ring in a block of ice)
Ellensburg to Yakima video

Taking Lessons Together
Cooking
Dancing
Acting
Skiing
Scuba diving
Sky diving

More Ideas...

These first few come from a friend of mine, Tom Tuell...the most creative guy I've ever met.

• Ask your girlfriend to go for a walk somewhere where there is a pay phone. Just as you are Passing buy have an anonymous friend with a cell phone call the pay phone but have your girlfriend answer it. The anonymous friend should be given a script from you to read telling her how much you love her. Or have her favorite music playing. Or maybe the caller could tell her that there are a dozen roses waiting for her in the park if she will just give her boyfriend a kiss.
   
• For her birthday, take her to the local mall and maybe get something to eat. Then tell her you want to sit down and do some people watching. As she is sitting there looking around, have one of her friends come up and wishes her a "Happy Birthday" and then give her a small gift then vanishes as fast as she appeared. In a few minutes another friend appears and does the same...then another...then another.
   
• If you have a girlfriend that is going on vacation during the summer, here is something you can do that's creative and fun. Get a dozen or more roses and go to the airport boarding gate where your girlfriend will be taking off from and ask the people who are waiting to board if they would be willing to give your girlfriend a single rose during the flight. Have a note attached to each flower to say how much she means to you. She'll love it.
   
• Or, how about this creative way to propose. A guy invited his girlfriend to a dinner at one their favorite restaurants. Each day he had a friend whose voice she couldn't recognize call and just say "It's melting." Also each day he had another friend go to her work with an ice cube placed on a silver platter along with a rose. A note was also attached which also stated simply "It's melting. I love you..." By the end of the week she knew something was up, but didn't know what an ice cube had to do with anything. Finally he took her favorite place to have dinner and out came the waiter wheeling a cart with an ice block with a diamond ring placed right in the middle. She had to wait for the ice to melt before she could wear the ring. She talked the waiter into putting the ice block in the oven.
   
• A guy gave his girlfriend a key to wear around her neck but wouldn't tell her what it was for. two weeks later he took her to the local park where he had eleven roses and a waiter waiting to serve her dinner. At just the right time he snapped his fingers and out of the water came a guy in a scuba outfit. In his hand was a small box and the twelfth rose. She was speechless but knew the key fit the small box. She opened it and there was a diamond ring.......OR......?
   
• If you have a policeman friend, this is a great way to surprise your girlfriend on Valentine's day. Have the officer follow her to school, pull her over and walk up to her car with his ticket book in hand. "I'm sorry miss but you went through cupid's red light and I'm going to have to give you a Valentine." Then have him pull out a big red valentine with your name on it. She will always wonder how you pulled it off.
   
• This one is easy. Send your girlfriend a love letter...but actually send it in the mail. Or, send one each day for a week.
   
• Drive your girlfriend to your favorite bridge late at night. Park at one side and walk to the middle where she finds a beautiful red ribbon tied around a bottle of sparkling cider. Or if you wanted to give her a necklace or ring, have it on a string hanging over the railing. (Make sure the string won't break or get stolen.)