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Free Printable Date Night Jar Slips
All 60 slips from our date night jar guide, formatted to print, cut, and fold. Print the sheet, cut along the dashed lines, fold each slip once, and fill the jar. House rule: when you pull one, you do it. No re-pulls.
Cheap and free
Sunset walk with takeout coffee, phones stay home
Cook one dish neither of us has ever made
Board game tournament, loser does dishes for a week
Drive somewhere we have never been within 30 minutes
Picnic on the living room floor
Go through old photos and pick our ten favorites
Library date: each picks a book for the other
Make a playlist together, one song each, alternating
Watch the movie that came out the year we met
Stargazing with blankets and hot chocolate
Try every free sample at the fancy grocery store
Teach each other something we are good at
Bake something from a family recipe
Walk the prettiest street in town at golden hour
Write each other a letter to open in one year
Watch the sunset from the best free viewpoint in town
Breakfast-for-dinner night, pajamas required
Walk to get ice cream, take the long way home
Home spa night with whatever is in the bathroom
Recreate our first-ever photo together
Dinner out
Dinner at a restaurant neither of us has been to
Order the second-cheapest and second-most-expensive things on the menu
Dinner in the neighborhood we always drive through but never stop in
A cuisine we have never tried, no vetoes
Sit at the bar and let the bartender or chef choose
Revisit our first-date restaurant and order completely differently
Dessert-only crawl: three places, three desserts
The restaurant with the best view within an hour
Tasting menu night, dress up like it is an occasion
Find the oldest restaurant in town and hear its story
Order only appetizers, three places in one night
Dinner where the server picks everything
Happy hour date before 6, home by 8
Brunch at the place with the longest line, and find out why
Best taco within 20 minutes, judged and scored
At home
Homemade pizza night with a build-your-own bar
Candlelit dinner at the actual dining table, real plates
Wine or hot-chocolate tasting with blind rankings
Spa night: robes, face masks, cucumber water, the works
Build a fort and watch a movie inside it
Recreate the dish from our favorite restaurant
Puzzle and a podcast neither of us has heard
Cook-off: same ingredients, two cooks, one honest judge (us)
Fancy grilled cheese tasting menu, with a menu card
Learn one card game neither of us knows
Bake-off: same recipe, no peeking at each other’s
Indoor picnic under every blanket we own
Make a pizza shaped like something we love
Adventure
Day trip decided by a coin flip at every major intersection
Book the class we keep saying we will take: pottery, salsa, cooking
Hike a trail neither of us has done, pack a summit snack
Tourist-in-our-own-city day: do the three things visitors do
Karaoke, and both of us have to actually sing
Farmers market with $20 each: build dinner from what we find
Take the train or bus to the end of the line and explore
Say yes to the next local event flyer we see
Sunrise drive to somewhere worth the alarm
Rent bikes and follow the water
Visit the weirdest museum within an hour
Pick a bus stop we have never used and ride
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