30 Stay-At-Home Date Night Ideas for Couples with Kids
Lets face it, going on date nights with your spouse is a little more challenging once you have kids, especially young ones. Getting a babysitter can be expensive, sometimes costing more than the actual date! Let’s say you get a deal to pay someone 10 bucks an hour per kid and you have 2 kids. A 3 hour date could cost you 60 bucks just from watching the kids. You can also get a family member to watch your kids, but normally you have to work around their schedule and you also don’t want to “over use” them. As you start thinking about the challenges to just get out of the house, you feel defeated and those weekly date nights that many relationship experts recommend, seem very far fetched during this phase of life. Before throwing in the towel and giving up the dream of spending a romantic night with your spouse, let’s look at the alternatives first; date nights at home.
Why Dating your Spouse is Important
Date nights with your spouse helps you to continue to burn the flame that brought you together in the first place.
With busy work schedules, screaming kids, and exhaustion, romance can EASILY take the back seat in your relationship. Continuing (or rekindling) the flame allows you to take a step back, relax and remember who you are as a couple, and that you’re more than just roommates and caregivers.
Stay at Home Date Night Ideas
Stay at home date nights are a great low cost option to continue to date your spouse. Once the kids are asleep, use one of the ideas below for a fun night in.
Do you want to make it even more fun? Make a DIY “at home date night” jar and put each idea in the jar. At the beginning of the week, you or your spouse can randomly pick an idea from the jar, that way you can get even more excited for the date!
Date Night Ideas
- Game night
- Late night dinner
- Movie night
- Bonfire
- Wine and cheese tasting
- Fondue
- Spa night
- Video games
- Make a fort like old times
- Build your own ice cream bar
- Watch a TV series together
- Play Spouse-ology
- Plan you dream vacation
- Indoor picnic
- Paint night
- Truth or dare
- Themed dinner and a movie
- Couples yoga
- Listen to old music to bring back good memories
- Have a lip-sync battle
- Arts and crafts project
- Create a seasonal bucket list
- Watch a concert on YouTube
- Write a screenplay together
- Bake cookies
- Read a book/poetry together
- Play Twister
- Build your own pizza competition
- Watch a sports game with sports-themed snacks
- Write love letters to each other and read them out loud
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