50 Romantic Winter Date Ideas for Parents

Date nights are crucial.They help keep a marriage happy and a relationship strong. They’re there to keep the fire hot after being so caught up with our jobs, our kids, and the everyday stresses that tend to strain our relationships. And they don’t have to be your typical dinner and a movie.

Turning simple things into something romantic means loving the little things and living in the moment. Appreciating the things that may seem so ordinary and turning them into something so wonderful.

No matter how cold it gets this winter, there’s always a way for reconnecting, bonding, and falling back in love. Like driving and looking at Christmas lights. Just stepping out of the house and away from the kids can do wonders. You’d be surprised at all of the things you can do during the coldest months of the year and how warm they can make you feel.

Here are 50 winter date ideas that will keep the romance strong (assuming you’ve found a babysitter):

1. Pick out a tree from a Christmas tree farm.
2. Go Ice skating at your local city hall or any outdoor skating rink.
3. Grab a hot chocolate together at the snack bar.
4. Go ice skating at your community centre indoor rink.
5. Play one-on-one hockey.
6. Go Skiing or snowboarding at a ski resort and eat beavertails.
7. Sign up for cross country skiing for a day.
8. Go ski-doing on provincial trails.
9. Go tubing in the snow.
10. Go ice fishing.
11. Rent snowshoes and go for a walk.
12. Go for a drive and look at Christmas lights.
13. Build a snowman together.
14. Have a snowball fight.
15. Build an igloo or snow fort together.
16. Go tobogganing together.
17. Go for a walk in the woods to collect wood for a fire.
18. Carve your names in a tree.
19. Walk along a frozen lake.
20. Kiss while it’s snowing.
21. Light an outdoor bonfire and roast marshmallows.
22. Bundle up and go to an outdoor concert.
23. Wear matching pyjamas and play cards or a board game.
24. Snuggle all night in front of the fire.
25. Cuddle, Netflix and chill (when the kids are asleep).
26. Roast marshmallows indoors.
27. Renovate, paint, or fix something in the house together.
28. Go to an indoor pool or waterpark.
29. Go swimming in an outdoor heated pool or hot tub.
30. Go shopping.
31. Go to a museum.
32. Go to a casino.
33. Discover a provincial park.
34. Make reservations for a lakefront restaurant.
35. Order your favourite hot drinks at a local bakery.
36. Cook together.
37. Bake together.
38. Make homemade hot chocolate together.
39. Go to a Scandinavian Spa and get pampered.
40. Get a message.
41. Go to a winter carnival.
42. Drive to the top of a mountain and take in the view.
43. Drive down a country road and look at the stars.
44. Drive until you get lost.
45. Rent a cabin in the mountains.
46. Rent a cabin in the woods.
47. Discover a frozen waterfall.
48. Go to a hockey game.
49. Sing karaoke.
50. Visit the place where your very first date took place.

Happy Valentine’s Day. Love,