30 Ideas for Good Quality Time at Home
Date nights are fun, but you can also boost the quality time in your relationship by staying home and focusing on each other. Here are some ideas for how to do that:
Take some online personality tests together. Myers-Briggs? Enneagram? Social Styles? Compare your scores.
Plan your next vacation together. It can be an actual one or your dream vacation. Just have fun!
Build a tent fort in the living room. Get in touch with your inner child! If the weather is good, camp in the backyard. Don’t forget the s’mores!
Go for a late-night walk. Gaze at the stars. Hold hands.
Learn a new skill together. Ever wanted to learn how to play the guitar? Write calligraphy? Make a souffle? Everything is on YouTube!
Have a movie night! Each of you write down three movies you’d like to watch, put them in a bowl, and draw one name.
Dance to your favorite songs in your living room or bedroom.
Make personalized scavenger hunts for each other.
Play British pub trivia together.
Have in-home Olympics with silly events. Ideas abound!
Play games!
Do a fashion show and take photos of each other for fun.
Have a spa evening…give each other massages, foot rubs, and facials with face masks. They’re not just for women!
Sleep in and have breakfast in bed together. Or stay in bed all day!
Play hide and seek in your house.
Cook something adventurous and complicated. Pasta, kimchee, or baklava anyone?
Find areas in your home that need to be improved. Make a plan together.
Learn a new language together.
Do some arts and crafts.
Invent a new dish and cook it together. If you’re not feeling creative, close your eyes and open a cookbook to a random page and cook!
Order takeout from a new restaurant you’ve been wanting to try.
Declutter together and donate what you don’t need.
Write each other love letters.
Write down your family’s goals for the next five years. Plan how you will achieve them together.
Have a themed romantic dinner at home…don’t forget to decorate and put on some themed music…and dress up!
If you’re married, re-read your wedding vows or watch your wedding video.
Challenge each other to a cook-off!
Have a wine tasting and movie night in bed. Don’t forget the cheese and crackers!
Teach each other a new skill, or learn a new skill together.
Pretend the electricity is out. How will you entertain yourselves?
