Artist Date Ideas

  1. Coloring pages for adults
  2. A graffiti walking tour
  3. Read a book in three different places
  4. Make soap
  5. Enjoy breakfast in an Extraordinary or beautiful hotel
  6. Prepare a dessert you’ve never made before (panna cotta, rice cake, chocolate mousse for example)
  7. Go to a sound bell relaxation session
  8. Attend a poetry evening
  9. Cuddle cows, pigs or horses
  10. Join a glass workshop
  11. Make something out of macrame (an owl or a plant hanger for example)
  12. Go to the sauna
  13. Pyrography or wood burning
  14. Ride a horse on a beach or in a forest
  15. Go for an audio walk in a city
  16. Read excerpts from poetry books in a library
  17. Make a jigsaw puzzle
  18. Go to a fabric store and buy the necessary supplies for sewing a hat or stuffed toy
  19. Watch a beautiful movie (in my case Downton Abbey; A New Era)
  20. Visit old sewers under a city (in my case those of Antwerp or Brussels)
  21. Visit a zoo backstage
  22. Play with kinetic sand
  23. Make a pen or keychain from Fimo clay
  24. Attend a ceramic workshop
  25. Go to a thrift store with 5 euros or dollars
  26. Listen to a live concert
  27. Watch the movie or read the book ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’
  28. Go to a museum
  29. Arrange flowers
  30. Indoor skydiving
  31. Origami
  32. Walk an imaginary dog
  33. Make jewels out of silver clay
  34. Aquarelle painting
  35. Make your own handmade paper
  36. Read and contemplate the book ‘Big Panda and Tiny Dragon’
  37. Go to a storytelling night
  38. Find a beautiful spot in nature, and paint it
  39. Watch a movie or musical with live music
  40. Punch needling
  41. Play with images: make a collage from pictures in a magazine
  42. Look up at the clouds, use your imagination to see things in them
  43. Create something from papier mache
  44. Paint rocks and spread them in nature as random acts of kindness
  45. Visit a planetarium
  46. Make a statue from your hands by casting them in plaster
  47. Walk with donkeys or alpacas
  48. Look at the stars while doing a night walk
  49. Read a short story, poetry or blog in a language you understand but isn’t your native one (I speak Dutch, I want to read in South-African)
  50. Visit a castle
  51. Prepare a dish you’ve never made before
  52. Sketch a beautiful building