I am constantly amazed at the amount of information you can find on the internet – including, and especially on YouTube! It has everything from educational videos, to product reviews, to tutorials, to date night ideas (shameless plug for our own Dating Diva YouTube channel!) to HIL-arious videos (my favorite!). You name it and you can probably find it on YouTube. One day while browsing through the site, I thought – this could be a fun date night and with the creative genius of our talented designer Carisa from Messes to Memories, a date night was made! This date is: Inexpensive An At-Home Date Easy to Prep Chill Interactive Fun The recipe for a great date! Check it out:
Invitation Since this date night is all about watching unique videos on YouTube, I thought it might be fun to send my spouse a video invitation. I had Carisa create a little video file and I texted it to my hubby to get him excited for the date!
Scavenger Hunt
For the first activity, we have a YouTube scavenger hunt! You can play this so many ways depending on how much time you have and whether you want to work together or surprise each other with your findings. We decided to divide the list up since we each have our own computer. I took half of the list and my husband took the other half. We gave ourselves 10 minutes to find our assigned videos from the list. Then, we showed each other the videos we found!
I can’t even tell you how fun it was! Watching the “music video for a popular song from your high school days,” ahem, The Macarena, was hilarious and we were both in tears watching the “video that features a person who overcame a great obstacle” that my husband found! Challenges The next part of the date includes challenges! There are a dozen challenge cards included in this date with different tasks to complete with your spouse! They range from watching a video to learning a new skill, to trying not to laugh during a funny video. We totally failed at the challenge to not laugh during a “Try Not To Laugh Video Challenge Video“. It was practically impossible for us and seemed to make us laugh even more!
To make your challenge cards, just fold them in half, and use a glue dot or double stick adhesive tape to stick the front and back together. Voting Finally, after an evening of so many videos, take some time to vote on your favorite overall videos in several categories. It will be fun to compare as well as remember the best videos you saw throughout the night!
The best part about this date night is that you could technically do it more than once. You can do the scavenger hunt and even most of the challenges over again and just find a different video that matches the challenge. There are so many videos out there!
We actually didn’t even finish all of the challenges in one evening so we have another date night ready to go for next time! I hope that you have as much fun on this date as we did! To get your printables for this date (including the video invitation) just click the links below! To make this Youtube Date Night all come together, be sure to grab a great quality paper cutter and nice cardstock oh and maybe some chocolate or popcorn!
