22 Cheap Winter Date Ideas To Try This Year

If your pockets are feeling a little tight from buying Christmas presents, you might be looking for some cheap winter date ideas. Here are some of my favorite affordable date ideas for winter!

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Setting aside money to go on dates can be hard during the holiday season, so you’re probably looking for some cheap winter date ideas.

I remember when I was dating someone at the beginning of college, and I was super broke and didn’t want to spend any money on dates. So I came up with this list of fun dates to go on that don’t cost a whole lot!

After you read this post you’ll have all the best affordable winter dates ideas.

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The Best Affordable Winter Date Ideas

1. Ice skating

Ice skating is a staple winter date, and it only costs around $7 per person! It can be a great bonding experience to watch your S/O fall on their butt.

2. Snow Tubing

Tubing is so fun! If you don’t know what it is, you basically just sit on a tube and sled down a hill. There are a bunch of places that have artificial snow and make a ramp just for tubing! It’s a perfect winter date idea, and it’s not too pricy.

If you live in a place where you get a lot of snow and you like tubing, it could be worth it to invest in a tube. You can buy your own tube for around the same price it is to rent a tube for a few hours, so if you see yourself doing it more than once that would save you tons of money! This one has great reviews on amazon.

3. Making DIY Christmas Presents

If you’re like me, you want to give everyone meaningful gifts but don’t want to spend big bucks. DIY Christmas presents are perfect, meaningful gifts that aren’t too expensive to make! This year I got these supplies to make my friends bath bombs and shower steamers, and I’m so excited to get started.

Having a date where you make gifts for your friends together would be so much fun!

4. Look At Christmas Lights

The most cliche Christmas idea. Looking at the lights can be so romantic, and it doesn’t cost too much. You could even stop by a coffee shop and get some seasonal hot chocolates and make it even more special!

5. Holiday Parties

Holiday parties can be a perfect holiday date! And they’re FREE. To make it even better you could coordinate outfits.

6. Christmas Caroling

If you’re the type of person who likes to do things like this, Christmas caroling could be a really fun winter date idea!

7. Visit nursing homes

I know this doesn’t sound like the most romantic date, but there is no better feeling than making other people feel good. Doing a great thing and making other people happy with your significant other can be such a great experience. It doesn’t cost a thing to make someone’s day. 🙂

8. Sledding

If the place where you live gets some snow this could be a really fun date idea!! I live in Oklahoma and we rarely get any snow, but when we do it’s extra special! If you live somewhere where it snows frequently, investing in a sled if you don’t already have one could be a good idea!

9. Make a Gingerbread House

When I was little, my dad had a friend who worked at Starbucks, and I remember one time he took my sister and I there to build gingerbread houses. It’s one of my favorite holiday memories, smelling the coffee in the background while we made our gingerbread houses was such a special experience.

Building them with your boyfriend/ girlfriend would be so much fun, too! All you have to do is get a kit, and you’re good to go.

10. Holiday Movies And Hot Cocoa

My ideal winter date idea would be snuggling up with some comfy blankets, some hot chocolate, and watching holiday movies. Sitting and watching movies with the Christmas tree in the corner sounds like the best thing ever. To make it extra special you could get a hot chocolate variety pack like this one to try all different flavors!

11. Christmas Concert

One of my favorite things to do is go to Christmas concerts. When I was in high school I used to be in band, and every year we did a Christmas concert. I lived in a tiny town and our whole community loved it! It got everyone in the holiday spirit.

Now I absolutely LOVE to listen to bands play Greensleeves and all of the other Christmas songs. If you go to your local high schools Christmas concert, it will definitely be affordable!

12. Holiday Ballet

Seeing the nutcracker ballet is one of my favorite holiday traditions. I love to go see professional ballets, but they can pretty pricy. I personally always check discount apps like Groupon before I go to events like that, and sometimes I find really awesome deals! So, if you would like to do something that it typically kind of pricy, make sure you check online to see if you can get some good deals!

You could also go see a show put on by a local ballet school.

13. Holiday Play

Similar to ballets and Christmas concerts, you can go to your local Christmas plays for pretty cheap if they’re done by a high school/ local theatre. If you want to go see a professional play, make sure you look for coupons online!

14. Drive-In Movie

This is something I might do this year. My local drive in is only $7, so it’s a pretty affordable date option!! If you go in December they’ll probably be playing Christmas movies, so it’s a really cute way to get in the Holiday spirit!!

15. Bake Something Together

I absolutely love to bake. It’s so cozy and fulfilling, and it’s nice to have the treat to eat when you’re done!! It can be such a cute thing to do with your signifiant other.

16. Cozy Game Night

I discovered this game on amazon a few weeks ago and I am obsessed with this idea!! It’s a cozy conversation game and has prompts to have cozy, memorable conversations with your loves ones. This would be such a cute date idea.

17. Decorate Your Tree

One of my favorite things I like to do to celebrate the holiday season is decorate my tree. This would be such a cute and memorable winter date idea!

18. DIY Christmas Ornaments

When I was a kid my family had us make our own Christmas ornaments one year, and it definitely became a core memory. It is so much fun.

19. Play Video Games

My roommate and I got this collaboration game, and it is so much fun!! The game is beautiful, too, I feel like it makes my inner child so happy. There are scenes set in space, a ball pit, a tree, etc. It is such a good game for bonding so playing it would be such a fun date idea!

20. Go To A Museum

A few weeks ago I went to an art museum with a friend and it was a lot of fun. Going to see a local art exhibit or a museum in general would be an affordable date idea in the winter!

21. Take A Cooking/ Art Class Together

I went on a date to a painting class one time and it was so much fun. You could do a pottery class, a painting class, a cooking class, etc. If you go to an art class you’ll have a cute souvenir to take home, and if you go to a cooking class you get yummy food. Win win!

22. DIY Hot Cocoa Bombs

Hot chocolate bombs have been allllll the rage the past couple years, and for good reason! They are so cool and cute and festive. Having a date where you make your own hot chocolate bombs would be SO much fun.

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