Boys change as they get older. They spend more time with their friends or in their room. It’s harder to get them to want to spend time with mom or dad. Keeping that mother/son and father/son bond is so important at this age. I sat down and brainstormed a list. Now that my son is 15, he doesn’t want to do the same type of activities we did a few years ago.
Mother Son Date Night Ideas
Started with 5o and now up to 70. Working towards 100 because we can all use more ideas. Have fun and let me know what I’m missing.
70 Things to do with your teen sons
- Dinner date
- Bake cookies together
- Go to the movies
- Have a late night horror movie marathon
- Hit some balls at the driving range
- Batting cages
- Spend a night out go-cart racing
- Attend a car show
- Go out for dessert
- Create over-the-top ice cream sundaes at home
- Play video games – if you don’t know how to play, ask your son to teach you
- Have a Nerf battle
- Shoot some hoops
- hike
- Ride bikes
- Go for a run together
- Go out for brunch
- Mother and son camping trip
- game night at home – Monopoly, and Yahtzee are two of our favorites.
- Go to an arcade
- Make pizza together
- Coffee shop date
- Volunteer at a food bank or shelter
- Art Museum
- Miniature Golf
- Amusement park
- Beach trip
- Road trip
- Visit your home town
- Horseback riding
- Indoor Skydiving
- Hot air balloon ride
- Attend a street festival
- Dollar store fun with $20
- Go thrifting for ‘new’ outfits. Buffalo Exchange is one of my teen’s favorites!
- Room makeover and paint their walls
- Go to an independent bookstore
- Snowboarding
- Catch a local play or musical
- Hit the gym together
- Surfing
- Go fishing
- Go to a professional sports game
- Put together a model car
- Go to a Monster Trucks show
- Go to Motorcross event
- Watergun fight
- Run a 5K together
- Bowling
- Indoor Rock Climbing
- Binge-watch 80s movies.
- Have ice cream for dinner
- Plan a trip to a city neither of you has visited before
- Attend a paint night
- Go to a food festival – we love the Arizona Taco Festival
- Plan a meal together and shop the farmers market for ingredients
- Go to a u-pick farm
- Go to a Haunted House
- Rent a tandem bike
- Rent electric scooters and explore downtown
- Grab a camera and take photos at all the best Instagramable places
- Go antiquing
- Take public transportation for a day out adventure
- Staycation at a local fancy resort
- Head to the barbershop and get all the extra treatments
- Rent a cabin in the woods (with no internet!)
- Roadtrip without a plan
- Plant flowers
- Start a vegetable garden
- Find out if your city has a zombie walk, dress up, and join in.
- Make a Tiktok together
- Watch YouTube videos
- Have a spicy ramen noodle challenge – go to an Asian market and pick up a bunch of hot noodles. At home cook them up and see who can eat the hottest ones
- Do they have a favorite fast food item or dessert? burgers, fried chicken, ice cream? Have a food taste-off and go around town trying their favorite food to figure out who makes the best in your city.
- Be a tourist in your town. Find the most touristy spots, take your camera and head out for a day being a tourist in our town. Take lots of goofy photos to document your day
- Go geocaching
- See if your city tourism board has a scavenger hunt for places to find. Here in Tempe, Arizona they have a list of clues to find all the jackrabbit statues
We’d love more ideas – let us know yours so we can keep adding to our list.
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