First Dates have the potential to be seriously awkward when you don’t have the right activity or place to go. This is where I come in. I’m here to give you ladies a few ideas about what to do, 10 to be exact. Just call me the fairy godmother of first dates

1. Have a Picnic:

Weather permitting, picnics are a great idea for a first date. There’s food, you’re outdoors, and best of all you can speak to each other without worrying if other people in the area can hear you. Just pack up a basket full of food, a blanket, and head off to your favorite little stream or park and the date is made for you.

2. Go Skating:

Skating can be done anywhere, outdoors, at a skating rink, around an empty basement (on second thought an empty basement might NOT be the BEST place for a first date). It’s great if you stink because then you have to hold on really tightly to your date (swoon). And if you fall, handle it with grace and laugh at yourself. Your date will definitely like that!

3. Go Bowling:

Bowling is another first date idea that’s good even if you stink. If you’re good you’ll impress your date with your cannon of an arm, if you stink then do a victory dance (even if you only knock down one pin). Either way, even in the loud atmosphere of the alley, you’ll have a good time. Just don’t walk off with the bowling shoes.

4. Have a Ping Pong Tournament:

What’s better than a game of ping pong? A ping pong tournament! Challenge your date to a game or ten and go crazy with the paddles. It’ll be the perfect chance to show off your mad skills, or lack thereof. Either way, there will be laughs and good times.

5. Play Mini Golf:

Mini Golf is the most played first date game in the history of first dates. There’s a reason for that — mini golf is a little bit or exercise paired with a little bit of conversation paired with a lot of frustrated cursing. But none of that matters because it’s good clean fun (mostly, if you don’t swear because you miss your shot) and you and your date have to stick close to each other.

6. Go Dancing:

I know the cool thing to do lately when you go dancing is to rub your booty all up against people but I’m not talking about that kind of dancing. We’re women okay? On a first date dance like a lady. Your date will be holding you close or just close to you and it’ll be romantic. And that ladies is what we want on a first date. Fun and Romance!

7. Play Pool:

Pool! It’s a fun game. And this is another date idea where it doesn’t matter how good or bad you are at the game. If you’re good, impress your date with crazy jump tricks and bank shots. If you’re bad, your date will have to teach how to aim and shoot. Either way, it’ll be a good time.

8. Paint Pottery:

Let out that creative being and paint some pottery! It’s inexpensive and a great way to spend a night with your date. It gets the creative juices flowing and conversation is pretty easy. Talk about anything from color choices for your pieces to how scary some of the pre-sculpted pieces are!

9. Go for Coffee:

Having coffee has always been and will always be a great first date. You have something to sip when you need a minute to think of a witty response to what your date is saying. You’ll also get a nice quiet place to talk.