Grab our 12 Daytz of Christmas Printables and get ready for the perfect DIY holiday gift idea that keeps on giving every month of the year!
Still not sure what to get your spouse for Christmas this year? Here are a few more handmade gift date ideas – Date Night in a Jar, Conversation Starters, and Choose Your Own Adventure Date.
12 Daytz of Christmas Gift Idea
In 2008 my husband and I were HORRIBLE at making time for date night. We had 3 little kids that required so much attention, and there were times we’d go MONTHS without going out and having fun together.
That year for Christmas, I came up with the idea to pre-plan a date for every month in 2009 and I called it The 12 Daytz of Christmas. Each date idea was all wrapped up and ready to go so finding a babysitter was all I needed to coordinate. We literally had NO EXCUSES not to go out – it was the PERFECT gift!
If you’re looking for the perfect Christmas gift idea or stocking stuffer for your sweetheart, you’re in luck! We’ve made the cutest little printables that you will make the entire process so easy! Download and print each sheet and you’ll have a preplanned date ready to go every month!
Does it cost a lot of money to create this gift?
The great thing about this easy gift idea is that YOU get to decide how expensive and elaborate you’d like your adventures to be. You can create an entire year of free dates and fun activities, or splurge on something special – the choice is up to you!
Does this gift idea take a lot of time?
Putting this idea together doesn’t take much effort, but there is a little bit of planning involved. Here’s what you’ll need to do –
- CHOOSE YOUR DATES – Pick 12 ideas you want to do next year. Some of my favorites are listed below.
- GATHER YOUR SUPPLIES – You’ll need the following:
- 12 Daytz of Christmas printable pack (download below)
- scissors
- 12 envelopes
- glue stick
- pen
- cash/ gift cards / tickets etc.
- ribbon
- PUT IT TOGETHER –
- Print the printables on plain white paper. Cut out each month from the printable, then slip it and any money or tickets inside the envelope.
- Seal the envelopes and then stack them in a pile. Tie the stack with ribbon or staple them in the corner and get ready for a cute Christmas gift or stocking stuffer that keeps on giving!
Date Ideas
Here are some fun date night ideas to spark creativity and give you inspiration-
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- Valentine’s Day Picnic day date
- Your Choice, My Choice date at home
- Shark Week
- Pizzaria Date at home
- DoorDash DInner + Game Night with Friends
- Baby It’s Cold Outside
- Easter Date
- High School Reunion
- corn maze
- haunted house
- Look at Christmas Lights
- Holiday Scavenger Hunt
- museum
- dinner + movie night
- concert
- carnival
- festivals
- carve pumpkins
- go on a hike
- comedy club
- live play
- bowling
- cooking classes
- ballroom dance lesson
- couple’s massage
- day trip/ road trip
- make homemade cookies and hot chocolate
- popcorn and a movie in bed
- Top Golf
- Gun/Shooting Range
- Ice Skating
- Laser tag
- Go Miniature Golfing
- backyard campout
12 Daytz Printables
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE THE 12 DAYTZ OF CHRISTMAS PRINTABLES FOR LESS THAN $5!!!
Happy holidays!
i would like to do a measurement chart for the kitchen as a gift for Christmas gifts next year. do you offer anythibg like that? cups =’
tbsp tsp quarts . i saw one on facebook that my neice shared and thought a laminated one to hang inside cabinet door. love your ideas. im buying the family calender for my Pastor and his family for next Christmas.
We don’t have a conversion chart available yet, but I will let my graphic designer know about it and we’ll see what she can come up with! 🙂
And I hope your Pastor LOVES the family calendar! 🙂
Have a merry Christmas!!
Wow! Thank you for sharing. I have been a bit stumped on what to do for my hubby this Christmas…and this is it! I love the creative rhymes on each coupon. Looking forward to using some of your ideas and integrating some of my own.
I’m so glad you like this Lauren- thanks for stopping by! 🙂
I am glad you reposted this. I tweeted it and shared on Facebook. Such a good idea for marrieds to make sure they have a monthly date that happens and is creative.
Thanks Susan, you are so kind!
I LOVE it. Thank you so much for sharing the printables. Do you plan a babysitter for every month too?
I do have a neighbor that we use all the time for a babysitter and I have thought about asking her to be on standby every 2nd Friday of the month so I don’t have to worry about wondering if someone else has already booked her! 🙂 When you know a good babysitter, don’t tell your friends ’cause suddenly you’ll be competing with them to book her first! 🙂
This is such a great idea — thanks for sharing with us! I was singing the song the whole way through, lol!
Ha ha ha! That song gets stuck in my head! Thanks for stopping by!
Oh I love this! Such a fun idea!! Love your blog. 🙂
I LOVE the idea! But would have to get a babysitter first … maybe I will do that for 2012! 🙂
I loved this idea so much that I used it as my gift to my hubby this year! Thanks! Here's a link to see my pages…
http://jamespurejoy.blogspot.com/2010/01/12-daytz-of-christmas.html
Love your site!
I love this idea and totally did it for my husband. I'm posting a picture on my blog and putting a link to your blog so others can see where I got this great idea. Thanks.
Thank you for this wonderful idea! I stole several of your months, and added some of my own, then put them into a little booklet for my husband for Christmas. (Your months look so much nicer than my little efforts though!) Thanks again for sharing.
Great idea and so cute!!! Thanks so much for sharing with us. God's blessings, Sarah 😀
What a wonderful idea!! Cute and creative; I love it!
Thanks for sharing! Great idea and very cute!
How fun! What adorable cards too.
How darling – I think I'll do my version of this. I love it!
I adore this! I think I may use these for my husband- what a fun 12 Days of Christmas idea!
This is awesome! I love love love this idea.
THANK YOU so much for sharing this! I am having it printed and giving it to my hubby for St. Nicks day. He always says we don't go on enough dates, and I agree so now we have no excuse! Thanks again for your generocity!
This is Brilliant!!! I LOVE it! What a wonderful idea…how did your hubby like it?
WOW! This is a great idea. I'm definitely using this general idea for my husband this year! Thanks for sharing.
So so cool! Christmas is every month this way. 🙂 Love the digital art you've done too!
Thanks for linking up to SNS #5!
Funky Junk Donna
@Cheap Chic Home. Wonderful, inspiring idea. Smile!
Very creative and such a great way to plan some time together. My kids would so want to go along to most of the dates though!
LOVE it!!! I'm going to do it!!!
I love this idea! Thanks for the idea.
What a fun idea. I'm going to have to make one now. Thanks for sharing. I'm having a giveaway this week if you'd like to stop by.
This is AWESOME!!! I can't wait to make one! Thanks!
Awesome idea and you made it so pretty too!!!
What a cute idea, I love it! Thanks for sharing.
How cute! I love that idea!
XOOX
Jen
I love this!!! I can't wait to share this with my hubby!
I love this!!! I can't wait to share this with my hubby!
This is by far your best idea ever!
omigosh! This is perfect! I am sooo using this idea. My friend from howdoesshe.com featured this and I am so glad she did. What a great idea! 🙂
Love this idea! So cute, and I love the way you wrote them all, super creative! BTW I love that on Leah's chore chart, the first thing is "Be Happy!" HILARIOUS!
great ideas!
What a great idea! With our first baby due in Dec, I can see our date nights slipping to the way side too easily, this will hopefully help keep us going! Thanks for posting what you used they are great daytz!
Such a great idea!!! Thanks for sharing. Perfect for my guy who doesn't know what he wants, ever, and I never know what to get him. Another tool this year wasn't feeling very exciting to me, so this is a great idea. Thanks so much.
I love this, but my homebody husband would probably just be happy staying home to watch The History Channel or ESPN. :s
aww this is a brill idea!
What a fantastic idea! I'm always saying we need to have "date night". And we always end up getting take out and a movie….
He's so getting this for Christmas this year!!! Thanks
Thanks for sharing this! I remember when you talked about this on your other blog last year and thought what an awesome idea!! I love all your fun wording even too.
So cute!
I love that idea.
this is SUCH a fantastic idea!
I just emailed this link to all the women in my family and friends list. This is a great gift idea and the perfect reminder to mind you marriage.
Thanks for sharing
This is great. Thank you for sharing. Very cute.
I love this idea . . . it is a great Christmas gift when you are trying to be frugal . . . I am gonna do it!
I LOVE this. I wish I had the kind of relationship that let me plan for things like that, but I don't even get to see him at least once a month. Sigh.
I love, love, love this idea!! So cute. I may do this for Josh, haha. I'm not creative to think of my own 🙂