Creative Ways to ask a Girl to a Dance or Prom
Let's face it, there are cool ways to a guy or girl to a prom, homecoming, or other dance and there are lame ways. Here's the lame way (don't do this):
"Hey, do ya'
wanna go to a dance?"
"Sure. I guess
so."
It's much more fun to invite or answer an
invitation for a date creatively. It shows right off the bat that the evening is probably going to be fun. Here are some suggestions for asking a girl to prom in a creative way, but can also be used by girls to ask guys to dances or other dates as well. If you're the one being asked, be sure to check out our creative ways to answer page too.
Inflate Your Date's Ego
Write your date information on small slips
of paper (time, place, date, type of dress, etc.) then slip each one into a different balloon.
Inflate the balloons and tie them together with ribbon or make a bouquet out of them.
Deliver to your date's house, classroom, or work.
Kid's Stuff
Borrow a remote control car from a younger sibbling or neighbor (or did yours out of the closet) and tape the invitation to it. Knock on your date's door and
then hide. When your date answers the door, drive the car up and deliver the invitation.
Good
Fortune
Slip the date information into a fortune
cookie. You write it like a fortune cookie message (i.e. "You will have fun time in near future" on one side and "will you go to the prom with me?" on the other). Just get a small takeout box from a nearby Chinese restaurant and deliver it. You could also take your date out to Chinese food and work it out with the restaruant ahead of time to give your date the "prepared" fortune cookie (if you do it that way, you should have an unwrapped cookie for you too so it doesn't seem too obvious).
Treasure
hunt
Scope out the girl or guy's yard and find three to five hiding places for messages. Map it out and be creative in how many steps and
what kind of steps to take from place to place. Leave a piece of candy and a "good
job" note at all but the last place. Leave the the invitation at the last one. You can make the map look like a treasure map and write something on it like "Follow this map. Your Friday night may depend on it." [tips on making a treasure map]
Go Fish!
Leave several goldfish in a small aquarium or in her/his bathtub.
Leave a note saying, "Of all the fish in the sea, I chose you to..." (Go to
the Prom, spend my Friday night with, etc.)
A Piece of Cake
Wrap the invitation in aluminum foil and
bake it in a cake. Put a clue in writing (in frosting) on the cake so they eat it quickly
and find the invitation on time.
Don't Be Cold
Put the invitation in an ice cube. The
message could say, "Please don't leave me out in the cold. Say that you'll go out
with me to homecoming/prom/whatever" or "It would be really cool if you'd go with me to..." You could also put the message on a popsicle.
S-p-e-l-l i-t o-u-t
Spell out the invitation using plastic
knives and forks poked into your date's lawn. Leave a picture so your date knows who it is
from.
Use Alpha Bits Cereal or alphabet pasta to
write out the invitation.
Adoring Kisses
Put Hershey's Kisses all over the front doorway
of their house. Leave a note that says, "Now that I've kissed the ground you walk on, will you go do [homecoming/prom/etc.] with me?"
Candy
Bar Poster
Sugar Daddy, Please don't Snicker. Will you like to go out with me to ____. I always wanted to go
with you, since you're such a BIG HUNK. Love, Your Sugar
Baby. (Or make up your own message. Some good
candies to use: Oh! Henry, Nerds, Zero, Chuckles, Milky Way, M & M's, Mars, Mamba,
Skor, Lifesavers, Sweetarts, Almond Joy, Mounds, Hot Tamales, etc.)
Piñata
Put the question in a piñata with lots of
candy.
Mission: Impossible
Deliver a tape with this message,
"Your date, should you choose to accept it, will be with ________ at _________ time
on ________(day). You will be picked up by a person wearing ________. Your date will feel
like s/he may self-destruct if you do not reply by ________."
10
Commandments
Have someone dressed up like Moses deliver
the invitation worded like the 10 commandments--e.g. Thou shalt have no other dates before
me, Thou shalt be ready at 7 pm on the 23rd of May, 1999, etc. (To answer this invitation,
you could make a pan of Red JELL-O with the answer at the bottom in the middle--so that the person
would have to part the "Red Sea.")
Wanted: Alive
Make posters around the school,
neighborhood, or home of your date that has his picture on it. Offer a reward to him when
he comes to your house. Dress up like a sheriff when you ask him.
Fatal
Attraction
Draw a chalk outline of yourself outside
the person's house. Then leave a note with your name and all of the information on it that
says, "I'd die to go to ________ with you."
You're Eggstra Special!
Put the invitation cut into strips in
plastic Easter eggs.
In the Still of the
Night
Serenade under one of their windows. Make up new words to a
song you and your friends know. The new words give the information about the date. For
example, new words for "In the Still of the Night." "Come with me, Friday night. Seven o'clock
until midnight. Dinner first, then a dance. Come on baby. Give me a chance. Come with me
Friday night (Come with me Friday night-----)"
Come Fly With Me
Write the invitation like an airplane itinerary and deliver
with a bag or peanuts or pretzels and an toy airplane.
String them Along
Tie a long piece of string to their front door. Tape
messages along the string such as, "I'm not just stringing you along. Keep
going" until they reach the location where you left your answer. Or give your answer
in pieces along the way.
Just have ELVIS to it
Go somewhere where you know they are dressed up like a bag
lady, a polka king, Elvis, a hippie, a mother in her bathrobe and curlers with a lunch
box, or some other embarrassing costume and ask them out like that in front of everyone.
Make carrot cake or carrot-shaped cookies with a message, "Somebunny wants you to __________ with them. If you carrot all, you'll say yes."
Decorate your date's car and leave the
invitation on the windshield wiper.
Have other ideas for creative ways to ask a girl to a dance or creative ways to ask a guy to a dance? Share them with us!
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