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Here's the lame way to
ask a guy or girl to prom (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. The following 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 for other dates. If
you're the one being asked, be sure to check out our
answering invitations 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 your younger
brother's remote control car (or a neighbor's) 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. 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
this you may want to have an unwrapped cookie given to you too so it
doesn't see so obvious).
Treasure hunt
Check out your
date's yard and decide on 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.
Make a map for your
date to follow. On the map write, "Follow this map. Your Friday
night may depend on it."
GOLDFISH
in the Bathtub
Leave several
goldfish in their 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 this coming . . ." or "It
would be really cool if you'd . . ." Or 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
in the front doorway of their house. "Now that I've kissed the
ground you walk on, will you . . ."
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.
Decorate your date's car
and leave the invitation on the windshield wiper.
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." |
"Choose
you this day
whom ye will
serve
but for me
and my
house we will
serve the Lord "
