Under the Stars DATE NIGHT IN BOX
DATE GUIDE
Welcome Welcome to your Under the Stars Date Night In adventure! Tonight our team has prepared a truly interactive experience that takes you on a journey to space and explores your dreams as a couple. Tonight’s plans include interactive table talk, an optional delicious dinner menu created by our friends at Off the Pepper, Wishing Upon a Star as a couple, playing fun games, enjoying a delicious treat, and much more! We have a MAJOR prize up for grabs tonight. You will find details on the next page and don’t forget to take pictures of your date and share them using #DateNightInBox. One lucky couple will win and get their next date night FREE! Join us on Facebook or Instagram for more details. If you received this date as a gift and enjoy your night, we would love for you to join us again next month! Thanks to all of you for allowing us to help build memories with you and your significant other. Till Next Month! Megan Pruitt, Owner and Founder of Date Night In
DATE ACTIVITIES
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SET THE MOOD COOK YOUR SUGGESTED DINNER RECIPES TABLE TALK WISH UPON A STAR ENJOY YOUR SNACK & NEBUL-YEA OR NEBUL-NAY CONSTELLATION LOVE STORIES RACE TO THE STARS BOARD GAME STARGAZING REFLECTION & WAYS TO CONTINUE YOUR DATE NIGHT
Set the Mood Take a moment to consider the space where your date will occur. Setting the mood for your date is an important step to take to really enjoy your experience together. We thought this date was the perfect opportunity for some friendly competition. We are challenging you to a FORT BUILDING CONTEST! Yep, that’s right. Whether you set it up inside or outside under the stars, the important part is that you create a unique space to spend time together for the evening. Up for grabs is a Galaxy Cove star machine, Yeti Cooler, and personalized star map that shows the stars exactly as they were on a specific date and location with an included personalized message! Don’t forget to access your custom Under the Stars playlist at datenightinbox.com/stars.
CONTEST DETAILS: To enter, snap a photo or video on Facebook or Instagram of your fort and use #DateNightInBox and tag us for a chance to win this awesome prize!
Dinner Menu We’ve included custom recipes provided by culinary experts Off The Pepper! Husband and wife duo, Virginia and Joshua Townsend, have been in the cooking world for over ten years. They have a passion for food and the idea of using it to bring others together. Feel free to follow their journey on Instagram @offthepepper or at offthepepper.com. Our hope is that you will be inspired through the Townsends’ passion for delicious food and will even use this recipe card again in the future. Have fun cooking and enjoy!
Table Talk Oftentimes when you think of stars you think of the unimaginable. You may think of “reaching for the stars” or “wishing on a star”. Seeing all the stars in a clear night sky can really make you think about how big the world is and how the possibilities are truly endless. Thinking about the unimaginable, especially the things you could accomplish as a couple, is exciting! With this table talk we want to encourage you to push yourself and each other to ‘reach for the stars’. Sharing your hopes and dreams both as individuals and as couples has value in a relationship. It is a great way to bring positive energy into your life since it’s a very hopeful concept. We all need and enjoy things to look forward to - especially if our current life circumstances aren’t exactly where we want them to be. Working toward something feels purposeful and satisfying. Sharing your hopes and dreams with your partner is also a great way to strengthen the connection between one another. By being attracted to your partner’s desires and drive, as well as seeing him or her want to support you in your dreams, we believe you will feel more connected than ever. One fun and easy way to dream together is with bucket lists or, in other words, creating a list of things you hope to accomplish in life. I think most people have ideas floating in the back of their minds about what they would include on a bucket list. However, are we sharing them with our partners? Are we including our partners in the experiences we want to have and in the goals we want to achieve? Are these items on your list something you can include your partner in? What better way to get into this mindset of reaching for the stars together than by eating your out of this world dinner together while talking about each other’s dreams?!
Take this dinner conversation opportunity to discuss items on your bucket list with each other. This conversation will also help to prep you for the next activity. Discuss the items you would like to do soon and the items you want to do later in life. If they are experiences you could do alone, ask your partner if he or she would like to participate with you! Don’t forget the most important part, which is to share WHY those items are on your list. Here are some questions that can be your guide:
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What items on your bucket list are you most looking forward
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What is something you’ve always wanted to do but haven’t for
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to doing? whatever reason? What do you want for your future family life? Are there experiences you have already done that you want to do again? Would you do them differently or the same?
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Is there something in particular on your bucket list that you
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Which item on your list would you like to do in the coming
would like to do together? year?
Wish Upon A Star Now that you have had a chance to discuss some of your hopes and wishes together, in this activity you and your significant other will create a three-dimensional star that includes your hopes and wishes as a couple.
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To begin, locate your star templates and think about the
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Decide which areas of your lives are relevant or most
goals you want to accomplish as a couple. important to you. Some ideas include:
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Marriage, Family/ Kids, Home, Health, Financial, Personal Goals/ Dreams
Each of you fill your star with writing about the goals and wishes you have for the next year or whatever time period you select. After that, cut out your star’s outlines.
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With your outlines, fold the score lines on your star,
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Bring your two halves of the stars together and discuss your
following the mountain and valley folds. goals.
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Think about how they are similar and different. Talk about how you will accomplish these goals.
Using your included adhesive stickers, bind the two stars together leaving a small opening for your included twinkle lights.
Enjoy the decor during your date and in the future! Never forget about your wish upon a star that you made tonight and continue to work toward it as a couple.
Enjoy Your Snack & Nebul-yea or Nebul-nay A nebula is a truly wondrous thing to behold. Named after the Latin word for “cloud”, nebulas are not only massive clouds of dust, hydrogen, helium gas, and plasma; they are also often “stellar nurseries” - i.e. the place where stars are born! Enjoy your snack and grab your cards while you play a game of Nebul-YEA or Nebul-NAY! QUESTIONS:
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Travel to space? The year is
the entirety of the Milky Way,
2780 and space travel is a regular
experiencing the whole galaxy,
means of transportation. Are you
at a speed of 15,000 mph.
going?
This is definitely the ride of a
Experience zero gravity? It’s not a simulation - it’s real life, minus gravity. A specially modified
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Wish upon a star? You are presented the chance to ‘wish upon a star’ and have it come
a weightless environment allowing
true. You have no idea what
you to float, flip, and soar as if
the outcomes of the wish will
you were in space!
be and once you make it there is no way to change what
Participate in a night race
happens. Would you wish and,
under the stars? Run across mountains in Fairbanks, Alaska. The only wrinkle in this run? It’s all done at night. Meet aliens? It’s now 3030 and aliens and humans have been successfully communicating for the past 10 years. The first shuttle is planning a departure from Earth to physically meet the alien community for the first time. You have been offered a spot on the shuttle. Are you taking it?
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Boeing 727 files in arcs to create
rivers, through forests, and over
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lifetime. Would you go?
Ride the Milky Way? One of the newest attractions at the Space World amusement park is called the Milky Way Speed Race. It opened for the first time this year (3050). You begin the ride on a two person shuttle and ride
if so, what would it be?
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Move to a different planet? It’s 3070 and humans have found a way for life to exist on any planet. Are you ditching Earth?
Constellation Love Stories It’s time to turn up the romance. You are going to learn about an ancient chinese love story known as “The Legend of the Magpie Bridge”. The story covers three constellations: Aquila, Cygnus, and Lyra. The star Altair in the Aquila constellation symbolizes a poor shepherd boy named Niu Lang. The star Vega from the constellation Lyra symbolizes a weaver girl named Zhi Nu. The two fell hopelessly in love with each other, however, both of their parents forbade the relationship. Their parents separate them from one another. There are numerous stories about why their parents kept them from being together. One story is that the shepherd boy belonged to a mortal family while the weaver girl was created by the gods. In a different story, the two were neglecting their chores due to their love for one another. In every story about this forbidden love, the two are separated by a river. In the sky, the stars Altair and Vega are separated by a galaxy. One time a year the two stars move closer together. In the Chinese legend the boy and girl can only meet by crossing a bridge. This bridge was formed by the magpies who wanted to help the two lovers. The constellation Cygnus serves as the magpie bridge that allows the boy and girl to meet. This legend is still celebrated in China on the seventh day of the seventh month. Could you imagine only being able to secretly see the person you love through meeting at a secret bridge?! Their love must have been full of passion for them to keep it living on.
YOU’LL NEED:
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Included cork board String Needles Sticker template
art to celebrate this love story.
Race to the Stars
You are going to work together
Get ready to race to the stars
to create the constellation
with this lighthearted but
Cygnus that connects the boy
intimate board game! Begin by
and girl’s love in the sky. Head
laying your included board game
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out on a flat surface. If needed,
the instructions!
use objects to hold the corners
You are now going to make string
down. Locate your included game pieces. Place both game pieces on the start box and play a quick game of rock paper scissors to decide who gets to go first. Roll the die and move the corresponding amount of spaces. Then, perform the action or answer the question in the space where you landed. Take turns going back and forth until one of you reaches the finish line. Spice up the competition by adding an incentive for the winner if you are up for the challenge! Remember to take this as an opportunity to loosen up and have some fun.
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It just wouldn’t be right if we didn’t end this date with some stargazing! Date Night In has purchased a star with starregistration.net, and now it’s up to you to find it. You can find the Date Night In Star inside or outside! On your phone or tablet, download the free app Star Chart: compatible with IOS and Android. All you need to do is hold your phone up to have fun searching the sky! The Date Night In Star is located in the Ursa Major constellation, one of the most visible constellations to the naked eye! With your phone app, you can type in Ursa Major or “Great Bear” in the search bar or simply face your phone to the sky until you pass over the Great Bear. Take a look at your star chart and see if you can locate the Date Night In star in the sky. The challenge is on!
USE THESE TIPS WHILE STARGAZING: 1.
You’re probably looking at Mars if it’s a pale orange-
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yellow or orange-red. 2.
The Big Dipper (part of the constellation Ursa Major) is easy to spot in the sky in the springtime. It is shaped like a bowl with a
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handle. 3 stars make up the handle and 4 make up the bowl. 3.
You can locate Polaris often referred to as the North Star by following the line of the two stars that make up the side without the handle of the Big Dipper “bowl”.
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The North Star always points true north and marks the first star of the handle of the Little Dipper.
REFLECTION TA K E A M O M EN T T O RE F L E C T O N Y O U R U ND ER T HE S T ARS DAT E N I G H T I N . D I S C U S S T H E S E Q U E S T I O NS T OGET HER:
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Which part of the date did you enjoy the most? Did you try something new as a part of your date? What was it like to experience it with your significant other? Are there any aspects of the date that you would like to incorporate into your relationship in the future?
CONTINUE YOUR DATE NIGHT HE R E AR E SO M E W A Y S T O C O N T I N U E Y O U R D AT E NIGHT :
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Book a camping trip for you and your significant other Build a bonfire under the stars Purchase your own star Play Race to the Stars again
CHECK OUT THESE MOVIES
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Interstellar Galaxy Quest A Fault in our Stars The Mountain Between Us Wall-E Independence Day Guardians of the Galaxy
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