SWEET Time Together!

Does your spouse love candy? Grab some other couples who have a sweet-tooth, too and send out the invitations with candy bars attached. The note could read something like this:

Hey there, BIG HUNK (or BABY RUTH)
Thinking of our next date give me the SNICKERS. We'll have MOUNDS of fun. Next PAYDAY we'll meet the 3 MUSKETEERS and their dates (not NERDS) to go adventuring under the MILKY WAY. Can't wait! KISSES from your BIT O' HONEY.

Pick a few of these activities for the big night:

• Find the WATCHAMACALLIT: This is basically a treasure hunt, scavenger hunt, or geo-caching with the prize being...you guessed it. Make sure there is one candy bar for each participant.
• SKITTLES: Place one fewer candies in the center of the table than there are players. Deal a deck of card around the table. On the signal, players pass an unwanted card to the left and pick up a new card from the right. As soon as any one player has four of a kind, he or she sneaks a Skittle. Others stow away candies, too, as soon as they notice one missing. The object is not to be the one who gets none. Play several rounds, until everyone is tired of eating Skittles.
• BUTTERFINGERS: In this version of Musical Chairs, players pass a pair of gloves and a candy bar that has been wrapped in multiple layers of wrapping paper. When the music stops, the player holding the goods has to don the gloves and take off one layer only of wrapping paper. The music begins again and so does the passing. The winner is the person who unwraps the final layer, revealing a ...BUTTERFINGER.
• Pass the PIECES: This is a relay. Each team has a cup full of REESE'S PIECES at the starting line and an empty cup at the finish. Players, each holding a straw, form a line along the path from start to finish. On the signal, the first player sucks a candy from the cup and holds it on his straw while the second player attempts to suck it from him. She then holds it on her straw while the third player sucks it away. On down the line, the candy is passed until the last player retrieves it and drops it into the empty cup. The winning team is the first one to transfer all the candies down the line.
• Oh what JOY!: Have fun making homemade Almond Joy bars together. There are several good recipes on the internet.

For added delight, put a SKOR bar on your partner's pillow just before bedtime. May you and your friends enjoy this date night GOOD AND PLENTY.