These animal-themed drinks are sure to make your date special.

• Beethoven (1992)
• The Lion King (live action) (2019)
• Jaws (1975)
• King Kong (2005)
• Mighty Joe Young (1998)
• Any movie in the new Planet of the Apes (2011- ongoing) film series

Animal Kingdom playlist on Spotify

This classic party game can be just as much fun for two as it can be for a crowd! Your partner writes down a person or thing on a sticky note which you put on your forehead without looking at it, and then you have to ask yes or no questions of your partner until you guess what is written on your paper. In our version of this activity, our clues are all animal-themed just for your date!

What you need for this activity

• Sticky notes and pens

Instructions

1. Choose which one of you will be Partner 1 and which one will be Partner 2.
2. Take 5 sticky notes each.
3. Open your respective lists for Partner 1 and Partner 2 and write down an animal from your list on your sticky note. DO NOT let your partner see your list or what you write down.
4. Stick your sticky note on your partner’s forehead without them seeing what you’ve written.
5. Ask each other yes or no questions until you’ve guessed which animal is written on your forehead!
   • Play the round all the way through until you have both guessed your animals, even after one of you has correctly guessed their animal.
   • Keep track of how many questions you have to ask until you guess your animal.
     • For example, if it takes you 6 questions to guess your animal, write down 6 for that round.
6. Play 5 rounds.
7. At the end of 5 rounds, add up the total of all of the questions you asked for all 5 rounds. The partner with the LOWEST score wins! See what you’ve won in the Prize tab below.

Partner 1

Partner 2

Prize

Watching animal documentaries can actually be a super cozy way to spend an evening – you get to check out cute little animals, you learn some interesting facts, and you can marvel at the cinematic photography. Want to make your animal documentaries more fun, though? Add alcohol. In this activity, you and your partner will be drinking your alcoholic beverage of choice to our series of rules. Bottoms up!

What you need for this activity

• Alcoholic beverage of your choice (you can also play without alcohol!)
• Computer or smart TV
• Streaming service like Netflix, Discovery+, or Disney+

Instructions

1. Prepare your drinks of choice
2. Find an animal documentary to watch from your chosen streaming service
   1. Great choices include Planet Earth, Our Planet, Animal, or something similar
3. Drink every time the following happens:
   • There’s a fast motion of incoming weather, seasons changing, flowers blooming, or mushrooms growing
   • One animal gets eaten by another (even if you don’t see the the eating part, but it’s implied)
   • There’s a helicopter or drone shot
   • An animal moves in slow motion
   • The narrator talks about climate change

Modification

If you would like to play this game without alcohol, kiss every time the above happens instead of drinking.

Believe it or not you can play Pictionary with just two people with a little creativity – and we’ve got you covered there. We’ve set up the rules for the game for you including animal-themed drawing clues. Let’s see those drawing skills!

What you need for this activity

• Paper and pens or pencils
• A timer

Instructions

In our version of couple’s Pictionary, you will be playing with each other against a clock instead of playing against each other. You have 30 minutes to draw and correctly guess 16 animals.

1. Set a timer for 30 minutes.
2. Take turns picking animals from the list below and drawing them. DO NOT LET YOUR PARTNER SEE WHICH ANIMAL YOU PICK FROM THE LIST. Your partner should guess what you are drawing as quickly as possible.
   • If you get stuck on one drawing, you can choose to skip it and come back to it later in the game.
   • You are allowed to look at pictures on your phone for reference, just be aware that it eats away your time. Do not let your partner see the images you search for on your phone.
3. See if you can get all 16 animals guessed within the 30 minutes.
4. If you beat the clock and win, check the Winners tab below and follow the directions. If you don’t finish guessing all drawings within 30 minutes, open the Losers tab below and follow the directions.

The animals

ONLY OPEN ONE TAB AT A TIME. DO NOT LET YOUR PARTNER SEE WHICH ANIMAL YOU’VE PICKED.

Win or Lose

Put your brains together and see how much you know about our furry, feathered, and scaly friends! If that wasn’t fun enough, we also give you some ways to make your trivia time even more interesting. The pressure is on!

What you need for this activity

• Pen and paper

Instructions

Answer these trivia questions together. Write your answers down on a piece of paper and check how many you have correct using the Answer Key when you are finished. No googling! Want to make things really interesting? Tally up the number of answers you got WRONG and then look at Make It Interesting tab.

If you were an animal, would you rather live in a zoo or in the wild?

What is your favorite animal and why?

Which animal would you come back as if you reincarnated after death?

If animals could talk, which one do you think would have the best stand-up comedy routine?

If you could swap lives with an animal for a day, which animal would it be and what would you do?

If you could have a conversation with a famous animal character from a movie or TV show, who would it be?

If you woke up tomorrow with the ability to communicate with animals, what’s the first thing you would say to your pet?

If animals were capable of using technology at the level that we do, which species would take over the world first?

If you could train an animal to do anything for you, which animal would you train and what would you have them do?

Which wild animal would be your dream pet if it could be tamed?