Today is Leap Day: Feb. 29. It's an extra day that only comes around every four years. How will you use this extra day? Here are 29 great ideas:
1. Play leap frog.
2. Read "Leap Year" by Barbara Sutton-Smith.
3. Make pickled frogs
(Don't worry: they're pickles in frog shapes!).
4. Have your children write letters to themselves that they can open on the next Leap Day (2016).
6. Celebrate a Leap Baby: Do you know anyone who was born on February 29th? Host a once-every-four-years Leap Baby party for them.
10. Set life achievement goals for the next 5 Leap Years.
13. Read "The Leap Year Turtle" by Robert Paske.
17. Eat some froggy cupcakes.
20. Tackle those annoying household projects that you only want to face every four years. Clean the attic, anyone?
21. Using pictures from old magazine, make a "leaping" collage
of all the things that jump: jumping beans, kangaroos, rabbits, pogo sticks, etc.
22. Play "Ribbit, Ribbit, Jump," instead of "Duck, Duck, Goose."
24. Watch "Leap Year
." Need a better reason to watch an Amy Adams movie?
25. Listen to some tunes from Leap Day
, the Netherlands-based progressive rock band.
28. Catch up on a task (taxes?) that's been bogging you down this month.
29. Visit Disney. As part of their One More Disney Day
program, it will mark the first time in history that both Disneyland and Disneyworld will remain open for 24 hours.