29 things to do on Leap Day

Every four years, because our days aren’t exactly 24 hours long, we add an extra day in February, just to get caught up. To celebrate, the Healthy Set Go team thought of 29 fun ways to spend that extra day.

Get physical

1. Take a Leap day hike
2. Go skating
3. Go rock climbing
4. Watch Frozen with your kids and then go outside and build a snowman
5. Go snowshoeing

    

   Get smarter

6. Go to a museum
7. Read a book
8. Watch a documentary on TV
9. Sign up for a class
10. Go to the zoo and read a new fact you didn’t know before

     

    Be kinder

11. Go through a drive-in window at the coffee shop and pay for the person behind you.
12. Volunteer
13. Call someone you haven’t talked to in a long time
14. Do something kind for someone

     

    Get creative

15. Visit the Cabin fever craft and vendor show in Hudson, Wisc.
16. Try a new recipe
17. Throw a dinner party
18. Color in a coloring book
19. Write a short story or poem and read it out loud to someone

     

    Improve your mental health

20. Make a leap year resolution
21. Mediate
22. Stay in your pajamas all day
23. Take a nap
24. Clean out that medicine cabinet and get rid of old medications

     

    Enjoy life

25. Try a new restaurant
26. Visit a beer pub
27. Visit a winery
28. Play a board game with your family or friends
29. Sing karaoke