THRIVE
29 things to do on Leap Day
Healthy Set Go team
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
- Take a Leap day hike
- Go skating
- Go rock climbing
- Watch Frozen with your kids and then go outside and build a snowman
- Go snowshoeing
Get smarter
- Go to a museum
- Read a book
- Watch a documentary on TV
- Sign up for a class
- Go to the zoo and read a new fact you didn’t know before
Be kinder
- Go through a drive-in window at the coffee shop and pay for the person behind you.
- Volunteer
- Call someone you haven’t talked to in a long time
- Do something kind for someone
Get creative
- Visit the Cabin fever craft and vendor show in Hudson, Wisc.
- Try a new recipe
- Throw a dinner party
- Color in a coloring book
- Write a short story or poem and read it out loud to someone
Improve your mental health
- Make a leap year resolution
- Mediate
- Stay in your pajamas all day
- Take a nap
- Clean out that medicine cabinet and get rid of old medications
Enjoy life
- Try a new restaurant
- Visit a beer pub
- Visit a winery
- Play a board game with your family or friends
- Sing karaoke