Creativity Tips: 29 Creative Ideas for Leap Day

Whoo hoo! Not only is it Monday -- start of a whole fabulous new week -- but it's leap day. Bonus! We have an extra 24 hours of spectacularness. Spectacularnous? Whatever. Here are 29 ways to add creative fun to your day. C'mon. Drink your coffee, wake up, choose one. Party on!

Make your frog any color but green.

1. Check out the leap year specials.
2. Go to the library and choose a book off a top shelf -- a book I would have to leap to get.
3. Take an artistic leap. Draw a frog. 
4. Play hopscotch. 
5. Try to remember the classic Leap Year Poem from Mother Goose before you look it up. 
6. Take a culinary leap. At some point in the day, eat at a restaurant you've never visited before. 
7. Consider what you'd write on a birthday cake for a leapling, aka a leaper. You know, someone who was born on February 29. 
8. Decide whether you'd rather be a leapling or a leaper. Then ask yourself: "Why?" Isn't it amazing how much words matter?
9. Stay moist. Check out Kermit the Frog answering questions for the Daily News. 
10. Go shopping. Look for something that costs $29. 
11. Think happy thoughts of my Kate and Mary, both born on the 29th. Kate, in March; Mary, in August. That makes this their monthday. (Any reason to celebrate is a good reason.)
12. Take a leap of faith. Believe this will be a good week. 
13. Watch the movie Annie. Leaping lizards!
14. Speaking of leaping lizards, check out Seth Godin's video on Quieting the Lizard Brain -- it's about the creative affliction of sabotaging our own ideas. 
15. Enjoy a chocolate frog while you visit Harry Potter's homeland.
16. Take a photo that illustrates 29.
17. Leap ahead in your calendar. Find one "to do" you have scheduled in March that you can delete. Got it? Great. Delete it.  
18. Replace that dreaded "to do" with something fun. Something fun could be doing nothing at all. 
19. Leap tall buildings in a single bound! Read a comic book. Superman was always my fav. 
20. Enjoy 29 pieces of your favorite small candy -- M&Ms, chocolate-covered raisins, gummy bears, whatever. 
21. Did you eat the candy? Cool beans. Now, do 29 jumping jacks. 
22. Take a leap into the future. Write a haiku about the year 2020. What's the syllable count for the lines? 5-7-5. Thank you for asking. 
23. Listen to Aileen Quinn and the Leapin' Lizards. 
24. Take a photo that illustrates leaping. 
25. Make a list of 29 places you want to visit. These could be cities or sites within your city. It could be a friend's house. Whatever. 
26. See how many words you can make out of the letters in the words leap year. 
27. Look at these leaping animals. The jumping spider? Terrifying. 
28. Bundle up and take a 29-minute walk.  
29. Close your eyes. For 29 seconds, just breathe. Just be.