February 29th Special Days - Featuring Leap Year Freebies!

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February 29th is... Leap Year Day/Leap Day, Women have the right to propose to a man, Bad Luck Day, Bachelor's Day, International Underlings Day, National Frog Legs Day, National Time Refund Day, Saliolum, Superman's Birthday (Action Comics #149), One More Disney Day (2012), Gnocchi Day (Argentina), Saint Oswald Of Worcester Feast Day/St Oswald's Day

PLUS - interesting books and free printables, recipes, crafts, activities, and coloring pages.

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Leap Year Day
-- Leap Years are needed to keep our calendar in alignment with the Earth's revolutions around the sun. It takes the Earth approximately 365.242199 days – or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds (a tropical year) – to circle once around the Sun. However, the Gregorian calendar has only 365 days a year, so if we didn't add a day on February 29 nearly every 4 years, we would lose almost six hours off our calendar yearly. After only 100 years, our calendar would be off by approximately 24 days!

Read: It's My Birthday Finally!
A Leap Year Story
-- A story about a boy named Miles, born on February 29th. On Saturday, Miles will be celebrating his birthday. Even though he's happy, there seems to be some confusion about exactly how old Miles will be! Will he be eight years old, or will he be just two years old?

Leopold's Long-Awaited Leap Year Birthday
-- Leopold and his parents wait patiently for his first birthday, February 29th, but it never seems to come. Finally, the wise old doctor considers the calendars, clocks, and seasons, concluding that Leopold has a Leap Year Birthday! Leopold's mother explains this special day as a "Peek-a-boo-holiday...It's there; it is just (sometimes) hiding." Leopold and his friends celebrate his first birthday and four great years of life! Educational and fun, this story celebrates waiting for a birthday and is an excellent primer in explaining why there are 365 and 1/4 days in a year.

Leap Year Jokes for Kids: A Leap Day Joke Book
-- Did you know that the 29th of February is Leap Day? It's the extra day that you get each Leap Year! If you want a fun activity for kids to celebrate the leap year, this book has funny jokes, knock-knock jokes, and tongue twisters. These jokes are all based on leap year themes, and they are clean, kind, and perfect for kids ages 7 to 12. Keep your kids reading… and laughing!

🗓️ Leap Year Coloring and Activity Books

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Steampunk Leap Year

Amazon Freebies:

🗓️ Read Leap Year ebooks for free with a Free Trial of Kindle Unlimited

🗓️ Free Leap Year apps

🗓️ Free Leap Year games

🗓️ Listen to Leap Year Digital Music with a Free Trial of Amazon Music Unlimited

🗓️ Watch Leap Year Videos for Free with a Free Trial of Amazon Prime

🗓️ Listen to Leap Year Audible books with Amazon Audible, and Get Two Free Audiobooks

🗓️ Free Alexa Skills | Leap Year

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FoodFest 365!

Leap Year Recipes:

🗓️ 9 Fun Leap Day Recipe Ideas To Try On Your Extra Day Of Cooking

🗓️ 7 recipes to celebrate the Leap Year

🗓️ Four-Themed Recipes for Leap Day

🗓️ Leap Day eats: Celebrate your extra day with 29 decadent dishes

🗓️ 28 Leap Year Foods

🗓️ It’s A Leap Year—use Your Extra 24 Hours To Make A Batch Of Pillowy Kolaches

The Leap Year Turtle

Free Printables, Coloring Pages, Activities, and Crafts:

🗓️ 2024 Leap Year Worksheets: Free Download

🗓️ Free Leap Year Printables Packet for Kids: Learn All About Leap Day

🗓️ Leap Year Worksheets

🗓️ Leap Year Activities, Printables and Articles

🗓️ Leap Year Activities

🗓️ Learning About Leap Year: Worksheets, Fun Facts, and More

🗓️ Leap Year Games and Activities: Comes Around Every Four Years!

🗓️ Leap Year Frog Headband for Preschoolers - Red Ted Art

🗓️ Free Leap Year Learning Packet Printable for Kids

🗓️ 16 Fun Things To Make For Leap Year!

🗓️ Leap Year Printables and Worksheets | TPT

🗓️ 10 Activities for Learning About Leap Year and Other Calendar Oddities

🗓️ Leap Year Activities, Leap Year Party Ideas, Leap Year Crafts

🗓️ 12 Easy and Fun Leap Year Activities

🗓️ Leap Year Crafts | Frog Bean Bag

🗓️ Leap Year Worksheets | TwistyNoodle

🗓️ Epic Ways To Celebrate Leap Year

🗓️ 9 Leap Year Party Games And Printables

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Women have the right to propose to a man
-- This goes back hundreds of years when the leap year day had no recognition in English law (the day was 'leaped over' and ignored, hence the term 'leap year'). It was decided the day had no legal status, meaning a break in tradition on this day was acceptable. So, on this day, women can take advantage of this anomaly and propose to the man they wish to marry.

Bad Luck Day
-- In Scotland, it used to be considered unlucky for someone to be born on Leap Day, just like Friday 13th is considered an unlucky day by many. In Greece, it’s said to be unlucky for couples to marry during a Leap Year, and especially on Leap Day.

One More Disney Day (2012)
-- Disney Parks offers an extra day of magic for you called One More Disney Day. Magic Kingdom Park and Disneyland Park will stay open for 24 hours. From 6 a.m., February 29 to 6 a.m., March 1, local time, you can fill the extra day of leap year with a marathon of Disney Parks fun.

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