29 Leap Year Kid-Fun Activities from TheraPlay4Kids.com

It’s time to leap into February and enjoy 29 fun activities you can do with your child throughout the month – Leap year only comes around every 4-years – so let’s make the most of it and make this leap year month extra fun!

Grab a calendar and mark off the days, writing in the activities as you plan and complete them!

You can plan ahead by having supplies at the ready, or put all the ideas in a bowl and pull one out each day and go from there! It’s a leap year, and anything goes!

29 Leap Year Kid-Fun Activities from TheraPlay4Kids.com

Make a Leap Year Calendar – You can use a large desk calendar to draw on, color on, decorate, and plan out your month of activities; make your own calendar with a large piece of construction paper; keep out on the table or on refrigerator for the whole family to see and enjoy!

Leaping Animal Seek and Search – Talk about what animals can leap; Find pictures in magazines and books showing an animal leaping and jumping; Pretend you are that animal and leap / hop / jump around the room.

Leap Year Jump - Jump from hula hoop to hula hoop placed around the room; Place in a straight line, in a circle, or in a wavy line;

Froggy Hunt – Use a bunch of plastic, rubbery, or other small frog toys and hide them around the house for your child to find; place some that are easy to find, and others where they may blend into the background; keep a count of what you place out so you will know that they have all been discovered. You can give your child a small bucket or basket to carry to place their frogs in as they find them. Option: You can print out several to a dozen frog pictures and stick up onto appliances, furniture, on doors, or walls, and have your child search and find them all visually, calling out when they find each one

Frog Jello Dig and Search – Use small cups or ice-cube trays and small plastic frogs. Put a frog in each, pour in green jello to cover the frogs, or dark/blackberry jello to hide the frogs better. Let jello set. Pop out each jello cube and let your kids squish and dig through each one to find the hidden frogs.

Froggy Snack Time – Make some cupcakes and frost with green frosting using different jellybeans and decorations to make frog faces, red shoestring licorice for the tongues. Let your child help to stir and decorate – then eat them up!

Tracing – Use a big piece of paper and a pencil to write out the letters to spell February – let your child trace over the letters with a marker, or glitter glue, or by using their finger.

Pin the Tongue on the Frog – Great party game! Use a big picture of a frog and glue /tape onto cardboard that you decorate and maybe even paint green (or you may find a big frog decoration at a dollar store); Hang the picture on the wall at your child’s eye level; Use red or pink construction paper to cut out long thin strips that becomes the frog’s tongue; Use double-sided tape or roll up a piece of tape so that it will stick to the picture. Have your child close their eyes, or wear a blindfold if they will, and see who comes closest to sticking the tongue to the frog.

Leap Year Frog Jump – Have your kids squat down with their arms held out in front. Have your child jump forward, raising their arms high in the air before returning back to the squatting position. Change it up by trying to have them leap and jump across the room as fast as they can, then as slow as they can, while making “ribbit” noises as they jump.

Foot-Print Frog Picture – Use finger paint or washable kid-safe paint on your child’s foot – have them step on some construction paper and then help them draw the eyes, ears, for a great picture to keep! (See photo)

Apple Frogs – Make a fun healthy snack that’s also a frog! Use apples, grapes, marshmallows, chocolate chips, and anything else you may want to use as part of your creation.

Frog to Bug Connection – See Photo to print out  

Frog Sensory Bin – Make a sensory bin filled with dry rice or elbow noodles, or large dried beans – add in a variety of plastic frogs, plastic flowers (like on lily pads), big googly eyes, plastic or wooden letters, rubbery bugs, and so on. Search and find the treasure!

Frog Valentines – Find some frog decorations to glue onto some colorful construction paper where you can write on “I Leap for You!” OR “I’d Jump for Joy for You,” etc – you can draw the letters and let your child trace or color over them

Frog Slime – Click & Go for some great SLIMEY SLIME to make at home! Make it green and hide some plastic frogs in it!

Thumb Print Frogs – See photo! Great scrapbook memory to make!

Frog Puzzle – See photo, print, cut out, and put together!

Water Lily Frog Jump Across – See photo – print and play!

Frog on Lily Pad Coloring Page – See photo – print, color, and display!

Pass the Toad – Play like “hot potato” passing a stuffed frog around and around a group to music – whoever is holding the frog when the music stops are out for that round

Paper Plate Frog Time - This easy to make Paper Plate Frog is great for small groups or a play-date. Will need a paper plate, kid-safe washable paint, hand prints, pipe cleaner, and some washable markers to get creative with. (see photo for example)

Frog Rocks – find a variety of small smooth rocks and paint them up to make some froggy friends for the house or garden!

Leap Frog Obstacle Course – Make an obstacle course inside or out using pillows, bolsters, boxes to crawl through, hula-hoops, sensory tunnels; run your course under tables, through different rooms, behind a couch, around the playground

Leap Year Birthday Party – Since leap year only comes around every four years, plan and then celebrate with a leap frog party!  You are celebrating the day, the leap year, the whole month – make your party decorations reflect all that is green, froggy, February, and fun!

Frog Straw Challenge – Crunch up some green tissue paper. Take a straw and have your child suck in over the tissue paper – they will have to keep the suck on the straw to run over to drop the tissue on a table or in a container across the room; if you are extra crafty you can cut the tissue paper to look like a little green frog, drawing on some eyes and a smiling face.

Musical Lily Pads – Nice group activity - Cut out eight to ten large green lily pads from construction paper and tape down on the floor in a large circle or oval design. Play some music and let the children jump from pad to pad as the music plays. If you want to make it like “musical chairs” then have one less pad than there are kids - When the music stops, everyone needs to be on a lily pad and whoever is not on a pad is out for that round. Remove one more pad each round.

Frog on Your Head – Use a stuffed frog and place it on your child’s head – have them try to slowly leap and jump across the room while keeping the frog in place on their head! Cut out about ten large green Lily pads from construction paper. Tape these down on the floor. Play some music and let the children dance jumping from pad to pad. When the music stops, everyone needs to be on a Lily pad. If you want to make this game like musical chairs, have enough pads per child playing this game. When the music stops, remove one pad. If a child doesn’t have a pad to stand on, they are out. Continue playing until one person is left standing on the final Lily pad.

Toilet Roll Frogs – See Photo – great way to use the toilet roll inserts! You will need washable green paint, red construction paper, safety scissors, googly eyes, marker, and kid-safe glue.

Dot-to-Dot Frog – See Photo to print and use!

What other great ideas can you come up with?

Have a Great Leap Year Month!

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