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Decide
first if your party is for Leap Day Babies only,
or if it will be open to the general public since
Leap
Year Day
is everyone's extra day. You can do the latter and have the cake and ice-cream portion
be just for the Leapies
that showed up. Each Leapy
can wear a special badge or button to make it
easy to identify them. But decide
your guest list first so
you'll know what direction you're going, and so
you will be prepared to answer the questions
you will inevitably be asked by the media. |
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Emma,
in Australia will be making Fairy bread and
playing "Pass-the-parcel"
Fairy Bread is simply white bread, covered
in sprinkles - a regular at 6th birthday parties
in Australia.
"Pass-the-parcel" is a game where
a small gift is wrapped up in many sheets of
wrapping paper.
Everyone sits in a circle, with someone
controlling the music. When the music stops,
whoever is holding
the gift, has to unwrap one layer of paper, before
the music comes back on. Once the music is back
on,
it is passed around the circle once again, until
the music stops. Whoever opens the last bit of
wrapping
paper is the winner, and keeps the gift. |
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Contact
ALL local media: News Stations - Radio Stations -
Newspapers - Local TV Shows National Media,
to let them know what you
are doing, i.e., planning a
Leap Year Day Party, looking for
others born on
February 29, celebrating our extra day and getting ready for
the first Leap Year IN the new millennium.. |
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Contact
local businesses to see who will be honoring the day
with discounts or free meals! |
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Put
notices up at the city Library, Super Markets,
wherever notices and postings are welcome. |
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Contact
your local schools to find out if any of them are
celebrating Leap Year in any way. |
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Contact
the local children's museum to find out if they
are doing anything special for Leap Year Day. |
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The City, local Businesses and the Media are often looking
for things to do so don't be shy. Contact
your Community
Centers, your Chambers of Commerce, Visitor
Centers and local attractions. They are usually wanting a reason to get
people into
their business location. See if someone will Sponsor your event! |
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For
larger parties, it is a good idea to go to your
local Visitor Information Center and get on the
area's Events List.
DO THIS EARLY so you make it in the publication.
You might even contact Visitor Centers in your surrounding
area to get on their list as well. They may
benefit from visitors attending your event and
will be happy to include you. |
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Find
businesses that are willing to promote Leap
Year Day
and their business at the same time! Leap
Year can be
a great promotional tool for businesses and
organizations. A lot of them just don't know it...
yet! |
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There
is helpful information on this web site. There are
many pages here with great information about Leap
Year
that you may use. Copy and Paste; quote us; give out our
email and web addresses, you have our permission. We
are happy to talk to anyone that wants to talk
to us. |
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We
want to promote your event the best we can. But we
need you to keep in contact with us in order for
us
to do
so. The more you inform us, the more we can promote
you and your event. Keep us posted on what
your plans are. Just send the details
in an email to
Raenell.
Be sure to include any fees and all details. |
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If
you have ideas that not on this list please do
share them with us. Our readers will appreciate
it. |
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For
children's parties, check out some of our other
web pages on this web site. With the information
on these
pages, you can put together a pretty cool and fun
party for children. Be creative, and have fun.
- Check out what
other parents are doing here at the
Kids
Party Page!
- The Jump Rope
Rhyme and other fun
Leap
Day Poetry
- You may use the
images on our site to make your own
invitations and cards or whatever. And if you
print them out in color book mode, the
children can color their own. All the brightly
colored artwork is
by Nancy Lucas. You may use her images, but
please credit her:
Copyright 2008 Nancy Lucas www.leapyearday.com
- There are two
stories listed in the LEAPzine that are for
children. You may print them out to read or to
pass out to the guests.
We are unable,
right now, to produce the products in order to
sell them to you. But we feel it is important the
children have access to this information and learn
about Leap Day in a fun positive way. Please let
us know if
you do anything with our images. If you do, all we
ask is that the artist is credited and our web
address is on
the item, like this: Copyright 2004 Nancy Lucas
www.leapyearday.com.
If you are able to send us a copy we
would appreciate it. We will add it to our
archive, and credit will go where credit is due.
Please send it to:
LEAP
HAPPENS
4405 Panther CT NE
Keizer OR 07303-2424
USA |
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| For
her Birth Day in 2004, Emma, in Australia,
made Fairy bread and played "Pass-the-parcel"
Fairy Bread
is simply white bread, covered in sprinkles - a
regular at 6th birthday parties in Australia.
"Pass-the-parcel" is a game where a small gift is
wrapped up in many sheets of wrapping paper. Everyone sits
in a circle, with someone controlling the music. When
the music stops, whoever is holding the gift, has to unwrap
one layer of paper, before the music comes
back on. Once the music is back on, it is passed around the circle
once again, until the music stops.
Whoever opens the last bit of wrapping paper is the winner, and keeps the gift. |
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If
you'd like to share your party plans with
us please email
Raenell. |
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