Activities to do at Home
- Famous Museums Offering Virtual Tours You Can Take on Your Couch
- GoNoodle
- BrainPOP
- Netflix Party Chrome extension - for watching Netflix remotely with friends
- Time for Kids
- PBS Kids
- Coach Edson’s PE Classes - Get active!
- Ideas for Activities During School Closings
- ByrdseedTV
- Reading Eggs
- Storyline
- 50 Books All Kids Should Read Before They're 12
- Best Family Movies
- Common Sense Selections highlighting the best movies and TV shows
- Sibling Watch-Together TV
- Best Documentaries for Kids and Families
- Scratch Jr. - Children ages 5-7 learning to code
- Code.org - Learn computer science
- Public libraries - many public libraries have digital books you can rent for free on their websites, along with other resources
- Stick Figure Art
- Met to launch “Nightly Met Opera Streams” - A free series of encore Live in HD presentations streamed on the company website during the coronavirus closure
- TED-Ed Video Playlist
- Virtual Field Trips - Over 30 virtual field trips with links
- Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems
- Educational YouTube channels
- Unite for Literacy - free online audiobooks
- Cincinnati Zoo is Bringing the Zoo to You!
- 100 things to do while stuck inside due to a pandemic
- Story time from space
- 11 Amazing Places Around New York That You Can Visit Virtually
- Podcasts for Kids
- Calendar/list of live streams to watch
- 15 Broadway Plays and Musicals You Can Watch On Stage From Home
- 20 Virtual Field Trips
- Entertainment for a Quarantine
- Math card games
- Library of Congress digital collections
- NASA has made their entire media library - images, sounds, and video - public
- DuoLingo - Learn a new language or practice one you already know!
- You Can Now Tour 2,500 World-Famous Museums From the Comfort of Your Own Sofa
- Free audiobooks
- The San Diego Zoo has a website just for kids with videos, activities, and games!
- Tour Yellowstone National Park
- Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover
- The Canadian site FarmFood 360 offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs
- 40+ Best Indoor Activities from Busy Toddler
- Atlantic White Shark Conservancy story hour
- Wash Your Lyrics - Generate a hand washing lyrics meme based on your favorite song lyrics
- Google Earth Has Virtual Tours of 31 National Parks in the U.S.
- 50 Ways to Keep Kids Engaged at Home During the Coronavirus Shutdown
- Virtual Disney World rides
- The Palace of Versailles is offering a free virtual tour
- Free virtual tours of museums, parks, and cities
- Audible.com - all stories are currently free
- Write notes, letters, draw pictures to send or drop off at local nursing homes - the elderly in nursing homes aren’t allowed to have visitors right now and it will brighten their day!
- Getting outdoors and connecting with nature is a way to help maintain our physical and mental health (as long as you are maintaining social distancing!)