If you are looking for educational activities to do while you are home with your kids over the next few weeks, I have compiled (with lots of help from other people) an ultimate list of activities to do while you’re (stuck) at home with your kiddos. This list is extensive so take some time to go through it, click on the links and see if it is age appropriate. This list includes activities for every age group PreK to Adult. So, I hope you find something that will keep you entertained.
•🎼Mr. Jon & Friends is planning to do Live music for toddlers / preschoolers in the mornings at 10:30am EST for 2 weeks! He is awesome.
•🎨LIVE Watercolor classes from Artist Kris Loya Art & Illustration page! Also check her out on SkillShare. You can get SkillShare free for 2 months. https://skl.sh/2TbCu60
•🎨Splotch Monster Island artist Steve Loya will be doing some live events on his page as well. His monsters are very popular with kids! Tuesday at 10am EST for his first one!
•🖍✂️🎨McHarper Manor is doing online art classes for elementary age kids, just purchase the supplies ahead of time. They will be at 1pm EST and have the week of projects listed.
•🧘♀️🧘🧘♂️ Online Live Kids Yoga – Older kids (9 & up) and adults 3/19 @ 2pm ET. Younger kids (2-8) 3/19 @ 3pm and 3/20 at 3pm. Email Michele at info@lovelifeyoga.org to get the class link. Can also visit website at lovelifeyoga.org Donations welcome but not required.
•🌟Here is a link to 12 virtual museum tours: https://apple.news/AoXUX57qoTzuLREnMdxoSvQ
•🌟 Here is another virtual museum list compiled by Travel & Leisure.
•🐒🐘🦍🦓Cincinnati Zoo will be doing a Home Safari on their Facebook page, 3pm EST, featuring a different animal and a lesson. https://m.facebook.com/…/p…/a.96076385478/10158043842200479/
•🎼🎭Metropolitan Opera will have a live performance every night from their catalog of recorded events. https://www.playbill.com/…/metropolitan-opera-after-shuttin…
•📚List of educational companies offering free subscriptions. https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/…/list-of-education-compani…/
•Something for mamas! Lauren Matera will have a cooking demonstration, some meditation, summer styling and calligraphy all lined up! Check the EVENTS tab as things get scheduled.
•🖋Calligraphy for Beginners! Replay available https://facebook.com/events/s/calligraphy-for-beginners/3098326420202116/
•🥋Free Online Karate Lessons – https://www.facebook.com/events/236052567527004/
•💕Daily activities for kids from their favorite characters through Once Upon a Party – https://www.facebook.com/…/rpp.144833682…/2480362168960443/…
•🏰Disney + is releasing Frozen 2 three months early to their streaming platform. https://variety.com/…/disney-plus-frozen-2-streaming-early…/
•📚FREE children’s literacy resource featuring the world’s best storytellers reading books aloud. Each video includes an activity guide with lessons for K-5 students to do at home. https://www.storylineonline.net/
•🎼🎻Seattle Symphony Orchestra is providing free live stream performances! https://seattlesymphony.org/…/beyondthestage/live-broadcasts
•🩰Local dance studio posting daily activities for little dancers. https://www.facebook.com/TheDanceCenterofSevernaPark/
•📚Scholastic has a resource for kids at home: www.scholastic.com/learnathome
•🔭🔬Free STEM lessons for K-12 students starting at 10am EST on Monday 3/16 https://www.pscp.tv/Dr_Groff/follow
•🔬🔭Skype a Scientist – Check out the awesome lineup! Mostly scheduled from 12-2 eastern time. BATS! POOP! FARTS!!! SNAKES! WHALES! SPACE!!! You really cannot go wrong. Sign up here- you won’t be sorry!: https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSfyPILybTJvPIjP4a…/viewform
•📚Storytime from Space! The Global Space Education Project sent children’s books to the International Space Station to be read by astronauts! https://storytimefromspace.com/
•🎼You Can Play That – Come to the page at 11am EST for FREE 30 minute classes via live stream every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for at least the next three weeks. We’ll mostly be focusing on having fun with music and some basics of music theory that every young musician should know!
•🎼Living room dance parties with DJ Mel https://m.facebook.com/DJ-Mel-48330349120/
•📚Beale Library in California is offering Virtual Storytime everyday next week! https://m.facebook.com/bealelibrary/ Visit their page to vote for your favorite time of day!
•🎨Ms. Meyer’s Come Draw With Me will be having art lessons everyday next week, including a special St. Patrick’s Day one! Simple supply list on her page.
•🧘♀️🧘🧘♂️Cosmickids.com “We’ve used this for years on rainy days when the kids need to get moving. There’s Minecraft yoga and Frozen yoga, etc.”
•🖋Comic book making and activity sheets https://jarrettlerner.com/activities/
•A great way to teach little ones the power of washing hands. https://www.facebook.com/156246484413236/posts/2770413539663171
•🎼Singalong with Emily Arrow! Everyday at 1pm. Check out her page for details. https://www.facebook.com/156246484413236/posts/2768718209832704
•🖋Draw everyday with JJK – Jarrett Krosoczka is an author/illustrator offering drawing lessons starting 3/16. https://www.youtube.com/user/studiojjk
•📚Author Oliver Jeffers will be reading a book everyday starting Monday. https://m.facebook.com/…/photos/a.39176…/10156586435571612/…
•🖋Do you love Narwhal and Jelly? Author Ben Clanton will be reading on 3/18 & 3/20. Check out this post for details! https://www.facebook.com/1539242536097606/posts/3155470447808132
•📚Brad Meltzer, author of the “I Am” books for kids, about people in history, will be reading his books as well – https://m.facebook.com/BradMeltzer/
•📚🔬🎼Head over to pinna.fm for podcasts, audiobooks, science shows, mysteries and music for kids. Use the code GRIMMERS to get 30 days free, and $2 for the next month.
•📚🖋🎨The KidLit TV team has created a virtual library of FREE read aloud, drawing & writing tutorials, podcasts, art activities + reading resources for kids! Find them here: https://kidlit.tv
•🖋Free cartooning classes for all ages Live! Internationally syndicated cartoonist Joe Wos of MazeToons fame is taking marker into his own hands to help! Beginning on Weds March 18th Joe will be offering free live cartooning classes online for all ages. The live classes will take place on YouTube channel HowToToon at 1pm(eastern time zone), 3 days a week (Tuesdays-Thursdays). Students can access the channel by visiting www.Howtotoon.com
•💻Hour of Code for their tutorials: https://hourofcode.com/us/learn
•Discovery Channel Virtual Field Trips https://www.discoveryeducation.com/com…/virtual-field-trips/
•📚Kids Lit Quarantine – List of authors that will be reading on their pages https://docs.google.com/…/1MrM7Ypu3uoEEwbyLQ6sx…/mobilebasic
•🔭🔬Mystery Science has made their most popular science lessons free for anyone to use. Lessons are expertly designed to engage students, achieve learning outcomes, and be easy for teachers to use. Short mini-lessons are completely digital. Full lessons include an activity designed to use simple supplies a parent will likely already have at home. K-5 https://mysteryscience.com/school-closure-planning
•🌟Virtual Field Trip list, with trips to Mars, the zoo, the Louvre, and more! https://docs.google.com/…/1SvIdgTx9djKO6SjyvPDs…/mobilebasic
•🎨Make Art Gallery in Kentucky will be doing crafts at 1pm CST! https://www.facebook.com/319930294875265/posts/1391011517767132/
•🌟450 Manga volumes offered free online! http://epicstream.com/…/Coronavirus-Outbreak-Leads-to-Over-…
•🎼34 Minutes of KIDZ BOP Dance Along Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHd2s_saYsQ
•🌟Author, educator and entertainer Culture Queen will be doing YouTube videos celebrating Women’s History Month. https://youtu.be/AE8AZEyAVEs
•🏞Virtual Tours of 33 National Parks https://totallythebomb.com/heres-33-national-park-tours-you…
•🔬🔭Science Mom will have online classes everyday at 11am-1pm. Engineering, science lessons, activities and crafts.
•🌟Another list of Virtual Field Trips. https://adventuresinfamilyhood.com/20-virtual-field-trips-t…
•🖋Lunch doodles with Mo Willems! https://youtu.be/MjaYnyCJDdU
•🌟Bricks and Minifigs, Plano will be doing online camps to build LEGO marble mazes!
•➕➖➗✖️Kindergarten Math Story Problems https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=VMd49zJPrRM
•🔭🔬Free online science class https://nextlevelhomeschool.com/cou…/free-scientific-method/
•🦈Atlantic White Shark Conservancy will be doing Shark Storytimes everyday at 10am EST on their page.
•🎼🎭15 Broadway plays and musicals available online https://www.playbill.com/…/15-broadway-plays-and-musicals-y…
•🧘♂️🧘🧘♀️Online Kids Yoga Classes Daily at 12pm https://mailchi.mp/beeyouyoga/theres-still-time-2089049
•🌟Spanish Children’s Stories and free Spanish Lessons https://www.thespanishexperiment.com/
•🌸Toddler Storytime with Ms. Jessica! Every Wednesday and Friday at 9:30 am EST! It will be available later to replay! https://www.facebook.com/274101289633358/posts/1071763526533793/
•⛈💨Join Doug Kammerer the Weather Guy, for a fun talk about…weather! Makes a great science lesson! Check for the replay!
•🩰Virtual Online Ballet Lessons from the Cleveland Inner City Ballet https://www.clevelandinnercityballet.org/…/Cleveland-Inner-…
•Laurie Berkner Band Educational Videos on YouTube. I love her songs! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6SZN3NE0P7A&feature=youtu.be
•📚Pete the Cat!! Stuck at home this week? Head over to our Instagram (@petethecatofficial) March 17th at 12pm EDT to join James Dean for a LIVE storytime! See you there, cats and kittens. http://ow.ly/iqvT50yNfJ0
•🎼John Legend will LiveStream a concert from his home https://www.oprahmag.com/…/john-legend-free-concert-insta…/…
•🎼👑On Friday, March 22nd, at 8pm ET, Rodgers & Hammerstein will be showing Cinderella! Start the movie and follow along with them on the official Rodgers & Hammerstein Twitter (@Rnh_Org) and Instagram (@rodgersandhammerstein) for trivia, fun facts, and sweepstakes giveaways!
•10 homes you can tour virtually, including Buckingham Palace! https://www.housebeautiful.com/…/historic-homes-you-can-vi…/
•🎼Live ‘Ukulele is having free online lessons at 4pm EDT
•🏰🎡Virtual Rides at Disneyland! https://www.romper.com/p/while-disney-world-disneyland-are-…
•🍽Milk Street Online Cooking School will have free classes until 4/30. https://www.177milkstreet.com/scho…/classes/online-classes/…
•🏰Walt Disney Imagineering has teamed up with Khan Academy to give you “Imagineering in a Box” free! https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/…/walt-disney-imagineeri…/
•Thrive Gym Annapolis is doing online classes like Little Ninjas and Toddler Fun. Check it out on their Facebook page.
•YMCA starts an online page with over 60 free virtual classes. https://ymca360.org/
•This is a fantastic list of apps for children with special needs! https://www.educatorstechnology.com/…/a-handy-chart-featuri…
•Willie Nelson, Paul Simon and more to give free virtual concert. https://www.tennessean.com/…/willie-nelson-luck…/2863294001/
The above extensive list was compiled by Jessica Moore.
•💻 Learn to type by touch with Typing.com.
And don’t forget about books you can read at home with your kiddos. Here are a few lists I’ve compiled. A lot of these book are available as e-books as well if you don’t want to wait an order them from Amazon.
•📚 Looking for activities and resources to keep students engaged during this new-normal of school closures and social distancing? Junior Library Guild is offering free access.
•📚 A big list of authors doing online read alouds and activities.
•📚 TheLivBits has compiled a list of authors doing interactive read aloud’s of their books. You can see that list here. There are some other kid lit resources listed on this page as well.
•📚 Do you have kids who like to listen to books. Audible is granting access as long as schools are closed. Kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids.
•📚 This spreadsheet has some literacy resources as well including authors and publishers who have granted rights for teachers and librarians to do read aloud’s, where you can find authors online, craft ideas, and more. This list was compiled by Jennifer Brown.
I would love to keep this list going so please share more in the comments if you run across something I can add!!
Thanks!
