Free Online Activities to Do While Social Distancing at Home

 

  1. Lunch Doodles
    Best-selling children’s author Mo Willems hosts daily drawing sessions for children on YouTube.
  2. San Diego Zoo
    Live streaming cameras allow viewers to witness wildlife explore, eat, swing and play throughout their day. Enjoy the Polar Cam, Penguin Cam, Butterfly Jungle Wildlife Cam and much more!
  3. Free Guitar Lessons
    Now more than ever we need music! Get 3 months of free guitar, bass and ukulele. Don’t delay – offer to the first 500,000 that sign up!
  4. Digital Concert Hall – Now Free!
    The Berlin Philharmonic is now offering concerts on their Digital Concert Hall website free of charge. See and hear the greatest conductors and soloists of our time!
  5. Explore With NASA
    Let your creativity take flight with engineering activities, online games, and even videos to get you moving and training like an astronaut.
  6. Storytime Online
    These videos feature celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Rami Malek, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones and more.
  7. America’s Test Kitchen Kids
    They have opened up access to their website to provide you and your family access to their collection of recipes, activities, experiments and more! Pretzel rolls? Buffalo chicken lavash flatbread? What cooks faster? Name that herb!
  8. Mystery Science
    Look here for science lessons and experiments that can be done at home. Who invented pizza? Why do woodpeckers peck wood? Can a statue’s shadow move?
  9. Piano Lessons by Chloe Flower
    One of the coolest pianists in the world, Chloe Flower, has decided to offer free daily piano lessons for beginners on her YouTube channel.
  10. Code Break
    In this live, weekly interactive classroom, Code.org will teach your children at home while school is closed, and a weekly challenge to engage students of all abilities. Tune in Wednesdays at 10 am PT and look out for celebrity guests!

 

Please check back often as we will continue to add to this resource list!