Educational Activities & Lesson Plans
- Scholastic Learn at Home: 20 days of education activities, broken up into four grade levels
- Amazing Educational Resources, a HUGE spreadsheet of tools/programs/services that usually cost money but are being offered for free, with info on subject and grade level (crowdsourced)
- Encantos Learning Hub (pre–K-1 resources available in English and Spanish)
- Learn@Home, educational YouTube channels curated by age group (YouTube)
- Sesame Street has videos, games, and activities for younger kids) (sesamo.com in Spanish)
- Tinkergarten has a week's worth of outdoor education DIY activities (sign up for the email newsletter on Tinkergarten's website)
- Newsicle, a daily news trivia game put on by the folks behind XYZA: News for Kids
- News-o-Matic suspends fees for daily news stories for kids K–8 (News-o-Matic app)
- Complexly, a series of video series on educational topics ranging from literature to biochemistry (YouTube)
- Story Pirates University, writing video lessons from the Story Pirates podcast team (YouTube)
- Two Whats and a Wow!, a daily science-based game show from the Wow in the World podcast team, including activity challenges (NPR)
- GoNoodle Good Energy at Home, entertaining videos and educational at-home activities that encourage movement
Arts, Film, and Music Lessons & Resources
- Rebel Girls providing 90+ writing/drawing/DIY prompts (sign up via email)
- Digital curriculum and lessons available to go along with The Representation Project's films (lessons are free; films are available to rent or buy on streaming platforms)
- Keep Kids Smart with ART, art lesson plans run through the Boca Raton Museum
- CircleTime classes for age 0–6 including yoga, storytime, cooking, and music (registration required)
- Daily cartooning lessons from MazeToon's Joe Wos (YouTube @HowtoToon)
- A downloadable coloring book from illustrator Liz Climo (PDF)
- Kanopy, a movie streaming service available with a library card
- Interactive pretend play challenges and activity sheets from the Bay Area Children's Theater Creativity Corner (YouTube)
- Quarantine Art Club, a daily drawing challenge from illustrator Carson Ellis (Du Iz Tak?) (Instagram @carsonellis)
- Stop Motion Kids Camp enrollment from artist Trisha Zemp is being offered for free (redeem enrollment code by sharing one of Zemp's posts on Instagram @trishazemp)
- Drawing and comic-creating prompts from Jarrett Lerner (Enginerds)
- Printable coloring pages from Latinx artists from Veoleo (donations encouraged)
- Printable coloring pages featuring Latinx trailblazers from Con Todo Press
- Educational music videos from Laurie Berkner (YouTube)
Audiobooks & Virtual Storytime
- Audible Stories, an extensive streaming library of children's and young adult audiobooks (Amazon Audible)
- Authors read their books aloud (curated on Kate Messner's website) (YouTube)
- #OperationStorytime, a partnership with picture book authors and Romper to read their stories aloud (posted and curated on Twitter @romper, updated regularly)
Virtual Tours
- Virtual tour of American National Parks (Google Arts & Culture)
- Virtual tour of the deYoung Art Museum in San Francisco (Google Arts & Culture)
- Virtual museums, classes, and exhibits in San Francisco (curated by Red Tricycle)
- Virtual museums, classes, and exhibits in Seattle (curated by Red Tricycle)
- Virtual museums, classes, and exhibits in San Diego (curated by Red Tricycle)
- Virtual museums, classes, and exhibits in Chicago (curated by Red Tricycle)
- Virtual tour of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
- Virtual tour of the Louvre museum in Paris, France
- Virtual tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
- Virtual tour of the Boston Children's Museum (Google Earth)
- Virtual tour of the Great Wall of China
- Virtual tour of Mars from pictures from NASA's Curiosity rover (Google)
- Virtual "field trips" to zoos, dairies, symphonies, and operas (curated by Red Tricycle)
Fun & Games
- Family Time Machine, ideas for activities for the whole family, available in Spanish
- Virtual rides on Disney attractions (YouTube, curated on PopSugar)
- Virtual "Dungeons & Dragons" trial adventure from Wizards of the Coast (Roll20)
- Mobile and console games, including Alto's Adventure and The Sims 4, available for free or on sale (curated by The Verge)
- Amazon's original kids' series will be available for free (with or without a Prime account) (Amazon Video)
- StoryToys makes its educational preschool apps free to download
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