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March 17, 2020 By Jana 2 Comments

Free Online Activities for Kids

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If you've found yourself homebound with an inordinate amount of time on your hands, you're not alone. It's possible you have kids at home looking for activities and entertainment and you want something more than movies and video games.

We've compiled a list of Free Online Activities for Kids that all focus on some sort of educational element to them, from arts and theatre to free zoo education. We've got live-stream concerts, virtual museum tours, and more!

Check out the list of links below. This post contains affiliate links.

Free Online Activities for Kids: Virtual Field Trips, Tours, Art, Zoos, Online Learning, Resources, and more

A Visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium for Finding Dory

Sea otters at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

Online Streaming from Zoos and Aquariums

Learn about animals by watching your favorite animal specialists at zoos and aquariums nationwide.

  • San Diego Zoo website
  • San Diego Zoo Facebook page
  • Cincinnati Zoo Facebook page
    • From the Cincinnati Zoo Facebook page: “While the Cincinnati Zoo is closed and kids are home from school, let us help make your children’s hiatus from school fun and educational. Join us for a Home Safari Facebook Live each weekday at 3 pm EDT where we will highlight one of our amazing animals and include an activity you can do from home.”
  • Central Florida Zoo Facebook page
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium Facebook page
  • Shedd Aquarium Facebook page
  • Atlantic White Shark Conservatory Facebook page
  • Panda Cam at Zoo Atlanta
  • 6 Animal Cams at Houston Zoo
  • Georgia Aquarium Beluga Whale Cam and Jellyfish, and Reef Cam
  • Smithsonian’s National Zoo webcams
  • Reid Park Zoo Lion Cam – Tuscon, AZ
  • Ouwehand Park Polar Bear Cubs webcam – Rhenen, Netherlands
  • National Aquarium Virtual Tour
  • Seattle Aquarium virtual tour
  • New England Aquarium’s virtual visits

 

science lab

Downloads and streams from teachers

Listen to teachers online

  • Science Mom on Facebook
  • The Happy Scientist

 

Authors

Listen to your favorite authors read their stories

 

  • Chris Van Dusen Daily Readings on Facebook
  • Dan Gutman reading from his books on Facebook

  • Mac Barnett is reading a different book each day at 3 PM ET via Instagram Live
  • Jan Brett reads her new book “Cozy“ on Facebook

  • Susie Jaramillo reads “Little Sunny Sunshine” from the Cantico Series (in English and Spanish) on Facebook

  • Sophie Blackall reads Ivy & Bean on YouTube

  • Anica Mrose Rissi reads “Love, Sophia on the Moon“ on YouTube

  • Steven Weinberg reads part of “AstroNuts“ on Instagram

  • Shawn Harris reads “Everyone’s Awake“ on Instagram

  • Molly Idle reads “Pearl“ on Instagram

  • Ame Dyckman reads “You Don’t Want A Unicorn!” on YouTube

  • Eva Chen reads “Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes“ on Instagram

  • Karen Romano Young reads  a chapter of “A Girl, a Raccoon, and the Midnight Moon“ on Instagram

 

Arts and Theatre

Watch your favorite artists give tutorials, take an art class online, see a show virtually, or take a virtual tour of a famous museum!

  • McHarper Manor online art classes 
  • Boca Raton Museum of Art online art classes
    • A special new series called Keep Kids Smart with ART will be available online to help parents and their children who are home from school. You will also find other new digital programs especially made by the Museum, for all ages. We will continue our service to the community by creating new virtual educational and enriching experiences online and via our social media channels. Follow and connect on social media (@bocamuseum, #BocaMuseumfromHome).” Read the full statement about the Museum's temporary closing here.
  • Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems
    • Check out his website, too
    • New episodes weekdays at 1 pm EST and remain online for streaming later via the Kennedy Center
  • Make Art Gallery in KY
    • Daily at 1 CST via Facebook, live stream available to watch later
  • Metropolitan Opera
    • All “Nightly Met Opera Streams” will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will remain available via the homepage of metopera.org for 20 hours. The homepage link will open the performance on the Met Opera on Demand streaming service. The performance will also be viewable on all Met Opera on Demand apps.
  • British Museum, London, virtual tour
  • Guggenheim, NY, street view of the spiral staircase
  • National Gallery of Art, DC, two online exhibits
  • Musee d'Orsay, Paris, virtual gallery tour
  • National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, virtual tour
  • Pergamon Museum, Berlin, virtual tour
  • Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, street view tour
  • Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, virtual tour
  • The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, virtual tour
  • Uffizi Gallery, Florence, gallery tour
  • MASP, São Paulo, virtual tour
  • National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City, virtual tour of 23 exhibit rooms
  • Louvre, Paris, virtual tour
  • Boston Children's Museum
  • Live tour of Colonial Williamsburg
  • Ellis Island virtual field trip
  • Explore famous historic and cultural heritage sites on Google Arts & Culture
  • Follow your favorite musicians and see who is giving free concerts at home! So far I've seen John Legend, Chris Martin, and Keith Urban live on their Instagram feeds!
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Field Trips and Miscellaneous

    • Learn About a Dairy Farm
    • Canadian Farm Tour
    • Storytime with Josh Gad (Olaf from Frozen/Frozen II). Find him on Twitter.
    • Tour Yellowstone National Park: See Mud Volcano, Mammoth Hot Springs, and much more. 
    • Mars surface tour
    • U.S. Space and Rocket Museum in Huntsville, AL
    • Discovery Education Virtual Field Trips including Polar Bears and the Tundra, Social-Emotional Skills, STEM with Boeing, Manufacturing
    • Great Wall of China virtual tour
    • Boredom Busting Bingo from StuffedSuitcase.com
    • 40 online learning activities from WithAshleyandCo.com
    • Don't forget about playing games with Alexa skills

 

 

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Fitness

Take a free fitness class online

  • CYT COMMIT Fitness
  • Planet Fitness
    • Daily workouts at 7 pm EST, no special equipment necessary
  • LYT Yoga
  • Free 30-day trial
  • 20-Minute Hip-Hop Class on Youtube
  • Cosmic Kids Yoga on Youtube

 

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Calming and Mindset

  • Calm app
    • Guided meditation; free trial
  • Headspace
    • Guided meditation; free trial

 

Online Distance Learning and Curriculum Tools (all ages)

2Simple 

Free access to both Purple Mash and Serial Mash for the duration of your closures


ABCMouse/Adventure Academy

Free home access for all affected families to leading digital education programs ABCmouse, Adventure Academy, and ReadingIQ during school closures

Airtable

Cloud-based collaboration workspace. Free and premium versions.

ALBERT

The Albert Pilot Program (APP) is the only way for high-potential schools to try Albert at no-cost for 30-days, an extended pilot with school closures

Alchemie

All content in the Mechanisms app free during the next few months

American Chemistry Society

Lots of free chemistry resources

Boardmaker

Free trial

BookCreator App

Premium features free form 90 days with school closures

BrainPop

Free, unlimited use of BrainPOP to any school, anywhere during the period of their closure

BrainPop Junior

Free, unlimited use of BrainPOP Jr. to school plus free family access during closures

Breakout Edu

In the event that your school is closed for an extended period of time as a result of recent events, they've put together a collection of digital games that students can play at home. 

Buncee

Free Buncee Classroom accounts during the period of their closure

Century

CENTURY is offering free support to all schools and FE colleges closed due to the outbreak. Your students will receive access to thousands of CENTURY's learning resources in English, maths, and science

CheckMath

Beta version for iOS

CircleTime Fun

Resources for ages 0-6

CiscoWebex

Get Webex for your school or higher education institution for free during school closures.

CK-12 Foundation

CK-12 creates high-quality and free K-12 resources that are easy to set up for online learning during school closures

Hosting a special live webinar on March 18 at 11:00 am PDT on School closure: How to teach online and learn from home with CK-12.

ClassDojo

Free class communication platform

Classroom Secrets

Everything is free to access while they are in beta.

ClassHook

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Access to ClassHook Premium during closures

Classtime

Free version available

CMU CS Academy

A novel, world-class, online, interactive high school computer science curriculum that is entirely free

Code.org

Free hour of code and other resources

CommonLit

Free version available

Conjugemos

Free version available

Coursera for Campus

Provide free access to over 3,800 courses from leading universities and companies

Curriki

Library of free and open teaching and learning resources, we offer educator-vetted, openly licensed, online educational materials for use, reuse, adaptation, and sharing.

Deck. Toys

Build complete lessons within minutes with your existing teaching content such as study sets, PPT or Google Slides

Discovery Ed

Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-based digital curriculum resources for K–12 classrooms worldwide. We are the home to award-winning digital textbooks, multimedia content, and the largest professional development community of its kind.

DreamBox.com

90-day free trial for K-8 math program

Dyslexia Academy

Free version available

Ecoballots with Scholastico

Scholastico is offering free Ecoballot election software to help you do remote paperless elections

Edmodo

Free distance learning tool

Education Perfect

EP is providing free and unlimited access to all schools until 1st May.

Eduflow

Free version available

Edulastic

Edulastic continues to offer free-forever teacher accounts. In response to COVID-19, we want to make distance learning easier and more accessible to everyone. We are providing the following Premium and Enterprise features for free until July 1, 2020.

Elementari

Entire Elementari platform at no cost. This will give you and your students access until the end of May 2020 or until your school reopens.

Emile

FREE full access to Emile for any school with a closure

Epic!

FREE worldwide Remote Student Access to Epic through the end of the school year (June 30th, 2020), by teacher invitation — no credit card required. Families only need an invitation from their teacher to get started.

EverFi

Free for schools during closures

Explain Everything

Free for schools during closures

The Fab Lab with Crazy Aunt Lindsey

a show with STEM projects for kids 6-12 that can be done with household items (plus they're easy to clean up and usually recyclable)

Fiveable

All of the content is free to use, except for the Cram Pass, which is $35

Flipgrid

Engage and empower every voice in your classroom or community by recording and sharing short, awesome videos…together; free

Fluency Matters

Free access to the E-learning options to 21 days

Freckle

Free for teachers

Free Math

Free platform

Gamilab

Free for schools and individuals

Genially

60 premium templates free, as well as 56 illustrative scenes freely available with the intention that students, professors, and professionals can have access to diverse and qualified material for any topic they want to work on

Good2Learn

Free trial

Google For Edu

Hangouts Meet features are available for free to anyone who uses G Suite around the world curing school closures.

Gynzy

Free trial, schools continue their lessons (even remotely) for an extended time, free of charge

Handwritingworksheets.com

Make your own handwriting practice sheets for free

Hapara

New customers get FREE access to Hāpara until the end of June 2020

Hawkes Learning

FREE access to online learning software for the duration of the spring term

HippoCampus

Free educational resources for students in middle school to college

Ideas Roadshow

1 month of free, unlimited access to our IB-specific database during school closures

IDEA

Free mini-courses

InThinking

IB resources for students taking IB classes and their teacher

Izzit.org

FREE, high-quality educational materials

Kahoot

Free version. Premium free for schools during closures.

Kami

Free for schools during closures

KET’s PBS Learning Media

Free learning resources

Khan Academy

Free resources. Daily (weekdays) 9 a.m. PST/noon EST live streams on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter for students, parents, and teachers navigating school closures.

Kids Discover Online

Free for schools during closures for 3 months

Klaxoon

3 months free with their remote working collaborative tools

Kognity

Free for schools during closures

LabsLand

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Free for schools during closures

Learning Apps

List of resources

Libby App

Borrow free books from the library with this app

ListenWise

Free for schools during closures

Manga High

Free for schools during closures

Microsoft Education

Resources for using Microsoft Teams for distance learning

Minecraft: Education Edition

Free coding lessons

MobyMax

Free for schools during closures

MusicFirst

Free trial

Mystery Science

Free for anyone during school closings

National Geographic for Kids

So much great, free animal content

NearPod

Free version available

Newsela

Free through the end of year

Nimbus Capture

The starter package is free

Otus

Free for schools during closures

Packback

Packback is providing zero cost licenses through the end of the Spring semester or academic quarter for any higher education courses

Parlay

Free for everyone until May 15th, 2020

Pear Deck

The basic plan is free

PebbleGo By Capstone

Free access during closures

PenPal

Free access during closures

Pradeo

Services for protecting mobile devices and applications will be made available for free until next June 1st, 2020 for any new license

Prodigy

Free content grades 1-8

Pronto

Free access to teams and teachers during closures

Rivet

Google's Rivet is a free, AI-based kids' reading app created by Google's Area 120 that encourages reading practice and is designed for developing readers in Kindergarten-3rd grade.

Rockalingua

Lots of free content

ScienceWerkz

NSTA 5 for FREE

Scholastic

Scholastic is offering a “learn at home” program for free. There is currently 5 days' worth of content, with an additional 15 days of content planned.

Schoology

The basic package is free

ScreenCastify

Free for schools during closures

Seesaw

Remote learning resources for students

Seneca

Always free

Seterra Geography

Free level 1 Seterra Geography membership

Shmoop

Free access to Shmoop online resources is available now through May 31, 2020. Restrictions do apply.

Sight Reading Suite

Free trial

SmartMusic

Free trial

Starfall

Free early reading practice

Stemscopes

Full digital curriculum access during closures

StoryBoard

Free trial version

Tailor-ED

Use code TAILOREDREMOTE for entire K-8 curriculum curing school closure

TechSmith

Free to use through the end of June 2020

Tes Blendspace

Interactive lessons, projects, presentations and more

Trello

Free online collaboration tool. Free and premium versions.

Twinkl

Code “CVDTWINKLHELPS” gets you a free month during school closures

Typing Club

Learn Touch Typing for free!

Vidcode

Vidcode’s full computer science curriculum and coding platform at no cost during closures

Voces Digital

If your school is currently closed, we will give you full, free access to their Comprehensible Input-based language program until June 30, 2020. Simply fill out the form and we will reach out with your log-in information!

Vroom App

Vroom Tips help you do more with your shared moments. Add learning to mealtime, bathtime, bedtime, or anytime with 1,000+ fun, free activities.

Wakelet

Wakelet is the easiest way to capture, organize, and share multi-media resources with students, teachers, and learning communities.

We Video

Free for 30 days

Worksheetfun

Free printable worksheets for math, spelling, and more

Zearn

Entire K-5 curriculum is available for free during school closures

Zoom

Students and teachers in U.S., Italy, and Japan get unlimited temporary meeting minutes to use the Zoom videoconferencing platform during school closures.

 

Have we missed any? Leave links in the comments below for events you've seen and we'll add them!

 

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