Resources and Educational Activities at Home for Children and Parents
We have some fun ways kids can learn at home during COVID-19.
Looking for exciting, educational activities for kids that you can do together at home? If you could use some help coming up with ideas for engaging games and at-home projects, we’ve compiled just the list you need. Here are our educational resources for parents that includes interactive websites, books, arts and crafts, games and more.
Educational Resources and Activities for Parents
COMIC: A Kids' Guide To Coping With The Pandemic: Click here for a printable zine to guide kids through coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bugscope: Lets K–12 students view bugs under a scanning electron microscope over the web. From the University of Illinois. Click here to visit Bugscope.
Scholastic Learn at Home: Day-to-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking and learning. Goes from Pre-K to 9th grade. Click here to visit Scholastic Learn at Home.
Free Online Drawing Lessons for Kids: During the COVID-19 crisis, some well-known illustrators are offering free drawing lessons for kids. Click here for free drawing lessons online.
STEM From the Start: Designed for Pre-K–2 learners, SFTS uses the power of educational video to help lay the groundwork for STEM subjects by engaging children in learning activities that are fun, engaging and long-lasting. Produced by New Hampshire PBS and Learniverse Educational Media. Click here to visit SFTS.
NASA at Home for Kids and Families: Including craft projects, coloring books and videos. Click here for NASA At Home.
Philosophy for Kids: A delightful website that helps children think in different ways. Click here to visit Philosophy for Kids.
The Run Around: Virtual activities from children’s museums. Click here to learn more.
SHOW.ME: Access collections, videos, stories and learning games for kids from museums and galleries. You can find out more by clicking here.
HooplaKidz: This YouTube channel is dedicated to kids’ educational shows, animated nursery rhymes and stories designed to entertain and educate children between the ages of 2 and 8. Click here to watch the HooplaKidz YouTube channel.
Watch Stars Read Classic Children’s Books: Betty White, James Earl Jones, Rita Moreno & Many More: Storyline Online streams imaginatively produced videos featuring celebrated actors including Viola Davis, Allison Janney, Chris Pine, Wanda Sykes, Justin Theroux and Betty White reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Click here to visit Storyline Online.
Librivox: Librivox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. You will find 5000+ books in their catalog. Click here to visit Librivox.
Open Culture Free Audio Books: A collection of 450 free audiobooks includes many children’s classics. ”The Wizard of Oz,” “Grimm’s Fairy Tales,” “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Mark Twain,” ”The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis,” “The Swiss Family Robinson,” “Gulliver’s Travels,” ”Anne of Green Gables,” “Aesop’s Fables,” and much more. You can download audio files straight to your computer or mobile device.
You can click here to visit Open Culture.
Smithsonian fun stuff for kids and teens:
Smithsonian Digitization
Smithsonian 3D
Smithsonian's National Zoo: Meet the Animals
Do it for the 'gram! Explore Smithsonian Augmented Reality on Instagram
Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access
Smithsonian Learning Lab
Click here to learn more.
Engineering Challenges for Children During Lockdown: Designers from the James Dyson Foundation have “come up with a series of challenges to help kids learning at home during isolation. Comprised of 22 science tasks and 22 engineering activities, the Challenge Cards can be completed by children using common household items such as eggs, string and balloons.” There’s a related set of videos on YouTube.
Click here to visit the website and learn more about the challenges.
BuiltByKids: Encourages future engineers to tackle the do-it-yourself projects of their dreams. Click here to visit BuiltByKids.
In addition to our educational resources to make at-home learning fun, we also have mental health resources for children to help navigate COVID-19 and mental health concerns.
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