Fun Activities:
Supporting Families During COVID-19 

Arts and Crafts

  • Artsology - Helps kids learn to appreciate the arts by providing them with the opportunity to play games, conduct investigations, and explore different forms of art. 
  • Crayola - Millions of crafts and colouring pages at your fingertips.
  • Jigsaw Explorer - Online photograph jigsaw puzzles You can set the pieces from 6-1000+.
  • Kids Think Design - Kids Think Design explores careers in fashion design, graphic design, interior design, book design, product design, film and theatre, architecture, animation, and environmental design. 
  • Met Kids - A wonderful, endlessly detailed way to get kids engaged in the world of art. 
  • NGAkids Art Zone - NGAkids interactives offer an entertaining and informative introduction to art and art history. Featuring a variety of art-making tools that encourage exploration and creativity.
  • Sesame Street - Fill every day with a new online art activity using Sesame Street’s Art Maker. These simple art activities for your young child are a great way for children to demonstrate their creativity.
  • Toopy and Binoo - If your child is a fan of Toopy and Binoo, this is the site for you! It offers multiple colouring pages, crafts as well as printables activities such as dominos and puzzles.

Cooking/Baking

  • Baking Mad - Thousands of child-friendly recipes to make baked goods such as cookies, cakes, brownies and more!
  • Food Network - Access to kid-friendly recipes to explore cooking and baking.
  • Nomsterchef - Illustrated recipes designed to help kids age 2-12 cook with their grown-ups. Recipes encourage culinary skills, literacy, math, and science. 

Games

  • Education - Online games for each grade and for each subject.
  • Highlights Kids - Games and puzzles for children to take a break throughout the day. 
  • PBS Kids - PBS Kids provides daily activities and tips to help kids play and learn at home.

Movement

  • Cosmic Kids - Free interactive videos that focus on promoting self-regulation, focus, empathy and mindfulness with young children.
  • GoNoodle - Incorporating movement and mindfulness, these fun get up and get-moving videos will focus on physical wellness, academic success, and social-emotional health. These interactive videos will get you and your kids up off the couch and having fun together.
  • Kids Workouts - Kid-friendly workouts — choose from Strength for Kids, Agility for Kids, Flexibility and Balance for Kids, Warm-Up for Kids, Cooldown for Kids, Stand Up and Move for Kids, OR create your own custom kid workout.
  • Kids Yoga - Free at-home kids yoga lesson plans.
  • The OT Toolbox - At home OT, PT, and ST resources designed to build skills in children through movement and play. 


Music

  • Music Theory - Introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, exercises, ear trainers, and calculators. 
  • Prodigies Music - Prodigies is a colorful music curriculum for kids 1-12 that will teach your kids how to play their first instrument, how to sing in tune & how to understand the language of music! 21 for free.
  • QuaverMusic - Offering free access to general music activities to all impacted schools, including free student access at-home.
  • Songs for Teaching - A large selection of fun songs to help teach preschool and kindergarten students.
  • Smart Music - An online resource for learning music.
  • Theta Music Trainer - The Theta Music Trainer offers a series of free online courses and games for ear training and music theory.
  • Virtual Musical Instruments - Lets kids play instruments online. Instruments include the guitar, piano, pan flute, drums, and bongos. 

 
Virtual Tours

  • Access Mars - Explore Mars from your own living room. Access Mars uses NASA’s Curiosity Rover to allow viewers to see Mars up close and in 360-degrees.
  • Alaska Department of Fish and Game - Whether you’re looking for tiny ice worms, colorful songbirds, or giant coastal brown bears, watching Alaska’s wild creatures in their natural setting is a thrill for Alaskans and visitors alike. 
  • Boston Children’s Museum - Walk through the 3 levels of the Boston Children’s Museum. Explore all of the fun the museum has to offer through Google Maps.
  • British Museum - This iconic museum located in the heart of London allows virtual visitors to tour the Great Court and discover the ancient Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies. 
  • FarmFood 360 - Farmfood 360 allows you to take a look at how Canadian farmers get food to your table. 
  • From Around the World - Free videos from around the world from grade 3-12.
  • Google Arts and Culture - Virtually tour and explore art at over 17 museums and national parks across the world. 
  • Google Earth - Explore worldwide satellite imagery and 3D buildings as well as the terrain from hundreds of cities. Zoom to your house or anywhere else, then dive in for a 360-degree perspective with Street View. 
  • Louvre Museum - Travel to Paris, France from the comfort of your own home and explore the beautiful galleries of the world-famous Louvre. Pick one of the virtual field trips to discover famous artists and their work.
  • Virtual Tour of the Great Wall of China - This Virtual Tour of the Great Wall of China is beautiful and makes history come to life.
  • What Was There - Ties historical photos to Google Maps allowing you to tour familiar streets to see how they appeared in the past. It’s a unique way to help kids learn about history. 
  • Zoos and Aquariums: