Get Creative! Free Resources for Families to Make Home Learning Engaging

Get Creative!  Free Resources for Families to Make Home Learning Engaging

By Christina Gibson

As students learn at home, check out these free resources to add some creativity and adventure to your students’ learning routines. 

Virtual Field Trips

1. Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens Home Safari Each day at 3:00 p.m. EST

2. AdventuresinFamilyhood.com offers 20 links to virtual tours of museums, zoos, aquariums, and a variety of famous world attractions.

3. Totallythebomb.com offers 33 links to National Park tours. 

4. The American Dairy Association website hosts virtual farm tours for ages 4 through high school.

5. Romper.com includes links to virtual tours of Disney World, including riding a virtual roller coaster!

6. Titlemax.com blog post includes a list of virtual field trips across the United States!

Art

• Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems teaches children how to draw everyday at 1:00pm ET 

• Art for Kids Hub provides free art tutorials and guided drawings

• Author Ben Clanton is live on Facebook everyday at 11am PDT providing art lessons for children of all ages.

• McHarpor Manor provides live arts and crafts tutorials on Facebook Live daily at 1 pm.

• Art teacher Cassie Stephens provides art lessons utilizing common household items. See Facebook for live schedule.

• HP provides free printable worksheets for kids, including coloring, activity, and game sheets.

Guest Speakers

• Chris Field hosts live Afternoon Adventures, showcasing a variety of activities and virtual tours. See Facebook for live schedule.

• Atlantic White Shark Conservancy is live on Facebook daily at 10 am ET with a shark themed read aloud. 

• Astronaut Rosie Revere reads stories on YouTube channel Stories from Space.

• ScienceMom hosts science videos and tutorials for all ages. See Facebook for live schedule.

• Pete the Cat virtual story hour available online daily at 12 pm ET by author and creator James Dean.

• Free history lessons by Ken Burns available on pbs.org

Get Moving

• GoNoodle.com provides an array of free movement videos, such as dance, yoga, and much more!

• Cosmic Kids Yoga tells a story through age-appropriate yoga poses. Available on YouTube. 

• Jack Hartman sings and dances in a variety of educational music and movement videos available on YouTube. 

• NinjaZone offers free online classes live at 10 am daily on Facebook.

• DJ Mel’s live Living Room Dance Party on Saturday evenings on Facebook. 

STEM

• Kiwi Co provides ideas for t-home DIY activities from 

• National Geographic Kids offers videos, articles and games

• NASA STEM @ Home activities to do at home, online games, and printable coloring pages

• The STEM Laboratory Blog ideas for science and engineering projects for younger children

• Code.org sign up for free classes for K - 12 kids to learn to code.

Other Resources

• Raddish.com offers free cook-along-with-me videos and easy to follow digital recipes. Scholastic is offering a variety of free resources for all ages available for parents and teachers to use at home, including a number of books to read or watch on Bookflix.

• Kiwico has a variety of daily DIYs and activities for parents and children of all ages.

• Storyline Online a bank of videos of a variety of quality books read-aloud 

• Time for Kids Journalism for kids through online articles with pictures on a variety of topics by grade level.

• America’s Test Kitchen kids cooking classes. 

• Audible is offering free streaming of kids’ books