A collection of educational resources we’ve compiled for families.
Enrichment Activities & Ideas for Spring Break 2020 (as previously sent home to Children’s School families)
Offline Activities
- Build a fort, both inside and outside.
- Set up a store.
- Give them the “junk” drawer and see what they can create or organize.
- Make playdough.
- Cook and bake - children love this! Let kids plan the meal ‘Chopped’ style.
- Start seeds indoors to plant in the garden in May.
- Pudding or sand on a tray to create - children love the tactile feel.
- Etch-a-Sketch.
- Read and act out a favorite story.
- Read aloud.
- Listen to audio stories together.
- Set-up a reading nook with a basket of books.
- Play card or board games.
- Create a board game.
- Make art together.
- Play with cardboard boxes or other recycled materials.
- Water-color painting.
- Legos.
- Save your empty boxes and let them create something with it.
The ABCs of Screen-Free Time at Home
30 At-home Brain Breaks
Movement Time: Choose One (20 minutes)
Creative Time: Choose One (1 hour)
Lunch Time (45 minutes)
Online Activities
Click on the links to go to each website:
- The San Diego Zoo has a website just for kids with amazing videos, activities, and games. Enjoy the tour!
- Tour Yellowstone National Park!
- Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover.
- This Canadian site FarmFood 360 offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs.
- Play games and learn all about animals.
- Play with fave show PBS characters and learn too.
- Travel to Paris, France to see amazing works of art at The Louvre with this virtual field trip.
- This Virtual Tour of the Great Wall of China is beautiful and makes history come to life.
- 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.
- Read, play games, and hang out with Dr. Seuss.
- Geography and animals by National Geographic.
- Fave kids’ books read by famous people.
- Crafts, activities, mazes, dot to dot, etc.
- Hands-on elementary science videos.
- Voice-based learning… learn through Alexa.
- Fun games, recipes, crafts, activities.
- Games to get “into the book.”
- Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing.
- 3 Free Weeks of Maker Stations to keep your children creating at home! Each challenge includes simple instructions using materials around the house, QR code video resources, and a student recording sheet.
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PBS Kids Resources
Streaming Video Update
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, PBS KIDS and Amazon are making temporary changes to our streaming offerings to give families more on-demand access to our educational content for free.
- PBS KIDS has begun increasing the number of full episodes available on our station-cobranded streaming video platforms on pbskids.org, the PBS KIDS Video app, and connected TV devices. Eight full episodes of Sesame Street are now streaming on our platforms – up from the usual 4 episodes. Starting tomorrow, eight full episodes of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood temporarily will be available – twice as many as our usual offering.
- Temporarily, Amazon Prime Video has made select episodes from PBS KIDS series available for free. This offering will include 8 episodes of each of the PBS KIDS series on Amazon Prime, making them available to any user for a limited time – no Amazon Prime subscription required. Amazon’s PBS KIDS offering includes titles such as Arthur, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Dinosaur Train, Odd Squad, and Wild Kratts, among others.
PBS Resources for Kids
PBS Resources for Parents