Enrichment

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

• Little Twisters Yoga & Emotional Wellness
• Cosmic Kids Yoga
• Go Noodle
• OT-Kids, LLC
• Sworkit Kids Workouts

Lunch Time (45 minutes)

• Nomster Chef Recipe Library

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

• How to Draw Your Favorite PBS KIDS Characters Playlist on YouTube
• The PBS KIDS Games app offers nearly 200 educational games, which can be downloaded for offline play anytime, anywhere. Learn more about these and PBS KIDS’ other apps here: https://pbskids.org/apps

PBS Resources for Parents

• The new co-branded landing page for PBS KIDS Daily is now on the PBS KIDS for Parents site with a shorter, easier to use URL: https://www.pbs.org/pbskidsdaily.
• PBS KIDS for Parents now has a Spanish version available of the “How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus.”
• The main hub page for Preschool Learning at Home is now up with more content on the way!