These programs may no longer be active. For more ideas on how to entertain the family for free, check out this great article!
Remember when schools would keep the kids busy for 6+ hours? Yeah, they’re not in session right now. And without playdates, camps and other extracurricular activities, lots of parents are feeling the pressure to keep kids occupied.
No worries. We’re here, with our favorite free kid activities (and a few for the adults), updated daily.
All times listed are Eastern Daylight Time.
Free Kid Activities Today – Tuesday, April 14
Play Well TEKnologies is hosting an online lego building class. (Via PlayWellTEK)
- 5:00 AM – Learn to make a ‘Film in a Day’
- 6:00 AM – Morning Coffee & Positivity with Tom on Facebook Live
- 7:00 AM – Cosmic Kid Yoga – Storytelling exercise
- 8:00 AM – Get Up and Blink! workout session
- 9:00 AM – Mascarade Opera Online – Resilience
- 9:30 AM – 20 – 20 – 20 Workout w/ Ashlea
10:30 AM – Upper Body Blast w/ Megan - 11:00 AM – Story Time Everywhere!
- 11:15 AM – Live storytelling with Penguin Kids Books
- 11:30 AM – Tinkergarten: Your Hidden Senses
- 12:00 PM – Pete the Cat Club
- 1:00 PM – Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems
- 1:30 PM – Horse Camp at Home – Learn More About Horses
- 2:00 PM – Camp Hello Bello
- 3:00 PM – Cincinnati Zoo Home Safari
- 4:00 PM – Quarantine Cabaret – Bingeworthy Burlesque/Comedy/Music/Magic
- 5:00 PM – For the Adults – Laugh Factory Live
- 5:30 PM – Social Girls – Free Drawing Class
- 6:00 PM – #305LIVE Cardio Workouts Daily
- 6:30 PM – Inflammation Webinar – The Body’s Alarming Signs
- 7:00 PM – Planet Fitness Home ‘Work-Ins’
- 7:30 PM – Live Concerts – Carly Pearce, Madi & Tae, LoCash, Jimmie Allen, and More
- 8:00 PM – Hunter Hayes Live – Episodes Daily
- 8:30 PM – Free Online Guided Meditation Class
- 9:00 PM – Grow Your Own Veggies! Online Classes
Free Kid Activities Tomorrow – Wednesday, April 15
The Army Field Band has been hosting livestreams, including one at 1PM EDT. (Via Facebook)
- 5:00 AM – Learn to make a ‘Game in a Day’
- 6:00 AM – Yoga Sculpt
- 7:00 AM – Loan Pine Koala Sanctuary Live Cam
- 8:00 AM – Get Up and Blink! workout session
- 9:00 AM – Staying Safe, Staying Positive with Kyle Dine
- 10:00 AM – Mr. Loops’ Musical Morning
- 10:30 AM – Born Yoga: Kids Yoga (ages 5+)
- 11:00 AM – Crocodile Encounter’s Live Croccast
- 11:15 AM – Live storytelling with Penguin Kids Books
- 11:30 AM – Tinkergarten: Your Hidden Senses
- 12:00 PM – Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo Storytime on the Island of Positivity
- 1:00 PM – US Army Field Band – Slide on Over, Trombone Octet
- 1:30 PM – Horse Camp at Home – Learn More About Horses
- 2:00 PM – Kitchen Quarantine with Massimo Bottura
- 3:00 PM – Cincinnati Zoo Home Safari
- 4:00 PM – Sophia Scott Live from Nashville
- 5:00 PM – For the Adults – Laugh Factory Live
- 5:30 PM – Social Girls – Free Drawing Class
- 6:00 PM – LeVar Burton Reads for Young Adults
- 7:00 PM – Planet Fitness Home ‘Work-Ins’
- 7:30 PM – Meditation – all levels
- 8:00 PM – Storyline Online, Nightly Bedtime Stories
- 9:00 PM – Kitchen Covers w/ Drew Holcomb
- 10:00 PM – Diplo will DJ across Instagram Live, Twitch and YouTube
- 11:00 PM – End the day with Patrick Stewart’s ‘Sonnet a Day’
Free Kid Scavenger Hunt Ideas
Via Sunny Day Family
- Math scavenger hunt bingo
- Scavenger hunt riddles
- String scavenger hunt
- Counting scavenger hunt
- See more free kids’ scavenger hunt ideas
Free Coloring Pages
Via Vulture
- Baby Yoda coloring pages
- Audi adult coloring pages
- Trader Joe’s coloring pages
- See more free coloring pages
Free Virtual School & Educational Programs
- Free Adobe Photoshop through May 30
- Get 20 days of free “Learn at Home” lessons & virtual field trips from Scholastic
- TedEd is offering numerous Ted Talks and a daily curriculum newsletter for students
- Sesame Street has hundreds of free ebooks, activity suggestions and more
- Discovery Education is free right now
- ABC Mouse is offering 30 days free
- Adventure Academy is free for an entire month
- Khan Academy helps you create an at-home learning schedule
- PBS Kids Daily newsletter provides free educational activities
- Elementari is offering free premium access to their content
- Prodigy offers free math games and home-learning resources
- Cool Math has free math lessons and games
Free Audio Books
For as long as schools are closed, Audible users can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories for free. Stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.
- Anne of Green Gables by Rachel McAdams
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Scarlett Johnansson
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Book 1
- The Call of the Wild by Pablo Schreiber
- See all the free Audible stories
- More than 1 million ebooks & audiobooks free for 30 days with Scribd
Free Math Worksheets
No cost or membership required.
- Grade-level worksheets from K5Learning.com
- Mathdrills.com
- Education.com worksheets
- Activities and puzzles from helpingWithMath.com
- 9000+ worksheets from DadsWorksheets.com
- JumpStart is giving away free elementary school worksheets
Free TV Shows
Amazon has an entire “free for all” section, where a bunch of its kids shows and movies are available without a subscription, including:
- Pete the Cat
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
- Pokemon Black & White
- Mr. Bean: The Animated Series
- Just Add Magic
- Arthur
- Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood
- Megamind
- The Nut Job
- All Dogs Go to Heaven
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