Engaging Activities to Do at Home

Explore fun and engaging activities for students to enjoy at home.

Other Resources

Arts & Crafts

  •  - Activities for Pre-K-Grade 5 through
  • - Create a time capsule to capture this unique moment in history. Downloadable workbooks available in Spanish and French. 
  •  - Includes a recipe for playdough and fun ideas for talking and exploring with your child.  Playdough also encourages children’s language and literacy, science, and math skills.

Census Activities

  • - From the Census Bureau, find pages to color in English and Spanish.

Movement

  • - Movement and mindfulness videos developed by child development experts.
  • - Dance challenges, themed workouts, activities and more to help you get moving.  
  • - Yoga, mindfulness and relaxation designed specially for kids aged 3+, used in schools and homes all over the world.ish.

Nature and Science-Based Activities

  • - Activities to highlight the importance of the natural world through interactive games and webpages, live wildlife video feeds, and closeups of creatures
  • - There are a wide range of activities available, from games to videos and exploratory modules on a wide variety of topics like space, U.S. states, and animals.
  • - hands-on, teacher-tested, and use cheap, available materials. Designed by the Exploratorium in San Francisco
  • - Looking for ways to keep the kids busy while staying home right now? Print these activity sheets and help your kids learn more about nature and have fun at the same time!

Online Museums

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Self Care & Social Emotional Learning

  •  - Social emotional activities for kids K-12. 
  • - Taking care of your mental health is important during times of crisis. Youth First provides social/emotional games, lessons, materials and activities for families to use at home.

Skill building

  • Your Next Skill - Our librarians are standing by to help you learn your next skill. What will it be? A new language? A new hobby? Something for home or at work? The possibilities are endless.

Sound

  • : Explore different features of sound from a computer or tablet. Children can make their own songs and art.
  • - NY Times recommends shows for kids ages 2 through 6.

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