Over 100 Free Resources for Learning and Fun at Home

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Qi Creative clients may find themselves at home for a variety of reasons: Perhaps it’s a summer or winter break from school, or a sick day keeps you at home. Some are homeschooled and looking for resources to liven up a curriculum. Others may be taking more stringent self-isolating measures to protect their health, or are housebound full-time.

We hope the curated resources below can help enhance individual and family time at home for everyone.

UPDATE June 2022: Some of these resources are always free, and some may be free for a limited time. This article was originally published at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.


Social Stories and Storytime

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Virtual Field Trips - Google Doc with over 30 different virtual field trips and links.

FarmFood 360: This Canadian site offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs. 

Beyond the Fence: A Virtual Tour of a Canadian Penitentiary by Correctional Service Canada. 360 views and narration touring the inside of a Canadian federal penitentiary.

Virtual Tours Vancouver - A variety of free and paid virtual tours across Vancouver!

Health and Fitness

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ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen COVID-19 Preparedness home economists answer many questions about the home including food safety, how to clean and disinfect your home, and more.

Food Storage Guide from ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen

The Emergency Pantry full guide from ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen

Menus from the Pantry from ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen

Weekly Meal Planner from ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen

The Emergency Pantry one-page handout from ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen

Seven Days of Banana Activities Follow Bobby Banana through a whole week's worth of ways to learn with and eat bananas.

Ten Fun Nutrition Games for Kids

Classify Foods Game

Falling Food Arcade Game

Snack Shack Game Exploring different snacks to determine healthy and unhealthy ones.

Packing a Healthy Lunchbox

Healthy Eating Games and Activities

Nutrition-Based Physical Activity Games

Nutrition Games and Activities

Jimmy's Thirsty Teaching about liquid intake and dehydration

Four Fun Ways to Teach Children About Nutrition

The Picnic Game

Nutrition Word-O-Rama

Learning at Home

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123Homeschool4me.com - Over 100000 printable worksheets

Amazing Educational Resources - Education Companies Offering Free Subscriptions due to School Closings

Bedtime Math: Math as a fun part of daily family routines.

Boddle Learning: Elementary math up to grade 6.

Biology classes

BreakoutEDU: Educational games from kindergarten to grade 12.

Bunk History: Digital Archive of history

ClickSchooling: Brings you daily recommendations by email for entertaining websites that help your kids learn.

Chalk Academy: Chinese learning activities

Classroom Cereal: Grammar practice as free, printable short stories.

Daily Drawing Class: Every day at 10 AM PT on Instagram Live.

Emergency Preparation - By Sesame Street.

EPL’s digital library includes eBooks, eAudiobooks, streaming movies, eMagazines and online classes. If you don’t have a library card, register for one online for immediate access to the digital library

Funbrain: Math and reading games.

High School Chemistry Topics

History Classes for all ages preteen through adults

Indoor Activities for busy toddlers 

Khan Academy Schedules - Google doc with a series of student schedules youth from preschool to grade 12, to follow a school routine from home

Kid Quarantine Resources - Facebook Group

Mathscore: Math practice from counting to algebra and geometry

Starfall: Phonics skills.

Switchzoo: Play games and learn all about animals

Voice Based Learning: Learn through Alexa

Outdoor/Backyard Activities

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Livecams to see different animals

Red panda live cam: beardsleyzoo.org/indoor-red-pan… 

Giant panda 🐼 live cam: nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/panda-… 

Penguin live cam: zoo.sandiegozoo.org/cams/penguin-c… 

Burrowing (!!!) owls live cam: sdzsafaripark.org/cams/burrowing… 

Lion live cam: nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/lion-c… 

Baboon live cam: zoo.sandiegozoo.org/cams/baboon-cam 

Naked mole rat live cam: nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/naked-… 

Polar bear live cam: zoo.sandiegozoo.org/cams/polar-cam 

Bat live cams: batworld.org/bat-cams/ 

Orangutan live cam: zoo.sandiegozoo.org/cams/ape-cam 

Koala live cam: zoo.sandiegozoo.org/cams/koala-cam 

Sloth live cam: hattiesburgzoo.com/sloth-cam/ 

Sea Otter live cam: montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-c… 

Tiger live cam: zoo.org/tigercam 

Elephants: sdzsafaripark.org/elephant-cam 

Baby raccoons anyone: wildlife-education.com/live-baby-racc… 

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