Over 100 Free Resources for Learning and Fun at Home
Qi Creative is committed to creating awesome for children, adolescents, and families of all abilities no matter their circumstances.
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
Coronavirus for Young Children
Covid-19 Social Story: School is Closing
My Story About Pandemics and the Coronavirus: Carol Grey
Social Story on Social Distancing
StorylineOnline - Celebrities read stories!
Story Time From Space - Astronauts read stories!
Field Trips
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
Cosmic Kids Yoga - Kids' yoga routines
GoNoodle - Kids' dance routines
HeartSmarts: HeartMath Institute is now giving 100,000 kids FREE access to its new educational program, HeartSmarts® Adventure.
30 Easy Indoor Fitness Games for Kids: Indoor fitness games might include going on a scavenger hunt or freeze-dancing.
Fitness Games and Fun Exercise Activities for Kids
Five Fun Workout Games for Healthy Kids
16 Mind-Blowing Exercise Games to Make Kids Active, Fit, and Healthy
25 Family Bonding Fun Fitness Games for Kids
25 Exercise Games and Indoor Activities to Get Kids Moving
DIY Fitball: A Fun Fitness Activity
31 Fitness Activities for Kids That You Can Do as a Family
Get Movin': 15 Fun Fitness Activities for Kids
Five Classic Fitness Games for Kids
Ten Fun Exercise Ideas for Kids
Ten Exercise Games to Do With Kids at Home
Food Games, Home and Household Management
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
Snack Shack Game Exploring different snacks to determine healthy and unhealthy ones.
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
Learning at Home
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.
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
Easy Outdoor Games and Activities for Kids
Active Snow Play Ideas for School-Aged Kids
44 Fun Outdoor Games With Cheap Materials | Fun Games For Party
10 DIY Outdoor Activities and Backyard Games - HGTV Handmade
7 Fun Outdoor Games Without Materials | Fun Outdoor Games
11 Fun Basketball Games for Kids Besides H-O-R-S-E
Larger Outdoor Space Activities
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…