Activities for Kids at Home

Activities for Kids (to be updated as ideas are found)

Educational

MANY Ideas for Social Distancing - not sure who put this together, but it's amazing!
Take a Virtual Museum Tour - Musee d'Orsay anyone? Thanks to Google Arts & Culture
Scholastic Learn at Home - 20 free lessons for PreK through 6th grade and up*
Free Educational Websites for Kids - TBH there are too many and not sure which are best, but feel free to peruse as you like!
Virtual Field Trips - Want to visit San Diego Zoo, Yellowstone National Park, MARS?!? Check out this resource someone posted.
Cincinnati Zoo Home Safari - Daily show at 2pm CT
Hidden Worlds of the National Parks - Explore five National Parks released for the timing of the Centennial of the National Parks
Big List of Children's Books Read Aloud by Authors
Mystery Science - Lessons to inspire kids to love science

The Arts

Free Stream of Metropolitan Opera - yes, for the music nerd in me. It is a bit late for kids (starting at 7:30 pm, but posted for 20 hours on metopera.org
Coloring Pages Galore via mycoloring-pages.com - select themes, for boys, for girls (hate these gender stereotypes, etc. LOTS of licensed characters.

Physical Activity

GoNoodle! Great for guided movement, relaxation, etc. - get those wiggles out
Totall Adventure - Physical Activity blog from a Physical Educator at Yinghua Academy in Mpls

Salt Dough Easter Eggs - gifts for Easter!

* Starting with five now, and adding over the next few weeks

Comments

Get into the Groove

Same Old Well, we certainly have fallen into a groove. M & L were really good today, watching their three “classes” on CILC and then playing LEGOs. They made so many creations. Played more chess, watched more Pokémon, are too many snacks, and balked at going outside. Did their mandatory 30 minutes post lunch quiet/reading time. We have been watching movies at night, but I’m trying to break the habit. Boys wanted to go to the Purple Park (Lino Park), but I’m hesitant to go with all those germs. Monopoly instead. The problem is, we are in a rut funk groove. We are stuck only playing with each other, calling grandparents and cousins, trying to get outside. While most of today was great, L threw some chess pieces, so M threw one at L’s face. Neither wanted to change out of PJs. We eat the same things for lunch. We need something to change things up. But preferably one that doesn’t take Mommy and Daddy away from work for too long and doesn’t need a ton of superv...

Calling Audibles

Today all planned activities were thrown out the window and multiple audibles were called. There were meltdowns and then there were MELTDOWNS, which resulted in way too much screen time. Likely three plus hours. At least I was not interrupted during the video call we had with my VP. Meltdown Causes M didn’t want to bring his Legos downstairs. M hit L because he broke his LEGO sword L crashed into M’s bike and got a cut near the outside corner of his eye. Meltdown over whether he would have to go to the emergency room and get stitches. (Valid, since he has been there twice since Christmas for glue/stitches and HATES needles.) Fortunately, just a surface cut that we can take care of at home with bacitracin. Boys didn’t want to get the $0.25 they owed me for leaving the light on in their room from the piggy bank themselves . "Why can't YOU just get it?" (New rule: if you leave your light on, you owe Mommy $0.25. Something we should have started a long time ago.) I...

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