Here are additional activities for you to do with your family.
Provides parents with articles, videos, and activities on topics little kids love: dinosaurs, space, art, and animals.
By PBS
Take a virtual tour of Donaldson Farms in New Jersey. This 15 minute tour takes visitors through the farm and its operations. You can visit the farm's website here.
By Donaldson Farms Farm Market
This program helps kids take a deep dive into their favorite topics via fiction and nonfiction booklists, suggested activities, and additional apps and websites to explore
By Reading Rockets
Weekly series of free online classes on topics that include foreign languages, acting, cooking, music, beatboxing, and yoga. Once you register, you receive a weekly email schedule for upcoming classes
By TakeLessons Charter
Interactive virtual summer camp, bringing on-demand content, LIVE expert instruction, special guests, and supporting offline materials to facilitate growth and understanding all summer long! The cost is $25 per household and the program runs from June 22nd through August 7.
By Adventure 2 Learning
A collection of resources from the Brooklyn Public Library including articles, streaming videos, and interactive learning tools.
With the Brooklyn Public Library closed, they are offering virtual programming via Facebook Live broadcasts, Zoom meetings, and streaming from their branch staff.
By The Brooklyn Public Library
Offers 3-4 hours' worth of activities each day for kids all connected to a weekly theme.
By EdNavigator
Game-based adaptive and engaging math program Free, currently free for families for 30 days if they sign up by April 30th.
By Dreambox Learning
Take a virtual tour of Japan's famous Ghibli Museum online and get a glimpse of your favorite Studio Ghibli characters!
By Studio Ghibli
Take a virtual tour of Japan's famous Ghibli Museum online and get a glimpse of your favorite Studio Ghibli characters!
By Studio Ghibli
Study the Founding Era through student performances, primary resources, and interviews with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hamilton cast members
By Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Happy Camper Live is a virtual summer camp, available 365 days per year, including:
Hundreds of professionally produced activity videos taught by real counselors
Daily live programs
An engaging web series
A safe platform where kids can upload their talent videos and complete in contests for fame and prizes
By Happy Camper Live
Heidi Latsky Dance is a mixed dance company and they're offering live events and classes that anyone can join via Instagram Live and Zoom
By Heidi Latsky Dance
Daily pop-up classrooms for families and regularly updated videos of performances including archival, home-made, documentary, or previously broadcast.
By Lincoln Center
Live streaming lessons to help kids and families make all kinds of things using all kinds of materials. Upcoming lessons include making a robot, "Scrappy Circuits," and more.
By Maker Community
Featured content and media for students of all ages from the Kennedy Center, including modern dance, history of Hip-Hop, tragicomedies, and explorations into the world of music, dance, opera, and more.
By The Kennedy Center
Features free video lessons every day exploring new forms of art each week, from puppetry, choreography, magic, clowning, and juggling.
By The New Victory Theater
Join the Library this summer for remote programs, including author talks, storytimes, performances, and more
By New York Public Library
Enjoy NYC parks from home! Join life park tours, meditation, fitness, art classes, fun activities for kids, and more!
By NYC Parks
Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing.
By Scholastic
On each episode, we capture the magic that happens when kids meet and collaborate with beloved storytellers who grow original short stories inspired by their story ideas! Meet our creative rockstars and authors as you listen to our podcast!
We also have a series of fun & free activity e-zines as companions for each episode of the Story Seeds Podcast. Our eight-page printable booklets are mini-magazines, with write-on-lines, illustrations, and graphic organizers.
By Literary Safari Media
Explore new books and e-books, learn new skills, and check out resources, programs, and activities. This summer's theme is "Imagine Your Story," a celebration of fairy tales, folklore, mythology, and sharing your own unique story and voice. Click the link above to check out resources as well as learn about what's going on at your local library.
By New York State
Learn about the art world through games and unique art activities
By Tate Museum
Offering free virtual summer camps for students of different grade levels focused on different themes, including the science of bites and stings, recycled art, improv, dinosaurs, Minecraft, creating slideshows, video editing 101, drawing anime, chess, Spanish, and more.
By Varsity Tutors
Curated content from high-quality providers such as PBS, GoNoodle, and Khan Academy. Everything is organized by theme and is filterable by grade band. As you dive into themes, you can watch videos, read articles, and engage in virtual activities. Provides a balance of screen-based and off-screen games and activities to keep kids busy all day long. Activities include emotional well being, movement, math, reading, writing, science, social studies, and fun field trips and live events. If the content is overwhelming, you can check out their virtual summer camp offerings.
By Common Sense Media
Time capsule project for kids to draw and write about their experiences during this time. Activities include drawing family picture, writing about how you’re feeling, writing letters to yourself, and interviewing your parents.
By Long Creations
Art projects for kids!
By Doodles Academy
Offers courses and activities in music, construction and engineering, health and fitness, and science.
By National Center for Families Learning
Starting on June 15, the Met will be offering an eight-week camp to teach kids about opera through hands-on activities and instruction from writers, artists, musicians, puppeteers, clowns, and bakers. Registration is closed, but kids interested can view all videos and virtual activities.
By The Metropolitan Opera
Offers weekly activities for young writers to begin playwriting and songwriting!
By The Bushwick STARR
These student- driven projects of videos and activities are designed to pull back the curtain to show students how artists, designers, and engineers work together to create theme parks.
By Khan Academy & Disney Imagineering
Free summer programs from June 24 to July 22. Courses include business and marketing, healthcare, information technology, video game design and programming, and virtual reality.
By Destinations Career Academy