MINDFULNESS & MOVEMENT
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Exercise & YogaPhysical activity is crucial to development and learning, so take advantage of these free and fun resources to get your child moving.
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Busy Toddler
Grade Pre-K | A simple homeschool pre-school program including many hands-on activities for a busy toddler.
Cosmic Kids Yoga
Ages 3+ | Yoga, mindfulness and relaxation designed specially for kids.
Fluency and Fitness
PreK-Grade 2 | Helps students review essential K-2 reading and math topics, while providing a movement break.
Go Noodle
Grade K-8 | Movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts. Inspires all kids to be active and mindful with a wide range of offerings that appeal to kids' different ages, interests, skills, and abilities
Kids Yoga Stories
Ages 2-8 | Discover how to improve motor skills and self-expression. Inspire your little ones to move and learn with fun, interactive, and educational yoga books for kids. Includes a helpful blog, yoga poses posters, and free resources.
Little Twisters Yoga and Emotional Health
Ages 2+ | Children playfully move their bodies following both traditional yoga poses modified to be age appropriate with easy-to-remember names, coupled with lots of creative movements, imitating nature and animals.
Sworkit Kid Workouts
All Ages | Workouts for strength, agility, and balance.
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Food & BodyChildren develop health habits from their parents at an early age. Be a role model to help your kids make good choices, which will continue throughout their lives. Check out these ideas for cooking and gardening with kids...and more!
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Ask a Sista Farmer
All Ages | Facebook page where every Friday, experienced farmers from "Black, Indigenous, People-of-Color, Queer, Trans, Disabled, Immigrant, and Poor communities" answer your call-in questions about gardening, livestock, agroforestry, plant medicine, and food preservation.
Chicago Children's Museum: Recipes for Play at Home
Ages 0 and up | A list of activities (by age level) that will allow you to turn a corner of your living room, kitchen, or backyard into a mini Chicago Children’s Museum experience.
Cooking with Kids
Pre K and Elementary | Cooking with Kids educates and empowers children and families to make healthy food choices through hands-on learning with fresh, affordable foods.
Choose My Plate
All Ages | The United States Department of Agriculture helps kids build healthy eating habits one goal at a time using the Start Simple with MyPlate mobile app to pick daily food goals, see real-time progress, and earn fun badges along the way.
Food Network Cooking with Kids
Pre K and Elementary | Get the little ones involved in the kitchen with simple, kid-friendly recipes and ideas.
Gardening Know How - Find Your Local Extension Office
All Ages | Whether you're starting a vegetable garden or choosing appropriate plants, this page will help you find the nearest Cooperative Extension Service expert for all your gardening needs.
How to Cook .Recipes
All Ages | Recipes from a former kindergarten teacher, current part-time nurse and full-time mom. Find ways to make delicious and nutritious meals without processed junk that your kids will actually eat. Simple recipes, simple and pure ingredients, and a whole lot of fun.
* big thanks to our readers - Liz Nelson and her mom, Jennifer - for sharing this great resource! *
All Ages | Facebook page where every Friday, experienced farmers from "Black, Indigenous, People-of-Color, Queer, Trans, Disabled, Immigrant, and Poor communities" answer your call-in questions about gardening, livestock, agroforestry, plant medicine, and food preservation.
Chicago Children's Museum: Recipes for Play at Home
Ages 0 and up | A list of activities (by age level) that will allow you to turn a corner of your living room, kitchen, or backyard into a mini Chicago Children’s Museum experience.
Cooking with Kids
Pre K and Elementary | Cooking with Kids educates and empowers children and families to make healthy food choices through hands-on learning with fresh, affordable foods.
Choose My Plate
All Ages | The United States Department of Agriculture helps kids build healthy eating habits one goal at a time using the Start Simple with MyPlate mobile app to pick daily food goals, see real-time progress, and earn fun badges along the way.
Food Network Cooking with Kids
Pre K and Elementary | Get the little ones involved in the kitchen with simple, kid-friendly recipes and ideas.
Gardening Know How - Find Your Local Extension Office
All Ages | Whether you're starting a vegetable garden or choosing appropriate plants, this page will help you find the nearest Cooperative Extension Service expert for all your gardening needs.
How to Cook .Recipes
All Ages | Recipes from a former kindergarten teacher, current part-time nurse and full-time mom. Find ways to make delicious and nutritious meals without processed junk that your kids will actually eat. Simple recipes, simple and pure ingredients, and a whole lot of fun.
* big thanks to our readers - Liz Nelson and her mom, Jennifer - for sharing this great resource! *
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Mind & EmotionsThe following resources offer activities, techniques and advice to calm the mind, meditate, and support socioemotional well-being.
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Boston Children's Museum: 100 Ways to Play
Ages 0 and up | Every day, there are a wealth of opportunities for adults and their children to play and grow together. In honor of their 100th anniversary, the Boston Children's Museum shared 100 Ways to Play you can today!
Calm
All Ages | Guided meditations, sleep stories, mindfulness lessons, ambient music and nature scenes to enjoy while working, studying or relaxing.
Coronavirus Time Capsule
All Ages | Company Three is an award-winning theater company in the UK that has started a week-by-week response to the pandemic, with a digital time capsule through the eyes of teenagers everywhere. You can submit videos to be included in the worldwide campaign, or create your own time capsules at home with the family by following these instructions from Company Three and this Wordpress blog.
Explore: Zen Cams
All Ages | This website offers a wide collection of live streams for meditation, including brown bears in Alaska, Hawaiian beaches and space videos.
The Imagination Tree
Baby to School Age | A practical and helpful stay at home survival guide for parents to use while their children are at home including planning, play and learning ideas for self-isolation as well as links to lots of creative activities and resources.
Kids for Peace: Uplifting our World through Love and Action
All Ages | As schools close, activities pause and states issue stay-at-home orders, we have a unique opportunity to “go within” and connect deeply with our families. We hope the below activities will help foster peace with our children, inspire fun with our families and shine a healing light of love upon our world. Download the PDF.
Leader in Me: COVID-19 Resources for Families
Grades K-12 | Thousands of resources, including bite-sized lessons, cartoons, activity blog and video series teach the 7 Habits and leadership skills, and establish a framework to nurture and develop your child’s life-ready leadership skills at home.
The OT Toolbox
Pre K - Grade 5 | Resources, tools, ideas, and activities geared toward the healthy development of kids. Based on function and occupation-centered activities, the ideas shared promote the underlying skills needed for action and performance in kids.
Overcoming Obstacles
Grades K-12 | Easy to teach activity-based lessons covering critical social and emotional skills, effective communication, how to make informed decisions, set and achieve goals, resolve conflicts, solve problems, respect one another, and more.
One Time Through - 30 Ways to Connect
Elementary | A list of 30 ways to connect with your child and spark joy, including dance, sensory activities and more!
Parent-child Interview
Elementary & Middle | Get to know your child on a deeper level through these thought-provoking questions. Questions can be used to prompt a verbal discussion or can be used as writing prompts.
Quarantine Fun
All Ages | A "one-stop-shop" full of fun, interesting and educational resources for kids and adults to help pass the time, as well as links to Facebook support groups and financial assistance.
Zooniverse: Digital Volunteering Opportunities
All Ages | Real cutting edge research in fields across the sciences, humanities, and more. The Zooniverse creates opportunities for you to unlock answers and contribute to real discoveries.
Ages 0 and up | Every day, there are a wealth of opportunities for adults and their children to play and grow together. In honor of their 100th anniversary, the Boston Children's Museum shared 100 Ways to Play you can today!
Calm
All Ages | Guided meditations, sleep stories, mindfulness lessons, ambient music and nature scenes to enjoy while working, studying or relaxing.
Coronavirus Time Capsule
All Ages | Company Three is an award-winning theater company in the UK that has started a week-by-week response to the pandemic, with a digital time capsule through the eyes of teenagers everywhere. You can submit videos to be included in the worldwide campaign, or create your own time capsules at home with the family by following these instructions from Company Three and this Wordpress blog.
Explore: Zen Cams
All Ages | This website offers a wide collection of live streams for meditation, including brown bears in Alaska, Hawaiian beaches and space videos.
The Imagination Tree
Baby to School Age | A practical and helpful stay at home survival guide for parents to use while their children are at home including planning, play and learning ideas for self-isolation as well as links to lots of creative activities and resources.
Kids for Peace: Uplifting our World through Love and Action
All Ages | As schools close, activities pause and states issue stay-at-home orders, we have a unique opportunity to “go within” and connect deeply with our families. We hope the below activities will help foster peace with our children, inspire fun with our families and shine a healing light of love upon our world. Download the PDF.
Leader in Me: COVID-19 Resources for Families
Grades K-12 | Thousands of resources, including bite-sized lessons, cartoons, activity blog and video series teach the 7 Habits and leadership skills, and establish a framework to nurture and develop your child’s life-ready leadership skills at home.
The OT Toolbox
Pre K - Grade 5 | Resources, tools, ideas, and activities geared toward the healthy development of kids. Based on function and occupation-centered activities, the ideas shared promote the underlying skills needed for action and performance in kids.
Overcoming Obstacles
Grades K-12 | Easy to teach activity-based lessons covering critical social and emotional skills, effective communication, how to make informed decisions, set and achieve goals, resolve conflicts, solve problems, respect one another, and more.
One Time Through - 30 Ways to Connect
Elementary | A list of 30 ways to connect with your child and spark joy, including dance, sensory activities and more!
Parent-child Interview
Elementary & Middle | Get to know your child on a deeper level through these thought-provoking questions. Questions can be used to prompt a verbal discussion or can be used as writing prompts.
Quarantine Fun
All Ages | A "one-stop-shop" full of fun, interesting and educational resources for kids and adults to help pass the time, as well as links to Facebook support groups and financial assistance.
Zooniverse: Digital Volunteering Opportunities
All Ages | Real cutting edge research in fields across the sciences, humanities, and more. The Zooniverse creates opportunities for you to unlock answers and contribute to real discoveries.