How to keep the kids productively busy while they are out of school and stuck at home.
Virtual tours and cams
Museums
Tour museums from home and watch special presentations from local institutions or ones across the globe.
National parks
Insider compiled a list of 32 national partks that offer virtual tours.
Philadelphia Orchestra concerts
Livestreaming of Philadelphia Orchestra concerts on demand
Zoo cams
Check in your favorite creatures at local zoos or discover new one across the country.
Activities, classes
Art
Mindy Flexer will be offering online art classes from her Philadelphia art studio for kids starting March 31.
Camp activities
Eden Village Camp is holding virtual camp activities (crafts, baking, singing) multiple times each day.
Character development
Doylestown-based Travis Manion Foundation, offer Facebook Live lessons for elementary and middle school kids focused on character development weekdays at 1pm
Doodles
Kennedy Center sponsors Mo Willems Lunch Doodles weekdays at 1pm
Drawing
Jarrett J. Krosockza conducts daily YouTube drawing lessons.
Ben Clayton's drawing lessons for kids on Faceook.
Entrepreneurship for kids
Children's book author and MBA Lowey Bundy Sichol talks to kids about business and entrepreneurship each Wednesday
Gardening
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society is offering daily gardening tips.
Sing, dance, act
Wolf Performing Arts Center in Bryn Mawr is offering activities and exercises from its staff and community on its Facebook page.
Woodworking
The Center for Art and Wood in Philadelphia has created an online studio called the Wood Shed that is offering virtual studio tours, artist talks, craft tutorials and a young artist speaker series.
Books and Reading
Readings by authors of children's books
A big list of children's authors who will be doing readings and activities for kids can be found here.
Free audiobooks from Audible
Audible is making a collection of audiobooks for kids free to stream.
Educational resources from Philadelphia Free Library
Most local libraries will have online offerings The Philadelphia Free Library also has a site dedicated to learning at home for elementary school, middle school and high school.
Schoastic's books with activities, lessons
Each day Scholastic Learn at Home offers a set of books, videos and activities tied to theme in the books, divided into age groups
