Fun Things To Do

Explore activities and videos to experience creativity and science at home!

Check out our free instructions on crafting your own creations. These family activities use materials found at home and in nature.

Stimola Live is a website of live stream events for kids, tweens, and teens by professional authors and illustrators represented by Stimola Literary Studio.

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.

Blanket forts are easy to build and they provide countless hours of fun for children. You can make your fort with everyday household items like blankets, sheets, chairs, and curtain rods.

Mo Willems invites YOU into his studio every day for his LUNCH DOODLE. Learners worldwide can draw, doodle and explore new ways of writing by visiting Mo’s studio virtually once a day for the next few weeks. Grab some paper and pencils, pens, or crayons and join Mo to explore ways of writing and making together.

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Jacqueline O'Loughlin, chief executive of PlayBoard NI, the lead organisation for the development and promotion of children and young people's play in Northern Ireland, warns of the importance of remembering to incorporate play into children's daily routine.