51 Things To Do at Home

I don’t know who compiled this list, but it’s an excellent collection of online resources.

51+ Things To Do While You’re at Home

Virtual Museum Tours

1.       British Museum in London

2.       Guggenheim Museum, New York

4.       Musée d’Orsay, Paris

6.       Pergamon Museum, Berlin

7.       Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

12.    The Louvre, Paris

Online Concerts and Shows

16.  STAGEIT for “Shut in and Sing” events & online concerts

17.  NPR’s live list of Virtual Concerts which is updated daily.

Learn Something New

18.    Learn a new language in as little as five minutes every day. DuoLingo will let you set up a “classroom” so you can have accounts for kids. Drops is another app that makes learning a new language fun.

19.    Yale University is offering a free course online – The Science of Well-Being – that teaches you how to be happier.

20.    Take a University Art Class – Artsy.net has a list of 10 classes free online.

21.    Coursera offers free online courses from many of the world’s top universities in a wide variety of subjects

22.    Become an Artist with Art ala Carte on YouTube.

23.    Code Academy offers a free online coding course.

Take a Virtual Field Trip

24.    San Diego Zoo

28.    Live farm cams from Farm Food 360

31.    Pompei

33.    Ellis Island

Additional Programs 

36.    Skype A Scientist 

37.    LUNCH DOODLES with Mo Willems

38.    #GADBookClub : Actor Josh Gad (Olaf from Frozen) is reading bedtime stories live on his Twitter every night. 

41.    Scholastic Learn At Home : Day by day projects to keep kids thinking, learning, and growing.

Binge Watch Something New

42.    PlutoTV is always free and has 250+ of free channels to choose from. 

43.    XUMO is a free (ad-supported) service with 200 channels of movies, TV shows and kids’ entertainment.

44.    Sundance Now has a 30-day free trial with the code SUNDANCENOW30. Thrillers, True Crime, and Dramas.

45.    Shudder has a 30-day free trial with the code SHUTIN. Shudder specializes in horror movies and thrillers.

46.    UMC has a 30-day free trial with code UMCFREE30. The best in Black film and TV.

47.    Acorn TV has a a 30-day free trial  with code FREE30. British and Australian TV shows

48.    Crunchyroll has a 14-day free trial and access to Anime

49.    Philo is a cable alternative that has a 7-day free trial then it’s $20/month for 59+ channels.

50.    Sling TV is another Cable alternative and has two packages available

51.    IMDb TV is an ad-supported movie streaming services

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