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Activities
Take a break to improve your mental health, engage your brain, and get active!
Mindfulness
Being a teenager isn’t easy. These evidence-based resources from The California Healthy Minds, Thriving Kids Project teach a set of mental health skills that can help now and for the rest of your life.
Kids' Read-Aloud Books
Fun & Games
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Free website offering a selection of mandalas to digitally color or print.
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A fun and engaging program designed to develop the mindsets needed to persevere and succeed in learning for four, five, and six-year-olds.
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A foldable zine focused on coping with the pandemic. Click the YouTube icon for instructions for creating the zine.
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Watch live animal cameras within the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park.
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This printable coloring and activity book provides information in stress and anxiety.
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This printable coloring and activity book provides information on the brain and mental health.
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This printable "fortune teller" and instructions shares tips on dealing with stress.
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A relaxing activity with falling stars; use your mouse to change the flow of stars.
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These fun, interactive videos teach children to recognize and name emotions, as well as strategies to cope with difficult feelings.
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This Daniel Tiger game gives children a chance to play about what different feelings look like.
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This app helps young children learn skills such as problem solving, self-control, planning, and task persistence.
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Follow the instructions for each day. The only rule is to have fun and use your imagination!
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ABC Mouse's goal is to help children build a strong foundation for future academic success via an online curriculum.
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Online learning games based on common core standards.
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This apps allows children to practice identifying emotions from facial expressions.
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Choose Food, Animals and Vehicles, or explore other math problems on all kinds of kid-friendly topics (App).
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Free Social Emotional Learning programming.
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This is a free mileage tracker app that donates money to charities based on the number of miles you walk, run, or bike.
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Civilisations AR is a BBC app allows users to virtually explore art through the ages.
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Free Social Emotional Learning online interactive curriculum, available through June 2020.
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Design Squad features hands-on activities and videos for kids to watch, design, and play.
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Visit for a huge library of hands-on projects, how-to videos, and an awesome kid community.
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Links to Dora the Explorer videos, games, and activities in English and Spanish.
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DoSomething members join volunteer, social change, and civic action campaigns to make real-world impact on causes they care about.
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App that uses simple drills to introduce young kids to letters, letter sounds, phonics, and other foundational early reading concepts.
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Funbrain Jr. helps preschoolers and kindergartners jumpstart their journey of learning.
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Gryphon House provides a database of ideas for activities and learning.
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Kid tested and kid approved. UT Health Austin themed coloring pages are great for an afternoon of crafts for kids!
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This site has links to articles for parents of kids ages 0-12, links to Youtube channels, games, and other free resources.
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As parents, it’s more important than ever to keep our kids connected to their friends, so they don’t become isolated.
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JumpStart Academy is a learning platform for early learners at home and at school.
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A free entertainment and educational video app that users access through their public library or school.
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A database of activities that address learning themes from Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework and Common Core standards.
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Links kids to the vast world of design to explore fashion, environmental, architectural, book, and other forms of design.
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Kinder Art provides free art lesson plans that parents and teachers can use in their home and school classrooms.
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Check out science videos, games, and online activities.
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Meet Me at Midnight, an interactive art mystery website for kids.
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A collection of digitally rendered graphic novels designed for children aged 8-14.
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This app allows kids to pick an area of interest and then engage in fun games and activities.
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Kids can enjoy science games, videos, and activities.
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Pathways provides free, trusted resources so that every parent is fully empowered to support their child’s development at any age.
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PBS is a free resource for children and parents that has online videos and learning.
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Caregivers can download a weekly schedule to assist in the creation of an at-home curriculum.
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PBS is a free resource for children and parents that has online videos and learning.
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Austin PBS and PBS have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactive lesson plans, and more.
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This apps allows children to practice recognizing emotions, actions, sounds, etc.
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A free, PBS Kids-created app with games and tips that help kids and parents explore basic earth science, physical science, and life science.
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This app uses four positive penguins to help children understand that their feelings are very much influenced by their thoughts.
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This is a game built with machine learning. You draw, and a neural network tries to guess what you’re drawing.
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Rockalingua has a selection of original, interactive games that are designed to assist parents and teachers with kids learning Spanish.
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Our human body for kids information includes an awesome range of free games, fun experiments, science fair projects, etc.
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Sensory games for kids are suitable for individuals who are developing cause and effect switch skills in a Sensory Environment.
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A mobile app that aims to teach “mindfulness” to people of all ages through sessions of guided meditation of varying length.
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Enjoy online games, educational resources, and activities.
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Sporcle is the world's largest trivia quiz website with over one million user-generated quizzes on every topic imaginable.
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Starfall promotes learning in an environment of collaboration, wonderment, and play.
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This app allows you to check in with how you’re feeling, and try short activities tuned to your emotions.
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Kids experience stress in lots of different ways. Encourage your child to get to know their stress with this Stress Monster activity.
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Create original artwork, photography, or writing that expresses why mental health matters to you for the 2021 contest!
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Free interactive online coloring pages. Color-in pages online and send them to friends or save them in your picture gallery.
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This article shares several free virtual field trips and activities.
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BBC History Revealed shares just a few of the museums, artifacts and historical spaces that you can explore virtually.
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App that provides science-based tips and tools to inspire families to turn shared, everyday moments into "Brain Building Moments."
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A free collection of the best online learning experiences and activities for kids to help families and educators adapt to online learning.
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Submit questions and read about "wonders."
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Check out some of our activity videos and resources from previous years!