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