Youth Activities

We hope that by providing this virtual activities webpage will help keep our community engaged, active and connected.

  1. Arts & Music
  2. Educational
  3. Fitness
  4. Nature & virtual travel
  5. Teen Center

Arts & Crafts

  • Carnegie STEM Projects for Girls
    Instructions for making marshmallow rockets, bath bombs, and much more.
  • Cartooning with Bigfoot
    Bigfoot sits down to show you how to use basic shapes and the chibi drawing style! 
  • Crafts by Amanda
    Hundreds of DIY crafts.
  • Disney Instagram
    Disney is using their Instagram to post live, “How to Draw” segments featuring character favorites like Olaf and Sven!
  • Fun Loving Families
    50+ craft ideas for families.
  • Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems
    Celebrated children’s book author and illustrator Mo Willems will be posting a new video every weekday at 1 p.m. EST (10 a.m. PST) and invites viewers to doodle along with him!
  • Marvel Entertainment YouTube
    Marvel Entertainment is using their YouTube to post a variety of content, including a series on how to draw beloved Marvel characters.
  • Michael’s
    Michael’s will be live on Facebook every Wednesday, at 10:00 a.m. CST (8:00 a.m. PST), with a fun, family craft how-to. 
  • Origami Tree
    Jenny W. Chan is an arts & crafts teacher and paper crafts designer in New York City. She holds a BA in Psychology, with a minor in Child & Adolescent Mental Health, from New York University, and a MA in Psychology in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the founder of Origami Tree, a one-stop resource with hundreds of free projects for children, parents, and teachers, and is also the “hands” behind Good Housekeeping napkin folding videos.
  • The Color
    An online resource that provides a variety of free coloring pages for all ages.
  • The Joy of Painting
    Tune in to this YouTube channel for painting tutorials by one of the greats.
  • Young Rembrandts
    Young Rembrandts is offering paid, online drawing classes for children ages 5-12. Their elementary-aged curriculum is designed to teach basic to advanced drawing skills, art techniques and vocabulary. This is a 4 week session was developed for at-home viewing and each weekly video can be viewed up to five times at your child’s convenience. Visit their website for more information and if you would like to sign-up and you do so on ReGGister!

Music & Dance

  • The Kiboomers! Ballet Music / Dance for Kids
    The Kiboomers! Ballet Music. Ballet Songs. Watch and exercise to the ‘Down at the Ballet Class’ video and sing along with the kids!
  • The Metropolitan Opera
    The Metropolitan Opera is offering a free stream of past shows every night, at 7:30 p.m. EDT (4:30 p.m. PST). The featured shows will be pulled from the company’s Live in HD series and will be available for a period of 23 hours before a new show is posted.
  • Rockness Music
    A Facebook page offering virtual music classes, birthday parties, and private lessons. They also have a daily livestream of music Monday - Friday at 10 a.m. EST (7 a.m. PST).

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