what
🇬🇧🔗🏕️https://naturedetectives.woodlandtrust.org.uk/naturedetectives/
Nature-related activities and educational resources.
Big History Project
🇬🇧🔗https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home
Big History Project, aimed at Secondary age. Multi disciplinary activities.
Toy Theater
Educational online games for younger kids.
DK Find Out
Online encyclopedia with activities and quizzes.
Twinkl
Educational resources, especially printable worksheets. Some free downloads. Free month subscription using this code: UK TWINKL HELPS or PARENTSTWINKLHELPS
Paw Print Badges
🇬🇧🔗https://www.pawprintbadges.co.uk
Paw Print Badges- Free challenge packs and other downloads. Many activities can be completed indoors. Badges cost but are optional.
Outdoor Classroom Day
🔗https://outdoorclassroomday.org.uk/resources/
Hundreds of ideas for outdoor play and taking lessons outdoors. Make sure if children are being home-schooled you include 15 mins recess for every 45 mins instruction. (Resources in 15 languages).
World Geography
🔗https://world-geography-games.com/world.html
Play ideas to do at home, outdoor lesson ideas for school, or guidance on making time outdoors part of every child’s day
Tinkercad
From AutoDesk - free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding. It's used by teachers, kids, hobbyists, and designers to imagine, design, and make anything!
Live Science
🔗 https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-kids-activities.html
Kids science activities.
Five Minute Mum
BLOG: Five minute fun activities for busy people to do with little kids. Five minute set up, five minute clear up is the theme.
The Artful Parent
BLOG: Guides and tips for art activities.
Red Ted Art
BLOG:Easy arts and crafts for little ones
The Imagination Tree
🔗 📝https://theimaginationtree.com
BLOG: Creative art and craft activities for the very youngest.
Virtual Tours
List of Virtual Tours
🔗https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YfcmgRDbP-Kfrh0-jTyFP2fNWsbNXdJAemblLiCRHdA/edit
List of Virtual Tours of museums and zoos and other cultural places.
Smithsonian Animals
🔗https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/vt3/NMNH/z_tour-079.html
Smithsonian Animal Tour
Smithsonian Dinosaur
🔗https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/vt3/NMNH/z_tour-029.html
Smithsonian Dinosaur Tour
Louvre
🔗https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne
Louvre Art Museum, Paris
Uffizi Galleries
🔗https://g.co/arts/YNKYhdMiRcEu8axc6
Uffizi Galleries, Italy
National Gallery
🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/virtual-tours
National Gallery, London
Brighton Royal Pavilion
🔗https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/whattosee/virtual-tour/
Brighton Royal Pavilion
Buckingham Palace
🔗https://www.royal.uk/virtual-tours-buckingham-palace
Buckingham Palace, London
Communities and Groups
FAMILY LOCKDOWN TIPS & IDEAS
👨👩👦https://www.facebook.com/groups/871176893326326
Home activities for kids
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/876013606173448/
Fun, activities and education for kids at home
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/593701314558951/
Kids' Activities for During Lockdown
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/823672224818823/
Indoor activities for kids (COVID-19 outbreak)
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/indoorswithkids/
Family lockdown activities, tips & ideas UK
👨👩👦🇬🇧: https://www.facebook.com/groups/670287490403923/
Lockdown activities for kids (Surviving covid19)
👨👩👦https://www.facebook.com/groups/512281423007895/
kids crafts & diy ideas
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/325056278158030/
Isolation Activities for Kids
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/578686586068826/
Coronavirus School closures-kids activities
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/328254331465481/
Keeping Kids Busy in Isolation
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1541118002710081/
Keeping Kids Busy and Learning
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/activelittles
💡Project/activity Ideas (add your own!)
Make-up-a-voice Activity
💡🔗Learn about voice acting and then try to improvise a voice for each character.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/make-up-a-voice-activity
Banish-boredom Printable Journal
💡🔗A list-making journal to prepare you for boredom, plus wise words by wise people about boredom.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/banishing-boredom
7-day Challenge Printable Journal
💡🔗A journal inviting kids, 8-year olds and older, to take on a daily challenge and track it for a week.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/day-challenge-printable-journal
Space Colonization Printable Activity
💡🔗Watch fascinating videos about space colonization and then try to design your own space colony.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/space-colonization-printable-journal-watch-learn
Song + Art Project
🏃♀️🏃♂️In the morning, learn to sing a folk song. If it contains words/objects/concepts/instruments the children don’t know, learn about them together.
In the afternoon, make an art project based on the song. Draw, build a model of an item from the song, make the song in Lego.
Activity Cache- Geocaching for activities.
🏃♀️🏃♂️Think of an open-air activity that can be done with no materials, or with materials you bring with you. Choose a location in your area and walk there. Save the GPS coordinates and do the activity. Take pictures! Bring home the coordinates and pictures and then post them on a local parent’s Internet group. Other families can go to the same place.
Do not leave items at the site; repeated handling of them can spread virus particles.
In order to respect social distancing, the parents can organise between themselves (“we’ll go this afternoon, you go tomorrow”) or just plan that if someone else is there, that they will continue walking past and come back in a half hour.
Make a maze with forest materials.
🏃♀️🏃♂️ Set up a target, visitors throw pinecones at it. Find a tri-corner of three counties, and learn about map coloring there.
Offer Short Lessons
💡If you can give short lessons to children who are being home educated (you don’t have to be an educator, could be an instrument, a story from history, etc.), please email Tim Cook
Other Helpful Information
National Trust Free Parks & Gardens
🇬🇧🔗https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/
The National Trust is keeping its parks and gardens open for free during social distancing.
RSPB Nature Reserves Open for Free
🇬🇧🔗https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/rspb-news/news/stories/coronavirus/
The RSPB is keeping the majority of its nature reserves open and is waiving car parking charges until further notice (visitor centres and cafes are closed, however).
Education and Learning
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/educational-content
Mental Health
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/mental-health
Young Minds
🇬🇧🔗https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/looking-after-yourself/coronavirus-and-mental-health/
This organisation aims to ensure all young people get the best possible mental health support.
For children
Fischy Music
🔗https://www.youtube.com/user/Fischymusic
Fischy Music. Free music video website for children’s emotional and mental wellbeing. Online assemblies on YouTube every Monday morning at 11am (primary aged children and families).
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Advice
Advice from the University of Reading and University of Oxford for young people to manage their mental health during the pandemic
For Parents
Parent Zone Crisis Messaging
🔗https://parentzone.org.uk/parent-zone-crisis-messenger
If you are experiencing a mental health crisis and need support, you can text PARENTZONE to 85258.
Child Mind
🔗https://childmind.org/coping-during-covid-19-resources-for-parents/
Clinical and supportive resources - Resources for parents struggling to balance work, child care and self-care while keeping worries
Child Mind Institute Live Chats
🔗https://www.facebook.com/ChildMindInstitute/live/
Facebook Live video chats with expert clinicians - Live Chats that parents have access to with clinicians that discuss children and parents health
Co-parenting in Coronavirus
🔗https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/divorce-busting/202003/co-parenting-and-the-coronavirus
Co-parenting and Coronavirus- Article discusses how separated parents can bridge their differences during the pandemic
Potential In Me
🔗https://potentialin.me/families-online/
Potential in Me are running an online support group for parents & carers of kids in adolescence (8-25). We’re running personal development workshops, community connection calls and a limited amount of one-to-one coaching support.
DevieCoach
Free mobile app that delivers research-based daily support for parents at home with young children in the form of automated 2-5 min chats. All content based on RCT-validated.
General support for parents
Dads Rock
Dads Rock! Supporting fathers across Scotland.
Parenting Across Scotland
🔗https://www.parentingacrossscotland.org/info-for-families/coronavirus/
Parenting across Scotland- Provides guides for the family.
Barnardo Whatsapp Tool
🔗https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FU1VhPd7zmmQJF2kwIMUeWFzqLuBbEpc
Barnardo's pilot of WhatsApp as a service delivery tool. Guidance, policy, lessons learned, etc.
Dads Rock will be running online workshops, such as Antenatal for Dads to be, Antenatal for Mums to be, Feeding, sleeping and hairstyle workshops.
Parenting NI
Parenting NI established in 1979, as the Parents Advice Centre, provides free support for parents across Northern Ireland.
Parent Info
Help and advice for families in a digital world
Parent Info is a collaboration between Parent Zone and NCA-CEOP, providing support and guidance for parents from leading experts and organisations.
Social Networks and Communication
Chatting/Communicating with other
Mush
GovStart 2019 startup Mush is the local social network for mums. They can swap advice and tips on how to deal with the virus.
Positive Birth Under COVID-19
🔗https://m.facebook.com/groups/204187680864008/
Resources and tools for guardians and parents to use
💬 WhatsApp Chat for Childcare sectibon 💬
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Talking About Coronavirus
Talking to Children about Coronavirus
CDC Advice
🇺🇸🔗https://www.cdc.gov/childrenindisasters/helping-children-cope.html
How to help children cope
Child Mind Institute
🇺🇸🔗https://childmind.org/article/talking-to-kids-about-the-coronavirus/
Advice from the experts at the Child Mind Institute.
Health Line Guide
🇺🇸🔗https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-to-talk-to-kids-about-the-coronavirus
How to Talk to Your Kids About the COVID-19 Outbreak
NY Times Coronavirus and Kids
🇺🇸🔗https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/parenting/coronavirus-kids-talk.html
How to talk to your kid about the outbreak and keeping your anxiety in check
Telegraph Coronavirus and Kids
How to talk to children about Coronavirus, without giving them nightmares.
Project Fear Not
🔗http://opsafeintl.com/project-fear-not/
Project fear not- Anti-COVID-19 Information for Children
PBS Guide to Talking to Children about Coronavirus
🔗https://www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-coronavirus
How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus- Guide to help parents talk to their children properly about the virus
Kids Friendly Info on Coronavirus
Colouring Books
🌏🔗https://www.mindheart.co/descargables
Coloring book on the Coronavirus for kids. By Manuela Molina. In many languages.
Matt Smeed Guide for Kids
Cute wellbeing and resilience guide for kids created by a psychologist
ICAN Resources
ICAN communication charity with great resources to help speak to children about Coronavirus.
Coronavirus Comic
Just For Kids: A Comic Exploring The New Coronavirus
How Germs Spread
📺https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/see-germs-spread-mark-rober
How To See Germs Spread (Coronavirus) with Mark Rober
Hand washing
📺https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/how-soap-and-water-kills-coronavirus
“Plain old soap and water absolutely annihilate Coronavirus.” – Vox
📺https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QKrFxahFC4
Proper hand washing
Social Distancing
📺https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/coronavirus-covid-19-social-distancing-soap-pandemic
Coronavirus COVID-19: What is social distancing?
Live Science
🔗 https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-kids-guide.html
Live Science “ultimate kids’ guide to the new Coronavirus”- Answers from science to all the questions.
Make your own soap
🌏🔗https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/hidden-surprise-diy-soap-how-to-wash-your-hands
How to make your own soap against Coronavirus.
Brain Pop
🌏 🔗https://www.brainpop.com/health/diseasesinjuriesandconditions/coronavirus/
All you need to know. Quizzes, animations and more.
Baby Sharky: Wash Your Hands
📺🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L89nN03pBzI
"Wash Your Hands", from the makers of "Baby Shark"
Spun Out
SpunOut.ie is Ireland’s youth information website created by young people, for young people.- Ireland
Preparing for the Outbreak
For learning how to prepare for the outbreak
See also:
🔗coronavirustechhandbook.com/advice
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/hygiene
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/food
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/isolation-toolkit
CDC Advice for Parents
🇺🇸🔗https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/schools-faq.html
CDC advice for parents
Live Q&A with Scotland's First Minister
🔗https://twitter.com/YoungScot/status/1240942821219188736?s=19
Live Q&A with Scotland’s First Minister @ScotGovFM and National Clinical Director @jasonleitch
Childcare
SiteEander
🇪🇺🔗https://www.siteinander.com
SitEinander is a hyper-local social network in Europe specifically designed for nearby parents to help each other.
Legal Forms and Templates for Fostering in case of illness
Helpful Engineering channel #project-kids-in-crisis- An idea to create a set of reusable legal forms/templates for families to use for full-time hosting/fostering a child of a healthcare worker or hospitalized patient.
Rally Round Me
Online tool that family, friends and communities can use to support people they care about. Everyone in a network can share and discuss jobs and volunteer to help out.
UK Government Advice on Childcare
🇬🇧🔗https://www.gov.uk/government/news/free-childcare-offers-to-continue-during-coronavirus-closures
The UK Government will continue to pay funding to local authorities for the free entitlements for two, three and four-year-olds
Family Support NI
🇬🇧🔗https://www.familysupportni.gov.uk/ -
Government backed service directory of all registered childcare providers along with all services that provide support for children and families in NI.
Yoopies
🇬🇧🔗https://www.yoopies.co.uk emergency, last minute, volunteer childcare available. Free use of the platform for NHS staff.
Your Baby Doctor
🇺🇸🔗https://twitter.com/yourbabydoctor/status/1237966097485193220
Informal Seattle based.Babysitting exchange during school closure if parents are unable to self isolate.
Mutual Childcare
Wiggle Room
🇺🇸🔗https://www.wiggleroomnow.com/
Wiggle Room is a new app designed to help people manage a network of informal childcare.
Childcare Coop for Doctors
🇬🇧 🔗https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUL1b4tDUf8ICDEmRBDTHu7AikLs1sSyB54wny0F8SUWu_gw/viewform
Childcare for doctors co-op
Childcare Coop
Easily schedule childcare with other people, if you're in the situation where the schools have closed, but you still have to go to work.
KoruKids
KoruKids is looking at nanny share options for families.
Routines and Schedules
Mansour's Musings
🌏🔗https://kfahttps://coronavirustechhandbook.com/homen.iheart.com/featured/mansour-s-musings/content/2020-03-15-try-this-covid-19-daily-schedule-to-keep-your-kids-from-going-stir-crazy/
Try this COVID-19 daily schedule to keep your kids from going stir crazy.
LitterBox Comics
🌏🔗https://twitter.com/LitterboxComics/status/1239003086569582592
COVID-19 daily schedule
Jesse, Lucia, Giacomo's Daily Schedule
🌏🔗https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13AB1SSmKR-mO3yyxKh5w2EJrzq6vfbjY4QlB-GDTzUA/edit?usp=sharing
Two people working full-time with a 3-year-old at home (will update with learnings as we go). Put in a 15-min cocktail break for the pleasure of it
Fun and Activities
Advice
CPR Staying at Home with Kids
What To Do With Kids At Home On Coronavirus Break For Who Knows How Long (Without Losing It)
Yoopies Guide for Parents
🇬🇧🔗https://yoopies.co.uk/c/press-centre/stayhomesavelives-guide-for-parents
How to stay home" guide for parents including homeschooling, keeping in touch with friends/family, answering difficult questions kids pose.
CDC Childhood advice
CDC Childhood advice
Quarantine Parenting Advice
Digital Parenting Advice for Quarantined Families: Five helpful tips for staying sane while sharing space, time and wifi. Plus register for FREE Digital Sanity Summit & Get one-on-one help.
UNICEF Advice for Parents
🔗https://www.unicef.org/stories/novel-coronavirus-outbreak-what-parents-sho inuld-know
What UNICEF says parents should know about Coronavirus.
Keeping the Kids Connected
Keeping the Kids Connected and Entertained During the COVID-19 School Shut Down
Resources and Lists of Activities
National Geographic Kids
🇬🇧🔗https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
Activities and quizzes for younger kids.
BBC Bitesize Daily Lessons
🇬🇧🔗https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
Educational videos and activities for kids of school age.
BBC CBeebies
🇬🇧https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Games, puzzles, videos and radio for younger kids.
BBC CBBC
🇬🇧🔗https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/
Games, quizzes, videos and other cool stuff for older kids.
World at Home
Tool for parents, carers and kids to find useful activities, information and ideas.
Enrichment Activities for Children While Parents are Working Remotely
🌏🔗https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KCFnWreu4v7VoO3NbgP-Qcq2LyE1FvliYSoiTLRY7Qg/edit?usp=sharing
This google sheet provides a list of activities that children can do while they stay at home. You can also add activities to the⁸ list.
Little Light Bulbs
🌱🌏🔗🎬https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/
- Printable journals and educational 'zines'.
- A community of parents and carers engaged in educational activities.
- Curated YouTube videos, arranged by topics.
Audible Free Audio Stories
🔗 https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
Audio stories and books for free.
Nature Detectives
🇬🇧🔗🏕️https://naturedetectives.woodlandtrust.org.uk/naturedetectives/
Nature-related activities and educational resources.
Big History Project
🇬🇧🔗https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home
Big History Project, aimed at Secondary age. Multi disciplinary activities.
Toy Theater
Educational online games for younger kids.
DK Find Out
Online encyclopedia with activities and quizzes.
Twinkl
Educational resources, especially printable worksheets. Some free downloads. Free month subscription using this code: UK TWINKL HELPS or PARENTSTWINKLHELPS
Paw Print Badges
🇬🇧🔗https://www.pawprintbadges.co.uk
Paw Print Badges- Free challenge packs and other downloads. Many activities can be completed indoors. Badges cost but are optional.
Outdoor Classroom Day
🔗https://outdoorclassroomday.org.uk/resources/
Hundreds of ideas for outdoor play and taking lessons outdoors. Make sure if children are being home-schooled you include 15 mins recess for every 45 mins instruction. (Resources in 15 languages).
World Geography
🔗https://world-geography-games.com/world.html
Play ideas to do at home, outdoor lesson ideas for school, or guidance on making time outdoors part of every child’s day
Tinkercad
From AutoDesk - free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding. It's used by teachers, kids, hobbyists, and designers to imagine, design, and make anything!
Live Science
🔗 https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-kids-activities.html
Kids science activities.
Five Minute Mum
BLOG: Five minute fun activities for busy people to do with little kids. Five minute set up, five minute clear up is the theme.
The Artful Parent
BLOG: Guides and tips for art activities.
Red Ted Art
BLOG:Easy arts and crafts for little ones
The Imagination Tree
🔗 📝https://theimaginationtree.com
BLOG: Creative art and craft activities for the very youngest.
Virtual Tours
List of Virtual Tours
🔗https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YfcmgRDbP-Kfrh0-jTyFP2fNWsbNXdJAemblLiCRHdA/edit
List of Virtual Tours of museums and zoos and other cultural places.
Smithsonian Animals
🔗https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/vt3/NMNH/z_tour-079.html
Smithsonian Animal Tour
Smithsonian Dinosaur
🔗https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/vt3/NMNH/z_tour-029.html
Smithsonian Dinosaur Tour
Louvre
🔗https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne
Louvre Art Museum, Paris
Uffizi Galleries
🔗https://g.co/arts/YNKYhdMiRcEu8axc6
Uffizi Galleries, Italy
National Gallery
🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/virtual-tours
National Gallery, London
Brighton Royal Pavilion
🔗https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/whattosee/virtual-tour/
Brighton Royal Pavilion
Buckingham Palace
🔗https://www.royal.uk/virtual-tours-buckingham-palace
Buckingham Palace, London
Communities and Groups
FAMILY LOCKDOWN TIPS & IDEAS
👨👩👦https://www.facebook.com/groups/871176893326326
Home activities for kids
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/876013606173448/
Fun, activities and education for kids at home
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/593701314558951/
Kids' Activities for During Lockdown
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/823672224818823/
Indoor activities for kids (COVID-19 outbreak)
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/indoorswithkids/
Family lockdown activities, tips & ideas UK
👨👩👦🇬🇧: https://www.facebook.com/groups/670287490403923/
Lockdown activities for kids (Surviving covid19)
👨👩👦https://www.facebook.com/groups/512281423007895/
kids crafts & diy ideas
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/325056278158030/
Isolation Activities for Kids
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/578686586068826/
Coronavirus School closures-kids activities
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/328254331465481/
Keeping Kids Busy in Isolation
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1541118002710081/
Keeping Kids Busy and Learning
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/activelittles
💡Project/activity Ideas (add your own!)
Make-up-a-voice Activity
💡🔗Learn about voice acting and then try to improvise a voice for each character.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/make-up-a-voice-activity
Banish-boredom Printable Journal
💡🔗A list-making journal to prepare you for boredom, plus wise words by wise people about boredom.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/banishing-boredom
7-day Challenge Printable Journal
💡🔗A journal inviting kids, 8-year olds and older, to take on a daily challenge and track it for a week.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/day-challenge-printable-journal
Space Colonization Printable Activity
💡🔗Watch fascinating videos about space colonization and then try to design your own space colony.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/space-colonization-printable-journal-watch-learn
Song + Art Project
🏃♀️🏃♂️In the morning, learn to sing a folk song. If it contains words/objects/concepts/instruments the children don’t know, learn about them together.
In the afternoon, make an art project based on the song. Draw, build a model of an item from the song, make the song in Lego.
Activity Cache- Geocaching for activities.
🏃♀️🏃♂️Think of an open-air activity that can be done with no materials, or with materials you bring with you. Choose a location in your area and walk there. Save the GPS coordinates and do the activity. Take pictures! Bring home the coordinates and pictures and then post them on a local parent’s Internet group. Other families can go to the same place.
Do not leave items at the site; repeated handling of them can spread virus particles.
In order to respect social distancing, the parents can organise between themselves (“we’ll go this afternoon, you go tomorrow”) or just plan that if someone else is there, that they will continue walking past and come back in a half hour.
Make a maze with forest materials.
🏃♀️🏃♂️ Set up a target, visitors throw pinecones at it. Find a tri-corner of three counties, and learn about map coloring there.
Offer Short Lessons
💡If you can give short lessons to children who are being home educated (you don’t have to be an educator, could be an instrument, a story from history, etc.), please email Tim Cook
Other Helpful Information
National Trust Free Parks & Gardens
🇬🇧🔗https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/
The National Trust is keeping its parks and gardens open for free during social distancing.
RSPB Nature Reserves Open for Free
🇬🇧🔗https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/rspb-news/news/stories/coronavirus/
The RSPB is keeping the majority of its nature reserves open and is waiving car parking charges until further notice (visitor centres and cafes are closed, however).
Education and Learning
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/educational-content
Mental Health
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/mental-health
Young Minds
🇬🇧🔗https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/looking-after-yourself/coronavirus-and-mental-health/
This organisation aims to ensure all young people get the best possible mental health support.
For children
Fischy Music
🔗https://www.youtube.com/user/Fischymusic
Fischy Music. Free music video website for children’s emotional and mental wellbeing. Online assemblies on YouTube every Monday morning at 11am (primary aged children and families).
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Advice
Advice from the University of Reading and University of Oxford for young people to manage their mental health during the pandemic
For Parents
Parent Zone Crisis Messaging
🔗https://parentzone.org.uk/parent-zone-crisis-messenger
If you are experiencing a mental health crisis and need support, you can text PARENTZONE to 85258.
Child Mind
🔗https://childmind.org/coping-during-covid-19-resources-for-parents/
Clinical and supportive resources - Resources for parents struggling to balance work, child care and self-care while keeping worries
Child Mind Institute Live Chats
🔗https://www.facebook.com/ChildMindInstitute/live/
Facebook Live video chats with expert clinicians - Live Chats that parents have access to with clinicians that discuss children and parents health
Co-parenting in Coronavirus
🔗https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/divorce-busting/202003/co-parenting-and-the-coronavirus
Co-parenting and Coronavirus- Article discusses how separated parents can bridge their differences during the pandemic
Potential In Me
🔗https://potentialin.me/families-online/
Potential in Me are running an online support group for parents & carers of kids in adolescence (8-25). We’re running personal development workshops, community connection calls and a limited amount of one-to-one coaching support.
DevieCoach
Free mobile app that delivers research-based daily support for parents at home with young children in the form of automated 2-5 min chats. All content based on RCT-validated.
General support for parents
Dads Rock
Dads Rock! Supporting fathers across Scotland.
Parenting Across Scotland
🔗https://www.parentingacrossscotland.org/info-for-families/coronavirus/
Parenting across Scotland- Provides guides for the family.
Barnardo Whatsapp Tool
🔗https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FU1VhPd7zmmQJF2kwIMUeWFzqLuBbEpc
Barnardo's pilot of WhatsApp as a service delivery tool. Guidance, policy, lessons learned, etc.
Dads Rock will be running online workshops, such as Antenatal for Dads to be, Antenatal for Mums to be, Feeding, sleeping and hairstyle workshops.
Parenting NI
Parenting NI established in 1979, as the Parents Advice Centre, provides free support for parents across Northern Ireland.
Parent Info
Help and advice for families in a digital world
Parent Info is a collaboration between Parent Zone and NCA-CEOP, providing support and guidance for parents from leading experts and organisations.
Social Networks and Communication
Chatting/Communicating with other
Mush
GovStart 2019 startup Mush is the local social network for mums. They can swap advice and tips on how to deal with the virus.
Positive Birth Under COVID-19
🔗https://m.facebook.com/groups/204187680864008/
Facebook group supporting those who are going to give birth in the time of Coronavirus.
FAMILY LOCKDOWN TIPS & IDEAS
🔗https://www.facebook.com/groups/871176893326326/
Facebook group for Family Lockdown tips and ideas
Family lockdown activities, tips & ideas UK
🇬🇧🔗https://www.facebook.com/groups/670287490403923/
Facebook Group for Family lockdown activities, tips & ideas UK
Campaigns
In this Together
🇦🇪🔗#InThisTogetherDubai, A social media campaign that links all education community members together to share their ideas and practices and support each other
Safeguarding
Safeguarding Advice
What are the issues to consider working online with children/young people during Coronavirus outbreak
Internet Matters
🔗https://www.internetmatters.org/
Helping parents keep their children safe online
Safeguarding for Music Tuition
Safeguarding: synchronous online music tuition
Online Compass
🔗https://swgfl.org.uk/products/online-compass/
Online Compass produced by SWGfL (who also run online safety mark for schools) Online Compass is an online-safety self-review tool designed for organisations working with children and young people. It helps assess your current practice and provides guidance for ongoing development re online policies/procedures etc. Nb the resources are in the process of being updated so some links don’t work.
Safety while online
https://www.scrtracker.com/blog/how-can-we-keep-students-safe-as-their-internet-usage-increases
Resources and tools for guardians and parents to use
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Talking About Coronavirus
Talking to Children about Coronavirus
CDC Advice
🇺🇸🔗https://www.cdc.gov/childrenindisasters/helping-children-cope.html
How to help children cope
Child Mind Institute
🇺🇸🔗https://childmind.org/article/talking-to-kids-about-the-coronavirus/
Advice from the experts at the Child Mind Institute.
Health Line Guide
🇺🇸🔗https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-to-talk-to-kids-about-the-coronavirus
How to Talk to Your Kids About the COVID-19 Outbreak
NY Times Coronavirus and Kids
🇺🇸🔗https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/parenting/coronavirus-kids-talk.html
How to talk to your kid about the outbreak and keeping your anxiety in check
Telegraph Coronavirus and Kids
How to talk to children about Coronavirus, without giving them nightmares.
Project Fear Not
🔗http://opsafeintl.com/project-fear-not/
Project fear not- Anti-COVID-19 Information for Children
PBS Guide to Talking to Children about Coronavirus
🔗https://www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-coronavirus
How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus- Guide to help parents talk to their children properly about the virus
Kids Friendly Info on Coronavirus
Colouring Books
🌏🔗https://www.mindheart.co/descargables
Coloring book on the Coronavirus for kids. By Manuela Molina. In many languages.
Matt Smeed Guide for Kids
Cute wellbeing and resilience guide for kids created by a psychologist
ICAN Resources
ICAN communication charity with great resources to help speak to children about Coronavirus.
Coronavirus Comic
Just For Kids: A Comic Exploring The New Coronavirus
How Germs Spread
📺https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/see-germs-spread-mark-rober
How To See Germs Spread (Coronavirus) with Mark Rober
Hand washing
📺https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/how-soap-and-water-kills-coronavirus
“Plain old soap and water absolutely annihilate Coronavirus.” – Vox
📺https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QKrFxahFC4
Proper hand washing
Social Distancing
📺https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/coronavirus-covid-19-social-distancing-soap-pandemic
Coronavirus COVID-19: What is social distancing?
Live Science
🔗 https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-kids-guide.html
Live Science “ultimate kids’ guide to the new Coronavirus”- Answers from science to all the questions.
Make your own soap
🌏🔗https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/hidden-surprise-diy-soap-how-to-wash-your-hands
How to make your own soap against Coronavirus.
Brain Pop
🌏 🔗https://www.brainpop.com/health/diseasesinjuriesandconditions/coronavirus/
All you need to know. Quizzes, animations and more.
Baby Sharky: Wash Your Hands
📺🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L89nN03pBzI
"Wash Your Hands", from the makers of "Baby Shark"
Spun Out
SpunOut.ie is Ireland’s youth information website created by young people, for young people.- Ireland
Preparing for the Outbreak
For learning how to prepare for the outbreak
See also:
🔗coronavirustechhandbook.com/advice
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/hygiene
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/food
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/isolation-toolkit
CDC Advice for Parents
🇺🇸🔗https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/schools-faq.html
CDC advice for parents
Live Q&A with Scotland's First Minister
🔗https://twitter.com/YoungScot/status/1240942821219188736?s=19
Live Q&A with Scotland’s First Minister @ScotGovFM and National Clinical Director @jasonleitch
Childcare
SiteEander
🇪🇺🔗https://www.siteinander.com
SitEinander is a hyper-local social network in Europe specifically designed for nearby parents to help each other.
Legal Forms and Templates for Fostering in case of illness
Helpful Engineering channel #project-kids-in-crisis- An idea to create a set of reusable legal forms/templates for families to use for full-time hosting/fostering a child of a healthcare worker or hospitalized patient.
Rally Round Me
Online tool that family, friends and communities can use to support people they care about. Everyone in a network can share and discuss jobs and volunteer to help out.
UK Government Advice on Childcare
🇬🇧🔗https://www.gov.uk/government/news/free-childcare-offers-to-continue-during-coronavirus-closures
The UK Government will continue to pay funding to local authorities for the free entitlements for two, three and four-year-olds
Family Support NI
🇬🇧🔗https://www.familysupportni.gov.uk/ -
Government backed service directory of all registered childcare providers along with all services that provide support for children and families in NI.
Yoopies
🇬🇧🔗https://www.yoopies.co.uk emergency, last minute, volunteer childcare available. Free use of the platform for NHS staff.
Your Baby Doctor
🇺🇸🔗https://twitter.com/yourbabydoctor/status/1237966097485193220
Informal Seattle based.Babysitting exchange during school closure if parents are unable to self isolate.
Mutual Childcare
Wiggle Room
🇺🇸🔗https://www.wiggleroomnow.com/
Wiggle Room is a new app designed to help people manage a network of informal childcare.
Childcare Coop for Doctors
🇬🇧 🔗https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUL1b4tDUf8ICDEmRBDTHu7AikLs1sSyB54wny0F8SUWu_gw/viewform
Childcare for doctors co-op
Childcare Coop
Easily schedule childcare with other people, if you're in the situation where the schools have closed, but you still have to go to work.
KoruKids
KoruKids is looking at nanny share options for families.
Routines and Schedules
Mansour's Musings
🌏🔗https://kfahttps://coronavirustechhandbook.com/homen.iheart.com/featured/mansour-s-musings/content/2020-03-15-try-this-covid-19-daily-schedule-to-keep-your-kids-from-going-stir-crazy/
Try this COVID-19 daily schedule to keep your kids from going stir crazy.
LitterBox Comics
🌏🔗https://twitter.com/LitterboxComics/status/1239003086569582592
COVID-19 daily schedule
Jesse, Lucia, Giacomo's Daily Schedule
🌏🔗https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13AB1SSmKR-mO3yyxKh5w2EJrzq6vfbjY4QlB-GDTzUA/edit?usp=sharing
Two people working full-time with a 3-year-old at home (will update with learnings as we go). Put in a 15-min cocktail break for the pleasure of it
Fun and Activities
Advice
CPR Staying at Home with Kids
What To Do With Kids At Home On Coronavirus Break For Who Knows How Long (Without Losing It)
Yoopies Guide for Parents
🇬🇧🔗https://yoopies.co.uk/c/press-centre/stayhomesavelives-guide-for-parents
How to stay home" guide for parents including homeschooling, keeping in touch with friends/family, answering difficult questions kids pose.
CDC Childhood advice
CDC Childhood advice
Quarantine Parenting Advice
Digital Parenting Advice for Quarantined Families: Five helpful tips for staying sane while sharing space, time and wifi. Plus register for FREE Digital Sanity Summit & Get one-on-one help.
UNICEF Advice for Parents
🔗https://www.unicef.org/stories/novel-coronavirus-outbreak-what-parents-sho inuld-know
What UNICEF says parents should know about Coronavirus.
Keeping the Kids Connected
Keeping the Kids Connected and Entertained During the COVID-19 School Shut Down
Resources and Lists of Activities
National Geographic Kids
🇬🇧🔗https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
Activities and quizzes for younger kids.
BBC Bitesize Daily Lessons
🇬🇧🔗https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
Educational videos and activities for kids of school age.
BBC CBeebies
🇬🇧https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Games, puzzles, videos and radio for younger kids.
BBC CBBC
🇬🇧🔗https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/
Games, quizzes, videos and other cool stuff for older kids.
World at Home
Tool for parents, carers and kids to find useful activities, information and ideas.
Enrichment Activities for Children While Parents are Working Remotely
🌏🔗https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KCFnWreu4v7VoO3NbgP-Qcq2LyE1FvliYSoiTLRY7Qg/edit?usp=sharing
This google sheet provides a list of activities that children can do while they stay at home. You can also add activities to the⁸ list.
Little Light Bulbs
🌱🌏🔗🎬https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/
- Printable journals and educational 'zines'.
- A community of parents and carers engaged in educational activities.
- Curated YouTube videos, arranged by topics.
Audible Free Audio Stories
🔗 https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
Audio stories and books for free.
Nature Detectives
🇬🇧🔗🏕️https://naturedetectives.woodlandtrust.org.uk/naturedetectives/
Nature-related activities and educational resources.
Big History Project
🇬🇧🔗https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home
Big History Project, aimed at Secondary age. Multi disciplinary activities.
Toy Theater
Educational online games for younger kids.
DK Find Out
Online encyclopedia with activities and quizzes.
Twinkl
Educational resources, especially printable worksheets. Some free downloads. Free month subscription using this code: UK TWINKL HELPS or PARENTSTWINKLHELPS
Paw Print Badges
🇬🇧🔗https://www.pawprintbadges.co.uk
Paw Print Badges- Free challenge packs and other downloads. Many activities can be completed indoors. Badges cost but are optional.
Outdoor Classroom Day
🔗https://outdoorclassroomday.org.uk/resources/
Hundreds of ideas for outdoor play and taking lessons outdoors. Make sure if children are being home-schooled you include 15 mins recess for every 45 mins instruction. (Resources in 15 languages).
World Geography
🔗https://world-geography-games.com/world.html
Play ideas to do at home, outdoor lesson ideas for school, or guidance on making time outdoors part of every child’s day
Tinkercad
From AutoDesk - free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding. It's used by teachers, kids, hobbyists, and designers to imagine, design, and make anything!
Live Science
🔗 https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-kids-activities.html
Kids science activities.
Five Minute Mum
BLOG: Five minute fun activities for busy people to do with little kids. Five minute set up, five minute clear up is the theme.
The Artful Parent
BLOG: Guides and tips for art activities.
Red Ted Art
BLOG:Easy arts and crafts for little ones
The Imagination Tree
🔗 📝https://theimaginationtree.com
BLOG: Creative art and craft activities for the very youngest.
Virtual Tours
List of Virtual Tours
🔗https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YfcmgRDbP-Kfrh0-jTyFP2fNWsbNXdJAemblLiCRHdA/edit
List of Virtual Tours of museums and zoos and other cultural places.
Smithsonian Animals
🔗https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/vt3/NMNH/z_tour-079.html
Smithsonian Animal Tour
Smithsonian Dinosaur
🔗https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/vt3/NMNH/z_tour-029.html
Smithsonian Dinosaur Tour
Louvre
🔗https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne
Louvre Art Museum, Paris
Uffizi Galleries
🔗https://g.co/arts/YNKYhdMiRcEu8axc6
Uffizi Galleries, Italy
National Gallery
🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/virtual-tours
National Gallery, London
Brighton Royal Pavilion
🔗https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/whattosee/virtual-tour/
Brighton Royal Pavilion
Buckingham Palace
🔗https://www.royal.uk/virtual-tours-buckingham-palace
Buckingham Palace, London
Communities and Groups
FAMILY LOCKDOWN TIPS & IDEAS
👨👩👦https://www.facebook.com/groups/871176893326326
Home activities for kids
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/876013606173448/
Fun, activities and education for kids at home
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/593701314558951/
Kids' Activities for During Lockdown
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/823672224818823/
Indoor activities for kids (COVID-19 outbreak)
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/indoorswithkids/
Family lockdown activities, tips & ideas UK
👨👩👦🇬🇧: https://www.facebook.com/groups/670287490403923/
Lockdown activities for kids (Surviving covid19)
👨👩👦https://www.facebook.com/groups/512281423007895/
kids crafts & diy ideas
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/325056278158030/
Isolation Activities for Kids
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/578686586068826/
Coronavirus School closures-kids activities
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/328254331465481/
Keeping Kids Busy in Isolation
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1541118002710081/
Keeping Kids Busy and Learning
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/activelittles
💡Project/activity Ideas (add your own!)
Make-up-a-voice Activity
💡🔗Learn about voice acting and then try to improvise a voice for each character.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/make-up-a-voice-activity
Banish-boredom Printable Journal
💡🔗A list-making journal to prepare you for boredom, plus wise words by wise people about boredom.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/banishing-boredom
7-day Challenge Printable Journal
💡🔗A journal inviting kids, 8-year olds and older, to take on a daily challenge and track it for a week.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/day-challenge-printable-journal
Space Colonization Printable Activity
💡🔗Watch fascinating videos about space colonization and then try to design your own space colony.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/space-colonization-printable-journal-watch-learn
Song + Art Project
🏃♀️🏃♂️In the morning, learn to sing a folk song. If it contains words/objects/concepts/instruments the children don’t know, learn about them together.
In the afternoon, make an art project based on the song. Draw, build a model of an item from the song, make the song in Lego.
Activity Cache- Geocaching for activities.
🏃♀️🏃♂️Think of an open-air activity that can be done with no materials, or with materials you bring with you. Choose a location in your area and walk there. Save the GPS coordinates and do the activity. Take pictures! Bring home the coordinates and pictures and then post them on a local parent’s Internet group. Other families can go to the same place.
Do not leave items at the site; repeated handling of them can spread virus particles.
In order to respect social distancing, the parents can organise between themselves (“we’ll go this afternoon, you go tomorrow”) or just plan that if someone else is there, that they will continue walking past and come back in a half hour.
Make a maze with forest materials.
🏃♀️🏃♂️ Set up a target, visitors throw pinecones at it. Find a tri-corner of three counties, and learn about map coloring there.
Offer Short Lessons
💡If you can give short lessons to children who are being home educated (you don’t have to be an educator, could be an instrument, a story from history, etc.), please email Tim Cook
Other Helpful Information
National Trust Free Parks & Gardens
🇬🇧🔗https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/
The National Trust is keeping its parks and gardens open for free during social distancing.
RSPB Nature Reserves Open for Free
🇬🇧🔗https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/rspb-news/news/stories/coronavirus/
The RSPB is keeping the majority of its nature reserves open and is waiving car parking charges until further notice (visitor centres and cafes are closed, however).
Education and Learning
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/educational-content
Mental Health
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/mental-health
Young Minds
🇬🇧🔗https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/looking-after-yourself/coronavirus-and-mental-health/
This organisation aims to ensure all young people get the best possible mental health support.
For children
Fischy Music
🔗https://www.youtube.com/user/Fischymusic
Fischy Music. Free music video website for children’s emotional and mental wellbeing. Online assemblies on YouTube every Monday morning at 11am (primary aged children and families).
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Advice
Advice from the University of Reading and University of Oxford for young people to manage their mental health during the pandemic
For Parents
Parent Zone Crisis Messaging
🔗https://parentzone.org.uk/parent-zone-crisis-messenger
If you are experiencing a mental health crisis and need support, you can text PARENTZONE to 85258.
Child Mind
🔗https://childmind.org/coping-during-covid-19-resources-for-parents/
Clinical and supportive resources - Resources for parents struggling to balance work, child care and self-care while keeping worries
Child Mind Institute Live Chats
🔗https://www.facebook.com/ChildMindInstitute/live/
Facebook Live video chats with expert clinicians - Live Chats that parents have access to with clinicians that discuss children and parents health
Co-parenting in Coronavirus
🔗https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/divorce-busting/202003/co-parenting-and-the-coronavirus
Co-parenting and Coronavirus- Article discusses how separated parents can bridge their differences during the pandemic
Potential In Me
🔗https://potentialin.me/families-online/
Potential in Me are running an online support group for parents & carers of kids in adolescence (8-25). We’re running personal development workshops, community connection calls and a limited amount of one-to-one coaching support.
DevieCoach
Free mobile app that delivers research-based daily support for parents at home with young children in the form of automated 2-5 min chats. All content based on RCT-validated.
General support for parents
Dads Rock
Dads Rock! Supporting fathers across Scotland.
Parenting Across Scotland
🔗https://www.parentingacrossscotland.org/info-for-families/coronavirus/
Parenting across Scotland- Provides guides for the family.
Barnardo Whatsapp Tool
🔗https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FU1VhPd7zmmQJF2kwIMUeWFzqLuBbEpc
Barnardo's pilot of WhatsApp as a service delivery tool. Guidance, policy, lessons learned, etc.
Dads Rock will be running online workshops, such as Antenatal for Dads to be, Antenatal for Mums to be, Feeding, sleeping and hairstyle workshops.
Parenting NI
Parenting NI established in 1979, as the Parents Advice Centre, provides free support for parents across Northern Ireland.
Parent Info
Help and advice for families in a digital world
Parent Info is a collaboration between Parent Zone and NCA-CEOP, providing support and guidance for parents from leading experts and organisations.
Social Networks and Communication
Chatting/Communicating with other
Mush
GovStart 2019 startup Mush is the local social network for mums. They can swap advice and tips on how to deal with the virus.
Positive Birth Under COVID-19
🔗https://m.facebook.com/groups/204187680864008/
Facebook group supporting those who are going to give birth in the time of Coronavirus.
FAMILY LOCKDOWN TIPS & IDEAS
🔗https://www.facebook.com/groups/871176893326326/
Facebook group for Family Lockdown tips and ideas
Family lockdown activities, tips & ideas UK
🇬🇧🔗https://www.facebook.com/groups/670287490403923/
Facebook Group for Family lockdown activities, tips & ideas UK
Campaigns
In this Together
🇦🇪🔗#InThisTogetherDubai, A social media campaign that links all education community members together to share their ideas and practices and support each other
Safeguarding
Safeguarding Advice
What are the issues to consider working online with children/young people during Coronavirus outbreak
Internet Matters
🔗https://www.internetmatters.org/
Helping parents keep their children safe online
Safeguarding for Music Tuition
Safeguarding: synchronous online music tuition
Online Compass
🔗https://swgfl.org.uk/products/online-compass/
Online Compass produced by SWGfL (who also run online safety mark for schools) Online Compass is an online-safety self-review tool designed for organisations working with children and young people. It helps assess your current practice and provides guidance for ongoing development re online policies/procedures etc. Nb the resources are in the process of being updated so some links don’t work.
https://www.scrtracker.com/blog/how-can-we-keep-students-safe-as-their-internet-usage-increases
🇺🇸🔗https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-to-talk-to-kids-about-the-coronavirus
How to Talk to Your Kids About the COVID-19 Outbreak
NY Times Coronavirus and Kids
🇺🇸🔗https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/parenting/coronavirus-kids-talk.html
How to talk to your kid about the outbreak and keeping your anxiety in check
Telegraph Coronavirus and Kids
How to talk to children about Coronavirus, without giving them nightmares.
Project Fear Not
🔗http://opsafeintl.com/project-fear-not/
Project fear not- Anti-COVID-19 Information for Children
PBS Guide to Talking to Children about Coronavirus
🔗https://www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-coronavirus
How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus- Guide to help parents talk to their children properly about the virus
Kids Friendly Info on Coronavirus
Colouring Books
🌏🔗https://www.mindheart.co/descargables
Coloring book on the Coronavirus for kids. By Manuela Molina. In many languages.
Matt Smeed Guide for Kids
Cute wellbeing and resilience guide for kids created by a psychologist
ICAN Resources
ICAN communication charity with great resources to help speak to children about Coronavirus.
Coronavirus Comic
Just For Kids: A Comic Exploring The New Coronavirus
How Germs Spread
📺https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/see-germs-spread-mark-rober
How To See Germs Spread (Coronavirus) with Mark Rober
Hand washing
📺https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/how-soap-and-water-kills-coronavirus
“Plain old soap and water absolutely annihilate Coronavirus.” – Vox
📺https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QKrFxahFC4
Proper hand washing
Social Distancing
📺https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/coronavirus-covid-19-social-distancing-soap-pandemic
Coronavirus COVID-19: What is social distancing?
Live Science
🔗 https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-kids-guide.html
Live Science “ultimate kids’ guide to the new Coronavirus”- Answers from science to all the questions.
Make your own soap
🌏🔗https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/hidden-surprise-diy-soap-how-to-wash-your-hands
How to make your own soap against Coronavirus.
Brain Pop
🌏 🔗https://www.brainpop.com/health/diseasesinjuriesandconditions/coronavirus/
All you need to know. Quizzes, animations and more.
Baby Sharky: Wash Your Hands
📺🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L89nN03pBzI
"Wash Your Hands", from the makers of "Baby Shark"
Spun Out
SpunOut.ie is Ireland’s youth information website created by young people, for young people.- Ireland
Preparing for the Outbreak
For learning how to prepare for the outbreak
See also:
🔗coronavirustechhandbook.com/advice
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/hygiene
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/food
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/isolation-toolkit
CDC Advice for Parents
🇺🇸🔗https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/schools-faq.html
CDC advice for parents
Live Q&A with Scotland's First Minister
🔗https://twitter.com/YoungScot/status/1240942821219188736?s=19
Live Q&A with Scotland’s First Minister @ScotGovFM and National Clinical Director @jasonleitch
Childcare
SiteEander
🇪🇺🔗https://www.siteinander.com
SitEinander is a hyper-local social network in Europe specifically designed for nearby parents to help each other.
Legal Forms and Templates for Fostering in case of illness
Helpful Engineering channel #project-kids-in-crisis- An idea to create a set of reusable legal forms/templates for families to use for full-time hosting/fostering a child of a healthcare worker or hospitalized patient.
Rally Round Me
Online tool that family, friends and communities can use to support people they care about. Everyone in a network can share and discuss jobs and volunteer to help out.
UK Government Advice on Childcare
🇬🇧🔗https://www.gov.uk/government/news/free-childcare-offers-to-continue-during-coronavirus-closures
The UK Government will continue to pay funding to local authorities for the free entitlements for two, three and four-year-olds
Family Support NI
🇬🇧🔗https://www.familysupportni.gov.uk/ -
Government backed service directory of all registered childcare providers along with all services that provide support for children and families in NI.
Yoopies
🇬🇧🔗https://www.yoopies.co.uk emergency, last minute, volunteer childcare available. Free use of the platform for NHS staff.
Your Baby Doctor
🇺🇸🔗https://twitter.com/yourbabydoctor/status/1237966097485193220
Informal Seattle based.Babysitting exchange during school closure if parents are unable to self isolate.
Mutual Childcare
Wiggle Room
🇺🇸🔗https://www.wiggleroomnow.com/
Wiggle Room is a new app designed to help people manage a network of informal childcare.
Childcare Coop for Doctors
🇬🇧 🔗https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUL1b4tDUf8ICDEmRBDTHu7AikLs1sSyB54wny0F8SUWu_gw/viewform
Childcare for doctors co-op
Childcare Coop
Easily schedule childcare with other people, if you're in the situation where the schools have closed, but you still have to go to work.
KoruKids
KoruKids is looking at nanny share options for families.
Routines and Schedules
Mansour's Musings
🌏🔗https://kfahttps://coronavirustechhandbook.com/homen.iheart.com/featured/mansour-s-musings/content/2020-03-15-try-this-covid-19-daily-schedule-to-keep-your-kids-from-going-stir-crazy/
Try this COVID-19 daily schedule to keep your kids from going stir crazy.
LitterBox Comics
🌏🔗https://twitter.com/LitterboxComics/status/1239003086569582592
COVID-19 daily schedule
Jesse, Lucia, Giacomo's Daily Schedule
🌏🔗https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13AB1SSmKR-mO3yyxKh5w2EJrzq6vfbjY4QlB-GDTzUA/edit?usp=sharing
Two people working full-time with a 3-year-old at home (will update with learnings as we go). Put in a 15-min cocktail break for the pleasure of it
Fun and Activities
Advice
CPR Staying at Home with Kids
What To Do With Kids At Home On Coronavirus Break For Who Knows How Long (Without Losing It)
Yoopies Guide for Parents
🇬🇧🔗https://yoopies.co.uk/c/press-centre/stayhomesavelives-guide-for-parents
How to stay home" guide for parents including homeschooling, keeping in touch with friends/family, answering difficult questions kids pose.
CDC Childhood advice
CDC Childhood advice
Quarantine Parenting Advice
Digital Parenting Advice for Quarantined Families: Five helpful tips for staying sane while sharing space, time and wifi. Plus register for FREE Digital Sanity Summit & Get one-on-one help.
UNICEF Advice for Parents
🔗https://www.unicef.org/stories/novel-coronavirus-outbreak-what-parents-sho inuld-know
What UNICEF says parents should know about Coronavirus.
Keeping the Kids Connected
Keeping the Kids Connected and Entertained During the COVID-19 School Shut Down
Resources and Lists of Activities
National Geographic Kids
🇬🇧🔗https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
Activities and quizzes for younger kids.
BBC Bitesize Daily Lessons
🇬🇧🔗https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
Educational videos and activities for kids of school age.
BBC CBeebies
🇬🇧https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Games, puzzles, videos and radio for younger kids.
BBC CBBC
🇬🇧🔗https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/
Games, quizzes, videos and other cool stuff for older kids.
World at Home
Tool for parents, carers and kids to find useful activities, information and ideas.
Enrichment Activities for Children While Parents are Working Remotely
🌏🔗https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KCFnWreu4v7VoO3NbgP-Qcq2LyE1FvliYSoiTLRY7Qg/edit?usp=sharing
This google sheet provides a list of activities that children can do while they stay at home. You can also add activities to the⁸ list.
Little Light Bulbs
🌱🌏🔗🎬https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/
- Printable journals and educational 'zines'.
- A community of parents and carers engaged in educational activities.
- Curated YouTube videos, arranged by topics.
Audible Free Audio Stories
🔗 https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
Audio stories and books for free.
Nature Detectives
🇬🇧🔗🏕️https://naturedetectives.woodlandtrust.org.uk/naturedetectives/
Nature-related activities and educational resources.
Big History Project
🇬🇧🔗https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home
Big History Project, aimed at Secondary age. Multi disciplinary activities.
Toy Theater
Educational online games for younger kids.
DK Find Out
Online encyclopedia with activities and quizzes.
Twinkl
Educational resources, especially printable worksheets. Some free downloads. Free month subscription using this code: UK TWINKL HELPS or PARENTSTWINKLHELPS
Paw Print Badges
🇬🇧🔗https://www.pawprintbadges.co.uk
Paw Print Badges- Free challenge packs and other downloads. Many activities can be completed indoors. Badges cost but are optional.
Outdoor Classroom Day
🔗https://outdoorclassroomday.org.uk/resources/
Hundreds of ideas for outdoor play and taking lessons outdoors. Make sure if children are being home-schooled you include 15 mins recess for every 45 mins instruction. (Resources in 15 languages).
World Geography
🔗https://world-geography-games.com/world.html
Play ideas to do at home, outdoor lesson ideas for school, or guidance on making time outdoors part of every child’s day
Tinkercad
From AutoDesk - free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding. It's used by teachers, kids, hobbyists, and designers to imagine, design, and make anything!
Live Science
🔗 https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-kids-activities.html
Kids science activities.
Five Minute Mum
BLOG: Five minute fun activities for busy people to do with little kids. Five minute set up, five minute clear up is the theme.
The Artful Parent
BLOG: Guides and tips for art activities.
Red Ted Art
BLOG:Easy arts and crafts for little ones
The Imagination Tree
🔗 📝https://theimaginationtree.com
BLOG: Creative art and craft activities for the very youngest.
Virtual Tours
List of Virtual Tours
🔗https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YfcmgRDbP-Kfrh0-jTyFP2fNWsbNXdJAemblLiCRHdA/edit
List of Virtual Tours of museums and zoos and other cultural places.
Smithsonian Animals
🔗https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/vt3/NMNH/z_tour-079.html
Smithsonian Animal Tour
Smithsonian Dinosaur
🔗https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/vt3/NMNH/z_tour-029.html
Smithsonian Dinosaur Tour
Louvre
🔗https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne
Louvre Art Museum, Paris
Uffizi Galleries
🔗https://g.co/arts/YNKYhdMiRcEu8axc6
Uffizi Galleries, Italy
National Gallery
🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/virtual-tours
National Gallery, London
Brighton Royal Pavilion
🔗https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/whattosee/virtual-tour/
Brighton Royal Pavilion
Buckingham Palace
🔗https://www.royal.uk/virtual-tours-buckingham-palace
Buckingham Palace, London
Communities and Groups
FAMILY LOCKDOWN TIPS & IDEAS
👨👩👦https://www.facebook.com/groups/871176893326326
Home activities for kids
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/876013606173448/
Fun, activities and education for kids at home
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/593701314558951/
Kids' Activities for During Lockdown
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/823672224818823/
Indoor activities for kids (COVID-19 outbreak)
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/indoorswithkids/
Family lockdown activities, tips & ideas UK
👨👩👦🇬🇧: https://www.facebook.com/groups/670287490403923/
Lockdown activities for kids (Surviving covid19)
👨👩👦https://www.facebook.com/groups/512281423007895/
kids crafts & diy ideas
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/325056278158030/
Isolation Activities for Kids
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/578686586068826/
Coronavirus School closures-kids activities
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/328254331465481/
Keeping Kids Busy in Isolation
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1541118002710081/
Keeping Kids Busy and Learning
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/activelittles
💡Project/activity Ideas (add your own!)
Make-up-a-voice Activity
💡🔗Learn about voice acting and then try to improvise a voice for each character.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/make-up-a-voice-activity
Banish-boredom Printable Journal
💡🔗A list-making journal to prepare you for boredom, plus wise words by wise people about boredom.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/banishing-boredom
7-day Challenge Printable Journal
💡🔗A journal inviting kids, 8-year olds and older, to take on a daily challenge and track it for a week.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/day-challenge-printable-journal
Space Colonization Printable Activity
💡🔗Watch fascinating videos about space colonization and then try to design your own space colony.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/space-colonization-printable-journal-watch-learn
Song + Art Project
🏃♀️🏃♂️In the morning, learn to sing a folk song. If it contains words/objects/concepts/instruments the children don’t know, learn about them together.
In the afternoon, make an art project based on the song. Draw, build a model of an item from the song, make the song in Lego.
Activity Cache- Geocaching for activities.
🏃♀️🏃♂️Think of an open-air activity that can be done with no materials, or with materials you bring with you. Choose a location in your area and walk there. Save the GPS coordinates and do the activity. Take pictures! Bring home the coordinates and pictures and then post them on a local parent’s Internet group. Other families can go to the same place.
Do not leave items at the site; repeated handling of them can spread virus particles.
In order to respect social distancing, the parents can organise between themselves (“we’ll go this afternoon, you go tomorrow”) or just plan that if someone else is there, that they will continue walking past and come back in a half hour.
Make a maze with forest materials.
🏃♀️🏃♂️ Set up a target, visitors throw pinecones at it. Find a tri-corner of three counties, and learn about map coloring there.
Offer Short Lessons
💡If you can give short lessons to children who are being home educated (you don’t have to be an educator, could be an instrument, a story from history, etc.), please email Tim Cook
Other Helpful Information
National Trust Free Parks & Gardens
🇬🇧🔗https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/
The National Trust is keeping its parks and gardens open for free during social distancing.
RSPB Nature Reserves Open for Free
🇬🇧🔗https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/rspb-news/news/stories/coronavirus/
The RSPB is keeping the majority of its nature reserves open and is waiving car parking charges until further notice (visitor centres and cafes are closed, however).
Education and Learning
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/educational-content
Mental Health
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/mental-health
Young Minds
🇬🇧🔗https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/looking-after-yourself/coronavirus-and-mental-health/
This organisation aims to ensure all young people get the best possible mental health support.
For children
Fischy Music
🔗https://www.youtube.com/user/Fischymusic
Fischy Music. Free music video website for children’s emotional and mental wellbeing. Online assemblies on YouTube every Monday morning at 11am (primary aged children and families).
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Advice
Advice from the University of Reading and University of Oxford for young people to manage their mental health during the pandemic
For Parents
Parent Zone Crisis Messaging
🔗https://parentzone.org.uk/parent-zone-crisis-messenger
If you are experiencing a mental health crisis and need support, you can text PARENTZONE to 85258.
Child Mind
🔗https://childmind.org/coping-during-covid-19-resources-for-parents/
Clinical and supportive resources - Resources for parents struggling to balance work, child care and self-care while keeping worries
Child Mind Institute Live Chats
🔗https://www.facebook.com/ChildMindInstitute/live/
Facebook Live video chats with expert clinicians - Live Chats that parents have access to with clinicians that discuss children and parents health
Co-parenting in Coronavirus
🔗https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/divorce-busting/202003/co-parenting-and-the-coronavirus
Co-parenting and Coronavirus- Article discusses how separated parents can bridge their differences during the pandemic
Potential In Me
🔗https://potentialin.me/families-online/
Potential in Me are running an online support group for parents & carers of kids in adolescence (8-25). We’re running personal development workshops, community connection calls and a limited amount of one-to-one coaching support.
DevieCoach
Free mobile app that delivers research-based daily support for parents at home with young children in the form of automated 2-5 min chats. All content based on RCT-validated.
General support for parents
Dads Rock
Dads Rock! Supporting fathers across Scotland.
Parenting Across Scotland
🔗https://www.parentingacrossscotland.org/info-for-families/coronavirus/
Parenting across Scotland- Provides guides for the family.
Barnardo Whatsapp Tool
🔗https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FU1VhPd7zmmQJF2kwIMUeWFzqLuBbEpc
Barnardo's pilot of WhatsApp as a service delivery tool. Guidance, policy, lessons learned, etc.
Dads Rock will be running online workshops, such as Antenatal for Dads to be, Antenatal for Mums to be, Feeding, sleeping and hairstyle workshops.
Parenting NI
Parenting NI established in 1979, as the Parents Advice Centre, provides free support for parents across Northern Ireland.
Parent Info
Help and advice for families in a digital world
Parent Info is a collaboration between Parent Zone and NCA-CEOP, providing support and guidance for parents from leading experts and organisations.
Social Networks and Communication
Chatting/Communicating with other
Mush
GovStart 2019 startup Mush is the local social network for mums. They can swap advice and tips on how to deal with the virus.
Positive Birth Under COVID-19
🔗https://m.facebook.com/groups/204187680864008/
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Resources and tools for guardians and parents to use
💬 WhatsApp Chat for Childcare sectibon 💬
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Talking About Coronavirus
Talking to Children about Coronavirus
CDC Advice
🇺🇸🔗https://www.cdc.gov/childrenindisasters/helping-children-cope.html
How to help children cope
Child Mind Institute
🇺🇸🔗https://childmind.org/article/talking-to-kids-about-the-coronavirus/
Advice from the experts at the Child Mind Institute.
Health Line Guide
🇺🇸🔗https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-to-talk-to-kids-about-the-coronavirus
How to Talk to Your Kids About the COVID-19 Outbreak
NY Times Coronavirus and Kids
🇺🇸🔗https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/parenting/coronavirus-kids-talk.html
How to talk to your kid about the outbreak and keeping your anxiety in check
Telegraph Coronavirus and Kids
How to talk to children about Coronavirus, without giving them nightmares.
Project Fear Not
🔗http://opsafeintl.com/project-fear-not/
Project fear not- Anti-COVID-19 Information for Children
PBS Guide to Talking to Children about Coronavirus
🔗https://www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-coronavirus
How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus- Guide to help parents talk to their children properly about the virus
Kids Friendly Info on Coronavirus
Colouring Books
🌏🔗https://www.mindheart.co/descargables
Coloring book on the Coronavirus for kids. By Manuela Molina. In many languages.
Matt Smeed Guide for Kids
Cute wellbeing and resilience guide for kids created by a psychologist
ICAN Resources
ICAN communication charity with great resources to help speak to children about Coronavirus.
Coronavirus Comic
Just For Kids: A Comic Exploring The New Coronavirus
How Germs Spread
📺https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/see-germs-spread-mark-rober
How To See Germs Spread (Coronavirus) with Mark Rober
Hand washing
📺https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/how-soap-and-water-kills-coronavirus
“Plain old soap and water absolutely annihilate Coronavirus.” – Vox
📺https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QKrFxahFC4
Proper hand washing
Social Distancing
📺https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/coronavirus-covid-19-social-distancing-soap-pandemic
Coronavirus COVID-19: What is social distancing?
Live Science
🔗 https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-kids-guide.html
Live Science “ultimate kids’ guide to the new Coronavirus”- Answers from science to all the questions.
Make your own soap
🌏🔗https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/hidden-surprise-diy-soap-how-to-wash-your-hands
How to make your own soap against Coronavirus.
Brain Pop
🌏 🔗https://www.brainpop.com/health/diseasesinjuriesandconditions/coronavirus/
All you need to know. Quizzes, animations and more.
Baby Sharky: Wash Your Hands
📺🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L89nN03pBzI
"Wash Your Hands", from the makers of "Baby Shark"
Spun Out
SpunOut.ie is Ireland’s youth information website created by young people, for young people.- Ireland
Preparing for the Outbreak
For learning how to prepare for the outbreak
See also:
🔗coronavirustechhandbook.com/advice
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/hygiene
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/food
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/isolation-toolkit
CDC Advice for Parents
🇺🇸🔗https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/schools-faq.html
CDC advice for parents
Live Q&A with Scotland's First Minister
🔗https://twitter.com/YoungScot/status/1240942821219188736?s=19
Live Q&A with Scotland’s First Minister @ScotGovFM and National Clinical Director @jasonleitch
Childcare
SiteEander
🇪🇺🔗https://www.siteinander.com
SitEinander is a hyper-local social network in Europe specifically designed for nearby parents to help each other.
Legal Forms and Templates for Fostering in case of illness
Helpful Engineering channel #project-kids-in-crisis- An idea to create a set of reusable legal forms/templates for families to use for full-time hosting/fostering a child of a healthcare worker or hospitalized patient.
Rally Round Me
Online tool that family, friends and communities can use to support people they care about. Everyone in a network can share and discuss jobs and volunteer to help out.
UK Government Advice on Childcare
🇬🇧🔗https://www.gov.uk/government/news/free-childcare-offers-to-continue-during-coronavirus-closures
The UK Government will continue to pay funding to local authorities for the free entitlements for two, three and four-year-olds
Family Support NI
🇬🇧🔗https://www.familysupportni.gov.uk/ -
Government backed service directory of all registered childcare providers along with all services that provide support for children and families in NI.
Yoopies
🇬🇧🔗https://www.yoopies.co.uk emergency, last minute, volunteer childcare available. Free use of the platform for NHS staff.
Your Baby Doctor
🇺🇸🔗https://twitter.com/yourbabydoctor/status/1237966097485193220
Informal Seattle based.Babysitting exchange during school closure if parents are unable to self isolate.
Mutual Childcare
Wiggle Room
🇺🇸🔗https://www.wiggleroomnow.com/
Wiggle Room is a new app designed to help people manage a network of informal childcare.
Childcare Coop for Doctors
🇬🇧 🔗https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUL1b4tDUf8ICDEmRBDTHu7AikLs1sSyB54wny0F8SUWu_gw/viewform
Childcare for doctors co-op
Childcare Coop
Easily schedule childcare with other people, if you're in the situation where the schools have closed, but you still have to go to work.
KoruKids
KoruKids is looking at nanny share options for families.
Routines and Schedules
Mansour's Musings
🌏🔗https://kfahttps://coronavirustechhandbook.com/homen.iheart.com/featured/mansour-s-musings/content/2020-03-15-try-this-covid-19-daily-schedule-to-keep-your-kids-from-going-stir-crazy/
Try this COVID-19 daily schedule to keep your kids from going stir crazy.
LitterBox Comics
🌏🔗https://twitter.com/LitterboxComics/status/1239003086569582592
COVID-19 daily schedule
Jesse, Lucia, Giacomo's Daily Schedule
🌏🔗https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13AB1SSmKR-mO3yyxKh5w2EJrzq6vfbjY4QlB-GDTzUA/edit?usp=sharing
Two people working full-time with a 3-year-old at home (will update with learnings as we go). Put in a 15-min cocktail break for the pleasure of it
Fun and Activities
Advice
CPR Staying at Home with Kids
What To Do With Kids At Home On Coronavirus Break For Who Knows How Long (Without Losing It)
Yoopies Guide for Parents
🇬🇧🔗https://yoopies.co.uk/c/press-centre/stayhomesavelives-guide-for-parents
How to stay home" guide for parents including homeschooling, keeping in touch with friends/family, answering difficult questions kids pose.
CDC Childhood advice
CDC Childhood advice
Quarantine Parenting Advice
Digital Parenting Advice for Quarantined Families: Five helpful tips for staying sane while sharing space, time and wifi. Plus register for FREE Digital Sanity Summit & Get one-on-one help.
UNICEF Advice for Parents
🔗https://www.unicef.org/stories/novel-coronavirus-outbreak-what-parents-sho inuld-know
What UNICEF says parents should know about Coronavirus.
Keeping the Kids Connected
Keeping the Kids Connected and Entertained During the COVID-19 School Shut Down
Resources and Lists of Activities
National Geographic Kids
🇬🇧🔗https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
Activities and quizzes for younger kids.
BBC Bitesize Daily Lessons
🇬🇧🔗https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
Educational videos and activities for kids of school age.
BBC CBeebies
🇬🇧https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Games, puzzles, videos and radio for younger kids.
BBC CBBC
🇬🇧🔗https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/
Games, quizzes, videos and other cool stuff for older kids.
World at Home
Tool for parents, carers and kids to find useful activities, information and ideas.
Enrichment Activities for Children While Parents are Working Remotely
🌏🔗https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KCFnWreu4v7VoO3NbgP-Qcq2LyE1FvliYSoiTLRY7Qg/edit?usp=sharing
This google sheet provides a list of activities that children can do while they stay at home. You can also add activities to the⁸ list.
Little Light Bulbs
🌱🌏🔗🎬https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/
- Printable journals and educational 'zines'.
- A community of parents and carers engaged in educational activities.
- Curated YouTube videos, arranged by topics.
Audible Free Audio Stories
🔗 https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
Audio stories and books for free.
Nature Detectives
🇬🇧🔗🏕️https://naturedetectives.woodlandtrust.org.uk/naturedetectives/
Nature-related activities and educational resources.
Big History Project
🇬🇧🔗https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home
Big History Project, aimed at Secondary age. Multi disciplinary activities.
Toy Theater
Educational online games for younger kids.
DK Find Out
Online encyclopedia with activities and quizzes.
Twinkl
Educational resources, especially printable worksheets. Some free downloads. Free month subscription using this code: UK TWINKL HELPS or PARENTSTWINKLHELPS
Paw Print Badges
🇬🇧🔗https://www.pawprintbadges.co.uk
Paw Print Badges- Free challenge packs and other downloads. Many activities can be completed indoors. Badges cost but are optional.
Outdoor Classroom Day
🔗https://outdoorclassroomday.org.uk/resources/
Hundreds of ideas for outdoor play and taking lessons outdoors. Make sure if children are being home-schooled you include 15 mins recess for every 45 mins instruction. (Resources in 15 languages).
World Geography
🔗https://world-geography-games.com/world.html
Play ideas to do at home, outdoor lesson ideas for school, or guidance on making time outdoors part of every child’s day
Tinkercad
From AutoDesk - free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding. It's used by teachers, kids, hobbyists, and designers to imagine, design, and make anything!
Live Science
🔗 https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-kids-activities.html
Kids science activities.
Five Minute Mum
BLOG: Five minute fun activities for busy people to do with little kids. Five minute set up, five minute clear up is the theme.
The Artful Parent
BLOG: Guides and tips for art activities.
Red Ted Art
BLOG:Easy arts and crafts for little ones
The Imagination Tree
🔗 📝https://theimaginationtree.com
BLOG: Creative art and craft activities for the very youngest.
Virtual Tours
List of Virtual Tours
🔗https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YfcmgRDbP-Kfrh0-jTyFP2fNWsbNXdJAemblLiCRHdA/edit
List of Virtual Tours of museums and zoos and other cultural places.
Smithsonian Animals
🔗https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/vt3/NMNH/z_tour-079.html
Smithsonian Animal Tour
Smithsonian Dinosaur
🔗https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/vt3/NMNH/z_tour-029.html
Smithsonian Dinosaur Tour
Louvre
🔗https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne
Louvre Art Museum, Paris
Uffizi Galleries
🔗https://g.co/arts/YNKYhdMiRcEu8axc6
Uffizi Galleries, Italy
National Gallery
🔗https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/virtual-tours
National Gallery, London
Brighton Royal Pavilion
🔗https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/whattosee/virtual-tour/
Brighton Royal Pavilion
Buckingham Palace
🔗https://www.royal.uk/virtual-tours-buckingham-palace
Buckingham Palace, London
Communities and Groups
FAMILY LOCKDOWN TIPS & IDEAS
👨👩👦https://www.facebook.com/groups/871176893326326
Home activities for kids
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/876013606173448/
Fun, activities and education for kids at home
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/593701314558951/
Kids' Activities for During Lockdown
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/823672224818823/
Indoor activities for kids (COVID-19 outbreak)
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/indoorswithkids/
Family lockdown activities, tips & ideas UK
👨👩👦🇬🇧: https://www.facebook.com/groups/670287490403923/
Lockdown activities for kids (Surviving covid19)
👨👩👦https://www.facebook.com/groups/512281423007895/
kids crafts & diy ideas
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/325056278158030/
Isolation Activities for Kids
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/578686586068826/
Coronavirus School closures-kids activities
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/328254331465481/
Keeping Kids Busy in Isolation
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/1541118002710081/
Keeping Kids Busy and Learning
👨👩👦 https://www.facebook.com/groups/activelittles
💡Project/activity Ideas (add your own!)
Make-up-a-voice Activity
💡🔗Learn about voice acting and then try to improvise a voice for each character.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/make-up-a-voice-activity
Banish-boredom Printable Journal
💡🔗A list-making journal to prepare you for boredom, plus wise words by wise people about boredom.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/banishing-boredom
7-day Challenge Printable Journal
💡🔗A journal inviting kids, 8-year olds and older, to take on a daily challenge and track it for a week.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/day-challenge-printable-journal
Space Colonization Printable Activity
💡🔗Watch fascinating videos about space colonization and then try to design your own space colony.
🔗https://www.littlelightbulbs.com/posts/space-colonization-printable-journal-watch-learn
Song + Art Project
🏃♀️🏃♂️In the morning, learn to sing a folk song. If it contains words/objects/concepts/instruments the children don’t know, learn about them together.
In the afternoon, make an art project based on the song. Draw, build a model of an item from the song, make the song in Lego.
Activity Cache- Geocaching for activities.
🏃♀️🏃♂️Think of an open-air activity that can be done with no materials, or with materials you bring with you. Choose a location in your area and walk there. Save the GPS coordinates and do the activity. Take pictures! Bring home the coordinates and pictures and then post them on a local parent’s Internet group. Other families can go to the same place.
Do not leave items at the site; repeated handling of them can spread virus particles.
In order to respect social distancing, the parents can organise between themselves (“we’ll go this afternoon, you go tomorrow”) or just plan that if someone else is there, that they will continue walking past and come back in a half hour.
Make a maze with forest materials.
🏃♀️🏃♂️ Set up a target, visitors throw pinecones at it. Find a tri-corner of three counties, and learn about map coloring there.
Offer Short Lessons
💡If you can give short lessons to children who are being home educated (you don’t have to be an educator, could be an instrument, a story from history, etc.), please email Tim Cook
Other Helpful Information
National Trust Free Parks & Gardens
🇬🇧🔗https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/
The National Trust is keeping its parks and gardens open for free during social distancing.
RSPB Nature Reserves Open for Free
🇬🇧🔗https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/rspb-news/news/stories/coronavirus/
The RSPB is keeping the majority of its nature reserves open and is waiving car parking charges until further notice (visitor centres and cafes are closed, however).
Education and Learning
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/educational-content
Mental Health
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/mental-health
Young Minds
🇬🇧🔗https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/looking-after-yourself/coronavirus-and-mental-health/
This organisation aims to ensure all young people get the best possible mental health support.
For children
Fischy Music
🔗https://www.youtube.com/user/Fischymusic
Fischy Music. Free music video website for children’s emotional and mental wellbeing. Online assemblies on YouTube every Monday morning at 11am (primary aged children and families).
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Advice
Advice from the University of Reading and University of Oxford for young people to manage their mental health during the pandemic
For Parents
Parent Zone Crisis Messaging
🔗https://parentzone.org.uk/parent-zone-crisis-messenger
If you are experiencing a mental health crisis and need support, you can text PARENTZONE to 85258.
Child Mind
🔗https://childmind.org/coping-during-covid-19-resources-for-parents/
Clinical and supportive resources - Resources for parents struggling to balance work, child care and self-care while keeping worries
Child Mind Institute Live Chats
🔗https://www.facebook.com/ChildMindInstitute/live/
Facebook Live video chats with expert clinicians - Live Chats that parents have access to with clinicians that discuss children and parents health
Co-parenting in Coronavirus
🔗https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/divorce-busting/202003/co-parenting-and-the-coronavirus
Co-parenting and Coronavirus- Article discusses how separated parents can bridge their differences during the pandemic
Potential In Me
🔗https://potentialin.me/families-online/
Potential in Me are running an online support group for parents & carers of kids in adolescence (8-25). We’re running personal development workshops, community connection calls and a limited amount of one-to-one coaching support.
DevieCoach
Free mobile app that delivers research-based daily support for parents at home with young children in the form of automated 2-5 min chats. All content based on RCT-validated.
General support for parents
Dads Rock
Dads Rock! Supporting fathers across Scotland.
Parenting Across Scotland
🔗https://www.parentingacrossscotland.org/info-for-families/coronavirus/
Parenting across Scotland- Provides guides for the family.
Barnardo Whatsapp Tool
🔗https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FU1VhPd7zmmQJF2kwIMUeWFzqLuBbEpc
Barnardo's pilot of WhatsApp as a service delivery tool. Guidance, policy, lessons learned, etc.
Dads Rock will be running online workshops, such as Antenatal for Dads to be, Antenatal for Mums to be, Feeding, sleeping and hairstyle workshops.
Parenting NI
Parenting NI established in 1979, as the Parents Advice Centre, provides free support for parents across Northern Ireland.
Parent Info
Help and advice for families in a digital world
Parent Info is a collaboration between Parent Zone and NCA-CEOP, providing support and guidance for parents from leading experts and organisations.
Social Networks and Communication
Chatting/Communicating with other
Mush
GovStart 2019 startup Mush is the local social network for mums. They can swap advice and tips on how to deal with the virus.
Positive Birth Under COVID-19
🔗https://m.facebook.com/groups/204187680864008/
Facebook group supporting those who are going to give birth in the time of Coronavirus.
FAMILY LOCKDOWN TIPS & IDEAS
🔗https://www.facebook.com/groups/871176893326326/
Facebook group for Family Lockdown tips and ideas
Family lockdown activities, tips & ideas UK
🇬🇧🔗https://www.facebook.com/groups/670287490403923/
Facebook Group for Family lockdown activities, tips & ideas UK
Campaigns
In this Together
🇦🇪🔗#InThisTogetherDubai, A social media campaign that links all education community members together to share their ideas and practices and support each other
Safeguarding
Safeguarding Advice
What are the issues to consider working online with children/young people during Coronavirus outbreak
Internet Matters
🔗https://www.internetmatters.org/
Helping parents keep their children safe online
Safeguarding for Music Tuition
Safeguarding: synchronous online music tuition
Online Compass
🔗https://swgfl.org.uk/products/online-compass/
Online Compass produced by SWGfL (who also run online safety mark for schools) Online Compass is an online-safety self-review tool designed for organisations working with children and young people. It helps assess your current practice and provides guidance for ongoing development re online policies/procedures etc. Nb the resources are in the process of being updated so some links don’t work.
Safety while onl
https://www.scrtracker.com/blog/how-can-we-keep-students-safe-as-their-internet-usage-increases
what
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/educational-content
Mental Health
See also:
🔗https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/mental-health
Young Minds
🇬🇧🔗https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/looking-after-yourself/coronavirus-and-mental-health/
This organisation aims to ensure all young people get the best possible mental health support.
For children
Fischy Music
🔗https://www.youtube.com/user/Fischymusic
Fischy Music. Free music video website for children’s emotional and mental wellbeing. Online assemblies on YouTube every Monday morning at 11am (primary aged children and families).
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Advice
Advice from the University of Reading and University of Oxford for young people to manage their mental health during the pandemic
For Parents
Parent Zone Crisis Messaging
🔗https://parentzone.org.uk/parent-zone-crisis-messenger
If you are experiencing a mental health crisis and need support, you can text PARENTZONE to 85258.
Child Mind
🔗https://childmind.org/coping-during-covid-19-resources-for-parents/
Clinical and supportive resources - Resources for parents struggling to balance work, child care and self-care while keeping worries
Child Mind Institute Live Chats
🔗https://www.facebook.com/ChildMindInstitute/live/
Facebook Live video chats with expert clinicians - Live Chats that parents have access to with clinicians that discuss children and parents health
Co-parenting in Coronavirus
🔗https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/divorce-busting/202003/co-parenting-and-the-coronavirus
Co-parenting and Coronavirus- Article discusses how separated parents can bridge their differences during the pandemic
Potential In Me
🔗https://potentialin.me/families-online/
Potential in Me are running an online support group for parents & carers of kids in adolescence (8-25). We’re running personal development workshops, community connection calls and a limited amount of one-to-one coaching support.
DevieCoach
Free mobile app that delivers research-based daily support for parents at home with young children in the form of automated 2-5 min chats. All content based on RCT-validated.
General support for parents
Dads Rock
Dads Rock! Supporting fathers across Scotland.
Parenting Across Scotland
🔗https://www.parentingacrossscotland.org/info-for-families/coronavirus/
Parenting across Scotland- Provides guides for the family.
Barnardo Whatsapp Tool
🔗https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FU1VhPd7zmmQJF2kwIMUeWFzqLuBbEpc
Barnardo's pilot of WhatsApp as a service delivery tool. Guidance, policy, lessons learned, etc.
Dads Rock will be running online workshops, such as Antenatal for Dads to be, Antenatal for Mums to be, Feeding, sleeping and hairstyle workshops.
Parenting NI
Parenting NI established in 1979, as the Parents Advice Centre, provides free support for parents across Northern Ireland.
Parent Info
Help and advice for families in a digital world
Parent Info is a collaboration between Parent Zone and NCA-CEOP, providing support and guidance for parents from leading experts and organisations.
Social Networks and Communication
Chatting/Communicating with other
Mush
GovStart 2019 startup Mush is the local social network for mums. They can swap advice and tips on how to deal with the virus.
Positive Birth Under COVID-19
🔗https://m.facebook.com/groups/204187680864008/