Online Arts Tools For Kids, A Curated List
There are so many wonderful online options for learning. We hope we can be a resource for our community! This list was created during 2020.
- Watch and subscribe to our Garden Players YouTube Videos
- Garden Players Blog With Fun Tips & Videos
- Garden Players Fall Classes & Private Lessons are available online.
- Camp TV on PBS is engaging and educational
- Wide Open School online free learning curated by Common Sense Media
- DIY.org is a subscription based site full of projects and short video classes our own students have enjoyed, and two acting classes taught by Betina Hershey of Garden Players.
- A Kids Play About Racism (short, dynamic, exploring the emotions of someone experiencing racism)
- Read free short plays (written by professional playwrights during COVID-19 stay-at-home.)
- Pinna Books and Podcasts App. For an incredibly funny acting improv podcast, great for the whole family, go listen to Don’t Break the Rules on Pinna (This is an app that has a 60 day free trial.) My kids and I have been listening to one 15 minute episode each morning and it’s a really lively, uplifting way to start the morning. Plus it inspires acting improv ideas! You may even get invited to participate in a podcast!
- New York Times summer list of articles kids will enjoy.
- Set Design (Lincoln Center Facebook Pop Up Classes – live at 2pm or anytime)
- Learn more about Theatre Make-up
- Beat By Beat Online Theater Fun (Drama for Kids Lessons and Resources)
- Watch Musicals Online (A list of musicals on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc)
- Watch the hit Broadway show Hamilton on Disney Plus.
- Arts And Culture (Google link to arts greatness)
- New Victory Theater Arts Break (New Victory Arts music and theater arts videos and lessons)
- Little Orchestra Society on YouTube Musical Storytelling: “One” by Kathryn Otoshi (ear training for K-2 although my 4th grader and I enjoyed singing along, too)
- Lincoln Center Pop-up Classroom (with various artists at 10am every day)
- Lincoln Center Concerts for Kids (High quality artists with short video concerts will be added to this site.)
- Audible Free Audio Kids Books (free as long as schools are closed)
- Kindle Free Subscription (free online books for 2 months)
- Common Sense Media has wonderful resources for kids during the corona virus outbreak
- Google Play and Explore App (Virtual Reality Expeditions)
- Remote Learning Tools blog (Useful website with up-to-date links to free online learning tools)
- Scratch (create stories/projects/coding)
- Studio.Code.org (The express program seems to be a fun way to learn coding. My daughter loves it.)
- Book Creator (create a digital book)
- Met Museum of Art Kids (includes 3 minute videos about art)
- NY Hall of Science (science, math, computer games – we are enjoying The Pack)
- Guggenheim Art Museum from Home
- Children’s Museum Art Projects to do at Home
- Artsy (10 free university art classes)
- Pilates Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Spencer Pilates on youtube (take online class with a local FH pilates business) – geared for a breather for adults
- Fitness classes (A long list of Fitness Classes online)
- 10% Happier Mindfulness & Meditation for Adults (Free Corona Virus Sanity Guide)
- Mindfulness Classes for Kids (Free Online Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 1pm, or anytime)
- Varsity Tutors Free Summer Classes
- WonderSpark Puppets This week, WonderSpark Puppets kicks off a new summer schedule filled with DIY workshops, puppet shows and live recordings of a puppet podcast! Check out their lineup here. Free! Daily