Activities at Home

Fun Stuff for Kids and Families

We’ll update this page often with new ideas and resources, so please check back!

Academic & Enrichment Resources

• Hawaii Afterschool Alliance (HAA) Virtual Enrichment & Learning Activities -Our Y is a HAA partner providing collaborative afterschool programs and resources to keep our keiki learning and thriving. Check out the many online resources available from free virtual field trips, art tutorials, keiki coding classes, drama fun, and tons of fun learning activities and challenges, to a new parent and family digital learning guide. Here's just a few that you'll find...
  
• Art Explorium: Fun and safe place for children of all ages to explore, learn, and express themselves creatively!

• Venture Entrepreneurship Lab: Free entrepreneurship lessons for kids in grades 1 - 12 that ANYONE can teach [yes, great for parents & guardians].

• Drama Creative Activies Online For Parents, Kids, and Families by Hawaii Theater for Youth. Have fun keeping your imagination in play!

• Free Keiki Coding Online Program:  Using special place-based curriculum designed to inspire creativity with exciting stories and awesome games to create, each progressive unit of Keiki Coding teach core coding, game logic, proficiency and computer skills using Scratch. Designed with original art and animation that spark the imagination, challenges problem solving skills and encourage creativity.
  

• Study Jams:Created by Scholastic as a way to improve STEM learning through music, these videos help kids with science and math everything from number lines and multiplication to volcanoes and the universe!

• 150+ Fun Activities & Challenges: Geared towards specific age groups from ages 5 to 18 years old, you can choose and download these themed activity units full of fun and engaging activities and challenges:
  
• Who I am
• Healthy Life
• Passion & Purpose
  
• Intervention & Imagination
  
• Exploring My World 
  

• National Geographic Education Activities: Engaging learning activities from geography, arts & music, earth science, experiential learning, physics, math, storytelling, conservation and more! Simply choose your grade level and interest!

• GoNoodle Game: Games that keep kids moving - they use their actions to control a suite of fun movement mini-games designed to wake up their bodies, engage their minds, and let them have tons of fun!

• Jeopardy Factile: Create your own online Jeopardy-style quiz game board in minutes selecting from thousands of premade game templates making learning fun and engaging!
  

• STOMP! The famous percussion group shows how beats can be made using ordinary objects and our bodies! Check out these fun tutorials: Bags.  Breath Mints.  Basketballs.  Hands and Feet.

• Hawaii State Department of Education Children/Parent/Caregiver Learning Resources - Tips and tools gathered by HIDOE’s Office of Curriculum and Instructional Design to navigate and support your child’s continuous learning.

• 12Bursts - A daily physical activity & mindfulness challenge for kids & families working through barriers posed by homeschooling and shelter-in-place policies.

• STEM Gems by the National AfterSchool Association - STEM Gems are short discovery-based experiences. They involve little or no materials and each STEM Gem is designed to engage young people in active experiential learning.

• Storyline Online - Foster a love of reading in children with videos featuring celebrated actors reading children's books.

• Khan Academy - Students and families can get access to lots of FREE lessons online. Subjects range from Math, Science, Social Sciences, and much more.

• Click & Go Games by Foundations - Printable games and activities to engage kids.

Virtual Field Trips

• Free Virtual Hawaii Field Trips to Learn about our Environment & Conservation
  

• The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks - Take 360-degree tours of some of the most remote and beautiful U.S. National Parks

Family Fitness