Tag Archives: Home Activities During Corona Virus

Plan for Earth Day tomorrow — sign up for a remote clean-up in your neighborhood

1. Tiny Chefs is launching Cooking Around the World a virtual cooking series. Registration will open TODAY at 10am on their website — the first 10 registrations will receive 50% off their payment! Use the code Lucky10 at registration for your chance at the discounted rate.

2. Tinkergarten, known for their outdoor-based early childhood education programs, has just created Tinkergarten At Home, a free, weekly series of outdoor activity plans that help families keep young kids entertained, learning, and connected to nature during this challenging time. Visit here to get access to weekly Tinkergarten activities, fresh parenting insights, and live how-to sessions.

3. A great activity for Earth Day tomorrow: Join Anacostia Riverkeeper for a Remote Cleanup! They are encouraging the community to clean up in your own watershed along your daily walk. Be sure to sign up with them here (for free) and to get more info, including a way to interact with them and make it extra fun.

4. A few cool things from the Kennedy Center: 1) Enjoy and discover arts edcuation@home, where they offer background and insight on a variety of topics, plus dance lessons, resources for kids, art prompts, and more. 2) The Millennium Stage is presenting Couch Concerts, a series of live performances online, on Monday/Wednesday/Friday at 4pm. 3) Their My Tix program makes the performing arts more affordable to certain groups, including elementary through undergraduate students (parents can sign up for kids), active duty members of the armed services, and 18-30 year olds.

5. Have you been following Humans of New York lately? All of the stories are so beautiful and moving and uplifting, but this one is such a sweet and simple feel-good.

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Graffiti art in the making, seen on a recent neighborhood walk

1. Explore the work of great women artists through the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ new portal, NMWA @ Home. For kids, there’s the NMWA Coloring Book and the NMWA@Home Youtube playlist which now has several very charming “Story Time with Women in the Arts” videos.

2. Plan Ahead: Tomorrow at 4pm, join President Lincoln’s Cottage for a live reading of the award-winning children’s book What Do You Do With An Idea? with author Kobi Yamada. The story will inspire anyone at any age to welcome their bold ideas, give them space to grow, and to see what happens next! The session is free, but the first 20 participants to sign-up with a suggested donation of $20 will receive a signed copy of the book.

3. The “I’m just a kid” TikTok videos are so great. (Another one here.)

4. Woman tries to explain the pandemic to her past self. 😂

5. Happy 4/20 to those who celebrate! (Not kid-friendly, obvi.)

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Tulips in the neighborhood…see fields of them at Burnside Farms

1. For something different — and really pretty — to do outdoors: Visit the tulip fields at Burnside Farms. They are selling a limited number of tickets for each day, so visitors can maintain safe social distance. You must buy them in advance; they are not available at the gate. Tickets for the week ahead will be available here today (keep checking back, as they did not give a time).

2. Every morning at 10am, Washington Revels and Carpe Diem Arts are sharing “notes of hope” as one of their song leaders offers a song online. Join them to begin each day with the inspiration and connection of singing together.

3. Did you watch any of the One World concert yesterday? You can view some highlights here.

4. A round-up of pantry-friendly cookbooks from the Washington Post.

5. Look for shooting stars this week!

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