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Previous Installments in this Series
Stuck at Home Staff Picks 1
Stuck at Home Staff Picks 2
Stuck at Home Staff Picks 3
Stuck at Home Staff Picks: Teens Edition

Great Ideas for Activities and Experiences

• Children’s Museum of Manhattan At Home Daily Activities
• Long List of Virtual Activities and Experiences for Kids from NYMetroParents
• Fantastic Daily Concerts for Kids Live from with Star Rock Musicians at Rock and Roll Playhouse
• New York Botanical Garden Virtual Experiences
• Live Streams of Many Aquariums and Zoos
• Harry Potter at Home – bringing the Wizarding World Home to You
• Read Alouds, Drawing Lessons, and More from Dolly Parton, Dav Pilkey (of Dog Man and Captain Underpants), and Reading Rainbow’s Levar Burton
• Laurie Berkner Band Live Streaming Concerts, most weekdays at 10:00 a.m.
• Stamford Museum & Nature Center Daily Live Classes at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
• Online Resources from Various Youth Book Publishers
• Fun “Miximal Mondays” with Ben Clanton, author/illustrator of the hilarious Narwhal and Jelly books.  The Narwhal and Jelly books are available as eBooks in Overdrive/Libby.
• List of Free Drawing Classes from Famous Illustrators
• Learn about the Mona Lisa with a VR experience from the Louvre
• Long List of At Home Activities from NYMetroparents
• Virtual Field Trip to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

Picture Books, Read Alouds, and Storytimes

• Missed one of the Library’s Virtual Storytimes? Recordings available here.
• The one, the only, Levar Burton reading books to kids, teens, and adults at three times each day.
• Dolly Parton is Reading Bedtime Stories Each Thursday Evening with “Goodnight with Dolly.”
• Daily read aloud with children’s author Mac Barnett – 3:00 p.m. younger books, 8:00 p.m. from his Spy Kids chapter book series.
• My Weird-Read-Aloud Daily with Author Dan Gutman.

Learning at Home Resources

• Two Weeks of “Choose Your Own Adventure” Learning Plans
• Resources for Pre-K Learning and Fun at Home from School Library Journal
• Indigenous Educators Volunteer to Teach Short K-8 Lessons Online Amid School Closures
• DuoLingo ABC – Learn to Read app (Apple only)

STEM Learning

• Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants – live free science lessons in a wide variety of scientific fields, with real scientists
• PBS Kids Design Squad
• Science At Home newsletter from the Museum of Science + Industry
• Online Activities from the Adler Planetarium, including taking part in real science experiments and virtual tours
• Do It Yourself Science from Carnegie STEM Girls