Read Aloud:

• Mac Barnett Each day at 3 p.m. 

• Mo Willems Daily lunch doodles from 1-1:20 p.m. through March 27. 

• Operation Storytime 

• Shawn Harris, "Everyone's Awake"

• Juno Valentine, "Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes"

• Ame Dyckman, "You Don't Want a Unicorn!"

• Steven Weinberg, "AstroNuts"

• Molly Idle, "Pearl"

• Storytime from Space

Museums Tours:

• Getty Museum

• Louvre

• Metropolitan Museum of Art

• National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City

• National Museum of the United States Air Force

• NASA Glenn Research Center

• NASA Langley Research Center

• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

• Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

• Van Gogh Museum

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Zoos and Aquariums:

• Atlanta Zoo Panda Cam

• Cincinnati Zoo

• Georgia Aquarium

• Houston Zoo

• Monterey Bay Aquarium

• National Aquarium

• San Diego Zoo

• Shedd Aquarium

Activities for families and students of all ages!

Other fun things to do!​

• Work the crossword and sudoku puzzles.

• Write a haiku or a limerick. Read it aloud in your best Shakespearean accent.

• Learn some new phrases in a foreign language — like “Hast du Toilettenpapier?” in German (“Do you have any toilet paper?”).

• Listen to an audiobook together.

• Write letters (actual letters or cards) to one or more people in the service industry.

• Tell a story as a family. One person starts with a phrase or sentence, the next person continues with an added phrase/sentence, and so on. Continue until a logical place to end.

• Make sock puppets out of the non-matched socks, or toys for your pets.

• Bake a cake or some cookies.

• Learn how to sew on a button.

• Learn how to make an origami animal.

• Make a new board game with an old cardboard box or some paper. Make cards and other pieces. Grab some dice from another game or make a spinner. Make up the rules as you go.

•  Have a scavenger hunt in your home.

• Save the boxes from your package deliveries and use them to make towers or forts.

• Write a play or a script.

• Create a puppet show.

• Write a song.

• Make a comic strip.

• Create a collage.

• Write a story.

• Write a poem.

• Construct a mobile.

• Create some jokes.

• Create a slideshow.

• Create a scrapbook.