Arts and Educational Resources For Kids and Teens

This list is provided by: Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs

123 Homeschool Me
Free worksheets 1st – 8th grade
https://www.123homeschool4me.com/home-school-free-printables/

2Simple
Purple Mash is a website designed for children aged 3-11. It contain creative tools for coding, animation, publishing, art and also applications for math, spelling and grammar.
https://2simple.com/blog/using-purple-mash-when-school-closed/

AFSA Education Foundation
The entire MoneySKILL course is available for teachers, parents, and other educators for free at all times.
www.afsaef.org

All Kids Network
Free resources for parents and teachers, crafts, worksheets, coloring pages, printable mazes, dot to dot, hidden pictures and more.
https://www.allkidsnetwork.com/

Boromi
A multi award-winning network of play libraries empowering families to connect, talk and play together at home.
http://eepurl.com/gWfuJz

Chrome Music Lab
Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments.
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments

Coloring Nature
Our coloring categories include serious science: biomes, anatomy, animals, plants and more, plus some pure whimsy – just for fun.
https://www.coloringnature.org/

Common Lit
CommonLit is a nonprofit edtech company with an online library of over 1,500 authentic reading passages, text sets, units, and digital learning tools.
https://www.commonlit.org/

Creating a Masterpiece
An award winning fine art training program for students 5 and up. First month of access to our award winning Drawing Program is free with the code: Corona2020
https://creatingamasterpiece.com/product/drawing-program-2/

Black Box Education
Digital and interactive resources for drama, dance and theatre. 6 free resource packs for digital, online schooling.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jnDsvkKgLBAYSLJO7KrioOKpZj34JesJqneFrypGKo0/edit

Brave Writer
Free resources, ready-made lesson plans, master classes. Some resources free due to pandemic.
https://blog.bravewriter.com/2020/03/13/needing-support-due-to-covid-19/

Busy Kids Do Piano
Free month of lessons with coupon code PIANOATHOM
https://busykidsdopiano.com/membership

Duolingo
Learning with Duolingo is fun and addictive. Earn points for correct answers, race against the clock and level up. Always free (paid options, but base content always free)
https://www.duolingo.com/

FabuLingua
FabuLingua teaches Spanish through interactive stories on mobile phones and tablets. FabuLingua is suspending their subscription services and providing their entire platform for free to all families and schools while schools are closed. Simply download it from the App Store or Google play.
https://www.fabulingua.com

Felt With Love Designs
Lots of free sewing patterns and tips to learn to sew!
https://www.feltwithlovedesigns.com/category/free-patterns/

GoNoodle
GoNoodle® engages 14 million kids every month with movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts. Available for free for school and home use.
https://family.gonoodle.com/

Heifer International
FREE resources (downloadable books, mazes, word searches, and more) from Heifer International’s school programs — with topics in social studies (geography, economics), science, language arts.
https://www.heifer.org/what-you-can-do/get-involved/schools/home-school-activities.html

HERE Meditation
The HERE mobile app is designed to help rapidly relieve stress & anxiety. It works by pairing interactive exercises (staring/swiping), with breathing, music and/or guided meditation to stimulate the relaxation response and promote executive functioning. This game-like approach can be used by the whole family, and may help calm cabin fever, or provide a mental break in between homeschool activities.
The mobile app is entirely free and accessible for iOS and Android users

https://www.hereglobalrelief.org

HippoCampus
Explore over 7,000 free videos in 13 subject areas. You can create a free account and create customized playlists too.Always free
https://www.hippocampus.org

Imagine Children’s Museum
Today I am passing along our YouTube channel if interested, we are adding educational and FUN videos daily! FREE educational videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSuuvrwdWSxSkSLN8X6bfiA

Joy Sun Bear
Joy Sun Bear promotes learning about the world’s diverse cultures through free stories, crafts, recipes, coloring and activity sheets, games and more! Our goal is to empower, encourage and educate children to be positive global citizens. Free stories, crafts, recipes, color and activity sheets, games, videos, reading comprehension and creative activities.
https://www.joysunbear.com

K12MovieGuides
A list of free movie guides for students of varying ages and abilities

School Closure due to Corona Virus [COVID-19] Free Resources

Khan Academy Kids
Khan Academy Kids is a free, award-winning online education program for children ages 2 – 7. Our mobile app was designed by child development experts at Stanford University and engages kids in core subjects like early literacy, reading, writing, language, and math, while encouraging creativity and building social-emotional skills. It is age-appropriate, personalized based on where your child is at, and engaging. Always free, no ads, no subscriptions, with an offline version available for when internet access is difficult.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/khan-academy-kids/id1378467217

PBS
As part of the public media mission to ensure all kids, regardless of their capabilities have access to continued free educational resources at home, PBS SoCal | KCET, in partnership with LAUSD and in collaboration with California PBS stations are offering broadcast programming and accompanying digital resources that adhere to California’s state curriculum to provide continued at-home learning.

https://www.kcet.org/at-home-learning