Milk Street Online Cooking Classes
At the Milk Street Online Cooking School you won’t learn just recipes, you'll learn new ways to approach food and cooking, giving you a reinvigorated enthusiasm for putting dinner on the table. All online classes are free! Click here to start cooking
The Kennedy Center
- Kennedy Center’s first-ever Education Artist-in-Residence Mo Willems is inviting viewers virtually into his illustration studio every day at 1 p.m. for a LUNCH DOODLE. This online video series will walk fellow artists through Willems’ process as he draws, illustrates, and doodles. So, grab some paper and crayons and do some doodling!
- The Kennedy Center archives many of its performances in its online catalog: There you can find video of a demonstration and lesson from the dancers of this year’s Sleeping Beauty ballet, Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ acceptance speech from the 2018 Mark Twain Comedy Prize ceremony, selections from Lupe Fiasco’s Kennedy Center debut in November, and more.
Smithsonian
- The Smithsonian National Gallery of Art is hosting daily tours, one gallery at a time on Twitter and, providing videos and photos of galleries on its website.
- The Smithsonian released nearly 3 million images of their collections into the public domain and available for anybody to download, transform, and share without permission. This means you can create your very own meme or work of art using the 3D digitization of the Apollo 11’s Columbia crew hatch, any one of the 17 collection items related to baseball great Jackie Robinson, or an image of Susan B. Anthony’s inkstand.
- Watch a live feed of the four new baby cheetah cubs at the National Zoo here.
Other Activity Ideas
- Activities online through Enoch Pratt Free Library
- 30 Parents Share Their Favorite At-Home Activities to Help Bored Kits
- NASA offers STEM activities for kids stuck at home
- Keeping Your Kids Entertained At Home While Social Distancing
- The Secret to Keeping Your Kids Happy, Busy and Learning if Their School Closes Due to Coronavirus
- 23 fun activities to do with kids using stuff you already have at home, as you wait out coronavirus closures
- 3-Ingredient Pantry Dinners for When You Can't Get to the Grocery Store
- Empower DC has a list of education and activity ideas to do at home and links to a variety of other resources
- Alvin Ailey dance performances online
- Free online concerts
- Online Kid Activities for Families Stuck at Home
- Busy Toddler Indoor Activity Ideas
- 100 Activities to do at Home During School Closures