Indoor Activities
New!
- Get moving with a family dance party and this fun playlist from Active for Life.
- Have fun in the kitchen with some Kid Friendly Recipes.
- Take a trip to Mars - see the actual surface from photos taken from by NASA's Curiosity rover.
- Make some Yarn-wrapped Initials - all ages will enjoy this craft.
- Watch some sharks and other aquatic life on the Ripley's Aquarium webcam.
Health and Wellness
NEW!
- At-Home Workout Beginner Strength Training: The 18-minute video focuses on basic training workout for muscle strengthening.
- Eat Smart, Move More Exercise Videos: Set of videos of free work-out routines at home with no or minimal gym equipment.
- Gold's Gym On-Demand Workouts: Gold Gym offers free access to on-demand gym-workouts applicable anywhere and routines made by professional trainers.
- At Home Family Health & Fitness: SportsEngine has articles and videos that focus on at-home activities and sports drills.
- Cosmic Kids Yoga: The Youtube channel focuses on teaching yoga to kids.
- Try Yoga for Teens - ages 11-13, or ages 13-18
- Get moving with this 30 minute cardio Hip-Hop class.
- PopSugar Fitness has a wide variety of cardio workouts including kick-boxing, pilates, hip hop and more.
- Take a one mile "happy walk" in the safety and comfort of your home
- Take some free online yoga classes with Yoga With Adriene. She is fun and easy to follow and has a large variety of practices.
- Or try out some of the yoga practices offered here.
- Here are 80 things to do at while stuck at home
- Silver Sneakers offers a variety of online exercise classes.
- Here are some ideas for maintaining strength and stability.
- The RealisticMama has a list of the 9 best exercise videos for kids
- Group Hiit offers free video workouts for all members of the family
- Check out Fitness Blender for some free at home workouts.
- Are you an Orange Theory fan? Try some of their workouts for free.
- Join LZ Aerobics for Dance Aerobics, Functional Exercise for Seniors, and a Senior Stretch class. Email Bobbie Elzey for the weekly schedule.
- Burn Boot Camp Decatur is new to the city and provided two boot camp workouts for you! Here and here.
- Calmness & Relaxation using Qigong - every Wednesday at 12:15 pm. Contact Neil Norton to get weekly meeting invites.
- Tai Chi for Life - contact Steve Dorage to get your meeting invites. Beginner Classes are held Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturdays. Midlevel is held on Monday evenings.
- At To the Beat Fitness, seniors can enjoy free classes: Online Zumba Gold and Online Senior Fitness.
- The Atlanta Beltline Partnership has a variety of free workouts on their website.
Music and the Arts
- The High Museum in Atlanta is offering a variety of online art activities, educational resources, videos, tours of the Museum at noon on Fridays, and more. You can even download an artsy Zoom background!
- Andrew Lloyd Webber is streaming his musicals for free every Friday night at 7 pm. on the YouTube channel The Show Must Go On. They will stay up fo 72 hours.
- A live-streaming reading group is performing all of Shakespeare's plays in order.
- What's On Stage has a list of free theater performances you can stream.
- Visit 12 art museums and galleries via virtual tours.
- Gather up the little ones and enjoy songs and rhymes from the Learning Station.
- Enjoy some online music festivals. Be sure to get up and dance when the music moves you.
- Fender offers 3-months of free music lessons- Learn to play the guitar, bass and ukulele.
- Billboard.com has an always updated list offering free concerts and live streams from some of your favorite artists and musicians.
- Listen to the beauty of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, a site for music lovers around the world with specially curated content.
- At Bandsintown.com get an updated list of live stream concerts!
- Have you always wanted to learn Flamenco dance? Here is a link to three short videos provided by our instructor - Julie Baggentoss.
- Google Arts and Culture partnered with over 2,500 museums and galleries all over the world to offer virtual tours.
Virtual Tours
- Garden Tours
- National Parks Tours
- Museum Tours
- Natural Wonders of the World
- Georgia Aquarium
- Atlanta Museum
Arts and Crafts
- NEW! Make a windchime with recycled items (for children).
- New! Make a dandelion print using toilet paper rolls and Qtips.
- Make some wine cork keychains!
- Create a wrap bracelet.
- Create a twig candleholder.
- DIY Projects for Teens has a lot of fun ideas to keep the older children busy.
Just for Fun
- Make your dog smarter with Brain Games for Dogs
- Try your hand at a jigsaw puzzle.
Cooking
- New! Cook up some recipes with the family at HowtoCook. Thanks to Maddie for suggesting this site!
- At Fridge toTable you can enter the ingredients you have on hand and it will create a recipe for you. Good way to use the things you have stored in the freezer and pantry.
- Bon Appetit offers a list of recipes for cooking at home during the coronavirus
- This is the easiest bread recipe you will ever make - it is easy and quite tasty.