Map Crunch: Always wanted to travel, but can’t? Map Crunch takes you to a random location in the world, powered by Google Maps. Why not ‘visit’ two places and see how they compare?
Access Mars: Being indoors can’t even stop you from visiting space, thanks to the work of the team behind the Mars Curiosity Rover.
NASA Image Library: Speaking of space, NASA’s entire image gallery is now available to the public.
ZoomQuilt: This infinitely zooming image by artist Nikolas Baumgarten is oddly mesmerising, and a good prompt for how every artwork can contain the smallest details!
Pobble 365: a daily image to give a spark of inspiration for story writing and media literacy
Books, Games and Entertainment
Playing Cards: a range of games (card and otherwise!) to play online.
Mouse Circus: Watch Neil Gaiman and his famous friends read two of his books – Coraline and The Graveyard Book – in full.
Busy Toddler: activities to entertain your EYFS child
CBeebies Radio: listening activities for younger children
Chess In Schools: online activities for our enthusiastic members of Chess Club
The Great Indoors: various at-home activities collated by the Scouts.
Book Trust: various book related activities online
Health and Wellbeing
Book of Beasties: This developer of children’s mental health games has released a free home learning kit to support families.
Headspace: this website and app provides a mixture of free and paid for subscriptions to aid sleep and relaxation through meditation.
Shake it with Oti Mabuse: Strictly Come Dancing star Oti Mabuse leads online dance classes, suitable for children, via her Facebook page.
Diverse Dance Mix: Inclusive dance programmes suitable for all ages.
Sadler’s Wells Workshops: the famous dance company has expanded its range of free family friendly workshops, especially suitable for children unable to attend school.
TaiFlow: 5 minute Tai Chi routines to promote wellbeing and mindfulness.
Do Yoga With Me: a range of online yoga workouts, for beginners and up.
Yoga with Adriene: free 30 minute yoga challenges to build into your daily fitness practice.
PE with Joe: Joe Wicks’ hugely popular PE workouts are available to stream live daily from 9am, or at your leisure. There are also workouts for adults and older people to keep fit.
Fitness Blender: free workouts of varying lengths, suitable for all abilities.
Sweaty Betty: From yoga to high impact routines, this site provides a range of free choices to be completed at home.
Support and Advice (Academic and Personal)
Silver Line: a free, confidential advice line for older people.
Young Minds: an advice line for young people and their parents regarding mental health and wellbeing.
