Free Arts and Crafts Resources for Home Learning - tons of resources! - click here and for sewing, knitting arts and crafts click here. Another Arts and Crafts site, along with free virtual museum tours click here.

Wide Open School - brand-new (3/31) - free online resource to support families and educators who are transitioning to remote learning as a result of the coronavirus, click here.

  • Features a free collection of learning experiences and activities for kids, organized by grade band and subject.

  • Curated and coordinated by the experts at Common Sense, Wide Open School is the result of a collaboration among leading publishers, nonprofits, and education and technology companies.

Ways to Keep Busy at Home - links of things to do at home for all ages and stages of life, click here.

Daily Life with Children in the Pandemic - CDC, click here.

Child Care Resource Center - COVID Resources, click here.

Live streaming story time by the Santa Clarita Public Library (and our very own Liza Purdy!) each morning at 9:30 AM! on their Facebook page, click here.

Student Free meals for anyone under 18, Community Feeding Sites for Children 18 and Under, click here.

  • Many students and families rely on school meals during the school week.  As a result of recent school closures here in our valley, daily access to that resource has been interrupted.  In an effort to provide meal access, the William S. Hart Union High School District and Santa Clarita Valley School Food Service Authority have coordinated to provide Free lunches across our community.   These meals are funded by the USDA, and are FREE to kids and teens ages 18 and younger at meal sites across the Santa Clarita Valley. In order to accommodate current CDC guidance to maintain social distancing, these sites will offer grab and go meals.  These sites will not provide areas for students to eat the meals.

Activities to do at Home with Young Children:

from Common Sense Media - Resources for Families During the Coronavirus Pandemic hub, click here.

Virtual Field Trips, click here.

Cincinnati Zoo - Offering Home Safari tours of animals on their Facebook live daily, click here.

Free Bible Coloring Pages, click here.

Santa Clarita Library Online - Free access to e-books and audio books for adults and kids, click here.

They have databases! They have Tumblebooks that will actually read picture books to kids! You can now sign up for a library card virtually without having to come in to the library (which is closed for two weeks in case you didn't know). You can even read the New York Times for free daily. It's all there, folks. Free movie and music streaming as well! If anyone has any questions, they are more than welcome to Liza Purdy at lpurdy@santa-clarita.com. She will get you answers! The library staff hopes to be putting up some neat content for families in the next couple of weeks as well...it’s in the works. 

Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems - Children’s Author (Elephant and Piggie, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus) offering drawing tutorials daily, click here.

Space Station Explorers - Storytime from Space- story times and science experiments from the International Space Station, click here.

Common Sense Media has compiled a list of free online resources (a fantastic resource for navigating the media landscape for families with children), click here.

Learning without Tears is providing a 90 day free trial in response to the current crisis, click here.

MEDICAL RESOURCES FOR FAMILES

Mental Health Resources for Families during COVID-19, click here.

List of Cognitive Distortions to help families deal with the stress of COVID-19- from Burns, David D. The Feeling Good Handbook. New York: Plume, 1999. Via arfamiliesfirst.com, click here.

Center for the Developing Child, Harvard University: Stress, Resilience, and the Role of Science: Responding to the Coronavirus Pandemic. World class child development resource offers a wealth of resources for helping families through the pandemic, click here.