Fun Things to Do for Kids and Families
Here are some great activities you can do at home. Check out even more ideas for all ages and adults.
STORYTIME
For video playlists of your favorite librarians leading storytime and downloadable activity sheets to host your own storytime at home, visit our Storytime page.
FAMILY BOOK CLUB
Discuss and enjoy activities related to these titles in your very own DIY family book club!
- Breezy Summer Reads: Crossings: Extraordinary Structures for Extraordinary Animals
- Breezy Summer Reads: Eyes That Kiss in the Corners
- Breezy Summer Reads: Dragons & Marshmallows
ARTS AND CRAFTS
Ignite your imagination! Explore these easy-to-follow activity and video collections to have some fun making art.
Be the Artist
Kindle creativity with these downloadable activity sheets:
- Take It, Make It: Rainbow Heart
- Words into Art
- Painterly Leaf Art
- Egg Carton Mask
- Egg Carton Owl
- Tube Puppets
- Stick People
- Seed Insect Art
- Paper Pattern Art
- Spider Web Art
- Torn Paper Landscape
- Negative Space
- Relief Art
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Hands Together Project
- Pen Pals: Write a Letter
- Easy Halloween Costumes
- Paper Dolls Template and Instructions
- Doodle Art
- Kindness Rocks
- Make a Flying Superhero
- Make a Rainbow
- Make a Nesting Ball
- The Lion and the Mouse Stick Puppet Show and Cut-Outs
Watch and Learn Arts and Crafts
Follow along with these videos for your next crafting project!
- How to Make a Pop-Up Card for Father’s Day
- Bird Puppets with Ms. Caitlin and Haven
- Learn to Make Challah
SCIENCE
Put on your thinking cap and get excited for science! Check out our Science for Kids video playlist or see these activity sheets for some simple projects that make learning fun:
ANIMALS AND NATURE
Explore the natural world with these activity sheets and videos:
- Summer Reading Adventures: Cloud Creations
- Science and Art: Fun with Nature Objects
- How High Is That Tree?
- Penguin Snacks
- Animal Facts: Axolotls (Video)
- Backyard Nature Walk
- Animal Facts: Lions and Tigers (Video)
- Is Your Cat Left-Pawed or Right-Pawed?
READ AND PLAY WITH MATH
Play with and explore math with these downloadable activities:
- Operations and more operations
- Measurement, measurement, and more measurement (video)
- Number Sense and more number sense
- Spatial Relationships
- Data Analysis, more data analysis, and even more data analysis (video)
- Sets
- Patterns and more patterns
- Shapes, shapes, and more shapes (video)
- Counting and more counting
MUSIC AND PLAY
Sing and play with these videos as our Youth Librarians share songs and ideas for caregivers: