Stay Home
Our friends in the medical field are begging us to stay home. We’re choosing to listen and we hope you are too. But these days at home don’t have to be filled with darkness. Celebrities have taken to Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to keep us all entertained (quarantained?). Living room concerts, dance lessons with Debbie Allen, and The Tonight Show “Home Edition” with Jimmy Fallon’s two adorable daughters have all been bright spots in these otherwise dim days. Below are some more ideas to help fill your time for the next 30 days.
Stay Active
- Take a virtual walk for suicide prevention (April 4th)
- Join Homegrown Taproom for Virtual Zen (yoga) (April 4, 11, 18, 25)
- Join Fleet Feet and take a 13.1 virtual run in lieu of Nashville’s annual Rock ‘n Roll Marathon (April 25)
- Play Social Distancing Simon Says with your kids & family (every Friday through August 28)
- Do a virtual workout for your body and brain (every Friday through August 28)
- Watch Facebook for live yoga classes with Donelson Hot Yoga
- Get the kids moving with “PE with Coach Wood”
Stay Laughing
- Do these April Fools Day pranks while you’re stuck at home (April 1)
- Watch Comedian Steve Hofstetter’s “The Social Distancing Social Club” on YouTube (live streaming daily at 1pm and 7pm CST)
- Watch Hollywood’s Laugh Factory on YouTube (live streaming daily at 4pm CST)
Stay Connected
- Virtual Homie Hour with Homegrown Taproom & Kitchen (April 3)
- Discover your family’s stories with StoryWorth
- Adopt a Grandparent
Stay Cooking
- Take a free craft or cooking class from My Blueprint (through April 9, membership available after that)
- Practice your cooking skills with Edible Nashville
- Learn to make pasta from an Italian grandmother
- Free Virtual Cooking Classes with Massimo Bottura
Stay Productive
Stay Creative
- Lunch Doodles with children’s author Mo Willems
- Try these free drawing lessons (and readings) with the author/illustrator of Captain Underpants
- Join free online interactive art lessons with FEELartistic Studio
- Do some art with local school teacher Mr. Edinger (Art with Mr. E)
- Check out these other Art Resources During COVID-19
Stay Reading
- Listen to an Audible Story for FREE (as long as schools are closed)
- Listen to Dolly Parton read books from her Imagination Library (April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30)
- All ages will have a chance to hear LeVar Burton Read (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays)
- Listen to children’s stories read aloud by other famous people
Stay Learning
- Learn a new language (3 months free for students from Rosetta Stone)
- Explore reading, art, dance, and more with Hermitage Dance Academy’s School’s Out Program Online (weekdays, April 1-24)
- Try these science activities using household supplies
- Or these DIY science lessons from our Adventure Science Center
- Choose from 450 Ivy League Courses you can take online right now for free
- Stay in the word with free online bible studies and $5 e-books
- Learn about natural history with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Stay Exploring
- Visit two online exhibits by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
- Tour Guggenheim’s famous spiral staircase and works of art in New York City
- Walk through the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, France
- Explore The National Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Art in Korea
- Visit one of Germany’s largest museums, Pergamon
- Tour the iconic Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
- See the largest collection of artwork by Vincent Van Gogh at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
- Take a virtual tour of France’s Louvré Museum
- Explore The British Museum’s interactive timeline
- Explore the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City
- Tour the Yellowstone National Park
- Walk across the Great Wall of China
- Explore the Surface of Mars
- Immerse yourself in Canadian farm and food tours
- Join a live stream at your favorite zoo or aquarium
- Take your kids on a virtual field trip
