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People Magazine: Disney Parks Shared Their Official Churro Recipe So You Can Make Them at Home

View the video on YouTube: A Special Performance of "Rainbow Connection" from Kermit the Frog | The Muppets

Planet Pizza, dumplings with Bao, and other recipes are included in a series of short cooking videos for the kids. The Scary Mommy article has links to some of the measurements that the videos don't include. Cooking With Pixar YouTube Series

A new painting idea for the kids -- painting dandelions using empty toilet paper rolls .

The EQT Children's Theater Festival is going virtual May 14th to May 17th, 2020. Read more about the virtual festival and their full letter to the community here. They've included a Frog Stop Virtual Scavenger Hunt with submissions due May 17th. Each participant will be entered to win a FREE Milkshake voucher from The Milkshake Factory and could be featured on Pittsburgh Cultural Trust social media channels.

Visit boston.com to learn about the free online theater and history program through the link below: Boston.com: Rejoice, ‘Hamilton’ fans: Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his student program free online Theater meets history. Like theater? Hamilton fan? Check this out! Visit Eduham Home

1,000 ideas for entertaining kids while working from home. Click here to visit VFH + Kids.

Having been married at Fallingwater I am all for this. My kiddo isn't old enough to go on the tour yet, but we walk the grounds and retake some of the photos every year so I'll definitely be showing him the inside of the house using this! Click here to view the list of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings with virtual tours.

From Random House Parents - 23 Reading Games To Keep Kids Entertained If you're on Instagram check out @RandomHouseKids for more ways to keep the kids entertained. The latest schedule I saw in an e-mail is below. Sunday, 4.19: Sunday Activity Swipe Up Celebrate Earth month with these fun Lorax-inspired activities! Monday, 4.20: Book Recs Roundup Featuring books about Earth and all its creatures! Tuesday, 4.21: Virtual Storytime Join our virtual storytime, featuring The Lorax. Wednesday, 4.22: Trivia with Random House Kids Happy Earth Day! Our trivia will put your environmental knowledge to the test! Thursday, 4.23: Learn from Home Rob Franek, editor in chief of The Princeton Review, shares tips on this year’s upcoming AP exams. Friday, 4.24: #AuthorFeatureFriday Bug out with Bug Boys by Laura Knetzger, featuring a downloadable Bug Boys Diary! Saturday, 4.25: Saturday Snapshot We’re highlighting some of our favorite images and memes of the week!

Dolly Parton Will Read Children’s Books Online Every Thursday Night at 7PM as part of her Imagination Library invitiative. Read more about it here. View the Goodnight with Dolly videos here.

Phipps Conservatory Virtual Story Time Phipps Conservatory will be hosting a 15 minute virtual story time using Zoom every Wednesday starting April 22, 2020. Stories are read twice a day from 10-10:15 AM and 1-1:15 PM. Follow the link above to R.S.V.P.

Educational Resources while Social Distancing A blog post listing educational resources during our time social distancing by Beyond The Office WordPress development.

Relive your childhood and listen to LeVar Burton read stories to your kids. 'Reading Rainbow's' LeVar Burton To Livestream Readings Every Friday He'll livestream readings on Twitter at twitter.com/levarburton

The Pittsburgh Zoo is hosting a Virtual Wild Earth Day to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The Facebook post (linked above) reads: "We’re still celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day with you virtually! Join us on Wednesday, April 22 as we celebrate Wild Earth Day with educational animal videos, downloadable activities, and more. Just visit our event page on Wednesday, April 22 to access the special Wild Earth Day content. 🌏 https://www.pittsburghzoo.org/event-wild-earth-day/ "

Moon Child Adventures has posted an idea for homemade projectors using your empty toilet paper tolls and saran wrap. Toilet paper projectors

Nickelodeon has produced a Paw Patrol Earth Day coloring page for the kids.

Travel & Leisure's list: 100+ Fun Things to Do at Home Right Now, From Virtual Tours to Animals Cams and More https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-tips/fun-things-to-do-at-home-during-coronavirus-quarantine Everything from landscapes to architecture, museums, theater, art, food & drink, Disney sites, and many other things all over the world along with some TV shows and movies.

Ford Coloring Pages Ford has created a coloring and activity book for the kids including connect the dots, trivia, a word search, etc.

PBS Kids Read-Along with Angela Sontomero My child is a bit old for this one, but today I saw a Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Facebook post for PBS Kids Read-Along with Angela Sontomero. I didn't know they had these.

Go Noodle Get your kids moving with free videos from Go Noodle. My kid uses this at school, but you can also use it at home on your computer or stream to your TV. Go Noodle even has its own channel on Roku which is how we use it at home.

The YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh is posting weekly schedules of virtual activities for kids including things such as crafts, story time, and dance parties. Some activities you do on your own and others you watch live on video with everyone else. Tonight, Friday, April 10th, there will be a DJ Dance party. Your kids can watch and listen and dance along with other kids through Google Meet. https://www.pittsburghymca.org/ywithfamilies

Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History has been posting links to activities for the kids to do at home all week. Today's is hatching your own dinosaur egg. Have you ever wanted to hatch your own dinosaur? With everyday household ingredients, you can conduct your own at-home science experiment by making and hatching a baking soda Dinosaur Egg! #MuseumFromHome https://carnegiemnh.org/super-science-activity-dino-hatch/