Free At-Home Recreational Activities for Families

Staying inside might be boring, but it's never been easier to see the world and stay engaged from home.

Nowadays, you can get active, expand your mind, and even go sightseeing - all while in your comfiest PJs.

Below, find over 100 free at-home recreational activities for families, including virtual museum tours, fitness routines, craft tutorials, and much more.

Fitness Activities, Apps, and Routines

While you're spending more time inside, it's crucial to stay active. Find fitness activities for groups of all ages, plus relaxing yoga routines and fitness apps below.

Fitness Activities for Kids

• At Home Family Health & Fitness: SportsEngine has articles and videos that focus on at-home activities and sports drills.
  
• Fit Sanford: Sanford Health's program focuses on activities improving the health and lifestyle of kids.
  
• Physical Activities To Do With Your Children: List of physical activities that parents can use to help their kids stay fit and healthy.
  
• Music & Dance | Healthy Kids Physical Toolkit: List of physical activities that are focused on music and dance for kids.
  
• Healthy Living: Yoga for Kids: The brochure contains instructions with visual aids on yoga poses suitable for kids.
  
• Cosmic Kids Yoga: The Youtube channel focuses on teaching yoga to kids.

Fitness Activities for Adults

• Gentle Yoga: The article is an overview of yoga to help readers understand its health benefits and simple instructions for several poses.
  
• Fitness Blender: Fitness Blender has free work-out videos and programs to help users stay fit.
  
• Gold's Gym On-Demand Workouts: Gold Gym offers free access to on-demand gym-workouts applicable anywhere and routines made by professional trainers.
  
• United We Move: United We Move provides free home-workouts videos to stay fit and healthy.
  
• At-Home Workout Cardio Interval: A 14-minute video of cardio work-out at-home to increase body activity and heart pumping.
  
• At-Home Workout Beginner Strength Training: The 18-minute video focuses on basic training workout for muscle strengthening.
  
• Eat Smart, Move More Exercise Videos: Set of videos of free work-out routines at home with no or minimal gym equipment.
  
• Bring PE to Your Family Week: SHAPE America offers free health education resources through physical activities.
  
• The Body Coach TV: This YouTube channel focuses on providing free home workouts contents.
  
• DoYogaWithMe: The platform offers access to Yoga videos and free 2-months access for premium videos.
  
• Lotus Yoga: Lotus Yoga provides access to a set of videos of Yoga poses and routines.

Fitness Activities for Seniors

• Senior Planet Virtual Fitness & Wellness Events: Senior Planet has recorded and virtual events that focus on fitness for aging adults.
  
• MOVE! Weight Management Program: The program consists of nutrition and work-out videos suited for aging adults.
  
• Go4Life Workout Videos: The National Institute On Aging has a work-out video series on YouTube suitable for aging adults.
  
• YOU­-fit Exercises for EveryBODY: The brochure contains instructions with visual aids on several stretches and chair yoga.

Fitness Apps to Try Out

• Track Yoga: The app provides access to yoga classes and routines with visual instructions.
  
• Daily Yoga: Daily Yoga is a free app that provides access to videos and classes.
  
• Daily Workouts and Simply Yoga: The two apps provide access to a set of work-out and yoga routines.
  
• Leap Fitness: Leap Fitness helps users maintain a healthy lifestyle through apps like Home Workout, Step Counter, and Fasting App.
  
• JEFIT Workout Tracker: The free version of the app has a workout planner, thousands of exercise videos, and a progress tracker.
  
• Workout Trainer: The app has thousands of workout videos and programs made by professional coaches.
  
• 7M Fitness: A mobile app that helps users stay fit and healthy through the concept of 7 minutes work-out routines.

Virtual Camp Experiences and Escape Rooms

Summer camps and escape rooms can still be pretty fun when done remotely. Find virtual escape rooms and summer camp experiences with the following links.

Virtual Camp Experiences

• Camp Wonderopolis: The program is a free online learning experience for kids with a similar setup as summer camps.
  
• CAMP@HOME: UNICEF Kid Power's virtual program consists of videos showing fun camp activities for kids.
  
• Rachael Ray's Yum-o! Cooking Camp: The program is a free online interactive cooking camp for kids and parents.
  
• Microsoft's Free Virtual Workshops: Microsoft offers free virtual workshops for kids to help them gain new skills.
  
• Camp PBS KIDS: The set of activities help parents make their kids feel the joy of summer camp through printables and ideas.
  
• Varsity Tutor Virtual Summer Camps: Free full-week virtual summer camp is available for ages 5 to 18 from June to August.

Virtual Escape Rooms

• Star Wars Virtual Escape Room: A digital escape room based on Star Wars and challenges players' decision-making.
  
• The Titanic!: The survival game is based on the Titanic and provides puzzles that challenge players to reach the final destination.
  
• Greek Mythology Escape Room: A digital escape room focused on Mythology with players need to answers riddles from Athena to successfully finish the game.
  
• Can You Make it through the Enchanted Forest?: A virtual escape room and puzzle game challenge safely pass through an enchanted forest to reach the royal castle.
  
• A Pokémon Journey: It is a digital escape room based on the popular Pokemon and let players start their adventures like in the show.
  
• Bound to Stay Bound - Digital Escape Room: Bound to Stay Bound offers two digital escape rooms that doable at home.

Educational Activities and Resources

Whether you're in elementary school or nearing retirement, the below links can provide a fun way to get learning. Find brain games, audiobook resources and more.

• National Geographic Kids: National Geographic Kids has an online library of quizzes and videos about animals, science, and history suitable for kids.
  
• NASA Space Place: NASA produced the platform to provide fun games for kids to learn about space and Earth science.
  
• Khan Academy: Khan Academy is a non-profit organization that provides free online courses.
  
• Smithsonian Fun Stuff for Kids and Teens: List of activities and games for kids to learn topics like art, science, and history.
  
• Sumdog: Sumdog offers free math and literacy games to help kids learn stuffs while having fun.
  
• FunBrain: The platform has online games, videos, and reading materials for kids to have fun learning.
  
• Web Sudoku: A free online version of Sudoku.
  
• LibriVox: LibriVox is a free public domain audiobook read by volunteers.
  
• Audible: Audible is offering free streaming services of audiobooks for kids.
  
• Digitalbook: Digitalbook is free public domain audiobooks and ebooks with over 100,000 titles.
  
• Julie's Library: The online library has a variety of children's books with sounds and activities.

Creative Activities and Resources

Have a creative itch? There are plenty of resources online to help satisfy your urge to create and think outside the box. Below, find arts and crafts tutorials, indoor games, and more.

Arts and Crafts

• Crafts by Amanda: Crafts by Amanda provides craft ideas suitable for all ages and seasons.
  
• Design Improvised: Design Improvised provides decoration and craft ideas for art projects.
  
• Art For Kids Hub: Art For Kids Hubs provides drawing, painting lessons, and crafts for kids.
  
• Crafty Morning: Craft Morning has a variety of craft ideas and DIY projects.
  
• Crayola's Free Coloring Pages: Crayola provides free printable coloring pages for kids as creative at-home activities.
  
• FreeKidsCrafts: The platform provides printable activities and craft ideas for kids.
  
• i heart arts n crafts: The platform provides ideas for crafts, DIY projects, and recipes.
  
• Origami Way: List of origami with instructions and visual aids.
  
• Seussville: The platform provides ideas of fun activities and crafts for kids.
  
• The Spruce Crafts: The Spruce Crafts provides ideas for DIY projects and various types of crafts.

Activities and Games

• Busy Toddler: List of ideas for fun activities for parents and their kids.
  
• Fun and Learning for Parents and Children: An Activities Handbook: List of simple activities that parents and kids can enjoy at-home.
  
• PBS Kids: The platform provides fun activities, videos, and online games for kids.
  
• 87 Energy-Busting Indoor Games & Activities For Kids: List of fun indoor activities that parents can use to keep the whole family and the kids active.
  
• Make Your Own Games: Ideas that parents can use to make DIY indoor games.
  
• 81 Top Games for Seniors and the Elderly: Fun for All Abilities: List of indoor games that suitable for aging adults regardless of disability and challenges.
  
• Highlights Kids: Highlights Kids has online games suitable for kids.
  
• 7 Fun Indoor Activities for Seniors and Caregivers to Enjoy: List of indoor activities that aging adults can participate in to keep active and healthy.
  
• 20 indoor games to keep the kids entertained on a cold or rainy day: List of ideas for indoor games suitable for kids to keep them entertained.
  
• At-Home Activity Guide: Strategies for parents to help develop fun activities for toddlers.
  
• Multiplayer Games: Online card & board games: List of card and board games including instructions and rules of the games.

Virtual Tours Around the World

Feeling wanderlust? See impressive sights around the world in the comfort of your own home. Try one of the below virtual tours to see prestigious museums, national parks and more.

• Alaska Department of Fish and Game's Trail Camera Gallery: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has made trail cam and virtual viewing of wildlife for educational purposes.
  
• Access Mars: NASA has a pre-recorded videos of Mars's surface from the Curiosity rover.
  
• Google Arts & Culture: Google Arts & Culture has a gallery of museums and artworks.
  
• Bronx Zoo Virtual Zoo: The virtual zoo provides live camera views of the zoo exhibits.
  
• Explore.org: Explore.org shows live cam feeds and film documentary of nature.
  
• Mount Vernon Virtual Tour: A virtual live tour of Mount Vernon with informative videos.
  
• Clearwater Marine Aquarium: Clearwater Marine Aquarium provides free access to live cams of the animals' exhibits.
  
• G Adventures Virtual Tour: G Adventures offers pre-recorded and upcoming live tours in different countries.
  
• Georgia Aquarium: Georgia Aquarium provides access to live cams of its animals' exhibits.
  
• Louvre Online Tours: Louvre offers access to a virtual tour of the rooms of the museum.
  
• Monterey Bay Aquarium: Monterey Bay Aquarium has live cams of animals in exhibits.
  
• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: It is a virtual tour of the exhibits inside the National Museum of Natural History.
  
• The Vatican Museum: The Vatican Museum has a collection of virtual tours of museums in the Vatican City.
  
• Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum: A list of virtual tours and videos of exhibits in the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum.
  
• NASA Glenn Virtual Tours: NASA offers a virtual tour of its facilities at Glenn Research Center.
  
• Langley Research Center Virtual Tour: NASA offers a virtual tour of its facilities at Langley Research Center.
  
• National Museum of the United States Air Force: It is a virtual tour of the museum in 360-degree and audios to help with a self-guided tour.
  
• Zoo Atlanta's Panda Cam: The Zoo Atlanta has a live-stream of its panda habitats.
  
• Houston Zoo Webcams: The zoo offers various webcams of its animal exhibit like the giraffe feeding platform, gorilla habitat, elephant yard, and more.
  
• National Aquarium: It is a virtual tour of the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
  
• Disney Parks' First-Ever 360-Degree Panoramas on Google Street View: Disney Parks has released 360-degree panoramas of its parks through Google Street View for families to see and plan a vacation.
  
• Street Art With Google Art Project: Street Art provides access to arts on the streets and behind stories of the art.
  
• Virtual Tour of the Great Wall of China: It is a virtual tour of the Great Wall of China for free on fix number of scenes and extra 12 scenes for a certain fee.
  
• The Hidden Worlds of National Parks: Google Arts and Culture have a collection of virtual tours of national parks in the USA.
  
• Yellowstone National Park: Yellowstone National park has a live stream webcam of its geysers and static feeds of various locations of the park.
  
• Hestercombe Gardens: The virtual tour showcases the different parts of the Hestercombe Gardens.
  
• Visit Orlando Virtual Tours: The association provides virtual tours of theme parks, resorts, and tourist spots available in Orlando city.
  
• San Diego Zoo Kids: The zoo has live webcams of animals that families and kids can enjoy.
  
• Enjoy the Museum from Home: The museum offers free viewing of the art collection and videos of the virtual tour of the exhibits.
  
• Virtual Egg Farm Field Trips: The program focuses on providing virtual field trips to explore egg farms.
  
• FarmFood 360: The platform provides virtual tours of different types of farms in Canada.

Bottom Line

Sure, no one wants to be stuck at home. But with this list of resources and activities, you can at least have some fun, learn some stuff you didn't know, and stay active in the process. Stay safe!