50 Stay At Home Entertainment Options

UPDATED: 04/20/2020. As we all shelter in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus, many organization’s have stepped up to offer free at-home entertainment. Here’s a list of more than 50 resources.

Art

• Virtual Museum Tours
• Google Arts & Culture
• Free classes from New York’s Museum of Modern Art
• Barnes Takeout from the Barnes Foundation

Books

• Gutenberg – Free ePub and Kindle eBooks
• Open Library
• ManyBooks
• 800 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices

Education

Children’s Education Resources

• List Of Education Companies Offering Free Ssubscriptions Due To School Closings
• Khan Academy
• Kinedu
• Videos of people reading stories
• ABC Mouse (Redeem code: SCHOOL7771)
• Movement videos for children (commonly used in elementary schools)
• Lunch Doodles With Mo Willems – Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence Mo Williams invites you into his studio daily at 1 pm for the next few weeks for doodle drawing sessions.

Adult Education Resources

• The Science of Well-Being from Yale University
• Get free online cooking lessons from culinary masters while you’re social distancing
• 450 free online courses from Ivy League colleges
• Coursera offers University-quality online learning, many courses of which are free.
• Class Central
• Udemy is an online learning platform that offers many free courses as well as many low-cost options ($9-$12).
• Code Academy – Learn to code for free.

Exercise

• Free Yoga from Corepower on demand
• Always free Crossfit workouts
• Tips for breaking up the day
• Virtual Reality workouts

Movies & Television

• IMDb – The Internet Movie Database streams movies and television shows with commercial breaks.
• International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam – The world’s largest documentary film festival is giving viewers access to 302 films released between 1988 and 2019 on its website, free of charge
• The Internet Archives have released 21,000 digitized VHS tapes.
• Netflix Party – Watch Netflix with your friends, virtually.
• Redbox streams live TV on its website. It’s free and no sign-in is required.
• Sling TV is offering select content for free. The SLING TV free experience is available through a simple app download on a Roku, Amazon or Android device, or by visiting sling.com on a Chrome, Safari or Edge browser and following the instructions on the welcome screen.
• YouTube – The go-to source for online video. Just search for what you want and you’ll probably find it. Music videos, How To & Educational videos, even podcasts like the Beyond Social Media Show!
• Vimeo – A lot of talented videographers and filmmakers host their creations on Vimeo. Plenty of free entertainment here.

Music

• In a Pandemic, Musicians Play in Empty Halls for Audiences Online
• The Metropolitan Opera Will Stream Operas for Free in Wake of Coronavirus
• 15 Broadway Plays and Musicals You Can Watch On Stage From Home
• Seattle Symphony Announces Free Video Broadcasts and Livestreams
• DJ Adrian Perryman is hosting “Quarantine Karaoke” virtual singoffs
• Moog and Korg Release Synthesizer Apps for Free Amid Social Distancing
• Willie’s American Guitars is posting two-minute guitar lessons
• YouTube Music
• 3 Months free guitar lessons from Fender

Podcasts/Audio Books

• Apple Podcasts
• Google Podcasts
• Spotify
• Listen Notes – A podcast search engine
• Free Audio Books
• Audible

Sports

• Major League Baseball is offering every game from 2018-2019 for free at MLB.tv
• You can also watch classic MLB games on YouTube.
• Ken Burns has asked PBS to stream his documentary Baseball for free.
• The NFL is offering free access to NFL Game Pass.
• The NFL’s YouTube channel also hosts full games from the past.
• The National Basketball League is offering free access to NBA League Pass while the league is on hiatus.
• The WNBA hosts some highlight videos at YouTube.
• The NHL posts video to its YouTube channel.
• Major League Soccer posts highlight videos at its YouTube channel.