ONLINE RECREATION CENTER
Welcome to Valley-Wide Recreation and Park District's Online Recreation and Resource Center!
This is your place for fun, education, and resources to keep you active while our facilities are temporarily closed. We are committed to ensuring that we continue to create community and provide you with resources to maintain healthy lives, grow meaningful relationships, and keep building extraordinary experiences.
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Get Active!
Better Health recommends getting in at least 30 minutes of physical activity every day however, teens and kids need at least 60 minutes! Check out Move Your Way for more information on how much activity you and your family need to stay healthy. Here are some resources to help you reach that goal while remaining indoors.
- Free Yoga Classes for All Skill Levels
- Free Fitness and Workout Tutorials
- Free Tai Chi Instructional Videos
- Free Qigong Instructional Videos for Seniors
Free Fitness for Seniors - Studio Physique - Free Dance and Fitness
- Move Your Way
Activities for kids
- 25 Minute Workouts for Kids
- Cosmic Kids Yoga
- 15 Ways to Keep Kids Active Indoors
- 25 Excersise Games and Indoor Activities for Kids
Exercise your mind
It's easy to veg on video games and television while at home, but it's just as important to stay physically active as it is to stay mentally active! Try these resources to keep your mind sharp.
- Use this online library to read some new books
- Play a daily crossword puzzle
- Download the Scrabble App
- Solve Riddles With Your Friends and Your Children
- Solve a Puzzle
- Play Sudoku
- Teach Yourself a New Language With Duolingo
- Give Meditating a Try
- Play a Word Search
- The Smithsonian Distance Learning
- Cambrigde University Free Online Courses
- Cambridge University Free Textbooks
- Free Online Sociology Classes
- 10 Creative Online Courses
- Read Great Literature Online For Free
- Bibliomania - Free Literature and Study Guides
- 50,000 Free EBooks
- Quarantine Bingo
- Play Solitaire
Learning For Kids
- Coding Games
- Math Games
- Reading and Writing Games
- Typing Games
- Science Experiments to Try at Home
- Word Search for Kids
- Shell Memory Game
- Learn About Our Solar System
- Scholastic Learn at Home
- Online Storytime
- Audible
- Learn and Tour the History of Rome
- Hemet Learns Together
Get Creative!
Use this time to pick up a hobby! Having a hobby helps to relieve stress and keep boredom at bay. Try something new with the links below.
- Learn to How Crochet
- Learn to How Knit
- Learn to How Sew On a Sewing Machine
- Learn to How Hand Sew
- Learn to How Play the Piano
- Give Cooking a Try
- Cooking Tips
- Take Up Baking
- Paint With Bob Ross
- Make a Rug With Loop Yarn
- Hand Sew With Your Kids
- Start Keeping an Indoor Garden
- Beginners Guide to House Plants
- Learn How to Play Solitaire
- Learn How to Play Spades
- Teach Yourself Origami
- Learn the Basics of Calligraphy
- Go Stargazing
- Consider Whittling
- Learn How to Belly Dance
- Make Some Candles
- Try Your Hand at Macrame
- Start Keeping a Journal
- Play Dungeons and Dragons
- Learn the Basics of Bookbinding
- Weave a Basket From Pine Needles
Games and Crafts for Kids
- DIY Friendship Bracelets for Beginners
- Learn to Tie Dye
- Make a Pinecone Birdfeeder
- Make and Send a Pop Up Card
- How to Make Oobleck
- Make a Lava Lamp Experiment
- Daily Doodle With Mo Willems
- Learn How to Play Cat's Cradle
- Learn How to Play Go Fish
- Learn How to Play Checkers
- Learn How to Play Mancala
- Printable Coloring Pages From Crayola
- Disney Coloring Pages
- Make a Paper Bracelet
- Make Polka Dot Slime
- Laundry Basket Skee Ball
- Make Sock Puppets
- Disney Imagineering in a Box
- Sidewalk Chalk Ideas
- Backyard Camping
Get Connected!
When limiting your physical contact with people, it's important to remember to make and maintain emotional connections. Try a few of these ideas to stay connected with friends and family.
- Write and send a letter to a loved one
- Watch a movie together with Skype or Facetime
- Host a virtual playdate with Skype or Facetime
- Call a friend or family member you haven't spoken to in a while
- Take care of yourself; make sure to eat a well balanced diet, get plenty of sleep, and stretch at least twice a day
- Play board games with your family or use facebook to play games with your friends
- Play hide and go seek, charades, and other low contact games
- Set a day to do some spring cleaning with your faimly
- Have an impromptu dance party with your family
- Tips for camping with the whole family (including your baby)
Travel online
- Virtual Museum Tours
- Southern California Virtual Museum Tours
- National Park Service - Find Your Virtual Park
- Virtual Field Trips
- Google Virtual Tours
- Local Guides Connect
- Virtual Walking Tours
- Cherry Blossoms Around the World
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Live Cams
- Georgia Aquarium Live Cams
- San Diego Zoo Live Cams
- Virtual Farm Tours
- Online Concerts
- Harry Potter At Home
- Classical Music Livestream
- Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall
- View Classical Paintings Online
- Online Theatrical Performances
- Travel the World With Google Earth
- Museums From Around the World
- Watch the International Space Station Live Stream
- Explore Our Solar System With NASA's Eyes
- Most Famous Buildings in Dubai - Special thanks to Amelia for this submission!
- Virtual Tours and Field Trips - Special thanks to Maddie for this submission!