Online skills and activity links –
click or tap on the name to go to the website
Online skills
Easy read guide – Staying Safe on Social Media and Online
Thinkuknow – activities to help parents and children learn about online safety
BBC Step-by-step guide: How to video call your family or friends
How to video call using WhatsApp
How to use Zoom
- Sutton Mencap – Zoom tutorial on YouTube
- Using Zoom on a computer – YouTube Video
- Using Zoom on a smartphone or tablet – YouTube video
- Easy read guide to Zoom meetings
- Easy read, How to set up Zoom for video calling and staying connected
- Easy Read, Video calling on a laptop or computer using Zoom
helps develop digital skills in older people, vulnerable adults, carers, and the community groups that serve them. Remote community tech support service providing 1 to 1 support for computers, tablet and mobile phones. Helping people with email set up, video chat, online shopping and essential form filling
Online activities
Huge amount of links to fun inclusive activities
Audio visual fun
Balls bounce in response to sound. Choose from plastic balls, eyeballs, emojis or bubbles!
Patatap – portable animation and sound kit
Every letter key on your keyboard produces a different synth sound, with a simple but elegant animation. Online or app. Contains flashing images.
Croydon Libraries have a
wide range of books, magazines and films online
you can join the library online
The library also has activities on their Facebook page
Croydon Mencap Challenges – YouTube videos can you beat Beckie?
Croydon Mencap Quizzes – YouTube videos a new quiz every 2 weeks
Heart n Soul – creative and inclusive activities include art, music, dance
Jigsaws online
Joy of Sound – inclusive activities include mindful breathing, dance and movement, poetry, sensory session and games.
Mencap Gig Buddies Unplugged activity pack
Museum of Croydon – Museum at Home explore collections, activities
NASA at home ebooks, virtual tours and apps, podcasts, videos and more!
National Autistic Society online community
Palace For Life Foundation – Create Your Club challenges to take part in at home
PAMIS (Profound And Multiple Impairment Service) online activity programme
Purple Patch Arts Daily activities and Colouring sheets
The Baked Bean company – a range of activities on Facebook (also on YouTube)
Animals
Chester Zoo – virtual zoo days, plus videos on Facebook and YouTube
Edinburgh Zoo – live 24 hour animal webcams
London Zoo – virtual zoo, webcams and videos also learning resources
Longleat Safari Park – virtual safari
National Marine Aquarium on Facebook also on YouTube
Wildlife Watch spotting sheets
Wildlife Trusts wildlife webcams
Art and craft
Croydon Mencap Craft with Beckie videos
Colouring pages for adults – over 1500 free pages
Happiness is Homemade – 50+ Quick & Easy Crafts
Sutton Mencap tutorials on YouTube
The best ideas for kids – crafts
Art for kids hub on YouTube fun art lessons
Cooking
Croydon Mencap Cooking With Liz videos
Cookability cooking videos made by and for people with learning disabilities
Bromley Mencap Easy read recipes
Pictorial recipes on TES (register to download)
Dance and exercise
Change 4 life 10 minute Disney shake ups
Croydon Voluntary Action – Keep Active video playlist
Dance Syndrome inclusive dance workshops
DDMix 30 minute dance sessions Friday 9.30 am on Facebook
Flamingo Chicks inclusive active-learning dance classes
Get Yourself Active – at Home accessible pre-recorded videos to support disabled people to get active at home during the coronavirus outbreak
Malooko Dance classes on Zoom, email olivia@malookoo.co.uk for details
Sadler’s Wells family dance workshops
UDOIT! Dance Foundation inclusive dance
NHS fitness suite exercise videos
Tai Chi Simplicity on Facebook
Educational
30 day free access to symbols from Widget
150 Sensory Learning Ideas from Inclusive Teach
BBC Bitesize – primary, secondary and 16+ resources
Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Toolkit (Leeds Comm Healthcare Trust)
Cyberkidz free online lessons and games
ELSA supporting emotional and social learning
Hungry Little Minds simple fun activities for newborn to age 5
iCAN Activities to develop speaking and listening skills
Isolation ideas and educational resources collated by Sunshine Support (pdf)
Learn English, games and activities from the British Council
National Geographic Kids – primary resources
Seneca – secondary resources
The Makaton Charity – free resources
What’s on Stage at home list of favourite show related educational packs
Music
Classic FM The best classical music and opera live streams available online
Electric Umbrella musical experiences to combat social isolation and make connections for children and adults with learning disabilities everywhere!
Gig Buddies Croydon At Home playlist on YouTube
London Mozart Players online performances
One World: Together At Home online performances on YouTube
Singing Hands nursery rhymes / pop songs and signed stories with Makaton
Soundabout fun interactive music for people of all ages with PMLD and SLD. Variety of fun, interactive and educational sessions on Facebook, YouTube and Zoom
Shows to watch online
Cirque du Soleil 1 hour specials and more
Chickenshed Theatre on YouTube
Tales TV – stories, songs, learn a dance or sign language and more
What’s On Stage At Home a list of online theatre shows, updated daily
Stories
Audible Stories free children’s audio books
Bag Books multi-sensory storytelling for people with SLD or PMLD, on Facebook
Bedtime stories free online books, short stories, fairy tales, rhymes and poems
Booktrust Story Books / Games interactive books, read online, watch with signing
Booktrust Storytime authors read their books, on YouTube
Bright Stanley read by Music Therapy Works on YouTube
Oxford Owl online e-library with over 100 free e-books
Storyline Online – celebrities reading children’s books, with illustrations
Story Massage – combining creativity of story with the benefits of positive touch
Stories – Harry Potter
Harry Potter: A History of Magic – explore the British Library exhibition
Quidditch for Muggles activities at home
The Making of Harry Potter Studio Tour at home
Various – lots of ideas and activities on each link
Lifehack – 30 fun things to do at home!
Disability Grants – self isolation activities
March Network – creative isolation links
Wellbeing / mental health
Feeling down: looking after my mental health (Easy read)
Headspace – website with brief mindfulness exercises (there is also an app)
Hub of Hope – database of organisations and charities who offer mental health advice and support
Mencap and Mind – top tips to feel better (Easy read)
