Fun Activities and Events For This Weekend

What to-do with the kids this weekend? Here is the busy parent’s guide to what’s happening this weekend.

Virtual Interactive Workshops with Il Etais Une Fois Library

When:  27 May
Age: Everyone
Cost: Free
Website

See here what museums are open!

Puppet Theatre (in German, Booking required)

Puppet theatre!
Where: Online event by Poppespënnchen, Place de Saintignon, L-4698 Lasauvage
When:  31 May: 18.30-19.15h
Age: 3+ years
Cost: see website
Website

Click HERE or on the Image Above to Join KindyRoo Summer Fun!

Drive-in Cinema Mamer/Mamer Autokino

Where: parking BAUHAUS Luxemburg, 37-39 Parc d’Activites Capellen, 8308 Mamer
When: 14 May – 2 August
Age: all ages
Cost: 10 EUR per car – for family movies (buy tickets online)
Website

Drive-in Cinema Echernach

Where: Echternach
When: 28 May – 13 June
Website

(NEW) Activities To DO At home With Your Kids This Week

Kannerbuch – some free e-books for kids (in Lux)

Baby and Toddler Fun
Sesame Street – sing-a-long with Elmo, Cookie Monster, Big Bird etc.

Have Fun Learning
NASA Climate Kids – Earth’s atmosphere now has 412 parts of Carbon Dioxide for every million parts of air. What does this number mean? Why does NASA study Earth? Find out all about climate on this website

Listen To Stories
Puffin Storytime – Tune in every day during the week for Puffin Storytime. 20 minutes of Story magic for kids! Mondays and Fridays for under 5s with picturebook read-alongs followed by draw-alongs. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays for stories aged 6+

Read Stories
Fairy tale by J.K. Rowling “The Ickabog” – further chapters will be published every weekday until July 10!

And here is our big list of the best (old)activities for kids at home!

Stay safe and healthy!

What to-do with the kids this weekend? Here is the busy parent’s guide to what’s happening this weekend.

Virtual Interactive Workshops with Il Etais Une Fois Library

When:  20 May, 23 May
Age: Everyone
Cost: Free
Website

See here what museums are open!

Drive-in Cinema Mamer/Mamer Autokino

Where: parking BAUHAUS Luxemburg, 37-39 Parc d’Activites Capellen, 8308 Mamer
When: 14 May – 2 August
Age: all ages
Cost: 10 EUR per car – for family movies (buy tickets online)
Website

Drive-in Cinema Echernach

Where: Echternach
When: 28 May – 13 June
Website

(NEW) Activities To DO At home With Your Kids This Week

Free  issues of BD Asterix magazines (in Fr);

Unlimited reading for 0-12 year olds – free books for kids in French;

Crickweb – free online education resources & games (in En)

New daily lessons with BBC Bitesize, 3+ yrs, Free!

BBC Earth Kids combines fun facts, amazing creatures, your favourite faces and a whole load of cool stuff about our planet, 6+ yrs, Free!

BrainPOP is here to help you and your curious learners stay informed and on-track with free access during school closures.

And here is our big list of the best (old)activities for kids at home!

Stay safe and healthy!

What to-do with the kids this weekend? Here is the busy parent’s guide to what’s happening this weekend.

Octave

Octave is about Pilgrimage to honour Our Lady of Luxembourg, the patron saint. Lasts from the third to the fifth Sunday after Easter and represents the main religious ceremony of the country. This year the event is a historical tour of the Oktave – in digital form.
When: until 17 May
Age: Everyone
Cost: Free
Website

Virtual Interactive Workshops with Il Etais Une Fois Library

When:  13 May, 16 May
Age: Everyone
Cost: Free
Website

Reopening of the ‘natur museum’

The National Museum of Natural History in Luxembourg reopens to the public on Wednesday May 13 at 10am!
Where:  NMNH, National Museum of Natural History Luxembourg, rue Munster 25, L-2160 Luxembourg
When: opens on 13 May – 10am
Age: all ages
Cost: museum entry fee
Website

See here what else is opening this week

Drive-in Cinema Mamer/Mamer Autokino

Where: parking BAUHAUS Luxemburg, 37-39 Parc d’Activites Capellen, 8308 Mamer
When: 14 May – 2 August
Age: all ages
Cost: 10 EUR per car – for family movies (buy tickets online)
Website

Drive-in Cinema Echernach

Where: Echternach
When: 28 May – 13 June
Website

Luxembourg Museum Days – Digital Edition

On the weekend of May 16 and 17, discover the Luxembourg heritage by strolling for free through the exhibition rooms of our museums or by taking advantage of a considerable digital offer specially developed for these days!
Where: Virtually – Museums all over Luxembourg
When:  16-17 May
Age: Everyone
Cost: Free
Website

(NEW) Activities To DO At home With Your Kids This Week

WildEarth — bring virtual safaris to your living room.

Streaming Storytimes and Read-Alouds – check out great resources that bring storytime and read-alouds to you!

Kim’s Children’s Book Club – a FREE online children’s book club run by a lady in London, UK. You just need to join the FB group.

Bookbug Song and Rhyme Online Library

Free Magazines for kids in French:

MANON

TOBOGGAN

MODELIRE

WAPITI

CURIONAUTE

1 JOUR 1 ACTU

JULIE

GEO ADO

And here is our big list of the best (old)activities for kids at home!

Stay safe and healthy!

Staying at home is in full swing this weekend as well and we will try to make it as easy as possible for you with our newsletter.

In an attempt to create one big list of things you can do at home with your kids, we will leave all activities from the last newsletter in this one too, plus we’ll add new ones, every week, marking them with (NEW)

So here is this week’s extended edition of (we’re constantly on the lookout for new ways to having fun at home – so please let us know if you have any new suggestions and we will add them here):

What to-do with the kids AT HOME

Arts & Science

While you can’t go to any museum in Luxembourg, here are 12 museums around the world that you can actually go to, without leaving your living room.

Tour virtually these 12 famous museums!

The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History now also hosts online tours

A collection of virtual walk-throughs for dozens of international museums, from Paris to New Delhi: Google Arts and Culture

Virtual visit of Musée Dräi Eechelen

Discover Mudam from home

You Can Draw offers blank comic book pages “Finish This Comic!”

Crayola offers lots of coloring page available for free downloads!

(NEW) Learn how to draw with Draw with Rob (the award-winning illustrator of picture books for kids)

(NEW) Doodles with Mo Willems – Each doodling session includes a downloadable activity page with step-by-step instructions on how to draw the specific character.

Virtual visits of Lëtzebuerg City Museum. See the Luxembourg Story,  Ons Schueberfouer and Schwaarz Konscht

(NEW) Virtual visit of a five-thousand-year-old Egyptian tomb

Crafts

Make art, make crafts. Whether your print out a page for the kids to color, do a paint-by-numbers masterpiece, a knitted scarf or a piece of pottery, creating will ease your mind and keep your kids busy.

Homemade playdough with ingredients found in your kitchen cupboards!

Penguin Books activities for little ones: activity packs (including Peppa Pig) and craft suggestions for kids. See all of them here.

Crafts by #rotondeshomedelivery – > DIY: car-stagnette and headbanger, known from the 2018 and 2019 editions of the PICelectroNIC festival

Cooking

Now it’s the time to make that recipe! It’s been sitting in your bookmarks — and in the hungry corner of your brain — for months now. It will taste good! It’s time to make that difficult dessert or that day-long roast. You have all day to master it!

Healthy alternatives to chips for the Saturday snack or movie night!

Entertainment

The Metropolitan Opera is streaming past performances nightly for free

Every day (except Sundays) see a live stream of a puppet theater in Lux: Figurentheaterhaus Poppespënnchen

Fun Learning

Did you know that you can Sign up to the Usborne newsletter and have fun learning Saturday Activities delivered straight to your inbox every week! (NEW) In addition, Usborne made lots of resources available in the Play and Learn at Home area of their website, to help you to keep your children entertained and engaged with topics they are already studying at school, with new ideas that will expand their minds

Scholastic daily courses for students from Pre-kindergarten to grades 6 and higher.
From learning about why zebras have stripes to math lessons based on K-Pop stars, Scholastic’s learning plans cover all the subjects your student would be taking at school. Visit the “Learn at Home” website

Kids Can Continue Learning French
Starting on Monday March 23, France 4 modifies all of its daytime programs to broadcast live lessons given by teachers. So from Monday to Friday:
9h – 10h for CP – CE1: 30 min of reading and 30 min of math
10h – 11h fun-educational programs for pre-school children
1.30pm-2pm It’s still not rocket science, especially for 8-12 year olds
2 p.m. – 3 p.m. for college students: 30 min of French and 30 min of math
3 p.m. – 4 p.m. for high school students (especially the first and final years): 1 hour of French, Maths, Histoire-Géo, Anglais or Philo
4 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. The Lumni house for ages 8-12 and more specifically for CM1 – CM2
The rest of the day and weekends, priority will be given to a fun educational program that will alternate content for school use, with more entertaining programs.

Free Learning Packs for the various Primary Classes: Free Exercises

Khan Academy – free, educational, fun and friendly platform with daily schedules for students aged 2-18

Lumni.fr – an educational platform that offers content adapted to primary, middle and high school students

LearnEnglish Kids – LearnEnglish Kids is brought to you by the British Council. They have lots of free online games, songs, stories and activities for children.

National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) presents Virtual tours and teaching materials for teachers and parents

Education.com is offering free grade-specific bundles of resources, games that teach children skills like sight words, counting, coding etc.

In need of math, spelling, reading, counting and science worksheets for kids up to 5th grade – then your answers is GreatSchools.

ScratchJr – A free app that teaches 5-7 year olds how to code.

Make math learning fun through games with CoolMath4Kids

Various learning activities in English at Schoul Doheem

Free Maths & Science Websites & Apps To Support Learning

(NEW) List of YouTube channels for 3-12yr olds to watch/subscribe to while at home, plus a channel in French C’est pas sorcier .

Family Movies Suggestions

101 Movies To Watch As A Family (Organized By Age!)

Read

World Book Online have just made their fabulous collection of over 3,000 ebooks and audiobooks available for free for children to access at home. They have books suitable for all ages.
Access it here

OxfordOwl Free eBook Library – free tablet-friendly ebooks for kids – you just need to register. (NEW) Lots of new free e-books have been released

(NEW) A free book explaining the coronavirus to children, illustrated by Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffle – read it here

(NEW) Free e-books for kids in French – see here and here

Sports

Fun indoor sports ideas

The Luxembourg’s Ministry of Sports and Ministry of National Education, Children and Youth launched a new online fitness platform, in Lux -> Aktiv Doheem

Kids Workouts To Do At Home – P.E With Joe

Stories

FREE audio stories for kids
For as long as schools are closed, Audible are open. Kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids. All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.
Start Listening

Stories in Luxemburgish for kids aged 3-7
Listen to Charlotte, aka Potty Lotty or the woman with the silly hat reading stories for your little ones.
See here

Read-aloud stories from Storytime Anytime – a YouTube channel with favorites like the Incredibles, Lego DC Super Heroes, Guardians of the Galaxy.

Storytime with Little Angel Theatre

Storyline Online – a children’s literacy website which provides free storytelling videos

Harry Potter At Home – in this Harry Potter At Home hub where you’ll find all the latest magical treats to keep your kids occupied

Weekly broadcast  of  Julia Donaldson & Friends

Travel

Visit the Great Wall of China

Discover Yellowstone National Park

A field trip to Ellis Island?

14 world-famous city views you can see from your sofa

Zoo and Aquarium Visits

Via the zoo webcams drop in on the habitats of some of the animals

San Diego Zoo

Zoo Atlanta Panda Cam

Smithsonian’s National Zoo 

Reid Park Zoo Lion Cam in Tuscon, AZ 

Ouwehand Park Polar Bear Cubs Rhenen, Netherlands

Monterey Bay Aquarium Webcams

Toledo Zoocams

Georgia Aquarium 

Other Ideas To Keep Kids Busy

Keep the kids having fun and engaged with these 50 Plus Easy Indoor Activities for Kids using simple household items and recycled materials.
See suggestions here

Indoor and Outdoors Treasure Hunt Ideas!

Stay safe and healthy!