Activities for Kids
Members of the tourism and attractions community continue to provide online content for entertainment and educational purposes during the coronavirus pandemic, which has shut down schools and theme parks alike. Add offerings from Orlando-based SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment and the Crayola Experience to the options.
SeaWorld Orlando and its sister park Busch Gardens Tampa Bay have made public some of its (mostly) animal-driven resources that are tailored to students between kindergarten and 12th grade.
Included are a series of fact sheets called Animal Bytes, which spotlight dozens of species; a broader InfoBooks series; information about careers that involve working with animals; the Saving a Species series and a series of playable animal sounds.
With just a casual browse of the offerings, I learned facts about the blue tang (and that there’s a bony fish called the lookdown), consider saving the cheetah and heard the cries of a camel, a gibbon and a Clydesdale. (Most unnerving: the sounds from a beluga whale and a Florida panther.)
The information is available through seaworld.org.
Meanwhile, Crayola Experience, which has an Orlando location inside Florida Mall, is offering crafting instruction, games, apps, coloring pages and science experiments using household items.
To sign up for their downloads, go to crayolaexperience.com/athome.
Other experiences will be posted on the social media platforms for both Crayola Experience and Crayola.
