You can practice social distancing and still beat cabin fever. North Carolina State Parks' trails, rivers, mountains and lakes are open. Read our photo guide to hiking at eight of them. Spoiler alert: it's gorgeous.
Also, make sure to keep checking our virtual events calendars, below. We have one list with everything, and one with just kids' stuff, and they are amazing. Authors are reading stories. Famous dancers are offering dance classes. Artists are hosting drawing sessions with kids. When you see what so many peoople are doing to make life tolerable right now, it makes you feel good about the human race.
Speaking of feeling good about people, make sure to read, below, about the restaurants owners banding together to provide lunches for kids. In This Issue... - North Carolina State Parks trails are open — here's our photo guide to hiking at 8 of them
- Two ways for kids to get free meals while school is closed, including an effort by local restaurants
- Virtual Events Calendar, including live stream music festivals, dance classes, Iron Chef cooking demos, more
- Live streams for kids, including Home Safari from a zoo, children's book authors reading their books, and more…
- Shut In & Sing Music Festival (pay what you can)
- Stars In The House – Live Performances By Broadway & Film Stars
- 19 fun, educational, and free kids' websites, including free courses from Scholastic
- 50 activities for cooped-up kids that don't involve a screen
- Choir!ntine: EPIC Social Distan-Sing-Along with CHOIR CHOIR CHOIR
- Stuck at home? Charlotte Mecklenburg Library offers a ton of FREE online resources
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 Hanging Rock State Park. Photo: Harrison Grothoff If you're looking for ways to beat cabin fever, while keeping a healthy distance from crowds, North Carolina State Parks might be the answer. Although park offices and campgrounds are... Read the whole entry...» 
One of the results of the schools being closed is that kids who are on the free lunch program might be lacking food. There are two ways for kids to get free meals. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Distributing Meals to Kids Charlotte-Mecklenburg... Read the whole entry...» 
Many concerts and other events have been canceled. Our calendar (and free events lists) here at Charlotte on the Cheap are sort of like ghost towns. We've put up “canceled” signs on many events, but even the ones that aren't... Read the whole entry...» 
Most kids will be home from school for several weeks, as we try to slow the spread. Children's book authors are rising to the occasion, presenting free online story times, where they read their books out loud. This is a unique opportunity for... Read the whole entry...» 
Shut In & Sing is a virtual music festival. A group of songwriters are joining together over several days to stay connected and to bring great music to the world. These shows are “Pay What You Can.” Remember that we might be deprived... Read the whole entry...» 
SiriusXM Broadway host Seth Rudetsky and producer James Wesley will produce a daily live streamed concert series, Stars in the House, featuring starts or stage and screen performing live (from home!) to promote support for The Actors Fund and its... Read the whole entry...» 
There are so many great kids' websites, and probably no better time to explore them as now, while schools are closed. Here's a good starting list of some tried and true educational sites that parents and grandparents everywhere should...
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Choir! Choir! Choir! hosts fun sing-along concerts. Since in-person concerts are temporarily on hold, they're presenting a virtual concert. (Scroll down for more virtual events!) It's still a sing-along. There's even a google drive... Read the whole entry...» 
Libraries aren't what they used to be. Yes, they are still magical places with thousands of books to browse through, but if it's been a while since you visited one of Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's branches, you might be surprised... Read the whole entry...» |
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