Free Summer 2025 Learning and Family Fun!
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🏔️ Discover: COLORADO CHOICE BOARD
🌳 Venture: OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AND NATURE
🎉 Celebrate: FREE DAYS & EVENTS IN DENVER
❤️ Connect: ACTS OF KINDNESS, BELONGING
🎨 Create: ART PLAYGROUND
👶 Grow: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
📚 Learn: GENERAL EDUCATION RESOURCES
💪 Thrive: HEALTH AND WELLNESS
📖 Spark: READING & LITERACY
🔬 Innovate: SCIENCE & STEM
🌍 Journey: VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS
Free Interactive Reading: Explore Colorado!
Discover Colorado this summer with our new Explore Colorado digital Choice Board featuring PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next articles on Colorado wildlife, dinosaurs, Native Tribes, landforms, and more! With clickable article and eBook tiles, it’s easy for kids to jump right in.
🔗 Kids must be logged into a PebbleGo account for the links to work.
Don’t have access? Try it out with this free trial (good through June 15):
Sign in at PebbleGo.com
Username: capbread
Password: lovetoread
Or use the Direct Login Link:
Then open the Explore Colorado Choice Board to begin your adventure!
Outdoor Activities and Nature
Why Should Kids Play Outside?
Curiosity grows stronger. Self-reliance grows stronger. And guess what, so does your kid.! Learn how to help your kid hear and answer the call of the wild with some fun ideas to help them rediscover their outside voices with Generation Wild.
🌞 Kickstart outdoor fun with Great Outdoors Colorado’s 100 things to do before you're 12! Printable lists in English and Spanish.
🏞 Everyone gets free entrance to over 400 National Parks on June 19 and August 4, 2025. Learn more about Colorado's four National Parks.
🎒 4th Graders and their families get free access to National Parks, lands, and waters for the entire YEAR with the Every Kid Outdoors Program.
🌲 Celebrate Colorado Day with free entrance to all 41 Colorado State Parks on August 4, 2025.
🌳 Borrow a free State Parks pass and Family Activity Backpack from your library for fun nature exploring with cool nature tools.
🎉 Find free events, classes, and festivals from Colorado Parks and Wildlife! See what’s coming up on their Event Finder.
🍃 Play nature BINGO with eco-friendly activity cards from the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. Available in English and Spanish.
🐝 Help rewild Colorado by planting free Wilderflower™ seeds from Generation Wild partner locations and help bees thrive!
Free Days and Events in Denver
🔖 This bookmark from the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) lists ALL of the free days in Denver!
🦖 Denver Museum of Nature and Science: No need to reserve free tickets ahead of time. Free days: May 12, Jun 19, Aug 25. Learn more here.
🌺 Denver Botanic Gardens: Advanced online registration is required. Free days Jun 10, Jul 3, Aug 27. Learn more here.
🎨 Denver Art Museum: Reserve tickets in advance. Free days: Jun 10, Jul 8, July 27, Aug 12. (18 & under always free.) Learn more here.
🧑🏼🌾 Four Mile Historic Park: Pack a picnic and step back in time for free on 4th Fridays! Free days: May 23, Jun 27, Jul 25, Aug 22. Learn more here.
🐯 Denver Zoo: (No free days in the summer.)
ALWAYS FREE MUSEUMS AND ATTRACTIONS:
Aurora History Museum ★ Broomfield Veterans Museum ★ Colorado Music Hall of Fame ★ Foothills Art Center ★ Golden History Museum & Park ★ Heritage Lakewood ★ Hudson Gardens (Littleton) ★ Littleton Museum (Also has tons of free events and programs.) ★ Louisville History Museum
Acts of KindNess, Belonging, & Community Engagement
💝 Help fight senior loneliness and make an elder smile by sending a handwritten card or letter through programs like Love For Our Elders.
☮️ Peaceful Pen Pals Project connects kids across cultures through letter writing to promote peace, kindness, and global friendships.
🇺🇸 Operation Gratitude: Kids can write letters, make cards, or draw pictures to include in care packages for military members and first responders.
❣️ Make kindness the norm with lesson plans, coloring pages, posters, award certificates, and more from the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation.
🛑 PACER's Kids Against Bullying is a superhero headquarters where kids learn about disabilities, social inclusion, and bullying prevention.
🎨 Peace Pals International is an awesome program that encourages kids to create art and activities to spread peace around the world!
Art Playground
✍️ Art For Kids Hub: Step-by-step drawing, painting, and origami lessons with fun hosts.
🎨 Paint 'n' Play by the National Gallery of Art: Create colorful digital art using tools and palettes inspired by famous artists.
🖌️ Kleki: A simple and free online drawing tool. No login or downloads needed.
🎭 Tate Kids: Watch step-by-step art videos, play games, and explore famous and modern artists.
🎞️ Brush Ninja: Draw your own cartoons and bring them to life with simple frame-by-frame animation.
🖨️ Mr. Printables: Print crafts, games, and coloring pages for hours of creative fun.
🔍 Google Art Project: Take virtual tours of world-class museums and zoom in on thousands of famous artworks from around the globe.
🗺️ MetKids: Explore art through an interactive map, time-traveling features, and fun videos made for and by kids.
🏙️ Graffiti Empire: Design colorful street art with fun tools and fonts!
Early Childhood Education
🧒 Kids birth to age 5: Enroll your child now to receive FREE books monthly from the Dolly Parton Imagination Library! View the book lists here.
🔵 Sesame Street’s website offers educational games, videos, and printables for preschoolers to learn about numbers, shapes, and colors.
🧠 PBS Kids - Elinor Wonders Why: Encourage curiosity with games and videos about nature, science, and problem-solving for little learners.
🖍 ABCya's PreK page offers an engaging digital playground for preschoolers teaching letters, numbers, shapes, colors, and more.
🌟 Highlights Kids is a free website with simple games, stories, and activities for preschoolers, focusing on letters, numbers, and creativity
🎲 Funbrain Jr.'s PreK Playground features interactive games and printable activities that make early math and literacy exciting for PreK learners.
🐢 Visit Turtle Diary to find colorful games and videos teaching shapes, letters, and numbers.
General Education Resources
🧑🏫 Youth Passion Project offers free online courses for kids taught by high schoolers like World Languages, meteorology, baking, and chess.
🗓 Check out the Edmentum 30 Day Summer Challenge with 30 days’ worth of fun activities, facts, and resources.
🎥 The Achievery by AT&T offers engaging and entertaining videos paired with educational activities!
🌎 Vikidia is an awesome encyclopedia made just for kids ages 8 to 13 and is available in several languages.
🦁 Explore and learn all kinds of cool stuff, play games, try a new recipe or craft on National Geographic Kids.
Health and Wellness
🩻 What is a booger? Why do feet stink? KidsHealth provides reliable health information for kids, covering topics from body functions to bullying.
🤸♂️ Health Powered Kids offers resources and activities to promote physical and mental health, including stress management and nutrition.
😌 Help kids reduce stress and anxiety and increase concentration with printable paper finger labyrinths from World Labyrinth Day.
🧘🏻♀️ Roar like a lion! Arch like a kitten! Stretch like a cobra! Kid-friendly yoga videos from National Geographic Kids.
Reading and Literacy
🧠 Khan Academy Kids is a free educational app for ages 2-8. Includes books, reading games, and math activities. No ads, no subscriptions!
🏠 WORD Force Reading Adventures is a free site featuring 15 interactive reading games for kids ages 5-8, made for at-home use,
📺 KidLit TV is a free website offering diverse content including shows, songs, wellness tips, activities, and podcasts, inspiring kids' love of reading.
🎭 Storyline Online® streams videos featuring actors reading children's books alongside creatively produced illustrations.
🧸 KidTime StoryTime offers a delightful collection of read-aloud bilingual and Spanish-language picture books plus curious puppets!
📚 Read any 8 books, record them in your Summer Reading Journal, then bring it to Barnes & Noble to choose a free book! (English, Spanish)
🍕 PreK-6th grade kids can enroll in Camp BOOK IT to read books and receive a certificate for a free Personal Pan Pizza® from Pizza Hut!
🔖 All Colorado Public Libraries offer free summer learning programs that encourage kids to read for fun over the summer. Find a library near you.
👩👧👦 Colorín Colorado offers bilingual resources for summer learning in English and Spanish, for parents and teachers of English learners.
Science and STEM
🚀 Hello, Earth Kids! Welcome to NASA Kids’ Club – a free, safe place to play games and learn about NASA, its missions, and astronauts!
👷 Smithsonian Science Education Center has tons of games like Tami's Tower to learn basic engineering design and more. ¡Ahora en español!
🌟 Google Labs is a place where kids can explore creative experiments, from making music to virtual field trips and coding adventures.
💠 Tinkercad is a free web app for 3D design, electronics, and coding, trusted by over 50 million people around the world!
🎶 Melody Maker from Chrome Music Lab lets you make your own music by clicking on squares to make your own melodies. It's fun and easy!
🪐 Explore space through fun games on ESA's website, where you can learn about planets, rockets, and astronauts while having a blast!
Virtual Field Trips and Educational Tours
🐠 The Monterey Bay Aquarium live cams let you see amazing sea creatures like otters, sharks, and glowing jellies up close!
🐅 The San Diego Zoo site for kids includes behind-the-scenes videos, stories, printable activities, and online games.
🐘 Tembe Elephant Park in South Africa has the world's biggest elephants, plus leopards, rhinos, (and more) for live camera safari fun!
🎢 Explore thrilling roller coaster rides on Magnum XL, Corkscrew, and more from the front seat on Cedar Point's YouTube channel!
🇨🇳 Virtually walk the Great Wall of China in a 360° immersive tour from Google Arts & Culture.
💼 Amazon Career Tours are free, interactive virtual field trips that inspire students to pursue careers of the future.