Calgary or Alberta based in-home activities for people stuck at home. This list is a work in progress. Please let me know if you know of other local people or places making content that you can do from home. Also, if you notice an error please let me know that too!
Educational Activities
- The Glenbow is hosting #GlenbowFromHome.
Wednesdays, 10am Mountain: Content for school-aged kids
Fridays, 10am: Content for adults
You can find more information about #GlenbowFromHome here.
You can find all the #GlenbowFromHome posts here: https://glenbow.blog/glenbow-from-home/
- The Calgary Zoo has a live Panda Cam and is also doing a Daily Dose and Daily Dose At Home on their facebook page. Watch out for other special activities like virtual story time.
- Telus World of Science Edmonton – has Science at home. You can find Videos and experiments on their website.
- SAIT Summer Camps is posting at home activities on their facebook page. Starting with ‘Souped up Science“
- Mad Science of Southern Alberta is putting At Home Experiments in their newsletter which you can sign up for on their website.
- The Calgary Public Library is hosting virtual storytimes on their facebook page. They are also hosting an online reading challenge “Spring into Reading“.
Exercise Classes
- Sparq Productions – (Calgary based) is doing live 30 minute online Bollywood dance classes. The first class was Wednesday March 18 at 6pm Mountain. You can find their classes on the Calgary Moves Facebook Page. They will be hosting classes at 6pm on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I’ve tried a couple of their classes and thought they were a lot of fun.
- Kids Yoga Live Stream Daily at 11AM Mountain (St. Albert)
- White Tiger Martial Arts – High River is doing in home Karate classes
- Barre Body Studio is doing live stream fitness classes at 7pm and 10am MST on their facebook page (Calgary and Edmonton based)
- Calgary based fitness club Big Sky Fitness is posting online fitness classes on their Big Sky TV website.
- Sweat Science Boxing (Calgary based) is putting up live HITFIT classes on their facebook and instagram pages.
Art, Crafts and Entertainment
- Paint with MJ – Calgary based painting class for kids (or anyone) hosted on the Paint with MJ facebook group. Live classes at 11am Mountain. Only basic art supplies required. My 8 year old daughter loves these.
- Christopher Cool (Calgary Magician) – Hosting Magic Mondays (beginning March 23) on his Facebook Page – you can find magic classes and performances all day long.
- Hippo Hug, (weighted blankets designed and manufactured in Calgary) are creating a series called Hippo Hug Creative – Boredom Buster! These tutorials start with a fabric baby yoga fabric craft.
Other cool things
- Grow Calgary is handing out gardening kits to Calgary families to do at home. Find out more on their facebook post.