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With Covid thankfully no longer impacting daily life, we’re fully focused again on all innovations that make the world a little bit better - check out Daily, our free publication to stay on top of the latest trends, insights and innovations.
British author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler created the panels as a way of creating awareness about social distancing to children, by featuring The Gruffalo, Stickman and The Smeds and The Smoos - all keeping a safe distance from one another. The characters are also seen helping the vulnerable with their shopping.
Read MoreGoogle helps keeping parents and children happy and healthy during lockdown with a new virtual tool. AR Animals enables smartphone users to bring select animals right into their home for a virtual safari.
Read MoreToys’R’Us Canada offers Stay-at-Home Play Packs, exclusive online resources with YouTube content, and the Wash Your Hands Challenge - a dance-along and scrub-along song on TikTok, to help keeping kids and families stay active and entertained during lockdown.
Read MoreFour graduate students remotely operated "newme" robots accepting graduation certificates on behalf of the graduating cohort. The newme robots, developed by ANA Holdings, had a display screen showing the faces of the students while the robots were dressed in graduation gowns.
Read MoreKids everywhere can instantly stream the collection of stories on Audible, including titles across six different languages, to stay entertained and educated during lockdown.
Read MoreThe platform matches students that need help and those who want to support others. Students are available for all subjects and give support with various tools and resources such as chatbots.
Read MoreSome US parents are discovering that the software they use to organise and plan their workdays and work projects can also help manage their kids homeschooling activities while they are quarantined at home.
Read MoreMattel launches the Playroom, a free online resource which features activities and content from the company’s portfolio of brands including American Girl, Barbie, Fisher-Price, Hot Wheels, Thomas & Friends and more.
Read MoreA Kids Book About COVID-19 is a free eBook that helps kids and grownups everywhere in the world understand and learn more about COVID.
Read MoreSkyArt is giving bags to parents with creative supplies and providing online art tutorials through Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube where children can follow along.
Read MorePlayworks launched #PlayAtHome, offering free video tutorials of games that young students can play at home during quarantine. Families can play along during Playworks daily livestreams on Facebook or find videos on YouTube.
Read MoreA group of kids in a Japanese elementary school found a creative workaround to attend their graduation ceremony whilst their school is shutdown: building and holding their own ceremony on Minecraft.
Read MoreAquariums and zoos in the US are offering digital alternatives for parents and children during COVID-19 shutdown. Some of them, like Adventure Aquarium in Camden N.J. also offer other activities: printable word searches, coloring pages and at-home craft ideas, among others.
Read MoreCreate You has released an artistic kit to entertain the creative minds of children and adults during the COVID shutdown. This kit includes brushes, water colour pencils, sketch pads, pastels, and more. These kits can be collected in the shop or delivered at home for people in isolation.
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