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Virtual Recreation Center
Welcome to the City of Atlantic Beach Recreation & Special Events Department’s Virtual Recreation Center!
The Virtual Recreation Center (www.coab.us/virtualrecreation) will serve as a place for you to obtain resources and links to FREE online fitness, fun and educational activities for various ages. The Recreation & Special Events Department is committed to ensuring the City of Atlantic Beach community members have resources to maintain healthy lives, maintain mental wellness, and continue to have fun from home.
Visit this page often for new ideas to keep you and your loved ones active, entertained, and engaged.
Have a great idea or resource you’d like to share? Email us at recreation@coab.us.
Please note that we do not endorse or receive funds to advertise any of the third party sites or services listed or referenced on this page.
Stay Active
As our daily lives are filled with more indoor time, there are many ways to stay healthy and active.
Indoor Activities
Here are a few ideas for staying active indoors.
Take a Virtual Fitness Class - There are plenty of FREE options online. Here are just a few:
- SeaFit Wellness
- Tai Chi for Health and Wellness
- Do Yoga with Me - Free yoga videos
- Fitness Blender - Variety of free fitness videos
- Jazzercise - On demand cardio classes
- Sweat with SELF - Workout Videos Online
- Active by POPSUGAR - Fitness tutorials, workouts, and exercises that will help you on your road to healthy living, weight loss, and stress relief.
- Cooking How-To’s - The Food Network cooking videos
For the Kids
Here are a few ideas for keeping children engaged.
- Hold a virtual play date through Facetime.
- Teach a young person how to write and send a letter.
- GoNoodle Dance Routines
- Fitness Blender for Kids - Free Fitness videos
- KIDZ BOP Daily Dance Break
- Cosmic Kids Yoga
- Sworkit - Kid friendly workouts
- At Home Scavenger Hunt
- Funology – Fun activities for children
- Starfall Phonics Skills
- 87 Energy Busting Indoor Games & Activities
- Rainy day fun indoor activities
- Bop along with Jack Hartmann - Kid friendly music videos to learn sign language, classic kid’s songs, and the alphabet.
- Scratch Garden - Educational songs for teaching young minds.
- Busy Toddler - Fun activities for all ages.
- Alaskan Wildlife Viewing - Webcams let you watch Fish, bears and looms, oh my!
- Little Fox - Fairy tales and classic stories.
- Funology - Crafts, projects, recipes, and more for young children
- Highlights Kids - Fun games, recipes, activities, and crafts.
- Crafts, activities, mazes, and dot-to-dot worksheets.
- Printable worksheets for toddlers.
- Read, play games, or hang out with Dr. Seuss.
- Cooking for Parents and Kids
Senior Recreation
- Senior Aerobics by Tracy Aiello - Gail Baker Center Senior Aerobics
Outdoor Activities
Did you know that the current guidelines allow for individuals to engage in outdoor activity, provided the individuals comply with the Social Distancing Requirements...such as, by way of example and without limitation, walking, hiking, and running.
Here’s a few ideas (For everyone’s safety, don’t forget your social distancing rules!)
- Running for Health - Walk/run around your neighborhood and say hi (from a distance) to all of your neighbors who are getting outside too.
- Visit a local park. Our parks are free and have great walking trails and open space to maintain Social Distance. Walk or bike through your local park to get a little Vitamin D.
- Go for a drive.
- Hit the beach. Even greater social distancing than the 6-foot rule are strongly encouraged on the beach to account for wind and the movement of others. If the beach is crowded, stay away. Swim within 500 feet of a lifeguard and please use extreme caution in the water. The Police Department enforces parking regulations; if you drive and cannot find a legal parking space, come back another day.
Stay Connected
Since we are all social distancing physically, here are some video-communication options that technology currently has to offer and other ideas to help us stay emotionally connected.
- Facetime a friend or loved one to check on them.
- Zoom enables groups of friends from around the world to meet all at once.
- Call a friend or relative you haven’t spoken to in a while to check in.
- Write a letter ... the ol’ fashioned way, with a pen/pencil and paper.
Virtual Art Gallery
Virtual Songwriters’ Concert
Songwriters’ Concert - Hosted by Mike Shackelford featuring songwriters during Songwriters’ Concert at Adele Grage Cultural Center.
Mindfulness
Practice mindful meditation in which you focus on being intensely aware of what you’re sensing and feeling in the moment with breathing methods, guided imagery, and other practices to relax the body and mind and help reduce stress.
- The Mindful Movement - Mediation for Adults
- Meditation for kids - Kid Friendly Meditation videos
- Mayo Clinic - Information on mindfulness
- Calming breathing cycle
- Take breaks from watching, reading, or listening to news stories, including social media. Hearing about the pandemic repeatedly can be upsetting.
- Take care of your body. Take deep breaths, stretch, or meditate. Try to eat healthy, well-balanced meals, exercise regularly, and get plenty of sleep. Make time to unwind.
- Connect with others. Talk with people you trust about your concerns and how you are feeling.
Exercise Your Brain
- Visit Jacksonville Public Library online - The library has Downloadable e-books, audio-books, and streaming movies.
- Learn a new language with Duolingo.
Virtual Field Trips
- Head to the Jacksonville Zoo through their Live Sumatran Tiger webcam.
- Take a Virtual Vacation - Explore the world using Google Earth! Use Street View to see places like you’re actually there.
- Virtually Ride a Disney Amusement Ride
- National Geographic Kids - Visit one of many museums around the world through their virtual tours.
- Great Wall of China - Take a virtual trip and see history come to life.
- The Louvre - Virtual tours in Paris, France and see artwork.
STEM at Home
Let’s have some hands-on STEM fun at home! Explore these virtual activities and lessons for all ages.
- Sid the Science Kid (elementary)
- NASA Kids Club (elementary)
- Thinkport Education (early childhood, elementary, middle, high)
- American Museum of Natural History – Ology (middle)
- 3M Young Scientist Lab – Family Activities (families)
- 10 Easy Science Experiments (families)
- Code.org – Computer Science (elementary, middle, high)
- Scratch – Drag and Drop Coding (elementary, middle, high)
- Tynker – Online Coding for Kids (elementary, middle, high)
- Pitsco Education (elementary, middle, high)
- Math Playground (elementary, middle)
- STEM Read Aloud (elementary)
- STEM Activities to Foster Curiosity (elementary)
- STEM Resources/Classes-(families)
- Novel Engineering - Literacy-Based Engineering (families)
- How to Identify Effective STEM Activities for Children
Stay Informed
Atlantic Beach Recreation &Special Events Department
716 Ocean Blvd. (Adele Grage Cultural Center)
(904) 247-5828
www.coab.us/recreation
www.facebook.com/CityOfAtlanticBeachRecreation