Need Some Fresh Ideas? Family-Friendly Ways To Spend Your Days Inside

COVID-19 is keeping most of us inside, isolated from others, for days on end.

For kids (and parents!), school work can only extend so far into the day. Earlier, the NPR Arts team offered some of our favorite distractions when we are feeling worried. Now we have some heart-felt recommendations for how to enjoy the rest of the time you have in close-quarters with your family.

Adventure Time

I learned about this surreally pastel, Peabody-and Emmy-award winning cartoon when reporting a story about it back in 2013, and it's never left my head. A beguiling boy and his stubby shapeshifting dog live in a strangely shattered world along with a scientist princess, a demented king, horrible bugs with teeth, and mutants made from candy. The show's post-apocalyptic premise might give some parents pause, but an anxious child may find its offbeat, wise and intelligent humor reassuring. And who among us doesn't feel like an anxious child right now?

Available for free on Cartoon Network; also on Hulu and YouTube subscription

-- Neda Ulaby, reporter

M*A*S*H

The entirety of M*A*S*H is now on Hulu — and after all these years, it's still a great