The best online tips against the corona pandemic

It's a crazy time we're living through because of the coronavirus. To make sure parents and children don't feel like the ceiling is falling on their heads, we went in search of some great online offers.
The result is a collective article with various ideas for the time at home. We also found solidarity campaigns such as hilf-jetzt.ch, where people in the neighbourhood can find help.
The parents' magazine Fritz+Fränzi has also launched a solidarity campaign. If you do not have a Fritz+Fränzi subscription, you will receive our guide at irregular intervals via the schools. Now that the schools are closed, we will send you our booklet free of charge and without obligation. You can find out everything you need to do here: www.fritzundfraenzi.ch/gratis

Crafting

Bear Lars was recently in China and knows how to protect himself
Under the motto «Short stories for long days», NordSüd Verlag has mobilised over 35 artists to send in reading videos, colouring templates, craft instructions and much more from all over the world. The main protagonist is Lars the bear, who can be downloaded as a poster. All content is available free of charge.
www.nord-sued.com
Beautiful crafting inspiration from the colouring room
With the Nuori Post, you receive a weekly envelope full of inspiration in your letterbox. The various A6 cards contain colouring and drawing ideas with craft ideas for materials that are available in the household, imaginative ideas for playing and short stories. With the freely selectable financial contribution for the Nuori Post, you also support the children's studio as long as courses, playgroups and colouring therapy cannot be offered.
www.malspielraum.ch
Bottle skittles or paper plate ping-pong in the garden?
Ravensburger's online pool of ideas provides parents with free fun and creative ideas, colouring and craft templates, tutorials, apps and much more to help children fight boredom.
www.ravensburger.de
«Show me your first paper squishy»
What is a Papiersquishy? As the name suggests, paper squishies are designed to be crumpled up. The cut-out, painted paper figures are wrapped in transparent adhesive tape and filled with cotton wool, sponge or paper squishies. Et voilà. The Mamas Unplugged are also supporting parents in their current boot camp at home with their #hierkommtwasgutes campaign.
Instructions: www.mamasunplugged.ch

Learning at home

Remote learning with nature
The competence centre for learning with nature SILVIVA has put together a blog for parents and teachers for the time of the lockdown, but also for the time afterwards, on how they can make good use of nature as a place of learning during this time and what good reasons there are for doing so.
www.silviva.ch
Bringing grandchildren and grandparents together virtually
The relationship between grandparents and grandchildren in particular is suffering during the coronavirus crisis. So why not learn with grandma or grandpa? The newly launched enkelschule.ch offers a platform for this and describes step by step how to work with which video communication software.
www.enkelschule.ch
Theo talks: Podcast from child to child
Six-year-old Theo tells other children and families exciting, curious and interesting facts about the animal world and other areas that interest him. The podcast is aimed particularly at younger children in primary school. There is also a worksheet for each episode.
www.kinderpodcast.ch
Let's Teach Together !
The new association «Teachen!», founded by teachers, IT specialists and parents, aims to contribute to the promotion of creative learning with digital support. The aim is to create a pool of ideas, some of which are already available. Anyone with good ideas can send them in.
www.teachen.ch
Learning with apps - 8 tips from the media expert
Our media expert Thomas Feibel has scrutinised various learning apps for smartphones and tablets. We have summarised the eight best apps in our article.

Daily online lessons by adults for children
The most exciting experiences, special knowledge and adventures told daily and free of charge by parents, grandparents or celebrities. Plus daily «Fit und Fertig mit de Schwiizergoofe», an online lesson that gets all children in the country moving.
schlaumeier.online
Collection platform of the Schwyz University of Teacher Education
The Schwyz University of Teacher Education has launched the platform «Lernen trotz Corona» (Learning despite corona), where teachers in particular can find instructions on how to make distance learning a success.
www.lernentrotzcorona.ch

Counselling

Help for families, especially during the corona crisis
What does a single mother suffering from depression, for example, do when the all-important break from school, kindergarten or daycare is cancelled? The counselling team from the Institut Kinderseele Schweiz iks is now there for affected families even more than usual. In a special section, they have summarised everything that can help parents and children, especially in the current situation:
www.kinderseele.ch/corona-virus
Parental counselling by telephone
From now on, the Stadelhofen Family Practice will be offering free parenting counselling by telephone every morning from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. (except Sat/Sun).
www.familienpraxis-stadelhofen.ch
Young people help young people as peers
Pro Juventute 's free 147.ch counselling service advises children and young people in crisis situations by phone, chat, text message or e-mail. However, sometimes it is easier to talk about your own situation with people of the same age. Every Monday and Tuesday from 7.00 pm to 10.00 pm, peers help other young people via chat.
www.147.ch/peerchat
Free self-help programme for families, couples and singles
The new webinar «Ciao hectic, hello focus - self-help for staying well at home» from the Lucerne School of Naturopathy was developed in collaboration with couple and family therapist Franziska Bischof-Jäggi, who makes three minutes of her extensive expertise on the topic of «emotional health» available to the world every day free of charge via YouTube. The individual episodes of the webinar last 45 minutes and are available with a focus on families, single people and people in couple relationships.
www.heilpraktikerschule.ch
Free online offer to strengthen the couple relationship
The University of Zurich is offering couples free online training and soon online coaching to help them maintain their relationship. The aim is to strengthen the relationship in times of stress.
www.online-therapy.ch
Corona hotline for anxieties and worries
Psychiatrie Baselland offers telephone help and counselling for people who are worried and anxious about the coronavirus pandemic. Psychological and other health professionals provide direct help or refer people seeking advice to suitable contact points via the hotline 061 553 54 54.
www.pbl.ch/corona-hotline

Movement

Dancing against the corona pandemic
A fortnight ago, the Swiss Dance Association TVS launched the #danceathome campaign to motivate children, young people and parents to dance and thus counteract the coronavirus pandemic. The TVS is a non-profit organisation and the motivational and course sequences that are posted by members as part of the campaign are free of charge.
www.tanzvereinigung-schweiz.ch
Do you have any creative exercise tips? #loop_it
Teachers in particular, but also other interested parties, can motivate their classes to get active thanks to the #loop_it YouTube channel. The growing collection of sports content can be arranged into short exercise sequences and lessons and sent to the pupils via links as an assignment. A few examples can be found here.
Gymnastics together - at home
Sport Union Switzerland's «MiTu - Gymnastics together» project has set itself the goal of using pre-school gymnastics to promote integration throughout Switzerland. On their Facebook page, there is now a new input every morning at 08.00 with exercise tips for the whole family. Anyone who has their own ideas for exercise can send them in: info@mitu-schweiz.ch
www.mitu-schweiz.ch
Street Racket for indoors and outdoors
Street Racket is a game that can be played not only in the garden but also in the living room. A small ball is required. If you don't have a racket to hand, you can also use a school book as a batting instrument. The game can be expanded with various tasks. The video instructions explain how to do it. The free Street Racket app is now also available.
www.streetracket.net
Creative online workout for pregnant women and mums
The mothers' collective rund∞fit shows on Instagram how to stay fit in everyday life with simple exercises. Whenever the children are asleep, playing peacefully or you can find 30 minutes, you can get started.
www.rund8fit.ch
Fit in the home office
Physical activity also helps to stay healthy when working from home: the cardiovascular prevention centre at the University Hospital Basel Karamba has therefore made videos available free of charge for everyone at home, for all levels, patients and athletes and those who are about to become one. More than 10 hours of activity online, each in 30-minute sessions.

• Kraft: www.karamba-reha.ch/kraft
• Ausdauer: www.karamba-reha.ch/ausdauer
• Koordination: www.karamba-reha.ch/koordination

Nutrition

Betty cooks with you: free recipes à gogo
Children want to eat, so do adults. When everyone is at home, the kitchen is a hive of activity. Good recipes are very welcome and Betty Bossi currently provides around 12,000 recipes free of charge, including a special collection of children's recipes.
www.bettybossi.ch
The take-away offers from restaurants in your neighbourhood
La Résistance wants restaurants to survive the crisis. An interactive map shows restaurants in your neighbourhood that have switched to take-away service and offer take-away menus.
www.la-resistance.ch

Culture & Entertainment

Together "Guets tue tuet guet!"
Under the motto «Guets tue tuet guet!», stories about good deeds in times of corona are currently being sought and collected. Children and young people report on their good deeds as reporters or tell stories of friends, acquaintances and relatives who are helping those affected. Anyone who does good can take part. The stories can be sent in as texts, drawings, photos, sound recordings or videos using a simple form. And there is something to win.
www.guetstuetuetguet.ch

History lessons from the National Museum Zurich
The National Museum offers pupils at lower and upper secondary level online lessons in the form of various demonstration videos on topics such as the «History of Switzerland», but also on the development of games or virtual tours of exhibitions.
www.landesmuseum.ch
Tigermedia is giving away over 5000 audio plays for a month
All audio titles with audio plays, audio books and children's music from tigertones are available free of charge until 23 April 2020. Content that is otherwise primarily used by listeners of the new tigerbox TOUCH can also be played by all parents in the tigertones app during this period.
aktion.tigerversum.ch
With mini theatre Hannibal to Jim Knopf
Every day (except Sunday) at 6 pm, the Hannibal mini theatre shows a new snippet from the book «Jim Button» via Facebook or on YouTube, including craft tips. You can also send in your own pictures of your own characters for the story!
www.minitheater-hannibal.ch

Having the zoo at home
With the «Zoo dihei» project, Zurich Zoo is also doing its bit to combat coronavirus-related cabin fever at home. With animal craft instructions, task sheets and game ideas, the aim is to make the time at home as entertaining and cheerful as possible.
www.zoo.ch
Virtually travelling through places of interest
Travelling through museums and other places of interest via Street View? It's possible and fun, especially for older children. The Taj Mahal can currently be marvelled at in this way.
Television instead of school - how broadcasters are changing their programmes
News, series, educational videos: Many TV channels and online platforms have changed and expanded their programmes for families with children during the coronavirus crisis. We have compiled an overview in our article .
Pestalozzi Children's Village on air
The powerup_radio team broadcasts live every day from 11 am to 12 noon. Listeners can contact the studio via various channels and comment on different topics. From 4 to 13 May, school classes and youth work groups will have the opportunity to liven up their lessons and create their own radio programmes. Interested school classes can apply here until 27 April.
www.powerup.ch
Podcast - A «Gaffeepouse» with the Bernisches Historisches Museum
During the «Gaffeepouse», experts from the museum provide information on current projects, the exhibitions or the collections and their stories in a telephone interview. A new «Gaffeepouse» episode is released every Thursday at 09.30 on Spotify and on the website.
www.bhm.ch

Miscellaneous

Who delivers what and where?
Whether menus, books or music: various local restaurants and small shops have retooled and deliver ordered goods to your home or have designated pick-up points. Here is an overview for Zurich, Bern and Winterthur.

Do you also have a good online offer?

If you have an insider tip or know of a good online offer, please send us information about it to online@fritzundfraenzi.ch. We will be happy to check it out and include it here if appropriate.