Read Your Heart Out
For all of you who love to read, here are some great freebies for you to check out!
Free 2-Month Kindle Unlimited Trial — Through April 30th, you can sign up for a FREE two-month trial to Kindle Unlimited. This gives you access to over 700,000 ebooks and thousands of audiobooks — all for free!
Free 30-Day Audible Trial + Extra Audiobook — If you’re a Prime member and you’ve never tried Audible before, you can currently sign up for a free 30-day Audible trial and you’ll get a bonus FREE Audiobook! As usual, you’ll get one FREE audiobook and 2 FREE Audible Originals with your free trial. But on top of that, you’ll get the extra audiobook — no promo code needed!
Free Scribd Access for 30 Days — Scribd is currently offering everyone FREE access to their entire library for 30 days— no credit card required! This is a great way to read millions of books, magazines, audiobooks, documents, and more.
Free Digital Magazine Subscriptions — DiscountMags is currently offering FREE digital magazine subscriptions. Choose from dozens of options including Real Simple, Better Homes & Gardens, All Recipes, Southern Living, and lots more.
Free Television Streaming Deals
Who doesn't love watching TV? Binge watch some new shows with these free streaming programs!
Free 30-Day Hulu Trial — Hulu is offering new and eligible returning subscribers a FREE 30-day trial right now.
Free 30-Day CBS All Access Trial — Through April 23rd, CBS All Access is offering new customers a FREE 30-day trial with coupon code ALL at checkout. This is a super rare deal, as the trial usually only lasts for 7 days!
SlingTV Streaming — For a limited time, SlingTV is offering completely FREE streaming of select Live TV, shows, and movies. No credit card required! Just click on the “watch free now” button to start watching for free.
Free 30-Day Subscription to BroadwayHD — BroadwayHD is offering new customers a FREE 30-day subscription right now.
Free 30-Day Trial to Hallmark Movies Now — If you love Hallmark movies, you can currently get a FREE 30-day trial to Hallmark Movies Now streaming services.
Free Month of Disney+ after cash back — Through May 1st, you can get a FREE month of Disney Plus streaming after cash back.
Free One-Month Showtime Trial — For a limited time, Showtime is offering a FREE one-month trial to new customers.
Free WWE Network Access — If you love wrestling, you can currently get completely FREE access to the WWE Network.
Music Streaming Deals
Are you a music fan but can't afford the cost of all of the streaming programs? Well, right now you can check out these freebie music deals!
Free 3-Month Trial to Apple Music — New customers can get a FREE 3-month trial to Apple Music streaming services.
Free 90-Day Trial to Amazon Music Unlimited — If you’re a Prime member who has never tried Amazon Music Unlimited, you can currently get a FREE 90-day subscription! This is a HOT deal, because you typically only get 30 days for free and then pay $7.99 each month after that. That means you’re getting an extra 2 months completely free — a savings of $23.97!
Free 3-Month Pandora Premium Subscription — New customers can currently get a FREE 3-month Pandora Premium subscription on Groupon.
Free 3-Month SiriusXM Streaming Subscription — New customers can get a FREE 3-month subscription to SiriusXM streaming outside of the car.
Hobbies & Skills
While we have lots of time on our hands, use it to check out a new hobby or two. Here are some great companies offering you the chance to research new hobby ideas!
Blueprint Crafts Online Classes — Through April 16th, Blueprint is offering completely FREE access to all their online crafts and hobby classes! These normally range from $25 to $100 per class, so this is a REALLY great deal! Choose from classes like quilting, cooking, drawing, painting, photography, and tons more. They even have family-friendly classes where you can do projects as a whole family!
Nikon Photography Classes — For the entire month of April, Nikon is offering FREE photography classes to anyone who registers for an account.
Fender Play Online Music Lessons — Fender Play is currently offering 3 months of FREE online music lessons. Choose from guitar, bass, or ukulele!
Ravensburger Online Puzzles — If you love puzzles, you can put together online puzzles with family or friends for FREE! Simply make a user name and join an existing puzzle with others or start a new one. You can’t create a private puzzle group, but just tell your friends which puzzle you are working on and they can join you.
Entertainment
Tired of TV shows? Check out these options.
Broadway Plays and Musicals- These days, many stage productions are filmed for distribution on streaming services. Many classic plays and musicals are available online right now.
Nightly Met Opera Streams- While the Met has canceled live performances, it is offering nightly streams. Available across streaming apps, a new classic performance will be air every night.
Seattle Symphony Broadcasts- The Seattle Symphony plans to share performances with everyone during these uncertain times. Check their broadcasts page to see their latest program scheduling.
Visit Famous Museums- Famed museums like the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, and London's British Museum are offering online experiences, allowing viewers to learn about the exhibits in the museums from the comfort of their homes. Museums that have made virtual tours are available here.
Visit A National Park- At least 32 of the United States' national parks are available for viewing thanks to Google Earth and Google Arts & Culture, including the Grand Canyon and Yosemite. Check out a full list of the parks you can tour virtually here.
Tour A Theater- Although they're physically closed to the public right now, theaters and opera houses like Carnegie Hall in New York are available through Google Arts & Culture. You can see what other theaters are available to tour here.
Watch Chefs Fire It Up In The Kitchen- Famous chefs are offering cooking tips and advice for those in isolation or quarantine during the pandemic, which you can read more about here.
Tour Famous Landmarks Around the World- Google's Arts & Culture section comes in handy for checking out the sights from home. You can explore some of the wonders of the world online, including the Taj Mahal in New Delhi, India; the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France; or even the Sydney Opera House in Australia.
Tour NASA- NASA's free Space Center Houston appvoffers a tour of its educational facility, as well as VR experiences and astronaut selfies.
Watch A Concert- The music platform TIDAL is live-streaming 12-hour concerts for free. Five different genres will be featured throughout the week of March 23, including Latin, Pop, Hip-Hop, Electronic, and R&B. You can stream the concerts here.
Take A Cooking Class- You can't go to London's famous market right now, but you can get the next best thing thanks to its online cooking classes. The famous market is streaming classes on its Facebook and Instagram pages.
Get Educated
Free education opportunities are not just available for the kids right now! Lots of free courses are available for adults.
Use all that free time to enroll in some college courses through the platforms Coursera and EdX. All of the classes on the platforms are free to audit, and there are hundreds of courses in a variety of subject matters available from top universities, including Princeton, Harvard, and Yale.
You can learn more about the courses available here.
Fitness
Because how many walks around the neighborhood can we go on before we get bored? Try these other options!
CorePower Yoga- is giving everyone free access to a new collection of online classes every week so you can keep your practice moving — wherever you are.
Yoga With Adriene- Adriene’s yoga channel is immensely popular and perfect for beginners who just might need a little extra zen and a good way to workout at home. The best part? You don’t even need advanced equipment.
Down Dog- fitness apps for free. All of Down Dog’s apps, Down Dog, Yoga for Beginners, HIIT, Barre and 7 Minute Workout are free until May 1st. To all students and teachers, Down Dog is offering their school memberships for free until July 1.
Planet Fitness home work-ins.- Every day at 4 p.m. PT, Planet Fitness, is live-streaming a workout for those at home. You don’t even need advanced equipment to follow along.
Golds Gym is offering free access to its app,Goldsamp, until the end of May, where more than 600 audio and video workouts along with DJ mixes get you ready to work up a sweat.
For the Kids
Because the kids need to be entertained for us to maintain our sanity...or what's left of it!
14 Minimal Supervision Activities for Bored Kids- Mostly Free From Hip2Save
National Geographic's Offers New Website For Kids- Videos, science experiments, and more
American Girl Free Downloadable Library- Free downloadable books
Nick Jr. Noggin Free 60 Day Membership- Perfect for the little ones!
Color Our Collections- offers free PDF downloads of coloring pages created from art in the collections of 117 institutions, including The New York Academy of Medicine Library, Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, RISD Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art, The Canadian Canoe Museum and The Royal Horticultural Society libraries.
Lunch Doodles- by artist and writer Mo Willems hosts video sessions every weekday at 1 p.m. EDT. Each daily episode is accompanied by a downloadable activity page.
MeditOcean- the Monterey Bay Aquarium hosts a soothing 11-minute guided meditation video, featuring the undulating and graceful ballet of several aquarium jellyfish.
Story Time from Space- sends children's books to the International Space Station (ISS), where the books are read on video by astronauts as they orbit hundreds of miles above Earth.
P.E. with Joe- presents a daily 30-minute workout that kids can perform at home.
WebCams- There are10 live webcams at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where you can peek at sharks, sea otters, penguins and more. The San Diego Zoo has 11 animal webcams,Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute has four animal webcams, and there are six webcams at the Houston Zoo.
Amazon- has made a library of kids' TV shows freefor all users. These shows are usually reserved for Amazon Prime customers, but now anyone can watch for free.
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Great deals. Are these above-mentioned offer still available? And do you guys have discounts on kids stationary and geometry? Any Black Friday sale deals or discounts on black friday promo codes? After the COVID pandemic, these types of reliefs and concessions help us a lot. Thank you so much for these freebies.