Highlights has debuted Highlights@Home, a free email subscription that provides parents and kids with activities to enjoy while sequestered at home.

Themed collections organized around family-friendly topics will be emailed twice a week – each one filled with stories, puzzles, videos, games, creative activities like crafts or recipes, physical activities and suggested acts of kindness. In addition, every collection will include a video message for parents from Highlights’ editor-in-chief and chief purpose officer Christine French Cully, offering tips and inspiration for ways to create new at-home routines, strengthen family bonds and build memories that will last a lifetime.

“Highlights@Home is designed not only to help bolster a child’s cognitive development but their emotional well-being as well,” says Cully. “We were careful to select themes and activities that will help children see ways to cope with disappointment, to discover that they can self-motivate, to view boredom as an opportunity to use their imaginations, to show new ways to express  compassion and to practice optimism – setting the table for learning some important life lessons too.”

Each themed collection contains a variety of activities including things to solve, to read, to get you moving, to make, to do for others and to write, draw or talk about. Anyone interested may sign up to directly receive Highlights@Home at www.highlights.com/email-sign-up. Links to each collection and downloadable content will reside on www.highlights.com/parents.