To celebrate this milestone, we are inviting you all to explore French language and culture with 110 activities you can do from home! This list offers mostly free activities in French and English to stay busy during these social distancing times. This selection gathers different French isolation initiatives and exclusive ideas. From behind your screen or to take a break from it, find what matches your mood from the wide range of different categories below.
Welcome to France!
Enjoy!
While waiting for the return of the AF French Film Festival, enjoy the playlist!
Be a karaoke star you've always dreamt to be with your favorite French songs
Listen to Pomme and support French music in Australia
Stream a Manu Dibango concert at the Olympia
Listen to le concert du jour at the Philarmonie
Watch the Concert for Europe at the Musée d'Orsay
Missing the clubs? Relive a boiler room DJ set recorded in Paris
Learn a French song on the guitar
Enjoy Christine and the Queens' daily livestream on Instagram
Listen to French tunes on SBS Radio
Organise a "chaise musicale" with your family
Enrol into our Term 3 online courses with your passionate and dedicated team at the Alliance Francaise
Practise your French with a 15-minute-lesson on Frantastique once a day
Take this time at home to organise your French notes or label objects around your house to strengthen your vocab
Perfect your listening skills by watching some of these short films
Listen to the news in (slow) French and keep up-to-date with the world
Participate in the solitude projet by writing a text on the theme of isolation
Watch a play at Le Théâtre des Funambules in Montmarte, the play Ca va ? by Jean-Claude Grumberg (mise en scène by Daniel Benoin) or discover a play by Molière
Write a poem in French and send it to us, we will publish the nicest one
Borrow a French book at your local library or download an e-book from la FNAC
Don't know what you want to read? You can also receive a free e-book every day
In these time of uncertainty, read your horoscope in French
Try IZNEO for free to access comics, manga and webtoons for free
Learn Disney songs (both classic and new) in French
Do a daily French crossword
Get creative with your French practise and play Pictionary in French, or create a French Scattergories
DIY, let's go!
Cook a Monet inspired dessert with Fran, a "survivor of the Cordon Bleu Paris" and student at the Alliance Francaise d'Adelaide
Enjoy all this free time to cook a Boeuf Bourguignon
Cook a Ratatouille just like in the movie
Cook a Soupe à l'oignon and revise your imperative
Complete your recipes with the most popular French herbs that you can even grow them in your garden!
Don't have the herbs in your garden yet? Shop for authentic French products with France at Home
Master the most difficult French sweet treat: macarons
Warm up and keep cosy with a chocolat chaud à la française
Or explore … and have a Parisian cocktail
Discover more French desserts and sweet treats with our French desserts quiz
Feeling lazy or just don't have time? No worries, we can bring everything to you at home!
Have a French breakfast online with your friends
Too late for breakfast? Enjoy a goûter
Enjoy your Apero à la française with the home delivered products of Les Deux Coqs
Share a cheese platter with your loved ones - thanks to Smelly Cheese
What about some French wine with Cyrano to pair with your menu?
Don't feel like an expert in wine? No worries, you can join a wine tasting online!
Enrol into our Term 3 online courses with your passionate and dedicated team at the Alliance Francaise
Join our free online story time with our AF teachers
Visit the youth section of the Culturetheque and access numerous kids books to read, listen and watch
Listen or read a French fairy tale (with translation)
Paint a Monet inspired bridge
Become a master couturier and dress up paper dolls
Create a parcours at home
Learn how to juggle (3-5yo)
Learn how to juggle (6-8yo)
Pretend a ball is a bomb and pass it around. Watch out, after 30 seconds, it explodes! (You can count in French)
Watch an episode of L'âne trotro (3-5yo)
Watch an episode of Tchoupi (3-5yo)
Watch an episode of Lady bug et chat noir, the most famous french cartoon (also available on Netflix with subtitles) (7-12yo)
Organise an escape game at home
Every Wednesday, enjoy a puppet show with Théâtre des mains nues
Create a pop up Eiffel Tower card
Take a stroll at the Château de Versailles from the comfort of your own home
Do a French themed colouring in
Watch a ballet
Create a dream board of your next trip in France or make a scrapbook of your last trip in France
Find inspiration to sketch France
Find a book that will make you travel to Paris
Dress up as your favourite French painting
Recreate the most famous French monument in playdough
Watch a circus with La nuit du Cerf
Or enjoy a show with Le Cirque du Soleil
Learn more about Le Musée d'Orsay or about the Eiffel Tower
Take a museum tour in VR and visit the cat exhibition
Watch a dance show recorded inside the Pantheon
Enjoy a Clement Cogitore exhibition at the Mersh Gallery in Sydney
Listen to the Marie Darrieussecq podcast about France, women and Charlie Hebdo at the Sydney Writer's Week
Watch or re-watch movies from the "SBS - French Connections" collection
Discover Montreal's most famous director: Xavier Dolan
Enjoy a post-WWI drama (and a French Film Festival favourite): See You Up There
Discover the life of Edith Piaf and enjoy the oscar-winning movie: La vie en Rose
Feel all your emotions with the deeply moving drama-doco: Les filles du soleil
Discover Michelle Ocelot's last animated movie: Dilili à Paris
Laugh out loud with Omar Sy
Be intrigued by an unusual French crime mystery thriller
Enjoy a musical and poetic animation movie set in Paris
Watch or re-watch a French comedy classic by Jacques Tati: Jour de fête
Watch a quirky, arthouse French movie
Test your knowledge on French film with our French film trivia quiz
Learn French soccer players' hottest tricks
Learn how to play pétanque and build the perfect pétanque court in your backyard
Take yoga classes online with Elle magazine
Learn how to boogie in French
Learn the dance of LOGOBITOMBO
Learn how to "ski" with Les pouces en avant
Rewatch the 2019 Tour de France
Challenge your friends with an interactive online quiz about France
Find a penpal
Take a stroll together in Paris
Be useful and use your skills to do online volunteering
Play "Le petit bac" on Skype
Play Blanc Manger Coco, the French Cards Against Humanity on Skype
Do a French meditation with your friends to stay connected
Shop your favourite French brands online
Use homemade French beauty products to take care of yourself or have a girls night
While you are at it, give yourself a French manicure
Become a Haute-Couture designeur and learn how to sew
Zhuzh up your kitchen and take a free reno class to upgrade your Zoom background
Have a laugh and discover French hilarious comedians with your friends
Play a French video game like Wolcen or Dead Cell with your mates
