Sunderland teaching assistant set up 'Kids After All' online activities to help families through lockdown

Michael Wilson launched ‘Kids After All’ during the coronavirus lockdown, supporting children and families with online activity groups helping develop children’s skills and keeping them entertained while off school.

The 32-year-old found his passion for helping children while working as a teaching assistant.

After children’s activity classes were cancelled in March, he wanted to find a new way to continue the support children while they were unabled to attend, which is how Kids After All on Youtube was born.

Kids After All has been helping the region's children with their language development, arts and crafts and fine motor skills, and Michael has been blown away by the response from parents.

“The idea is to create videos to help entertain and inspire families to take part in some magical moments with their children of all ages,” he said.

"One of the main goals of each video and the channel is to help create experiences and opportunities for families to strengthen their bond.

“The reaction to the channel and the support has been nothing short of incredible. The channel is really moving and it is incredible to see.”

Kids After All aims to upload at least one new video a day Monday to Friday, with regular new content and ideas keeping the channel creative.

To view the Kids After All content, view the Youtube channel.

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