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Service-minded locals have found creative new ways to drive support for Orlando restaurants suffering during the coronavirus downturn.

Two more attractions have added at-home tools to educate and to keep in contact with their guests during their corona virus driven shutdowns. Orlando Science Center and Orlando-based Ripley Entertainment are now offering options through their websites and social-media platforms.

The science center has gathered several offerings on its website (go to osc.org/ at-home), and it features videos, do-it-yourself projects (rock candy, DIY slime) and links to resources of its partners, including Disney, NASA, OUC and others.

The Loch Haven museum also is posting information and lessons on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. One post includes ticket giveaways tied to solving a puzzle based on its current “Top Secret” exhibit. Another incorporates astronaut (and Orlando High School graduate) John Young, a corned-beef sandwich and a utility box.

Ripley Entertainment has clustered its offerings in two places, one tied to its aquarium attractions (ripleyaquariums.com/athome) and another one tied to general oddities (ripleys.com/outside-the-odditorium).

On Wednesday, viewers could see a penguin birthday party. Inside the virtual odditorium, participants can learn to draw with a Ripley cartoonist and hear a reading from “Moby Dick,” which, in the classic, oddly twisted Ripley's style, is printed on toilet paper.

Along with a Ripley's

Believe It or Not attraction on Orlando's International Drive, the company also has locations in St. Augustine, Key West, Panama City Beach and 18 other North American cities. It operates aquariums in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Gatlinburg, Tenn., and Toronto.

Orlando Science Center and all Ripley attractions are temporarily closed while waiting out the spread of coronavirus. No reopening dates have been announced.