🌟Local Kiddo SF

Your weekend plans, handled.

Author

Jasmine Alves
June 06, 2025

 📆Issue No. 20 - June 7-8, 2025

Happy Friday, friends! This weekend brings trail adventures, neighborhood carnivals, Pride celebrations, and world-class art experiences that capture the season's spirit of exploration and discovery. From the Presidio's hidden pathways to the Excelsior's community celebration, we've curated adventures that showcase San Francisco's incredible diversity, both in landscapes and neighborhoods. Add in cutting-edge contemporary art and enchanting live theater, and you've got a weekend that perfectly balances outdoor exploration with cultural enrichment. Pack your walking shoes, bring your sense of wonder, and prepare for a weekend that reminds you why every corner of this city holds magic waiting to be discovered.

⚡ TLDR: Weekend Gameplan

June Highlight:

Saturday:

Sunday:

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June Highlight

This enchanting live performance uses circus arts to bring Hans Christian Andersen's beloved tale to life in an intimate theater setting designed specifically for young audiences.

Worth knowing:

  • June 6 - 22, 2025

  • Fridays at 7:00pm

  • Saturdays at 3:00pm & 7:00pm

  • Sundays at 2pm

  • 90 Minute Run Time

  • Children's Creativity Museum, 221 4th Street

  • Tickets Start at $25

  • Recommended for Ages 7+

🚌 Getting There: Powell BART/Muni Station + short walk Multiple Muni lines to 4th & Mission

Saturday Highlight

While San Francisco boasts an incredible network of trails throughout the city, from Twin Peaks to Land's End, the Presidio offers the perfect introduction to our urban hiking paradise. Discover this crown jewel of SF's trail system through guided hikes, family-friendly nature activities, and hands-on exploration that reveals the Presidio's transformation from military base to urban national park.

Experience one of San Francisco's hidden waterfront gems with a full day of family activities celebrating this transformed industrial site that now offers stunning bay views, wildlife observation, and community gathering space in the Bayview neighborhood.

Worth knowing:

  • 11:00am-5:00pm

  • India Basin Waterfront Park, 900 Innes Avenue

  • Free Admission

  • Live Music

  • Food

  • Bounce House

  • Comedy

  • SFFD Station #17 Fire Truck

🚌 Getting There: 15-Bayview Hunters Point, 19-Polk, 44-O’Shaughnessy, and 54-Felton

This vibrant neighborhood celebration brings classic carnival fun to one of San Francisco's most diverse communities, featuring games, live entertainment, local food vendors, and the warm community spirit that makes the Excelsior special.

Worth knowing:

  • 2:00pm-5:00pm

  • Balboa Park, 24 Sgt John V Young Lane

  • Free Admission

  • Carnival Games

  • Prizes

🚌 Getting There: Muni/Bart to Balboa Park, 29-Sunset, 43-Masonic, and 49-Van Ness/Mission

Sunday Highlight

This special programming celebrates artists who have lived and worked in San Francisco. Celebrate everyday heroes through interactive art activities, storytime, and hands-on workshops.

Worth knowing:

  • 10:00am-4:00pm

  • Free Admission with RSVP

  • Welcome table with giveaway kits

  • Games

  • Art-making Activities

  • Scavenger Hunt

  • Storytime

  • Drag story hour with Per Sia

🚌 Getting There: BART/Muni to Montgomery or Powell, 5-Fulton, 6-Haight/Parnassus, 7-Haight/Noriega, 8-Bayshore, 15-Bayview Hunters Point, 38-Geary, and 38R-Geary Rapid

Experience the beauty and power of indigenous Mexican dance traditions through this authentic cultural performance that honors ancestors and celebrates the elements through movement, song, and traditional instruments.

Worth knowing:

  • 2:00pm-2:30pm

  • SFPL Anza Branch, 550 37th Avenue

  • Free Admission

  • Traditional Danza Azteca (also known as Danza Mexica/Chichimeca/Conchera)

  • Incorporates dance, song, and traditional instruments

  • All Ages Welcome

🚌 Getting There: 1-California, 5-Fulton, 31-Balboa, 38-Geary, 38R-Geary Rapid, and 1-California

✨Full List of What’s Good This Weekend✨

Ongoing:

Saturday, 6/7:

Sunday, 6/8:

🔭 On Our Radar

Have a dance party with your favorite animals at Zoobilation (June 14).

Go on a date while your kiddos practice their gymnastic skills at AcroFun Night (June 14).

Found a spot that works for both you and the kiddos? Tell us – we read everything.

Until next week,

Jasmine @Local Kiddo — Because good taste doesn’t end at parenthood.

P.S. Forward this to that parent friend who still remembers what uninterrupted coffee tastes like. We've got spots for both of you.

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