🌟Local Kiddo SF

Your weekend plans, handled.

Author

Jasmine Alves
June 27, 2025

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📆Issue No. 23 - June 28-29, 2025

Happy Friday, friends! This weekend brings the ultimate San Francisco celebration as Pride takes over the city with rainbow colors, joyful parades, and community spirit like nowhere else. We've also curated a weekend packed with farm animals, outdoor carnivals, ballet dress rehearsals, and mind-bending magic shows. From petting zoos in North Beach to a chance for you to go on a date while your kiddo practices becoming an acrobat in the Haight, this weekend offers something special for every family member.

⚡ TLDR: Weekend Gameplan

Pride Festivities:

Saturday:

Sunday:

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Pride Festivities

Saturday:

Sunday:

Saturday Highlight

Bring the countryside to the city with this delightful petting zoo experience featuring friendly farm animals right in the heart of North Beach, perfect for introducing little ones to animal care and farm life.

Worth Knowing: 

  • 10:00-12:00

  • SFPL North Beach, 850 Columbus Avenue

  • Free admission

Watch a beautiful dress rehearsal and have your little kiddo practice their ballet moves at this dress rehearsal that goes along with the museum’s exhibit on the history of theater and dance.

Worth Knowing: 

  • 10:00 and 11:00

  • Legion of Honor, 100 34th Avenue

  • Free admission

Celebrate summer in one of San Francisco's most vibrant and diverse neighborhoods with community activities, local food, and family-friendly entertainment that showcases the heart of Visitacion Valley.

Worth Knowing: 

  • 11:00am-2:00pm

  • Yik Oi Huang Peace and Friendship Park, 251 Leland Avenue

  • Free admission

  • Carnival games

  • Music

  • Prizes

Finally, a night out for the grown-ups! Drop the kiddos off for supervised fun and games including a trampoline and zipline, while you have a night out.

Worth Knowing: 

  • 6:30pm-9:30pm

  • AcroSports, 639 Frederick Street

  • $50 per child

  • Ages 6-12

Sunday Highlight

Experience jaw-dropping magic and mentalism from the founder of The Magic Patio in this 75-minute all-ages show featuring original illusions that have amazed audiences at The Magic Castle and on Penn & Teller's Fool Us.

Worth knowing:

  • 2:00pm-3:30pm

  • Presidio Theatre, 99 Moraga Avenue

  • $35-$55

Dive into the blocky world of Minecraft with special activities, discussions, and creative workshops celebrating the upcoming Minecraft movie at the Cartoon Art Museum, perfect for young gamers and creative minds.

Worth knowing:

  • 11:00pm-5:00pm

  • Cartoon Art Museum, 781 Beach Street

  • Children under 5: Free, Children (6-12): $4, Adults: $10

 

✨Full List of What’s Good This Weekend✨

Ongoing:

Saturday, 6/28:

Sunday, 6/29:

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Until next week,

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

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