🌟Local Kiddo SF

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Author

Jasmine Alves
May 16, 2025

📆Issue No. 17 - May 17-18, 2025

Happy Friday, friends! The weekend ahead brings a spectacular mix of creative play, library celebrations, artistic movement, and sporting excitement. And yes, it's Bay to Breakers weekend. For those brave enough to navigate the city's most colorful footrace with kids in tow, the Panhandle offers an excellent vantage point for watching costumed runners (and the infamous Salmon Swimming Upstream) without committing to the full spectacle. For families seeking less chaotic adventures, we've curated experiences that balance structure with wonder. As we edge closer to summer (though Karl the Fog might disagree), the city is bursting with events designed to ignite young minds while keeping grown-ups genuinely engaged too.

⚡ TLDR: Weekend Gameplan

Saturday:

Sunday:

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Saturday Highlights

This innovative play event features guided play adventures across different interactive zones, exciting activities and chances to win awesome prizes. Kiddos can enjoy delicious bites from food trucks while their adults sip on drinks from the beer & sangria garden. This is a great event for celebrating our vibrant community while playing with your kiddos and giving them an opportunity to burn some energy.

Worth Knowing: 

  • Spark Social, 601 Mission Bay Boulevard North

  • 11:30pm-3:00pm

  • Free, but register here to save your spot

  • Games led by coaches

  • Prizes

  • DJ

  • Photo booth

  • Art project at 1:00pm

🚌 Getting There: Bart/Muni to King Street or Mission Rock, 1-California, 15-Bayview Hunters Point, 22-Fillmore, 29-Sunset

Make art with your kiddos while supporting Bay Area youth at this vibrant celebration where Golden Gate Park will become a wonderland for creative exploration. This annual arts and maker event supports arts education programs for 10,000 Bay Area students while delighting families with hands-on activities, performances, and artistic inspiration.

Worth Knowing: 

  • San Francisco County Fair Building, 1199 9th Avenue

  • 12:00pm-3:00pm

  • $10 Adults, $5 Children

  • Maker arts and craft sale

  • Arts activities for all ages

  • Leap teaching artist creative workshop

  • Kids zone

  • Performances

  • Food trucks

🚌 Getting There: Bart/Muni to 9th Ave & Irving, 6-Haight/Parnassus, 7-Haight/Noriega, 44-O’Shaughnessy

The SFPL Glen Park branch welcomes the community with a celebratory open house featuring storytelling, face painting, activities, live music and much more!

Worth Knowing: 

  • SFPL Glen Park, 2825 Diamond Street

  • 1:00pm-5:00pm

  • Free

  • Live music

  • Face painting

  • Belly dancing

  • Guided crafts with The Museum of Craft and Design

  • Letterpress

  • Art show

  • Much more! See the full schedule of events here

🚌 Getting There: Bart/Muni to Glen Park, 23-Monterey, 44-O’Shaughnessy, 52-Excelsior

Sunday Highlights

Oracle Park celebrates young fans with special pre-game activities, exclusive giveaways, and opportunities for children to participate in ceremonial aspects of the ballgame against the Oakland A’s.

Worth knowing:

  • Oracle Park, 24 Willie Mays Plz

  • Game starts at 1:05pm

  • Ticket prices vary

  • Pre-game player panel

  • Pre-game field parade

  • The first 7,500 youth ages 14 and under will receive a SF Giants Player chain

🚌 Getting There: Muni to King & 2nd, 15-Bayview Hunters Point, 22-Fillmore, 30-Stockton, 45-Union-Stockton

This special event combines interactive movement with behind-the-scenes access, offering families a unique introduction to contemporary dance through a workshop, rehearsal observation, and conversation with the artists.

Worth knowing:

  • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard Street

  • 2:30pm-4:00pm

  • $25

  • Dance workshop

  • Rehearsal observation

  • Q&A

🚌 Getting There: Muni/Bart to Powell, 5-Fulton, 6-Haight/Parnassus, 7-Haight/Noriega, 14-Mission

✨Full List of What’s Good This Weekend✨

Ongoing:

Saturday, 5/17:

Sunday, 5/18:

🔭 On Our Radar

Make a cool portrait collage with the kiddos at Ikea’s new food hall (May 31).

Experience young voices at the San Francisco Boys Chorus Spring Concert (June 7).

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