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Jasmine Alves
January 09, 2026

📆Issue No. 50 - January 10-11, 2026

This weekend is an art weekend. Like, really. If you've got a tiny creative in your house (or a kid who just likes making messes with paint) this is your moment.

Saturday alone brings Little Artists at the library, Family Art Making at the de Young (with optional manga cosplay!), and Thrive@MoAD for cultural exploration. Sunday continues the vibe with watercolor workshops at SFMOMA connected to the stunning Suzanne Jackson exhibition.

And if your kids prefer the outdoors to the indoors? There are three birding opportunities and one fishing excursion happening this weekend (find them on the full list below). Nature lovers, you're covered too.

January can feel like a slog after the holidays, but weekends like this remind us why we love this city. World-class museums with programming designed for kids? Yes please.

Grab the smocks (or the binoculars). Let's go.

⚡ TLDR: Weekend Gameplan

Holiday Highlights

Saturday:

Sunday:

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Saturday Highlights

A sweet, low-key art activity for the youngest creators (ages 2 and older) at one of SF's coziest library branches. Perfect for toddlers and preschoolers who want to get crafty without overstimulation. Free, no registration required, and you can hit the playground at Dolores Park after.

Worth Knowing:

  • Saturday, January 9, 10:00am-11:00am

  • SFPL Eureka Valley, 1 Jose Sarria Court

  • Free

The de Young's family art making sessions are always a hit. This week features hands-on projects inspired by the Art of Manga exhibit. But here's the bonus: it's also Art of Manga Cosplay Days! Feel like dressing up? Break out the costumes and channel your favorite manga characters while you explore and create. Whether your kid shows up as Naruto, Sailor Moon, or just themselves with a paintbrush, it's going to be a good time.

Worth Knowing:

  • Saturday, January 10, 11:00am-3:00pm

  • de Young Museum, Kimball Education Gallery, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive

  • Free

MoAD's family programming celebrates art and culture of the African diaspora, and this month's lineup is stacked.

Worth Knowing:

  • Saturday, January 10, 11:00am-5:00pm

  • Museum of African Diaspora, 685 Mission Street

  • Free

  • 12:00pm-2:00pm: Family art activity led by teaching artist Nicole Dixon (1st Floor Lobby)

  • 1:00pm: Family-friendly exhibition tour

  • 2:00pm-3:30pm: An afternoon with artist and astrophysicist Dr. Nia Imara discussing her book Painting the Cosmos: How Art and Science Intersect to Reveal the Secrets of the Universe.

  • Art, science, and culture all in one afternoon. Located in SoMa, easy to pair with a walk to Yerba Buena Gardens after.

Sunday Highlight

Get painterly at SFMOMA's Family Studio. This week you'll create unique watercolors on muslin attached to handmade stick-and-found-object frames—inspired by Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love on Floor 7. Jackson's work plays with layers, materials, and texture in ways that kids find genuinely fascinating (and adults too, honestly). Make art, see art, talk about art. The full museum experience.

Worth Knowing:

  • Sunday, January 11, 10:00am-1:00pm

  • SFMoMA, 151 Third Street

  • Free

  • Every Family Studio includes the following free activities:

    • Drop-in art-making

    • Book raffle

    • Space to play with blocks

    • Children’s books to browse and read

✨Full List of What’s Good This Weekend✨

Ongoing:

Saturday, 1/10: 

Sunday, 1/11:

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.

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