📆 The Shortlist. Issue 9 - May 5-8, 2026
Welcome to The Shortlist! It’s your Tuesday snapshot of what to do with your kiddo in SF this week, plus a few highlights for the upcoming weekend. Short and sweet, every week.
📌 On the agenda 📌
Things that we are pinning to do with our kiddos this week.
All Week
Tuesday 5/5
Say yes to digging in the dirt at Bean Sprouts Family Days. (Golden Gate Park)
Enjoy a dance and creative movement class with JAMaROO Kids. (SoMA)
Attend a children’s music class. (Inner Sunset)
Join a Pop n Play to support your kiddo’s learning and development. (Excelsior)
Give your little one a chance to engage in hands on STEM activities at Tinker Tuesday. (Excelsior)
Go to a developmental playgroup for toddlers. (Inner Sunset)
Go to a healthy pelvic floor or zumba workout class for mom only. (Laurel Heights)
Wednesday 5/6
Have a free day at the zoo and enjoy a free soccer class.
Go to a development playgroup for babies. (Inner Sunset)
Join a playgroup for kiddos ages 6-36 months. (Portola)
Join a toddler drum circle. (McCoppin Playground)
Join a Family Storytime at Salesforce Park. (SoMA)
Learn how to use a scanning electron microscope. (Pier 15)
Take a parent & child art class. (Pac Heights)
Take a baby-friendly postpartum strength training class. (Sutro Heights)
Go to a cycle, zumba, lift or yoga workout class for mom only. (Laurel Heights)
Thursday 5/7
Attend a Postpartum Yoga class. (Mission)
Join a music and gardening class with your toddler. (SoMA)
Join a Pop n Play to support your kiddo’s learning and development. (Excelsior)
Attend a baby and me yoga class. (Inner Sunset)
Bond with newborn parents or parents of growing babies at a new parent circle. (Mission)
Bond with dads at a Fatherhood Group.
Join a playgroup for kiddos ages 18-36 months. (Visitacion Valley)
Say yes to digging in the dirt at Bean Sprouts Family Days. (Golden Gate Park)
Take a postpartum movement fusion (cardio+core) class (Sutro Heights) and a postpartum yoga sculpt class (Golden Gate Heights).
Make a yarn covered slap bracelet at Crafternoons in Union Square.
Toddlers unite for outdoor musical fun with JAMaROO Kids at Toddler Thursday. (SoMA)
Join a playgroup for kiddos ages 6-36 months. (Excelsior)
Grab a bite and hear some music at Downtown First Thursday.
Go to a pilates workout class for mom only. (Laurel Heights)
Friday 5/8
Attend a morning music class for toddlers and preschoolers. (Chase Center)
Attend a children’s music class. (Inner Sunset)
Join a toddler drum circle. (McCoppin Playground)
Let your child’s creativity and imagination run wild at a Free Day of Play. (Mission)
Take a parent & child art class with your toddler or have your older kiddo do an art class solo. (Pac Heights)
Feel the rhythm and move with community at an Afro-Brazilian drumming workshop. (Ingleside)
Enjoy a zine history lesson and make your own zine. (Mission)
Seas the Day at a Friday Family Fun Night. (Portola)
Draw, doodle and play in the park to end the week.
Enjoy an evening of music with the San Francisco Girls Chorus. (Sunset)
End the week at Chinatown Night Market.
Have a roller disco night with the kiddos. (Hayes Valley)
Go to a restorative yoga class for mom only. (Laurel Heights)
📆 Plan Ahead 📆
Things that we’re looking forward to this weekend.
All Weekend
Join Young Performers Theatre for Tunnel Top Travelers, a story about growing up, speaking up, and finding connection in uncertain times
Saturday 5/9
Get ready for opera season at A Barber of Seville Family Experience for Kids.
Join Mom’s Morning Off, where you’ll get to do a quick run while your kiddo does yoga.
Join an all day celebration of birthing people at Blooming and Belonging.
Celebrate AAPI month with community at AAPI Families Wonderfest.
Celebrate and create amazing art at the 16th Annual Youth Arts Summit.
Let your teen test out their best freestyle at the 2026 MC Olympics.
See Cal and Stanford duke it out at Battle of the Bands.
Focus on wellness at Chinatown Wellness Festival.
Give mom flowers and a matching mom +child set at the Mother’s Day Edit.
Take your kiddo to do a Mother’s Day craft at IKEA Kids Craft: Mother's Day Card Making.
Learn how to design the perfect bouquet at Blossom Mama.
Go to a Mother’s Day Paint & Tea.
Learn how to decorate cookies for mom.
Sunday 5/10
Give mom her flowers with Running Wylder.
Celebrate Mother’s Day at the Exploratorium.
Elevate your brunch game at a Mother's Day Brunch Cooking Class.
Let your kiddo make mom a macrame plant holder for Mother’s Day.
Explore art made by community members at Mother's Day Market & Open House at The Box Shop.
Celebrate Mother’s Day at the Inner Sunset Flea Market.
👀 On Our Feed 👀
Posts, threads, and content that made us stop scrolling.
You deserve it, mom
📖 Tabs We’ve Closed 📖
Things we’ve actually finished.
See you on Friday!
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