🌟Local Kiddo SF

Your weekend plans, handled.

Author

Jasmine Alves
August 15, 2025

📆Issue No. 29 - August 16-17, 2025

Happy Friday, friends! This weekend offers the perfect mix of nature's beauty, movement, and neighborhood celebration that makes San Francisco so special. From the stunning annual dahlia show to guided bike tours, family fun runs, yoga for kiddos, the beloved beer, pizza and bagel festival, classic movie nights under the stars, Glen Park and Richmond night markets, and vibrant block parties that bring communities together, we've curated experiences that celebrate both our city's natural wonders and its incredible community spirit. Whether your crew is ready to admire flowers, pedal through the zoo, dash for cookies, sample amazing eats at markets and festivals, or dance in the streets, you'll find the perfect way to move, explore, and connect in this issue.

⚡ TLDR: Weekend Gameplan

Saturday:

Sunday:

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Saturday Highlights

Sweet motivation meets family fitness at this delightful 1-mile run where the finish line reward is as enticing as the exercise itself. Perfect for getting the whole family moving together with a delicious incentive.

Worth Knowing: 

  • 7:30am-10:30am

  • Crissy Field

  • $46 to register

  • 1-mile distance perfect for all family members (there are other distances available as well)

  • Cookie reward system adds fun motivation

  • Great introduction to family running events

  • Encourages healthy habits with sweet rewards

Combine the joy of cycling with wildlife discovery on this unique guided bike tour that takes families through and around the San Francisco Zoo. Perfect for active families ready to explore nature on two wheels.

Worth Knowing: 

  • 9:00am-10:00am

  • SFZoo, Sloat Blvd. at Great Highway

  • SF Zoo Members: $25 per peddler, Non-members: $35 per peddler

  • Guided bike tour experience

  • Learn fun facts and conservation stories

  • Combines exercise with animal education

  • Great way to see the zoo from a new perspective

Gather the family for this beloved Robin Williams classic under the stars!

Worth Knowing: 

  • Pre-show 6:00pm, showtime 8:00pm

  • Free

  • Union Square, 300 Powell Street

  • Free outdoor movie experience

  • Pre-show trivia, prizes and performances

  • Bring low chairs, blankets and snacks for comfort

  • Classic family comedy perfect for all ages

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Sunday Highlight

Celebrate half a century of this beloved community institution with a block party that honors Rainbow Grocery's incredible legacy of organic foods, community values, and neighborhood connection.

Worth knowing:

  • 12:00pm-6:00pm

  • Free

  • Community-focused celebration

  • Featuring food, music, and local vendors, giveaways, art stations and games

  • Great for families who love community celebrations

✨Full List of What’s Good This Weekend✨

Ongoing:

Saturday, 8/16: 

Sunday, 8/17:

🔭 On Our Radar

Participate in an intergenerational day of service in Excelsior (August 23).

Get ready for tire-screeching, engine-roaring excitement as massive Hot Wheels monster trucks take over the city for jaw-dropping stunts, crushing competitions, and automotive spectacle that will leave car-loving kids (and adults) absolutely mesmerized (August 23).

Learn how to make pizza and have a pizza party with Chef David Nayfeld from Che Fico (August 24).

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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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