Concord - Bay Area KidFest
Dozens of activities for kids, tweens and parents. Nonstop activities including face painting, entertainment, balloon art, bounces and crawls, fire truck, Live Shark Encounter, police K-9 demonstrations, BMX Bike Stunt Team, Kids’ Town America, SpongeBob SquarePants, Monster Mural, sport games, Ronald McDonald, 100 arts & crafts and exhibitor booths, food court, rides and more.
Memorial Day Weekend, May 26-27-28, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Mt. Diablo High School, 2450 Grant St., Concord.
$5 per person with the donation of a canned good for the Food Bank of Contra Costa & Solano. $6 without a can donation. Babies and seniors 65+ are FREE. Benefits local non-profits. (925) 671-3287.
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San Ramon - Art and Wind Festival
The San Ramon Art & Wind Festival is scheduled for Sunday and Monday, May 27 and 28 in San Ramon’s Central Park, 12501 Alcosta Blvd. from 10am to 5pm both days.
This family friendly festival features professional kite flying demonstrations, over 175 arts & crafts booths, entertainment on 4 stages (new puppet show stage this year!), two large kids’ activity areas, food booths and more! The Cal Star & Coast Guard helicopters will be landing each day at the festival.
This family friendly festival features professional kite flying demonstrations, over 175 arts & crafts booths, entertainment on 4 stages (new puppet show stage this year!), two large kids’ activity areas, food booths and more! The Cal Star & Coast Guard helicopters will be landing each day at the festival.
The festival also includes an early morning hot air balloon launch on May 28th at 6am. Bring the family for a spectacular close up view of 4 hot air balloons as they lift slowly into the sky.
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Berkeley Hills - Tilden Park
Make a day of it with your little ones enjoying the farm animals, steam train and/or merry-go-round.
Little Farm - Memorial Day Open House Noon - 3:30pm
Bring your little ones to the the Little Farm where they can try holding a chicken, walking a goat, planting a see and more.
FREE
Steam Train
Kids love taking a ride on the Steam Train. Open this Memorial Day. Open 11am-6pm $3 per ride, under 2 free
Merry-Go-Round
If your kids are not too tired yet take them on a spin on the classic Merry-Go-Round. Open 11am-5pm. $2 per ride, $10 for 7 rides.
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75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge
There is an amazing array of activities going on along the waterfront in San Francisco this Sunday, May 27th to celebrate 75 years since the opening of the iconic bridge. This sounds like a fantastic event but I do want to caution you that large crowds are expected and public transit is strongly urged. I would not recommend an event like this for families with very young children. Visitors who expect to attend should plan on huge crowds and all the goes with that. The highlight of the day will be fireworks over the bridge at 9:30 pm. See the entire schedule of events here.
There are some new permanent upgrades at bridge facilities at the southern entrance and you can visit those anytime after the anniversary. You can get your picture taken and inserted into various backdrops including an image of you walking up towards the top of the suspension tower.
See a list of 75 Ways to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary HERE.
San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers - Plantosaurus Rex
This is a unique exhibit that features models of dinosaurs along with the prehistoric vegetation they walked among millions of years ago. There is even a giant T. Rex that has "smashed" through the roof of the conservatory looking for a bite to eat.
The exhibit runs through October 21, 2012
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco Website
If you go I would avoid Sunday, May 27th due to the Golden Gate Bridge festivities. A trip to the Conservatory combined with a picnic in the park and maybe a paddle boat ride on Stowe Lake and/or a stop at Ocean Beach along the Great Highway would make for a lovely day in the city.
We have many more ideas in our calendar of events for you to plan a family fun day this weekend.
