Fun With Kids in the Oakland and Berkeley
My son and I had so much fun doing a little claymation project at the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco (included with admission) a couple years ago, that I’ve been hoping to have a chance to take it a little further now that he’s older. The after-school class at Sticky Art Lab in Berkeley [...]
Fans of the Mo Willems book Knuffle Bunny will be excited to learn that the Bay Area Children’s Theatre production of Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical, opening Saturday, April 13, at 2 p.m. at the Freight & Salvage venue in Berkeley. This stage adaptation of the popular book was written by Mo Willems himself, with [...]
As 510Families.com has grown in reach — becoming a favorite of East Bay parents seeking ways to spend quality time with their kids — the opportunity to better serve local businesses has grown, too. We are looking for an online advertising salesperson to join our team on a part-time basis. The ideal candidate lives in [...]
The Kids Bowl Free program is nationwide, and our local independent bowling alley in Albany participates. Simply go to the website KidsBowlFree.com/albany to register your child. Every week, free bowling passes will arrive in email. Beginning April 15, your child can bowl twice per day, every day, all summer as long as he or she [...]
When my son’s best friend at school was “diagnosed” with lice, an itchy feeling on my head told me we were next.
We are so excited to be able to host this giveaway on behalf of 4cats Studio in Kensington. I’ve been completely wooed by the fine art I see in the windows of their shop on the north side of the Kensington Circle. The picture above is of actual work produced by six of the students [...]
My son’s eighth birthday party was a casual, mostly-boys affair at the Wheelhouse batting cages in Richmond. {previous post: Batting Cage in Richmond: The Wheelhouse} For our Sunday evening party, we had (way too much) pizza delivered right to the venue, brought fruit, pistachios, drinks, and cupcakes. Easy! Here’s what $160 gets you at the [...]
Materials on hand will encourage children to explore colors, textures and a variety of media in a safe, fun and messy environment.
Daytime home games at Cal are an opportunity to watch baseball up close. It doesn’t deliver the “Wow” factor of AT&T Park, but it is a pretty easy outing, and the “cheap seats” do not give you a nosebleed. We parked in the garage on Durant and Telegraph and entered the campus from Telegraph, then [...]
If you’re not gung-ho about the Easter holiday enough to produce your own egg-stravaganza at home, perhaps one of these outings will provide you with some good spring-themed photo opps. We’ve rounded up eight Easter egg hunts in the 510. Saturday, March 23 Spring Egg Scramble in Crab Cove, Alameda Sunday, March 24 Egg Hunt [...]
On our other blog for new moms, Rookie Moms, we have been running a series about technology we’re enjoying as parents. Here are five you might enjoy: New iPhone app for expectant parents: Cinemama lets you produce a time-lapse video of a growing belly. Read more about this app from the March of Dimes > [...]
Memorial Park in Albany is home to so many family-friendly resources and events, that all parents in communities north of Berkeley should know about it. While parking is plentiful, the streets surrounding Memorial Park are flat and relatively quiet, so biking there is inviting. An open playground for kids five and older offers big kid [...]
Leland Snow Play is a snow park for tubing in Strawberry, CA, in the Sonora Pass region. If you’re not familiar, that’s about 175 miles, mostly East, from the Berkeley area. Rental houses are abundant in Twain Harte, a mountain town about 25 minutes from the snow park, and early planners may have luck securing [...]
Upon organizing our East Bay summer camp guide, we realized that trends have swung so far in the direction of specialty camps that it’s a challenge to identify day camps that are simply good old-fashioned fun. You know, the kind of fun that results in dirty fingernails, mysterious holes in clothes, chlorine-smelling hair, and incessant [...]
If you’ve just moved to Berkeley, Oakland, or some other part of the East Bay, let us welcome you! Our readers and contributors have helped us put together a list of the top resources in the area for parents. 510Families.com offers many profiles of these resources and more within our archives, but consider this your [...]
Here are ten events to consider for your weekend plans: Bank of America credit cardholders are invited to enjoy free admission at Chabot Space & Science Center, plus a few other museums in The City. My children have enjoyed the kid-friendly Jewish Museum in San Francisco, another participating location. Baby Bounce and Toddler Time are [...]
This guest post is from Stef Tousignant, creator of a new event for parents in San Francisco this weekend. (I’ll be there, introducing the musical act!) The Great Baby Romp at the Mission Bay Conference Center on the UCSF campus is a fun day of activities just for your baby or toddler! The Romp features [...]
