Fun With Kids in the Oakland and Berkeley
The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage is a collection of essays about eating and how we learn to do it, with and from our families. Several of the contributors are East Bay writers, including Berkeley native Phyllis Grant who has been featured here before. Mrs. Dalloway’s on College Avenue will host a free reading from the [...]
In Downtown Berkeley, located near Habitot, the YMCA, and the Central Library, is a new noodle bar that made even my picky eater happy. The menu allows customers to create their own dish, choosing from noodle types, sauce, and protein. Each meal is easily two servings, so kids can split an order, or leftover strategies [...]
Happy Birthday to you, Habitot! Since opening 15 years ago in 1998, Habitot children’s museum in downtown Berkeley has welcomed almost 1,000,000 visitors. On Saturday, they invite the public to a 15th anniversary celebration in the form of a Quinceañera-themed day. Local children’s songleader Mariela Herrera will perform in Spanish and English at 10:30 am, [...]
There really is something for everyone as UC Berkeley, AKA Cal, opens its doors to the families of the East Bay for Cal Day. My husband and second grader have their eyes on auditing another physics class while my kindergartner and toddler want to run around the grounds making slime and looking for doggies and [...]
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 [...]
After seeing her own daughter’s declining physical activity, Eva Bramwell took matters into her own hands gym and started physical training classes for school-age children. I asked her to tell us a bit more. Why did you start kids fitness programs? Kids are not getting enough exercise these days. PE programs are being cut in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Alison Faith Levy is a musician well known in the kindie-rock scene (gosh, I bet she hates that clever name as much as I loathe being called a “Mommy Blogger”, huh?). She is the parent of a eleven-year old son living in San Francisco. Since her work takes her to gigs all over the Bay [...]
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 [...]
Ashkenaz and I have something in common. We are both celebrating our fortieth birthdays. And we’re still totally rockin’ it. Join the {510} Families crew as we sponsor the season finale of the Soggy Sundays concert series with Alison Faith Levy and her Big Time Tot Rock at the world-famous Ashkenaz. And you can win [...]
We are so lucky to live just minutes away from UC Berkeley and have its many resources available to the community. During the summer, the Cal Youth Camps program invites Bay Area children to explore the university’s academic and athletic facilities as campers. Children ages 5 to 17 can swim in the campus pools and [...]
Parents Night Out is a fantastic excuse for a drop-off kid party in which children eat pizza, have dessert (gasp!), watch movies, and play with other kids of a similar age until way past their bedtimes. The formula varies depending on which organization is playing host. In some cases, your kids will do gymnastics, in [...]
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 [...]
Huge thank you to Polly, AKA Lesbian Dad, for sharing her picks on favorite places with kids in the Berkeley area. Her blog by the same name is an insightful and photogenic look at the intersection between mother and father. Fave playground: It’s not a playground, per se, and the general public is only permitted [...]
Please join one or both of these weekly breastfeeding support groups, facilitated by a board certified lactation consultant. No RSVP required. All sessions are $10. The first half hour is for arrivals and informal chatting, then we’ll begin group introductions on the hour. Weigh your baby on our scale to track growth and meet other [...]
