Here in the East Bay, there are various ways to celebrate Dia de Los Muertos including food, colorful crafts, sugar skulls with children in tow.
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East Bay candy buyback — Turn candy into CASH!
Do you cringe at the amount of candy your child gets trick-or-treating? Here are a few Halloween candy buybacks we know about in the East Bay.
Community Music Day at Crowden School in North Berkeley
Community Music Day at the Crowden School offers free hands-on music experiences for children. This Sunday from 10 am to 3 pm.
{510} Halloween Guide for East Bay Kids
Fun and scary (mostly not-so-scary!) Halloween events and activities for kids in Oakland, Berkeley, and surrounding areas.
Baby consignment stores in the East Bay
I love that the East Bay has so many places to get quality used kids’ clothes. Consignment sales are ideal for snow pants, dress clothes, and costumes!
Visit a giant sequoia forest at school
Do you want to invite the largest living things on Earth (hint: giant sequoias) into your science class for FREE? Heck yeah!
Eat Real Fest in Jack London Square
Put the FOOD back into FAST at this intersection of healthy eating and street food September 22-24 in Jack London Square.
Tilden Park steam trains are a cheap thrill
The Tilden Park steam trains in the Berkeley hills are one of the East Bay’s best kept secrets. Kinda. Wonderful fun for toddlers and grandparents.
The Great Peter Pumpkin Patch in Petaluma
Almost everything at Petaluma’s Great Peter Pumpkin Patch is FREE: hay rides, cheese tasting, hay maze, hay towers to climb, and so on.
Solano Stroll Street Festival 2018
300,000 people will party in the street 9/9/18 on Solano Avenue. (Bring your walkie talkies!)
