May 23, 2012 | Post by: Josh No Comments

Kids San Francisco Bucket List, Great Activities Right Here in the City

 

OK, so Amy Graff put together this great list, in the form of a slideshow.  It appeared in her ter­rific blog post in The Mommy Files blog on SF Gate.

Since I used to work with lead at the steel mill, my mem­ory isn’t what it used to be (and never was, accord­ing to my mom).  So I wrote down a slightly abbre­vi­ated ver­sion of her list, for easy ref­er­ence in those moments on the week­ends when we’re at a loss for things to do in this amaz­ing city!

Touch Tank at Cal Academy

Touch Tank at Cal Academy


Aquarium Presentation at Cal Academy

Aquar­ium at Cal Academy

Whether you live here, or are vis­it­ing, this is a great list of well-known activ­i­ties, along with plenty of hid­den gems.

There isn’t much rhyme or rea­son to what I left out, other than the omis­sions were the more obvi­ous ones we wouldn’t for­get any­way: Cal Acad­emy, ride a Cable Car and so on.

So for those of you that would like to keep it handy, here is a slightly short­ened ver­sion of what Amy put together.  Thank you so much Amy, you just made our sum­mer better!

Fam­ily Con­cert at SF Sym­phony
Pier 39
Go for Ice Cream, orig­i­nal Swensens, oth­ers
Walk the Golden Gate Bridge
Check out City Hall Dome, tallest in the US
St Fran­cis Foun­tain: tra­di­tional Soda Foun­tain
Musee Mechanique
Build Sand Cas­tles at Baker Beach
Row boats on Stow Lake
Mis­sion Dolores, old­est intact bldg in SF
Julius Kahn Play­ground
Alca­traz Tour
La Vic­to­ria Mex­i­cana bak­ery 24th & Mis­sion
Fly Kites @ Crissy Field, SF’s first air­port
Hike the Coastal Trail
Dolores Park & New Play­ground
Look for wild Par­rots on Tele­graph Hill
Mis­sion Dis­trict Balmy Alley Murals
Moon Bridge, Japan­ese Tea Gar­den
Attend Sin­ga­long at Cas­tro The­ater
GG Park Chil­drens Quar­ter play­ground, first play­ground in the US!
Meet ani­mals at Ran­dall Museum, 11:15 every Sat­ur­day
Kids­fest at Flax Art — Check for sched­ule
Mitchells Ice Cream
Twin Peaks
Brunch at the Ramp, watch boats, eat Nutella
Sand Dol­lar hunt­ing on Ocean Beach, early morn­ing
Fire Dept Museum
Bul­let Train kids meal at Mifune in Japan­town
Yerba Buena Bar­dens play cir­cle
YB Ice skat­ing
Bike closed streets in GGP Sun­days
Lands End trail, Cliff House to Legion of Honor: see three ship­wrecks
Har­mon obser­va­tion tower at Dey­oung: free!
Car­toon Art Museum class
Bat­tery Cham­ber­lin GGNRA. First full week­end of month, demo
Canon load­ing demo at Ft Point
Asian art museum fam­ily pro­grams
Angel island pic­nic
Vol­un­teer at SF food­bank
Glide Memo­r­ial Church, sin­ga­long
Hyatt Regency Lobby
GG For­tune Cookie Fac­tory in Chi­na­town
Chil­drens night Gior­gios pizza inner rich­mond: kids make own pies
Fruity pop­si­cles at Bi-Rite, no wait­ing in big ice cream line
Bal­cutha tall ship at Hyde St Pier
Precita Eyes art class, bernal heights
Ale­many farm­ers mar­ket: musi­cal Saw lady: Sat­ur­days
Coit Tower
SFMOMA Fam­ily Sun­days
Wave Organ
Stern Grove per­for­mances
Glen Park: Bird & Beck­ett books, live jazz, big selec­tion of kids books
Win­field st slide
tea party at Love­joys Tea Room
Carl Larsen Sava pool: nice, clean pub­lic
Hang Glid­ers at Fort Fun­ston
Museum of the African Diaspora

Josh’s addi­tions:

Ride the Lit­tle Puffer Train at the SF Zoo
Street Car Museum (not same as Cable Car Museum)
Ferry Ride to Sausal­ito for Lunch & Ice Cream
City Streets Events
Rid­ing MUNI to wher­ever you’re going: our kids love it
Walk around AT&T Park when no game: free admission!

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