September 2024

Kings Mountain Art Fair (Labor Day weekend)
Come to the Kings Mountain Art Fair to walk the redwoods and see and purchase beautiful art!
https://kingsmountainartfair.org/

Mountain View Art and Wine Festival (Sept 7-8)
Come shop beautiful arts and crafts while enjoying some street food and live music! More info here.

Additional Mountain View Library Programing
There are SO many great events coming up at the library!

IEP Parenting Lecture (Sept 5)
Robot Challenge
Outdoor Storytimes
Anxious Child Workshop (Sept 19)
Sci-Fi Steam (Sept 5)
Let’s Create
and More

Also, the library makes it easy to explore the outdoors — check out a parks pass and hiking backpack!

Lastly, you can reserve free tickets to local museums, the California Academy of Science and the de Young Museum!

Lemos Farm Pumpkin Patch
Lemos Farm in Half Moon Bay has become a family tradition. They have train rides, bounce houses, hay rides, pony rides and more! If you go in September or a weekday in October, the tickets are a bit cheaper and the also it is usually pretty empty (pro tip: no lines on late September Thursdays!) Get tickets here

Music on Castro (Wednesdays)
Every Wednesday April through October, the city of Mountain View provides wonderful, free music on Castro street. Bring a picnic or grab some food to go at one of the many restaurants downtown. Bonus tip: Asian Box has kids eat free (with purchase of an adult meal) after Wednesday after 5 pm. Music starts at 5 (grab a box and go :).

Music on the Plaza (Fridays)
More free, live music! Bring a picnic and enjoy!
https://www.mountainview.gov/our-city/departments/community-services/special-events/civic-center-plaza-events

Gilroy Gardens, Great America, and Happy Hollow
Summer is a great time to visit these fun parks! Let us know if you want to join us and we can even go together! Note that the long-awaited jaguar and red panda habitat at Happy Hollow is now pushed back until mid-August.

Gilroy Gardens
Great America
Happy Hollow

Overnight Camping at Gilroy Gardens
These look fun! We haven’t tried them yet so if you go, please report back! More sign up here.

Overnight Camping at Happy Hollow
These we’ve done a couple of times and they are a blast and very well done!! Sign up here

Free Craft Classes at Michael’s
It looks like the the Sunday MakeBreaks at Michael’s on hold, but there are other fun classes during the week you might be interested in checking out.

Parenting Book Club

September: BoyMom by Ruth Whippman. Read this one! It will challenge you in new ways — promise!

October: Untangle Your Emotions by Jennie Allen. This one is more of a general psychology/Christian book rather than strictly parenting, but kids are people too (and definitely have emotions that get all tangled up sometimes!)