Events

Meet on the second floor in the Community Room. Kick off San Carlos Week of the Family with a special storytime with special guest, city council member Sara McDowell! Come along on an imaginary adventure for Family Storytime. Hear new stories, sing songs and learn wiggles that the whole family can enjoy together, from toddlers to grown-ups.

Target Audience: Toddlers and up

Join us in front of The Reading Bug for 30 minutes of stories and music! You can now listen to Reading Bug Adventures music on spotify or your favorite streaming service to practice your moves!

Come enjoy a fun evening with your family and friends. Play a variety of board and card games that are fun, competitive and educational in nature. We have over 100 games! Local board game players will loan their personal games for play, plus teach and coordinate game playing. Bring games from home to share as well. Gator Games of San Mateo has donated a number of games that will be given out as prizes throughout the evening. (Gator Games discount coupons will be available to those in attendance.)

Target Audience: Game players 4 and up. Most games targeted at 10 year olds and up.

We are having our annual San Carlos City-Wide Roshambo Contest (Rock, Paper, Scissors), with finals during Family Game Night. The event started in 2012. Both "at-large" finalists and school champions will participate in the finals. Prizes will be awarded. If you are interested in participating in the "at-large" division just come along to Family Game Night and sign-up. Everyone can play -- Kindergarten and above.

Target Audience: Open to all ages

Official Week of the Family Roshambo Rules:

1. You and your opponent make a fist with one hand and tap it three times on the fist of the other hand (or another hard surface).
2. You and your opponent should both count the strokes out loud.
3. On the third tap you and your opponent should both make or “throw” your characterizations of either ROCK, PAPER, or SCISSORS very distinctly, at the exact same time, so there is absolutely no mistake what you threw.
4. Winner is awarded 1 point for the winning throw. (Rock dulls/beats scissors, paper covers/beats rock, scissors cuts/beats paper.)
5. If you and your opponent “throw” the same character, no points are awarded--try again.
6. A player must win two out of three throws to win a game and two games to win the match.

Target Audience: Open to all ages

Enjoy a leisurely walk through the downtown area as you search for items in the windows of local merchants listed on the Scavenger Hunt Sheet. Your entire family will share in the fun as you scan windows seeking the hunt objects. The hunt begins at the San Carlos Museum between 10:00 AM. and noon. A list of rules and a hunt sheet will be given to each family prior to the start. Prizes will be awarded to families with the most correct answers. Three lucky winners will receive gift certificates to the Reading Bug! Winners will be posted on this web site.

Target Audience: Families with children 3 to 14

Note: This is at the same location and time as the Family Fire Station 13 Tour.

Note: This event is temporarily postponed. Our firefighters are out serving the community!

Calling all junior fire fighters and kids of all ages! Join the fun as we tour Fire Station 13 and get close to the firetrucks and the community helpers who keep us safe!

Target Audience: Ideal for young children and kids of all ages!

Note: This is at the same location and time as the Family Scavenger Hunt.

Know your rook from your knight? Drop in this hour to learn the strategic game of chess, and challenge yourself and an opponent. Basic instruction, chessboards and sets will be provided. All levels, from beginner to Grandmaster, are invited to play!

Target Audience: Best for ages 7+

Please join the residents of the San Carlos Elms and Arbor Bay School students in collecting canned and packaged food for the needy in our community! Drop off will be the San Carlos Elms. Volunteers will assist you with your donation! No fresh or frozen food--canned and packaged items only. Every donation can make a BIG difference to someone in need!

Since its inception in 1999, the Week of the Family Committee has designated the Monday of the week as a time reserved for families to stay at home and do something specifically with their family. It is hoped that reserving a set time each week for family time will become habit-forming. To show their support, when the event is not on a holiday, San Carlos principals have historically declared Monday, as a "No Homework" night.

Family Activity Day is for everyone. You are encouraged to “adopt” friends and neighbors who would enjoy an evening of family activities.

Ideas for things to do as a family:

• Play board or card games
• Get out the family photo album
• Make up a play or story
• Make dinner—everyone contributes a dish
• Make a family calendar
• Read a book aloud (book lists are available at the library)
• Write letters to grandparents or other family members
• Draw or paint a picture
• Learn how to use a compass
• Pull out your old records, tapes, CDs, then listen to and discuss music
• Tell stories from your family history
• Go to the library
• Bake bread
• Start a family journal
• Sing

Some Interesting links for additional things to do are:

• Disney Things to Do
• Things for Younger Children
• Fun Art Activities
• Dozens of Family Activities at Home

Parents and kids will have the chance to create with color, texture and even smell using the fabulous sensory medium of playdough. See how through squish, squashing can give kids tactile feedback, develop fine motors skills and other benefits. Gain insight and ideas for future play with One Life Counseling staff and Learning Home Volunteers.

Target Audience: Parents & 2-5 years old (play dough), Self drying Modeling Clay project 6-8 years old

Please join the Cupid Crew at Arbor Bay School in making valentines for members of local groups including the Sequoia Villagers and residents of the San Carlos Elms. Or make cards for your family and friends! We have plenty of art supplies or bring your own! This is a terrific way to brighten the day of community members and your loved ones too! Each card is sure to bring a BIG smile, because you care!

Target Audience: All ages are welcome to participate! Ideal for toddlers, teens and seniors!

Artists of all ages are invited to paint garden rocks as part of the “Week of the Family”. Please come by and paint a colorful addition on a rock - heart, sun, star. Get creative!

Art project sponsored by the San Carlos Lions.

Target Audience: Toddlers to Adults

School can be stressful, and sometimes you need a break. Students in 4th-8th grade can drop in to relax and hang out with friends and a different art project each week! We bring the materials, you bring your creativity.

Target Audience: 4th - 8th Grade

Free events at Hiller:

• 10 AM – 5 PM -- Complimentary Admission to San Carlos Residents
• 3 PM -- Glider Event

Week of the Family takes flight at the Hiller Aviation Museum on January 18! With a collection of over 50 different unique aircraft, the museum preserves the Bay Area’s legacy of aeronautical innovation while inspiring the future. Admission is complimentary to San Carlos residents throughout the day. At 3 PM, join the Glider Discovery event for a kid-friendly, hands-on exploration of aviation. Participants discover the science that makes aircraft fly, help to assemble a full-size airplane, and build and launch their own balsa glider! There is no cost to participate and no advance registration is required.

Meet on the second floor in the Community Room. Join us for bilingual Spanish and English stories and music the whole family will love! Children of all ages will enjoy listening, singing, and playing along. Capacity limits may apply.

Reúnete en el segundo piso en la "Community Room". ¡Acompáñenos para disfrutar cuentos y música bilingües español y inglés que le encantará a toda la familia! Niños de todas edades disfrutarán escuchando, cantando y jugando juntos. Pueden aplicarse límites de capacidad.

Target Audience: Toddlers and up

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Disney’s Descendants: The Musical is a brand-new musical jam-packed with comedy, adventure, Disney characters, and hit songs from the films!

Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost – home of the most infamous villains who ever lived – the teenaged children of Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Jafar, and Cruella De Vil have never ventured off the island… until now. When the four troublemakers are sent to attend prep school alongside the children of beloved Disney heroes, they have a difficult choice to make: should they follow in their parents’ wicked footsteps or learn to be good?

The San Carlos Children's Theater cast is made up of students from San Carlos Middle and Upper Elementary schools.

There are four performances:

• January 20 - 7:00 PM
• January 21 - 1:00 PM
• January 21 - 7:00 PM
• January 22 - 1:00 PM

Target Audience: All ages

Join us in front of The Reading Bug for 30 minutes of stories and music! You can now listen to Reading Bug Adventures music on spotify or your favorite streaming service to practice your moves!

Join Museum of San Carlso History docents John Durkin and Past Mayor Tom Davids for a walk through the heart of San Carlos, recalling our cities past and considering our future. Walkers start at 9am, at the Youth Center and end at the San Carlos Museum at around 10:30.

You will learn:

• Why so many restaurants on Laurel St. ?
• Where was the Greater San Francisco Speedway?
• What is the future of Laurel St. ?
• What is the history behind Laurel St. Park?

Space is limited. Please register at johnfdurkin@yahoo.com or call 650-703-4827.

Target Audience: Adults and children able to walk from Burton Park across town to the San Carlos Museum.

Have a sunny, warm windowsill and an interest in gardening? Come learn how to plant and care for seedlings of tomatoes, peppers, as well as propagating blackberry and raspberry from cuttings. At the end of the training, attendees are encouraged to take a tray of seedlings home to foster for San Carlos-based non-profit Each Green Corner. All seedlings grown through the Seedling Starter program are planted in local school and community center gardens to grow food for donation! Seedling trays typically remain with volunteers for 4 weeks.

Target Audience: Everyone

Know your rook from your knight? Drop in this hour to learn the strategic game of chess, and challenge yourself and an opponent. Basic instruction, chessboards and sets will be provided. All levels, from beginner to Grandmaster, are invited to play!

Target Audience: Best for ages 7+

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Join for a fun, LEGO-themed bike safety event teaching K-8 youth safe riding skills, rules of the road and basic bike maintenance/roadside repair. Includes a riding practice skills course, donuts & prizes.

Rain Date: Sunday, January 29, 2023

Target Audience: Riders of all ages.

Come along for an active, playful family storytime. Hear new stories and get your wiggles out with the whole family. We'll play and learn together!

Target Audience: Toddlers and up

BikeMobile offers a free, hands-on repair clinic to help people of all ages get back on their bikes and gain confidence performing future maintenance. First come, first served. Sponsored by San Carlos Library and BikeMobile.

Target Audience: All ages of bicycle riders, especially youth

This book sale is held by the Friends of the San Carlos Library. Choose from thousands of books, CDs, DVDs, and more in gently-used and like-new condition. Items are for all ages in all genres at incredibly low prices—from 25 cents to $2—plus a great selection of rare books, priced individually. Proceeds benefit the library. Sale occurs the primarily on the 3rd Sunday of each month, with some exceptions.

Let's celebrate the Lunar New Year! To welcome the Year of the Rabbit, drop in to make DIY red envelopes and origami rabbits. Stick around to watch the White Crane Lion Dance at 4:00 PM.Target Audience: 6 - 18

The famous SF Leung's White Crane will bring you a traditional lion dance to celebrate Lunar New Year. The colorful and spectacular lion will give you a unique experience of East Asia.Target Audience: All ages

Meet on the second floor in the Community Room. Join us for bilingual Spanish and English stories and music the whole family will love! Children of all ages will enjoy listening, singing, and playing along. Capacity limits may apply.

Reúnete en el segundo piso en la "Community Room". ¡Acompáñenos para disfrutar cuentos y música bilingües español y inglés que le encantará a toda la familia! Niños de todas edades disfrutarán escuchando, cantando y jugando juntos. Pueden aplicarse límites de capacidad.

Target Audience: Toddlers and up

Carling for an adult family member? Learn about the impact of Alzheimer’s, the difference between Alzheimer’s and Dementia, stages and risk factors, treatments available to address some symptoms, and resources.

Join Each Green Corner for a day of harvesting local produce (citrus aplenty!) for donation to Second Harvest and Samaritan House. With a goal of donating 1,000 lbs of backyard produce during Week of the Family, volunteer harvesters will be critical to gleaning, collecting, and sorting our donations! Volunteers will start the morning with a brief training on proper harvest technique and equipment use, and will then fan out across San Carlos to set harvest locations.

Target Audience: 5+ All minors require adult supervision

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Have a bountiful citrus tree, fragrant herb garden or other backyard produce? Help Each Green Corner reach our goal of gleaning 1,000 lbs of produce from San Carlos gardens during Week of the Family for donation to Second Harvest and Samaritan House! San Carlos-based non-profit Each Green Corner will provide trained volunteers to harvest per your instructions on location and amount, or can pick up pre-harvested produce.

Target Audience: Everyone

Know your rook from your knight? Drop in this hour to learn the strategic game of chess, and challenge yourself and an opponent. Basic instruction, chessboards and sets will be provided. All levels, from beginner to Grandmaster, are invited to play!

Target Audience: Best for ages 7+

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The San Carlos Lions Club is hosting our annual Crab Dinner. Support a number of community projects.

Cost: $65 per meal (Crab, Pasta, Salad, Garlic Bread & Dessert)