Free Kids Day Festival 2025 Supports Siskiyou County Communities

What is better than a Kids Day Festival with games, craft, food, and activities that is completely free for the whole family?

The current image has no alternative text. The file name is: DSC_0088-scaled.jpg — The Earth Circle Drum Group sat under the Kids Day Festival banner and played during the day and even let children see their drums. (Shareen Strauss)

There are so many resources offered in Siskiyou County. The Family & Community Resource Center of Weed has collaborated with Siskiyou Community Resources Collaborative, and all the other organizations to familiarize people in Siskiyou County with all the supportive programs that are offered at Kids Day Festival 2025.

Siskiyou Humane Society had buckets for kids to build pyramids with and then knock them over.
They also brought dogs for children to play with.

Base Camp Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in Mt. Shasta demonstrates at the Festival, the art that helps build confidence along with balance and skill.

Each of the different organizations had booths with activities for all ages like games to play, crafts to do, obstacle courses to run, raffles and trinkets to give away. All of the booths provided pamphlets for parents to know what services and organizations Siskiyou County has to offer. There was free food which included pancakes and sausage, hotdogs, tacos, and fresh snacks to eat. Pacific Power sponsored Great Northern Services to hand out healthy snacks like tangerines and carrots throughout the event. Many of these service organizations are funded through grants and also through the State of California General Funds.

Weed Police Department featured their drug sniffing dog Drax with handler Officer Tim Green and Ryan Coates.

The City of Weed Police had their famous drug sniffing dog, Drax, who just three days prior to this festival sniffed out 170 lbs. of cocaine in a car in the City of Weed.

The Weed Fire Department gave children tours of one of their fire engines and let the little ones sit in the cab. The local humane society and animal rescue groups brought dogs for kids to play with. Stable Hands and Majors Place-Equine Therapy and Learning was introducing people to their variety of horse therapy programs to help youth and others in a variety of ways.

Majors Place-Equine Therapy and Learning. They brought a life-size horse for children to tag body parts

Siskiyou Public Health gave out recipe books, and the Fire Safe Council of Siskiyou County had a bouncy house and a blowup slide to play on, while WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) had little ceramics figures for kids to paint. Alpaca on the Rocks had a couple alpacas there for children to visit up close and to pet them. There were face painting booths, lots of different kinds of bubble blowing activities for children, along with the different crafts that were offered, like painting and jewelry making. There was even a swimming pool filled with bird seed that children (and a few adults) played in, along with ring toss, corn hole, an obstacle course, a magic show, a photo booth with a variety of fun masks to use, balloon tying by The Magic Delbert Lee, and Earth Circle Drum Group that entertained the audience between talks.

Dunsmuir Garden Club let children make planters to take home.

Here are some of the many community support organizations that participated at Kids Day Festival 2025:

Yreka Food Bank: A non-profit that has been serving the community for over 40 years. They have many outreach programs along with their monthly food assistance project, like a nutritional program and care for the homeless. They are having their 3rd Annual Kids Fall Harvest Festival & Food Drive on 11/2/25. They can be found on Facebook, Instagram, or their website. Contact them by calling (530) 643-2507 or at [email protected].

Healthy Families California-Home Visiting Program: Offers support and informational services for expectant and new parents, and caregivers. They can be reached by calling (530) 841-2134 or [email protected].

Shasta Head Start: Has a variety of programs including early child education and school readiness program to enhance children 0 to 5 years with social and cognitive development. Contact them at shastaheadstart.org or call (530) 241-1036.

Six Stones Wellness Center: Located at 525 N. Main St., Yreka. They help adults living with mental illness issues. Call (530) 841-0810.

Girl Scouts of Northern California: Provides safe, skill-building activities for young girls to build confidence, problem solving, and leadership. Contact them for more information at (800) 447-4475 or email at [email protected].

Shasta Community Health Center: (530) 229-5065.

Enterprise Behavioral Health Center: (530) 229-5100

BrightLife Kids: A program helping children from 0 to 12 years of age with self-esteem, study skills, and more; (888) 275-5357 or brightlife.kids/ca.

Siskiyou County CARE: Crisis assessment response and engagement. They are available 24 hours a day for suicide, substance abuse, or crisis. Their 24/7 crisis line is 988 or call (855) 765-9703.

Far Northern Regional Center: See all their programs at www.farnorthernrc.org.

Ready Siskiyou-Alerts: For wildfires, floods, storms, and other emergencies, go to alerts.readysiskiyou.gov.

Soluna: Free mental health therapy. Find them on Facebook or at www.siskiyoucrc.org or SolunaApp.com.

Youth Empowerment Siskiyou: For information call (530) 841-0844 or email [email protected].

Boys & Girls Club of Greater Shasta: Go to www.bgcgreatershasta.org or call (530) 933-5406 to find out what they are about.

Siskiyou Humane Society: It is a no-kill shelter with a cat room for visiting. (530) 926-4052.

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy: A great way to build confidence, discipline and goal setting. It is also a great outlet for high energy youth starting at 4 years of age. Go to basecampbjj.com.

Stable Hands: Has adaptive riding programs for those who want to learn about horsemanship and activities in grooming and handling horses which builds confidence and empowers those to overcome physical, mental and emotional challenges. For more information, go to www.stablehands.org or call (530) 842-3082.

Rescue Ranch: Is more than just rescuing and finding animals new homes. It also has a youth training workshop and more. www.rrdog.org or call (530) 842-0829.

Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens: Part of the Community Allies for Rural Equality and California Health Collaborative. They have a community clean-up with prizes offered on May 3rd which includes a new program called Tobacco Prevention. They are on Facebook or email at [email protected].

North State Parent: A magazine that offers family resources. Find out at www.northstateparent.com.

Siskiyou Domestic Violence and Crisis Center: www.sdvcc.org.

Nation’s Finest: Supportive services for veterans and their families. nationsfinest.org.

Majors Place-Equine Therapy and Learning: www.majorsplace.org.

Siskiyou Public Health: siskiyoucountypublichealth.gov.

All these programs and organizations are also looking for volunteers. To expand your horizons, grow socially, learn more, or help support your community, contact any of these organizations. You will benefit yourself by helping others.

Dave Mosher, Outreach and Funding Specialist said, “2025 Kids Day Festival would not have been possible without our sponsors. I want to thank them for making this wonderful and fun event so successful: The City of Weed, Edward Jones-Financial Advisor: Kevin A Charter, CFP/ChFC/RICP, Dignity Health-Mercy Hospital, Pace Engineering, Mechanics Bank, Mount Shasta and Dunsmuir Supermarket, Sousa Redi Mix, Cal-Ore, Pfeiffer Vacuum, Roseburg Lumber, Mount Shasta Ambulance, J. Harris Real Estate, Pacific Power, Castle Rock Water, Clements Waste Removal, Vyve Broadband, All Trade Services, Grocery Outlet, Crystal Geyser Water, Caldwell Banker MS, Shasta Family Care, Shasta Real Estate Group, Timber Gulch Construction, AGT CPA & Advisors, Angela Ferrari DDS, and Alpine Reality.”

Steve Bryan of Siskiyou Community Resource Collaborative says, “It’s an honor to be part of this great organization and provide this festival for Siskiyou County to get kids out to have fun. This is the largest turnout, making this event bigger than ever with over 2000 participants that came to enjoy this beautiful day at Bel Air Park. And coming this fall will be the 1st Annual North County Kids Day Festival at Minor Park in Yreka.”

Krista Weagraff is a volunteer with First 5 Siskiyou. She said, “I think it is really great to have an absolutely free event. Some of those other fairs can get costly.”

Family & Community Resource Centers are located throughout Siskiyou County. They include Dunsmuir, McCloud, Weed, Happy Camp, Montague, Mount Shasta, Scott Valley, Tulelake-Newell, and Yreka. Each resource center location is unique to its community. Call your nearest center for more information on specific services you may be interested in.