Do your kids enjoy sliding across a freshly waxed gymnasium floor? Try sock skating at the Chabot Space & Science Center. Originally planned as an ice rink substitute, the center’s popular holiday attraction has been extended through Feb. 1. 

Two sock-skating rinks, one for the little ones, are made from the same polycarbonate material used on practice hockey rinks.

Admission to the rinks is included with general admission Fridays through Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bring your holiday fuzzy socks or buy a pair on site. 

Visitors can view the night sky inside the planetarium’s 70-foot dome. If the weather is good, Chabot’s three historic telescopes perched 1,500 feet above the Bay are also open every Friday and Saturday night.

For more information and tickets, visit www.chabotspace.org. 

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.