Hospitals and clinics can be scary places for kids, so to help reduce that fear, Children’s Hospital Oakland is holding a Teddy Bear Clinic, where stuffed animals are treated for ailments and children get to be the doctors.

Kids can take a stuffed animal or doll to the clinic June 4 to get a cast put on or undergo an MRI.

Children will be encouraged to pick a free teddy bear and books; learn about the hospital with hands-on activities; be the doctor; watch live performances by Tiny Rock, the Peter Pan Foundation, and children’s author Elisa Kleven; play games; get their faces painted; and take part in raffle drawings.

Kids also can read to miniature ponies that will be at the clinic.

The clinic will be open 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 4 at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, 747 52nd St. (Hospital courtyard; enter through gate at 52nd and Dover streets)

For more information, email kcraft@mail.cho.org.