Camps and Education 2025-2026 School Open House Guide – January Looking for a school for your child in the Portland Metro area for 2025-2026? Check out our January School Open House Guide! NW Kids
Food and Drink Family-Friendly Cocoa Adventures: The Best Places for Hot Cocoa in Portland with Kids Portland, Oregon, is full of kid-friendly spots that serve up magical mugs of hot cocoa perfect for warming up little hands and hearts. NW Kids
Issues January 2025 Happy New Year! Whether it’s the product of cultural conditioning or just good, old fashioned optimism, the new year always ushers in the anticipation of fresh possibilities and opportunities that are just waiting to be revealed. Mary Brady
Events and Outings Hanukkah Events 2024 This year, Hanukkah begins on the evening of December 25th. We’ve rounded up a short list of events to help build community, learn something new, shop for gifts, or enjoy some delicious bites. NW Kids
Camps and Education Winter Break Camps 2024 Are you making plans for how to keep your kids busy, engaged and happy during the upcoming school breaks? Look no further! We’ve rounded up a fantastic list of options. NW Kids
No School November and Winter Break Camps & Classes 2024 Are you making plans for how to keep your kids busy, engaged and happy during the upcoming No School November, Thanksgiving & Winter school breaks? Look no further! We’ve rounded up a fantastic list of options.
2024 Holiday Events & Performances The Holidays are a magical time and Portland never fails to offer endless opportunities to get out and celebrate them.
December 2024 The holiday season is in full swing! Our November issue featured the first guide to all of the festive events and performances of the year and this issue has even more.
Pumpkin Patches & Harvest Fun 2024 The time has come to pack up the family and head out to find the perfect pumpkins, apples, cider donuts and other autumn time fun! From Sauvie Island to Vancouver and everywhere in between, we’ve rounded up a list of spots to hit.
Explore The MAiZE at the Pumpkin Patch The MAiZE at the Pumpkin Patch on Sauvies Island is one of more than 75 farms in North America selected by Peanuts Worldwide to create a Peanuts maze this year.
Uniting Families Across the World Through Surrogacy Krystle is a married mom of three boys, has a degree in chemical engineering, is a postpartum doula, and is the intended parent coordinator for a local surrogacy agency, All Families Surrogacy.
Issues November 2024 Welcome, November! Or, as parents of school age children call it, No School November. Between Thanksgiving, Veterans Day and teacher-in-service days, after school programs and camps are even more appreciated than usual. Mary Brady
Camps and Education 2024-2025 School Open House Guide – October Looking for a school for your child in the Portland Metro area for 2024-2025? Check out our October School Open House Guide! Click on image below to view guide For more School Open Houses, check out our events calendar! NW Kids
Events and Outings Get Out & Play! October’s Spooky (and not-so-spooky) Events! In addition to all of the regular pumpkin patches and apple picking activities of the season, October is filled to the brim with fun to be had for all ages and interests! Check out our list below and, as always, head to our online events calendar to see even more: nwkidsmagazine. Mary Brady
Issues October 2024 Fall is here, the kids are settling back into their school routines and summer is just a sweet memory. Mary Brady
Resource Guides 2024-2025 Birthday Party Guide Birthdays are special and we are lucky to live in an area with endless ways to make them even MORE special! Are you looking for a venue, sweet treat, activity or performer? You will find them all here – and then some! CAKES, TREATS & EVERYTHING SWEET Candy Lolli & Pops lolliandpops. NW Kids
Issues September 2024 Welcome, September! This summer, like so many, has flown by far too quickly. The September issue of NW Kids is our annual Birthday Party Guide and this year’s is a pretty great one, if we do say so ourselves. Mary Brady