Weekend Warriors: 2/3-2/5
Here’s the scoop for the weekend. For more ideas on what to do this weekend, check PDX Kids Calendar and the urbanMamas calendar page.
Head to Green Bean Books and join teacher, Kara, from Portland Early Learning Project, as she teaches beginning Spanish with interactive stories, songs, and games. Best for little ones. Friday at 11:15. Free!
Free admission to the Children's Museum this Friday from 4 to 8! Enjoy the exhibits, water features, railroad tracks and more free of charge.
Support Splendorporium and Art4Life Children's Gallery, a non-profit after school arts and culture program, as they open their latest Gallery show: The Pink Show. Special guest: Rojo the Therapy Llama. Friday from 7 to 9 on SE 21st near Powell. Free!
Get ready for a Raptor Road Trip on Sauvie Island this Saturday from 9 to 2. Enjoy guided bird viewing, meet live raptors up close and sharpen your hawk identification skills. Hot drinks and donuts are available in the morning to keep you warm while you breakfast with the birds. $10/vehicle.
Grab your family for Coyote Night at Tryon Creek. Learn about coyote adaptations, listen to coyote stories, make a storytelling plank hat, and go on an evening forest hike. $6/person. Saturday from 6:30-8:30. Please preregister.
B'nai B'rith Camp & The PJ Library invite you S’Mores in the City at MAC for an evening of "camp in town." Whether you are a veteran camper or exploring overnight camp for the first time, this evening is for you and your family. Geared towards families with children 6-12 years (PJ Library will host activity for younger ones). Please pre-register. Saturday from 7-8:30. $10/family.
Check out an annual FIRST Tech Challenge qualifying tournament at either the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum or OMSI. This year's challenge is called "Bowled Over" - participants will be required to lift, move, and place racquetballs in crates and then stack the crates with their robots. At the Evergreen museum beginning at 9 ($5) and at OMSI at 10 (free, museum admission not included).
Also at OMSI - $2 discounted admission this Sunday from 9:30 to 5:30.
February is black history month. Help celebrate by heading to the Central Library as it presents Black Composers of Oregon Past and Present on Sunday from 2 to 3:15. This performance is geared toward older children/teens and adults.
The Warehouse Café is hosting a Homebirth Family Social and Potluck on Sunday from 3 to 5. Bring a potluck snack to share, come meet other home birth and birth center families, and learn how you can be involved in preserving out-of-hospital birth in Oregon! Also welcome are those planning and supporters of out of hospital birth. Free!
And if this beautiful weather turns, you might want to check out one of the many amazing museums around town. PDX Kids Calendar has put together this comprehensive list of all the kid-friendly museums in the Portland area.
Hope this gives you some ideas. Have fun out there! And don't forget to double-check event details by calling or checking the website of the venue, performer, or host organization.
S'Mores in the City has been Postponed -- no new date given.
Posted by: SusanOR | February 02, 2012 at 04:34 PM