Camps and Classes for Kids in Portland, OR

French Tutoring and Private Lessons offers French classes for children and youth that can include play-based French using songs, games, movement, and hands-on activities, conversation-focused French emphasizing speaking and listening, and...

Hancock Street Preschool offers a play-based, child-directed, cooperative program where children take part in Circle Time, exploration activities, reading books aloud, and sharing stories and music. The program includes empathetic problem-solving as...

Hipcooks Hands-on Cooking Classes offers classes where participants learn to cook healthy food. The program includes sessions that focus on dazzling knife skills and Thai cooking. Hipcooks also offers a date night cooking class as one of its...

Kids Community Learning Center Summer Camp includes activities in art, science, literature, and socio-emotional learning. The program also offers indoor and outdoor play, group games, creative projects, private music lessons, Free Choice/Free Play,...

Uno Dos Tres Academy is a Spanish dual immersion preschool and childcare center. The program is a bilingual Spanish immersion child development center where teachers are fluent in both English and Spanish, and both languages are naturally spoken...

Village Preschool of Portland offers activities such as nature walks, time at a science and nature discovery table, and daily use of a spacious outdoor playground. Children engage in climbing, swinging, balancing, digging, carrying heavy loads of...

Childswork Learning Center Summer Camp is offered by Childswork Learning Center, a non-profit preschool and childcare center. The program is guided by the Education Director, Mary Beth, who also leads campus tours for interested adults. • Ages: 3–6...

Friends of the Children is a national nonprofit organization that selects and invites youth to be paired with a paid, professional mentor called a Friend. Each child gets a dedicated, one-on-one Friend who listens to their hopes and dreams and...

Mustard Seed Preschool and Kindergarten uses The Creative Curriculum for Preschool®, an award-winning, research-based curriculum that fully aligns with state early learning standards and national best practices. The program offers a variety of...

Pequeñitos Child Care Spanish Immersion Programs offers full Spanish immersion for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. The program uses the Creative Curriculum together with a Spanish immersion course of study to increase children’s Spanish...

Scuola Italiana Preschool offers an immersive preschool program that includes added Italian-language learning. The program is now enrolling for the 2025–2026 term. Adult classes connected to Scuola Italiana are held either virtually or in person at...

Small Wonders School includes freeplay, meaningful projects, monthly thematic units, and thematic explorations. The educational programs follow child-directed themes, with monthly thematic units based on the children’s interests. Children study a...

Children of the Sea Swim School offers swim lessons, a swim team, Family Open Swim, and Adapted Open Swim in an enclosed pool with 91-degree water. The program includes small classes and offers classes for all ages starting at 4 months and up. It is...

GOswim Swimming Lessons offers weekly GOswim swimming lessons, Learn to Swim GOswim, adult swimming lessons, and a Development Squad. The program also offers a School Swimming Program, a 1 week Holiday Swim Program that can be used for either a Fast...

Parkrose Pool Swim Lessons offers private swimming lessons, semi-private swimming lessons, and group swim lessons. The program also includes the Blue Crush Competitive Team and follows a Blue Crush Swim Progression Pathway with 10 levels, from...

Private Kids Swim Lessons and Swim Club offers one-on-one private kids swim lessons and a swim club that includes swim team activities. Children take part in drills, learn flip turns, and practice techniques to get faster, with options that include...

Teen Programs at Portland Center Stage include activities such as PCS Movie Night: The Lion King (1994) and improvisation classes for beginners. The program also offers a Foundations of Improvisation six-week course and Improv Comedy: Love,...

The Plex Youth Soccer Programs include Lil’ Kickers youth soccer classes, the Skills Institute youth soccer development program, and The Plex Summer Camp. The program also offers open play, rentals, and birthday events. In addition to youth options,...