Bend Family Loop: Week of Mar. 2-5

Hi there,

What? It’s March? Maybe this wonky winter is messing with my sense of time, but here we are! The High Desert Museum switched over to summer hours! Daylight Savings time is a week away! And did you notice the daffodils are pushing up around town?

In this week’s Loop:

Let’s jump right in!

–Megan

Here are some upcoming dates to stick onto your calendar!

Summer camp registrations:

⛺️ Plan ahead for summer! I compiled all the summer day camp info I could find into this 2026 Summer Camps Guide! It’s an easy reference for what’s available for different age groups and interests, along with registration opening dates and link.

Here’s what’s happening this week!

🫟 Toddler Time: Messy Monday!
9am–12pm • Ages 5 & under • More info
📍Mountain Air (20495 Murray Rd. #150)

Get some big energy out in the trampoline park, then head to the activity room for some fun (and messy!) sensory play.

🌋 Backpack Explorers: Volcano!
10am–11am • Ages 3–5 • Register
📍High Desert Museum (59800 US-97)

Learn all about volcanoes! Explore the Under Pressure exhibit with museum staff, followed by fun volcano activities.

📚 Preschool Story Time
10:30am–11am • Ages 3–5 • Free
📍Deschutes Historical Museum (129 NW Idaho Ave)

A lively storytime packed with stories, songs, and rhymes to get little ones excited about reading and build early literacy skills.

👩‍🍼 Milk & Mingle
12pm–1pm • Parent event • Free • More info
📍Evermore Midwifery & Health (130 SW Century Dr. #110)

A free drop-in hour offering expert feeding support, baby weigh-ins, troubleshooting, and a chance to connect with other parents in a welcoming, no-pressure setting.

🧘 Kids Yoga
4pm–5:15pm • Ages 4+ • More info
📍Namaspa (1135 NW Galveston Ave.)

This interactive kids yoga class helps kids connect to their body and mind, and runs at the same time as the adult’s Vin/Yin class, so you can get some time on the mat, too.

🐉 Wings of Fire Book Launch Party
7am–8:30am • All ages • More info
📍Roundabout Books & Cafe (900 NW Mt. Washington Dr.)

Swing by Roundabout to for a before-school launch party for the new Wings of Fire! Enjoy a morning snack and chat with other dragon-loving bookworms.

⛸️ Parent-Tot Open Skate
10am–11:15am • All ages
📍The Pavilion (1001 Southwest Bradbury Way)

Instructors are on hand to help new skaters and their parents find their footing during this family skate session. Admission is $8 per person, includes rentals, and kids under 3 skate free!

🧘 Baby + Me Yoga
10:30am–11:30am • Ages 6 weeks–crawling • Learn more
📍Juniper Fitness (800 NE 6th St.)

Designed for parents and babies aged 6 weeks to crawling, this mindful fitness class focuses on core connection, alignment, stretching, and breathwork to help you rebuild strength postpartum.

📚 Baby Story Time
10:30am–10:45am • Ages 0-18 months • Free
📍Deschutes Children's Foundation (2125 NE Daggett Ln)

Babies 0 to 18 months are invited to this gentle 15-minute storytime featuring simple stories, songs, and rhymes crafted just for the youngest listeners."

🧚 Outdoor Enchanted Home Craft
5:30pm–7:30pm • Ages 6–15 • Register
📍Samara Learning Center (230 NE 9th St)

A hands-on workshop where kids and parents design and build a small fairy or gnome house for outdoor spaces, using natural materials and weather-resistant adhesives

💃 Family Zumba in Spanish
6:45pm–7:45pm • Ages 5+
📍Larkspur Community Center (1600 SE Reed Market Rd)

Bring the whole family to this fun Spanish-instruction Zumba class, welcoming dancers and non-dancers, Spanish and non-Spanish speakers alike, with music that makes it easy to jump right in.

🎶 Music & Making Toddler Time
9am–12pm • Ages 5 & under • More info
📍Mountain Air (20495 Murray Rd #150)

Ms. Melinda of OTB Arts leads an hour of songs, creative movement, and music during toddler jump, free with regular entry.

📚 Toddler Story Time
10:30am–10:55am • Ages 18–36 months • Free
📍Deschutes Children's Foundation (2125 NE Daggett Ln)

An energetic storytime packed with stories, songs, and movement rhymes to get kids up and moving!

📚 Family Story Time
11:30am–11:55am • Ages 0–5 • Free
📍Deschutes Children's Foundation (2125 NE Daggett Ln)

Stories, songs, and rhymes in a welcoming storytime designed to build early literacy skills and social emotional awareness in young children.

🥷 Kids Ninja Warrior After-School Camp
1:15pm–3:45pm • Ages 6–10 • Register
📍Free Spirit Bend (320 SW Powerhouse Drive #150)

Kids work through Ninja circuits & courses with Free Spirit coaches, tackling climbing, parkour, gymnastics, and team games while building coordination, balance, strength, and agility skills.

🧘 Kids Yoga
4pm–5:15pm • Ages 4+ • Register
📍Namaspa (1135 NW Galveston Ave.)

This interactive kids yoga class helps kids connect to their body and mind, and runs at the same time as the adult’s Vin/Yin class, so you can get some time on the mat, too.

🤠 Kids Line Dance Lessons
5pm–6pm • Free • Family-friendly • More info
📍The Coyote & Mindful Motion (910 NW Harriman St.)

Kids learn the basics of line dancing in this fun, free lesson, with easy-to-follow moves and upbeat music that gets everyone on their feet!

✨ Moms Rising Mothers’ Circle
6:30pm–8pm • Parent Event • Learn more
📍Ready Set Moms (19560 Sunshine Way, Bend, OR)

A supportive gathering for moms who need a reset, with expert-led exercises for clarity, real connection with other mothers, and a welcoming space to be heard and supported.

🤸 Playmania
9-11am • Ages 5 & under • More info
📍Central Oregon Gymnastics Academy (63060 Layton Ave)

A drop-in open play session packed with climbing obstacles, push cars, trampolines, a ninja course, and full access to COGA's gymnastics equipment.

🤸 Toddler Open Play w/ Bubble Party
9am–12pm • Ages 10mo–5 years • More info
📍Free Spirit Yoga Ninja Play (320 SW Powerhouse Dr. Ste 150)

Climb, jump, and slide during this open play time with obstacle courses, climbing walls, and chasing bubbles!

⛸️ With a Child Skate
9:30am–11:15am • All ages
📍The Pavilion (1001 Southwest Bradbury Way)

Lace up and hit the ice with your kiddo Open skating is $8 per person including rentals, with kids under 3 skating free.

💪 Kiddos & Me TB Strength & Core
10:30am–11:30am • Ages 3 months–4 years
📍Juniper Swim & Fitness (Juniper Swim & Fitness)

Parents can bring their babies and toddlers (3 months through age 4) to this welcoming strength and core class, using body weight, resistance bands, and stability balls.

🎨 Storytime Art
1pm–2:30pm • Ages 3-6 • Register
📍Two Suns Art Studio (70 SW Century Dr)

A play-based art class where kids explore different artists and styles through stories, guided projects, and open-ended creative stations, with both individual and group creations.

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