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5 New Activities for Fall

Post Date:08/13/2025

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Fall is the perfect season to embrace change and try something new. Check out new offerings from Hillsboro Parks & Recreation for the upcoming season and find a new form of expression, learn a new language or hobby, and get a new perspective on culture.

Registration for the fall season opens at 8 am on Wednesday, August 20. The fastest and easiest way to register is online.

1. Little Linguistics (Early Childhood)

Learn about colors, shapes, animals, and daily skills in a bilingual environment! Enjoy stories read in both English and another language.

3 to 4 years
French & English: Fridays, September 5 to September 26 | 9 – 9:30 am
Spanish & English: Fridays, September 5 to September 26 | 10 – 10:30 am
Tyson Recreation Center
$40 Resident, $52 Non-Resident

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2 . STEAM Makers Space (Youth)

Get creative and practice critical thinking and porblem solving in a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) makerspace. Each week we will begin with a STEAM challenge and then you'll be invited to make your own creations with reused cardboard and other fun craft materials!

9 to 12 years
Tuesdays, September 9 to September 23 | 4:30 – 5:30 pm
Tuesdays, October 7 to October 21 | 4:30 – 5:30 pm
Hidden Creek Community Center
$40 Resident, $60 Non-Resident

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3. Make It & Take It (Adaptive Recreation)

Time to take your creativity to the next level. In this make & take craft class, you'll work on projects that help you hone your artistic ability while practicing DIY skills. Each week you'll make a new project such as designing bookmarks, beading windchimes, and DIY magnets!

This is an adaptive recreation class designed for participants who experience disability. Activities in this class will be adapted as needed for participants.

7 to 12 years
Mondays, September 29 to October 13 | 4 – 4:45 pm
Mondays, November 24 to December 8 | 4 – 4:45 pm
Hidden Creek Community Center
$35 Resident, $42 Non-Resident

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4. Cacao & Dance (All Ages)

You are warmly invited to enter the Dance Temple — a sacred space to return to your center, awaken your roots, and move in truth and freedom with artist Dama Lozano. This ceremonial offering blends the heart-opening medicine of cacao with the liberating, meditative movement of ecstatic dance, in honor of Día de los Muertos and the ancestral wisdom that lives within us. Se habla español.

1 year+
Saturday, November 22 | 9:30 – 11:30 am
Walters Cultural Arts Center
$25 Resident, $35 Resident

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5. Common Fall Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest (Adult)

Join Portland based mushroom and community science enthusiast, Leah Bendlin, and learn some of the most common and memorable mushrooms found in fall in the Pacific Northwest. We will focus on common edibles and how to tell them apart from poisonous or just otherwise tricky potential lookalikes, noting particular physical features and habitats that will help you identify them on our own. Short nature walk will follow presentation.
Appropriate for all levels. Dress for the weather.

16 years+
Saturday, October 4 | 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Jackson Bottom Wetlands Classroom
$25 Resident, $30 Non-Resident

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