The 2025 OHEN Resource Fair will be held Friday Sept. 5th at Oaks Amusement Park. Add your business to our notification list at vendor@OHEN.org
with Supporting Sponsors
Join us at Oaks Park’s annual Not Back to School Day event on September 5, 2025, 11am to 3pm. Special day of rides just for homeschoolers and their families, with 40% off the regular retail prices for ride bracelets! Click HERE to read Oaks Park’s homeschool policies and to get your advance tickets!
OHEN’s own NBTSD tradition, the Homeschool Resource and Curriculum Fair, will be held indoors in the Dance Pavilion, from 11am to 3pm. Note that the Resource Fair starts an hour before the rides open and closes an hour before the rides close!. We’ll be hosting a variety of displays and activities for you this year:
- Commercial vendors and activities for your homeschool life (books! projects! classes! volunteer opportunities!)
- Individual and home-based vendors (tutors, private lessons, field trips, home-based business)
- ASK OHEN table staffed with volunteers to answer all your homeschooling questions. Five-minute presentations on topics of interest throughout the day.
- Curriculum Fair! (click for more information) Bring your used curriculum to sell on consignment or shop for items of interest.
- KIDSPACE for little ones and their grown-ups who need a break from the excitement of the day.
Make plans to visit the Resource Fair in the Dance Pavilion during the day!
Vendors featured in the Resource Fair will have interactive projects and giveaways for you!
OpenEd – Indoor Sun prints and field trip sign-up
Village Home – Find the Otter game
Classical Conversations – Exploratory Science projects
Northwest Reading Clinic – Literacy games & activities
Squirrel Power Books LLC – Chicken craft & coloring pages
Damsel in Defense – Coloring sheets with crayons
Knowledge Seekers Homeschool Collective – Bubble wands and bookmarks
Ethos Music Center – Try out small musical instruments & coloring pages
Metropolitan Youth Symphony
Echo Theater Company – Learn to juggle & explore circus arts
British Swim School – Sensory tables & prize wheel
Harmony Road Oregon – Try out rhythm instruments & a coloring book
Oregon Association for Talented and Gifted – Coloring pages
Grumblepug Press – Use a kaleidoscope, puzzle, coloring pages
Alliance Charter Academy – Coloring pages
Northwest Fencing Center – Fencing demonstrations
Portland Symphonic Girlchoir – Explore “Blue Jello”, a unique rhythm reading program, and the Solfege system
Trackers Earth – Color pages & small hand craft activity
Oregon Rainbow for Girls – Spin the wheel for a prize & craft activity
Oregon Repertory Singers Youth Choir – Sheet music & small musical manipulatives
Getty-Dubay Italic – We will write out names in calligraphy
Oregon Coast Aquarium – Explore amazing facts about marine life
PDX Flying Squads – Coloring pages & stickers, books to browse
OSAC
Goldfish Swim School – Fish game & a pool toy
Autonomy First, Democracy Together
Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals – Hands-on with rocks, minerals, and fossils
PortraitMasters – Professional photos with QR code for optional purchase
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry – Use a microscope with digital display
Oaks Park Association – Roller Rink – Learn basics of building a roller skate & STEM games
Multnomah County Library – Prize wheel, booklists, activities
The Reframe Collective – Button making, tiny coloring books, and more
BYU Independent Study
Mt. Hood Community College – SWAG
One River School of Art and Design – Drawing activities
Evergreen Learning Pod – Dissect own pellets & explore insects up close
Oregon Destination Imagination – “Save” Gilbert Grape game
Oregon DeMolay – Spin the wheel of fortune & enter to win a JBL speaker
Girl Scouts of Oregon and SW Washington – Sun bead activity
Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum – Space STEM activities