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0 cm · ground level

Bend, Oregon · Outdoor preschool & forest kindergarten

Sunflower-yellow rain boots standing in a royal-blue puddle that reflects the pines above
Knee-high, all morning

Come see it at their height.

Wandering Pines runs outdoor nature preschool, forest kindergarten, homeschool enrichment, trail days and seasonal camps in Bend, Oregon. It all happens outside, and it all happens at their height. Come and look before we explain any of it.

Book a tour See the programs

Scroll ↓ you will stand up as you go

45 cm · waist height

Up a little · what we run

Programs, at the height they happen.

Six ways to spend a day outside with us. Every one of them is built around the same patch of ground your child is going to get to know with both hands.

Small hands and mud-covered boots at ground level, gathered around a puddle on a forest trail
Mid-morning on the trail. The good boots are the ones that come home dirty.
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Nature preschool

A morning outdoors with the same small crew and the same woods, week after week. Boots on, layers on, out the door.

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Forest kindergarten

The next step along: longer days in the trees, more ground covered, more weather, and more of the day spent away from base.

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Homeschool enrichment

A regular outdoor day that slots in alongside whatever you are already doing at home. Trails, tools, and whatever the season is serving.

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Trail days

One day, one trail, one group moving at the speed of the slowest pair of boots. A good way to find out how your child likes a long walk.

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Seasonal camps

Camps that follow the year around the Bend seasons — wet spring creeks, dusty summer pine, leaf-crunch autumn.

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Parent info sessions

Come without your child, ask the awkward questions, and meet the people who will be out there with them.

110 cm · hand in hand
A line of children walking a forest trail seen from behind at adult eye level
A trail day in the pines.

Where the grown-ups stand

From up here you can see the whole line.

Stand on the trail at adult height and the day looks different: a straggle of small backs, a leader out front, a teacher in the middle, and someone at the back who has stopped completely to look at a beetle. That is the view from a parent's height, and it is a good one.

What comes with them

  • Boots that can take a puddle
  • A warm layer and spare socks
  • A water bottle
  • A backpack they carry themselves
150 cm · grown-up eyes

Now we are standing up

Three ways in.

You do not have to decide anything to come and look. Pick whichever door suits your family.

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Book a school tour

Come out while a session is running. Watch a morning in progress and ask us everything on the walk.

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Join a parent info session

Grown-ups only, with proper time for questions and no one tugging at your sleeve.

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Send the form

Tell us a little about your child and we will come back with tour times and session dates. Go to the form

Book a tour See a morning outside
Children crouched around a puddle with an educator a few steps back, seen from adult height on a forest trail
A morning outdoors, seen from the middle of it.
170 cm · standing tall

Last stop · adult height

Save your spot on a tour.

Tours and parent info sessions are the fastest way to see whether this fits your family. Tell us a little about your child and we will come back with times.

Tall pines along a forest trail in soft morning light
Morning in the pines, before anyone arrives.
Trail register

A few lines is plenty. Only your name and email are needed.