Denise Castañon

PDX Parent's editor Denise Castañon loves sharing new ideas with other Portland parents. You can find her cooking, eating, crafting and writing in Southeast where she lives with her husband, 5-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter.

Hands On: Melt with You

Add a little heat to transform all those broken bits of crayon into mini-masterpieces.  The amount of broken crayons rolling around my house (and, I’m guessing, yours) is staggering. Wanting a way to put them to good use, I recently started playing around with melting crayon shavings onto paper. My daughter, who loves an art […]

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Top 5 Spots for Grilled Cheese

➊ If you haven’t taken your kindergartener to eat The Kindergartener sandwich on the converted school bus at The Grilled Cheese Grill, what are you waiting for? NE Alberta at 11th Ave.➋ Olympia Provisions and Tillamook Cheese’s Melty & Meaty food truck at Pioneer Courthouse Square features a basic grilled cheese for your kiddo and more interesting combos

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Go to Your Room!

Tim and Brooke Graham moved into their three-story Piedmont home in 2007. The three-bedroom house built in 1909 has a huge basement that they started using as a play room about a year and a half ago. When the toys started taking over upstairs, Brooke realized Mabel, now 7, and Martin, now 4 ½, needed

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