Westport Playkin
Every Westport kids’ event. Matched to your child’s age.
One calm calendar of storytimes, animal programs, sports, shows and playground meetups across Westport and nearby towns — filtered by your kids’ birthdays, so you only ever see what fits them. See who else is going, spot friends, and turn an ordinary event into a playdate.
Request an invite See how it works
Invitation-only for Westport families · The calendar itself is private — this page is the front door.
Point your phone camera at the code to open Westport Playkin. Invited families go straight into the calendar; families without an invite land on the request-an-invite form.
6 kids going · Friends going: Mia, Noah · Open to a playdate after
Example event shown for illustration.
Events are gathered every morning from venues across Westport and nearby towns — the Library, Earthplace, Wakeman Town Farm, Parks & Rec, the YMCA, the Country Playhouse, MoCA and many more — and each source is shown only once its feed is verified with real events.
Founding 100 Families — free for life
The first 100 Westport families to join pay nothing, ever. Free for as long as your family has a child in the program’s age range and lives in Westport.
Every kid in the family included. A spot locks in once you’ve added a child and marked a first event as going.
Pay only for the children on the calendar.
Covers all your kids — the better deal from three children up.
And $1 of every monthly membership goes to The Westport Library.
How it works
Parents run everything. Kids never sign up themselves, and nothing about your family is public.
- Request an invite. Access is by invitation only, for Westport families. Your invite arrives as a personal, single-use link tied to your email — it can’t be forwarded to strangers.
- Add your kids by birthday, school & grade. Enter each child’s birthday, school and grade once. The exact date stays private — the system works out the age, and age and grade together decide which events each child sees. School and grade also help friends recognize each other — a classmate is much easier to spot than a first name alone.
- See only their events. The calendar opens on “For my kids” — a 4-year-old never wades through teen robotics, and a 10-year-old never sees toddler storytime. With two kids, you see the combined set, each event labeled with which child it fits.
- See who else is going. Every event shows how many kids are going and who they are — friends first, by name. Spotting a familiar face is what turns an event into a meetup.
- Flip “Open to Playdates.” A per-kid, per-event switch you control. On means other families can see you’re going and say hello. Off means you’re counted quietly, and nobody sees your name.
A peek at the calendar
Preview of the private calendar’s layout: a day shows only a count and a friends marker — tap a day for that day’s short list, friends first, grouped by time of day. Example events shown for illustration.
You decide who sees you
The Open to Playdates switch is per child, and you can set it event by event. Inside, it looks like this:
Friends are parent-approved on both sides. There are no public profiles, no messaging between kids, and no photos of children.
A week in Westport, without the hunting
Events are gathered every morning, then sorted by what your kids actually like to do, not by who published them.
- Storytime — library mornings & rhyme times
- Animals & Nature — Earthplace, farms, trails
- Sports — clinics, leagues & open gyms around town
- Arts & Making — workshops, crafts & maker time
- Shows — family matinees & performances
- Playdates — meetups posted by parents like you
Private by design, Westport only
This isn’t a public social network. It’s a closed calendar for local families, and the privacy controls are the product.
- Invitation-only. No invite, no calendar — a visitor without one sees only this page and the request form.
- Westport families only. Signup checks your town and ZIP (06880); events reach into nearby towns, membership doesn’t.
- Parents hold the accounts. Children are added by a parent, by birthday; kids never create accounts or message anyone.
- Visibility is yours. With Open to Playdates off, your child is an anonymous part of the count — never a name.
- Friends need two yeses. A friend connection only exists when both families approve it.
How invitations work
Invites go out in small batches, starting with the Founding 100. Each one is a unique link tied to that parent’s email and valid for a limited time.
Once you’re in, you’ll be able to invite a handful of Westport families yourself — a class list, a preschool group, a team — so your kids’ real friends are the ones who show up as “going.”
Invites can be paused or revoked at any time, and the list stays Westport-only.
Request an invite
Founding 100 requests are answered first, in the order they arrive. The request form lives inside the app — one tap takes you there.
Request an inviteWe’ll only ever email you about your invitation. No marketing list, no sharing your details, and children’s birthdays are never displayed to anyone.
Westport Playkin — a private calendar for Westport families.
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