New Canaan Parks and Recreation: West- Parent Teacher Conference Week Programs

West- Parent Teacher Conference Week Programs

ESports Gaming

Join Affinity Esports for two hours of coach-led Nintendo Switch gaming during parent-teacher conferences! Students rotate through four stations featuring Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, with mini tournaments, team challenges, and open play. Coaches emphasize teamwork and good sportsmanship. All equipment is provided.

Polar Express Robotics Workshop

Get ready for festive robotics fun! Builders will explore robotics through holiday-inspired creations, including building the Polar Express! Working with partners, students will build, code, and troubleshoot their robots while strengthening their engineering, coding, and problem-solving skills and discovering winter traditions from around the world!

Future Stars Basketball Clinic

Join Future Stars Sports Academy for a fun, two-hour basketball clinic for boys and girls! Players will practice dribbling, passing, and shooting through age-appropriate instruction, then put their skills to work in games and contests. Future Stars helps young players build confidence, learn teamwork, and have fun on the court.

My First Hot Cocoa Stand
Step into the world of cozy hot cocoa and explore being a young entrepreneur! In this class, kids will learn to make delicious hot cocoa and how to run their very own cocoa stand. From designing creative flyers and estimating profits to experimenting with tasty recipes, this class makes learning business skills fun and delicious!

Design Studio
Get ready to create, decorate, and show off your style! In Design Lab Studio, you’ll become your very own fashion designer as you customize a pair of sneakers and design a T-shirt that’s totally YOU! Use colorful tie-dye, paint pens, fun patches, and lots of cool decorating techniques to make your creations pop. Let your imagination run wild, get creative, and take home some seriously awesome wearable art!

What to Bring: A pair of new or clean white canvas sneakers (like Converse or Vans) and a white 100% cotton shirt to hold the dye.

Hands-On Pottery

Hands-On Pottery brings the studio to you! Guided by a skilled instructor, students will paint glaze designs on a bowl and mug, perfect for holiday gifts. After painting, the pieces are taken to the studio for firing, then delivered back the following week. The finished pottery is food-safe and dishwasher-safe, ready to be used and enjoyed at home!

Mad Science
Join us this holiday season for hands-on science experiments in our Winter Wonder Lab! Come make snow magically appear, create glistening icy slime; discover rainbows and glowing holiday lights, simulate North Pole storms, and much, much more!

Crafty Kids

Let’s get festive and messy with Crafty Kids! Kids will turn everyday recyclables into festive holiday creations as they try out new crafting techniques, get creative with friends, and put their own spin on each project. Dress for a mess and get ready to bring home a holiday masterpiece!

Register	Activity	Ages	Grades	Days	Date/Time	Fees

Registration Unavailable View Registration Eligibility	Hands on Pottery (1-4)	N/A	1 - 4	Tu	12/01/2026 12:45 PM - 02:45 PM West School	$45.00 Res


Registration Unavailable View Registration Eligibility	Design Studio (1-4)	N/A	1 - 4	Tu	12/01/2026 12:45 PM - 02:45 PM West School	$45.00 Res


Registration Unavailable View Registration Eligibility	Mad Science (2-4)	N/A	2 - 4	Tu	12/01/2026 12:45 PM - 02:40 PM West School	$45.00 Res


Registration Unavailable View Registration Eligibility	ESPORTS Gaming (1-4)	N/A	1 - 4	W	12/02/2026 12:45 PM - 02:45 PM West School	$45.00 Res


Registration Unavailable View Registration Eligibility	Crafty Kids (2-4)	N/A	2 - 4	W	12/02/2026 12:45 PM - 02:45 PM West School	$45.00 Res


Registration Unavailable View Registration Eligibility	Mad Science (K-2)	N/A	K - 2	W	12/02/2026 12:45 PM - 02:45 PM West School	$45.00 Res


Registration Unavailable View Registration Eligibility	Polar Express Robotics Workshop (1-4)	N/A	1 - 4	Th	12/03/2026 12:45 PM - 02:45 PM West School	$45.00 Res


Registration Unavailable View Registration Eligibility	Future Stars Basketball Clinic (K-4)	N/A	K - 4	Th	12/03/2026 12:45 PM - 02:45 PM West School	$45.00 Res

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Hands on Pottery (1-4)

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1 - 4

12/01/2026
12:45 PM - 02:45 PM
West School