Kids Culture 03.12.15

Soccer Skills and Drills

A skills and drills soccer program run by East Hampton Town for budding athletes in kindergarten through second grade began on Saturday at the Montauk Playhouse Community Center and will run weekly from 2 to 4 p.m. through April 11. The cost for the program is $25. Registration is at the playhouse or at the Recreation Department.

Leprechaun Hats

Before the short and family-friendly Am O’Gansett Parade on Saturday, kids can stop by the Amagansett Library to make their own leprechaun hats to wear while they watch. The materials will be out at 10:30 a.m. After the festivities, at 3:30 p.m., families can stop in again at the library for Irish tales and a chance to decorate a lucky shamrock box.

Prints and Compasses

At the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton on Saturday, kids 3 to 6 can work with homemade paints to make patterned prints from 10 to 10:45 a.m. The cost is $22, including museum admission, or $10 for members. At the same time, 7 to 10-year-olds can learn the science of magnetism and experiment with compasses in a drop-off workshop that runs till 11. The cost is $15, not including admission to the museum, and $12 for members. Advance registration has been requested for both workshops.

Sima will be at the museum to tell stories on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. in a program that is free with museum admission.

For St. Pat’s

For St. Patrick’s Day on Tuesday, the East Hampton Library will have a holiday-themed story and craft time for 4 to 6-year-olds from 4 to 5 p.m. “The Lorax,” a new version of the Dr. Seuss classic, will be shown on the big screen downstairs in the children’s wing next Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Fun With the MakerBot

Kids 7 and older will learn to create and print things on the Hampton Library’s 3-D MakerBot printer on Tuesday from 4 to 5 p.m. At 6, teens will take a turn with the printer. Space is limited in the workshops so advance sign-up is required. Tomorrow, kids 4 and older can make rainbow handprints from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

April Theater Camp

Looking ahead to the April school break, the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor is planning another of its popular vacation theater camps for 7 to 12-year-olds. It will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day from April 6 through 10 and will include acting, singing, dance, and general performance instruction with some improv and theater games thrown in. The cost is $385 for the week; advance registration is required at baystreet.org.

Tech Celebration

Tweens and teens can play Minecraft on the Montauk Library’s computers or iPads, or their own, during a tech celebration on Saturday. Students in grades three through six have been invited from 2 to 2:45 p.m. and older kids will be welcomed from 2:45 to 3:30 p.m.