Kids Culture 04.30.15
Family Fun Day
The Peconic Family Fun Day, an environmental carnival at the Children’s Museum of the East End on Saturday, will celebrate the area’s ecosystems and estuaries with games, arts and crafts, and other activities from 10 a.m. to noon.
The event, now in its sixth year, is cosponsored by a long list of organizations, among them the Group for the East End, South Fork Natural History Museum, the Peconic Land Trust, Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt, Sylvester Manor Education Farm, the Ross School, Amaryllis Farm, Southampton Hospital’s Tick-Borne Disease Resource Center, and the East End Community Organic Farm.
They will offer programs to encourage water management, recycling, and environmental stewardship and awareness. There will also be live animals, a seed planting station, tastings, and music.
Also on Fun Day
Across the Sag Harbor-Bridgehampton Turnpike at the South Fork Natural History Museum, family nature walks are planned for 10:30 and 11:15 a.m. that day. All Peconic Family Fun Day activities are free.
Also on Saturday, at 2 p.m. Crystal Possehl of the South Fork Natural History Museum will lead a family forest walk at the Stony Hill Preserve in Amagansett. Participants will search for flowers and insects, make leaf rubbings, and examine their finds under magnifying glasses.
Back at the museum on Sunday at 10 a.m., spring awakenings will be the subject of a program for 4 to 6-year-olds. They will learn about animals and plants that emerge from long winter’s naps and search for some of them in the field behind the museum. Advance registration is requested for this workshop and for the afternoon walk on Saturday.
Rounding Up Young Cowgirls
Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls will launch a new Young Cowgirls Theater Company on Saturday at Guild Hall. Through dramatic exercises, games, journaling, and improv, among other activities, girls 8 to 13 will explore issues they care about while creating their own short dance pieces.
The company will gather on Saturdays from 10 to 11:30 a.m. through May 23; on Wednesdays from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on May 6, 12, and 20, and on May 24 at 10 a.m. in advance of a final performance at noon that day. The cost is $200 per person, or $180 for members of Guild Hall. Registration is with Jennifer Brondo at [email protected] or 324-0806, extension 25.
Puppets in Montauk
Liz Joyce and a Couple of Puppets from the Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre in Sag Harbor will head to Montauk on Saturday. The puppeteer will present “King Midas” at 2 p.m. at the Montauk Library. Admission will be free.
At Gansett Library
At the Amagansett Library, Sarah Shepherd, an herbalist, will work with children from 3 to 12 to make spring sachets on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. Advance registration is required as space is limited.
Those in second grade and above can make their own mini books at the library on Sunday at 2 p.m. and Monday at 3.
And Hampton Library
Kids 12 and older will use old book pages to decorate boxes on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton. Tuesday brings a Cinco de Mayo celebration of Mexican culture from 4 to 5 p.m., with a sampling of the music, art, and food of our neighbors to the south.
In a workshop tomorrow at 4:30, kids can make sun catchers to decorate the windows at home.
And John Jermain Library
You can’t be a superhero without a mask, can you? Kids 3 and older will make superhero masks for a hero of their own design on Saturday at 11 a.m. at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor. And there will be free comic books for those who take part.
On Sunday, children 6 to 10 who are learning to read will have a chance to practice their skills and build confidence by reading to Keiko, a trained service dog. Appointments can be made for short reading sessions between 1 and 2 p.m.