Kids Culture 05.04.17

Peconic Family Fun

Peconic Family Fun Day, a free children’s environmental carnival, will be held on Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton. The morning will include activities to encourage recycling, sustainable agriculture, water management, and environmental stewardship. A range of groups, including the South Fork Natural History Museum, the Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt, Amber Waves Farm, the Quogue Wildlife Refuge, the Southampton Animal Shelter, and Group for the East End, are co-sponsoring the event and will help to celebrate the East End’s ecosystems, environments, and estuaries.

Tomorrow, CMEE’s monthly Pizza and Pajama Night from 6 to 7:30 will include a reading of Julie Fogliano’s “And Then It’s Spring.” The night is free for museum members, $12 for everyone else.

Across the street at the South Fork Natural History Museum, families can explore the field behind the museum on guided nature walks at 10:30 and 11:15 a.m. on Saturday.

May Fair in Sag

Our Sons and Daughters School will hold its annual May Fair on Saturday from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the school grounds in Sag Harbor. Kids can build a fairy house, dig for crystals, hand-dye a silk cape, or make a flower crown during the fair, which will also include games, face painting and other crafts, healthy treats, and a puppet show. The cost is $20 for a family with one child, and $10 for each additional child. There will also be a bake sale and raffle.

Our Sons and Daughters, a Waldorf school, is at 11 Carroll Street. In case of rain, the fair will be held on Sunday.

Drawing and Painting

Paton Miller, an artist and educator who curated “East End Collected 3” at the Southampton Arts Center on Job’s Lane, will lead a children’s drawing and painting workshop there on Saturday. The cost is $20, which includes materials. The workshop runs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and is open to children 8 and older. Registration is online at southamptonartscenter.org.

Moms and Jobs

Job searches and Mother’s Day will get attention this week at the local libraries.

High school students considering entering the world of work can get some tips on putting together a résumé during a workshop on Saturday at 11 a.m. at the East Hampton Library. Even those without work experience will learn how to highlight their accomplishments to give them an extra boost as they search for summer jobs and internships. Those who already have résumés have been asked to take them. Laptops will be available.

On Tuesday at 4 at the library, sixth through eighth graders can use old magazine pages and comic strips to create bangle bracelets finished with a clear gloss. A Mother’s Day story and craft will be on the agenda for kids 4 to 6 on Wednesday at 4 p.m. On Friday, May 12, at 3:30, kids 4 and older can learn to make paper bag piñatas.

At the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor, the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a job fair for high school students on Monday from 6 to 7 p.m. The fair seeks to pair businesses with teens seeking summer or after-school work or internships.

The Montauk Library will celebrate Mother’s Day early with tea and cookies on Saturday at 3 p.m. Kids 4 and older will have a chance to decorate cookies and then enjoy their creations with lemonade or iced tea. On Tuesday, the library will hold a Mother’s Day card and craft session for ages 4 and up at 4 p.m.

At the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton, kids that age can join in a printmaking workshop tomorrow at 4 p.m. A program on Friday, May 12, will have kids working on Mother’s Day canvas art.

The library will host a teen bus trip to the Bronx Zoo on Saturday, with the bus leaving Bridgehampton at 8 a.m. and returning at 6:30 p.m. The cost is $20.

Advance registration is required for all programs.