Kids Culture 05.05.16
LongHouse’s Family Day
Saturday is Family Day at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. there will be tours on the half-hour as well as activities for children and snacks for young visitors who work up an appetite exploring the gardens. East End students will perform throughout the property. Admission is free during the Family Day hours. The gardens will remain open for paying visitors until 5 p.m. that day.
Peconic Fun Day at CMEE
Activities for the whole family will also be on the agenda at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton on Saturday when the museum and more than a dozen other organizations and businesses host the annual Peconic Family Fun Day from 10 a.m. to noon.
The celebration of the East End’s ecosystems, estuaries, and environments will include games, arts and crafts, seed planting, and music. There will be local food to sample and live animals to meet. At 10, Southampton Hospital and East End Tick will present an educational program for kids on tick awareness and tick-borne illnesses, delivered in the form of an interactive puppet show. The Bridgehampton School’s marimba band will perform, and there will be guided walks and an opportunity to make fish-print T-shirts.
Among the many co-sponsors of the event are Amaryllis Farm, the South Fork Natural History Museum, Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt, the Quogue Wildlife Refuge, the Long Island Aquarium, the Peconic Estuary Program, and Group for the East End. Admission is free.
Crafts for Mother’s Day
Children too busy with school and sports — and all the activities Mom has been driving them to — to stop and take note of their mother in advance of her special day will be given a chance to make up for that this weekend at the Amagansett and East Hampton Libraries.
On Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon, the East Hampton Library will provide the materials for teens to make a last-minute Mother’s Day gift: a box to hold something special.
Families can make magnets together at 1:30 p.m. on Mother’s Day at the Amagansett Library. Materials will be provided; reservations are not necessary. At the East Hampton Library at 3 p.m., kids can stop in with their moms for a Mother’s Day story time and card workshop.
Also at the East Hampton Library this week, children 4 and older can make rattles and tambourines during a workshop on Wednesday at 4 p.m. In a two-part workshop that meets on Wednesday and May 18 from 4 to 5 p.m., students in fourth through eighth grades will learn to create a basic video game using the Kodu program and to program their main character.
Advance registration is required.
Tennis and Golf Clinics
Tennis clinics for kindergartners through sixth graders begin next week at the East Hampton Youth Park on Abraham’s Path in Amagansett. Sessions for those in kindergarten and first grade will meet on Wednesdays from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. through June. The second and third-grade session will run from 6:30 to 7:30. Kids in fourth through sixth grade can learn the basics or improve their skills on Fridays from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. starting May 13.
The cost is $45 per child. Registration is at the East Hampton Town Parks and Recreation Department or the Montauk Playhouse Community Center.
The Recreation Department will also offer golf clinics at Montauk Downs State Park on Sundays from May 15 through June 19. Kids in kindergarten through second grade will take to the greens from 9 to 10 a.m. or 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.; those in third through sixth grade will take over from noon to 1 p.m. Sign-up is at Montauk Downs in advance of the start date. The cost is $125 per person.