Kids Culture 05.14.15

All About Stop-Motion

Families will explore and create stop-motion animation tomorrow night at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill as artists from the Good School guide them in building sets and using professional animation software from 5:30 to 7:30. The evening’s fun is free with museum admission. Reservations are not required.

Books on Screen

This afternoon at 5 the East Hampton Library’s series of teen movies, Books on Screen, will feature “The Maze Runner,” based on the post-apocalyptic young-adult novel by James Dashner. It is rated PG-13.

Younger kids, ages 4 to 6, can enjoy a ladybug-themed story and craft time on Tuesday from 4 to 5 p.m. Advance registration has been requested.

Creature Characteristics

Animals from the South Fork Natural History Museum will pay a visit to the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton tomorrow from 4 to 5 p.m., and educators will tell children about each creature’s special characteristics and habits.

Also tomorrow, from 7 to 9 p.m., kids 12 and older will take over the library (sort of) for a young-adult screening of “Mockingjay Part 1.”

Ribbit, Ribbit

After listening to a story about a wide-mouth frog, children will have a chance to make their own on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at the Amagansett Library. On Sunday at 2 p.m., the library will celebrate children’s book authors who have birthdays in May, among them Mo Willems, Arnold Lobel, and Margret Rey.

Planting Party

The trowels will be at the ready at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton on Saturday for a planting party starting at 10 a.m. Last month, museum visitors helped plant seeds. Now that they’ve grown into seedlings, children have been invited back to move them into the museum’s garden.

Sima will be at CMEE on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. for her monthly story time. Both programs this weekend are free with museum admission.