Kids Culture 05.28.15
Food Fun at CMEE
Young foodies will find much to like at the Children’s Museum of the East End this weekend. Participants in a Saturday morning workshop may not be able to ditch the salad bowl altogether, but they will get to plant all the ingredients for a salad in what will become a hanging salad ball for the museum’s garden. The workshop is for kids 7 to 10 and runs from 10 to 11 a.m. The cost is $15, not including museum admission, or $12 for members.
Also at 10 on Saturday, younger children ages 2 to 6 can make pasta from scratch with their adults. This one costs $22 including admission or $10 for members. Sunday is Waffle Day at the museum, when kids of all ages can make their own Belgian waffle brunch from 10 to 11 a.m. The cost is $20 including admission, $7 for members. The museum’s monthly Pizza and Pajama Night will be in the gardens of the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack on Friday, June 5. The evening will include a story time, pizza, and a scavenger hunt from 6 to 7:30. Members enjoy it all for free; others pay $10. Advance reservations are a must.
Nature and Color
Not everything in nature is what you’d expect it to be and not everything you find on a nature trail seems to belong there. Kids 5 to 8 will search out camouflaged creatures and things that stand out during an “un-nature” walk in East Hampton on Saturday at 2 p.m. with the South Fork Natural History Museum’s Tyler Armstrong.
On Sunday at 10 a.m. at the museum in Bridgehampton, 3 to 5-year-olds will learn about how animals and plants use color, how other creatures see color, and what it all means. Participants will then sort, mix, and match colors to create a colorful craft. There is a $5 materials fee for the class.
Advance registration is required for both.
Birds, Bears, and Reptiles
At the local libraries this week the standout event is an after-school program with creatures from the South Fork Natural History Museum at Sag Harbor’s John Jermain Memorial Library on Tuesday. The program starts at 4 and is for ages 5 to 12. Advance registration is required. Also at John Jermain, on Sunday, kids 6 and older will use recycled cardboard to make a Minecraft creeper from 2 to 3 p.m. Advance sign-up is requested for this one, too.
“Paddington,” the family movie released this winter, will be shown during a family movie night from 5 to 6:30 tonight at the East Hampton Library. The film stars Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, and Julie Walters as a London family who take in a little bear from “darkest Peru.” On Wednesday, kids 4 to 6 can join in a fish story and craft time from 4 to 4:45 p.m. Reservations are requested for all library programs.
Birds will be the subject of a story and craft time at the Amagansett Library on Saturday at 3:30 p.m.