Kids Culture 06.18.15
CMEE Music Fair
Kids will get to make music, create instruments, and sing and dance along with live performances during a free music fair at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton on Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon. The museum and grounds will be filled with interactive stations where children can learn about music and sound, make rain sticks and tin drums, and get their faces painted.
All day Sunday, the museum will celebrate fathers with games like soccer, a beanbag toss, and more for dads to play with their kids. The fun is included with museum admission.
Library Wind-Up
As school winds down, the East Hampton Library is gearing up for a summer full of activities for kids in its still-new children’s room. On Tuesdays at 4:30 all summer, the library will screen movies for teens adapted from young-adult novels. Afterward, the audience can discuss the differences between the movie and the book. The first screening is this week.
Wednesday, families can drop in for game time from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Sensational Science program next Thursday from 7 to 8 p.m. will have kids 5 and older building their own ant farms as they learn about the life cycles of ants. Parents, be warned, kids will be able to take home those farms, ants included.
Children 4 and older will make their own “story picture” about a superhero of their own design on Friday, June 26, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Registration is required for all but the drop-in program.
The Goat Is Back
The summer season at the Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre in Sag Harbor will begin next Thursday. The Crabgrass Puppets will pull into town for three shows of “The Princess, the Pirate, and the Pea,” next Thursday, Friday, June 26, and June 27 at 11 a.m. Tickets, which are available at the door, are $12, $8 for children 3 and under and additional siblings, and $10 for grandparents and theater members.
Ratboy Jr.
The Hampton Library in Bridgehampton will kick off its summer reading program with music and fun on Saturday at 1 p.m. Ratboy Jr., a rock duo that plays family-friendly songs like “High Five Your Shadow” and “How to Eat a Cloud,” will perform.
On Tuesday, tweens can make clothespin wreaths to display photos from 4 to 5 p.m. Bubble painting is on the agenda for ages 4 and up on Friday, June 26, from 4 to 5 p.m. Advance registration is requested for all.
Butterflies and the Point
At the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton on Saturday Nicole Cummings will read to kids 3 to 5 years old from Robert O. Bruel’s “Bob and Otto” at 10 a.m. The book is about the friendship between an earthworm and a caterpillar-turned-butterfly. Afterward, children will learn about the life cycle of the butterfly and search out some live examples in the museum’s butterfly garden. There is a $3 materials fee for the program.
Teen scientists can explore the geology and the marine, plant, and animal life at Montauk Point on Saturday starting at 11 a.m. The museum will provide each participant with a backpack of tools to study and measure what they find. Notebooks for observations will be available for $2, or people can take their own. There is an $8 fee to park in the Lighthouse lot.
Advance registration with SoFo is required.
Theater Camp
FamilyFest, the Montauk Playhouse Community Center’s summer program that provides a mixture of theatrics, dance, and circus fun in July and August, will start with a theater mini camp for children 8 to 10 from July 6 to July 10 and July 13 to July 16 from 3 to 5 p.m. Kate Mueth of the Neo-Political Cowgirls will help campers create their own skits, which they will perform on July 16. The cost per child is $200, which includes two tickets for the performance. Additional siblings cost $150. More details and the rest of the summer schedule can be found at montaukplayhouse.org.