Kids Culture 06.25.15

Rockin’ in Southampton

Brady Rymer, a two-time Grammy Award nominee, will bring his family-friendly rock ’n’ roll to the Southampton Arts Center for a free concert this afternoon at 4:30. Mr. Rymer has six albums with upbeat titles like “Love Me for Who I Am,” “Look at My Belly,” and “Just Say Hi!”

Summer Reading Club

“Every hero has a story” is the theme for this year’s summer reading club for younger kids at libraries across Suffolk County, and programs all summer long will play into that theme. Kickoff events are scheduled on Saturday at the Montauk and Amagansett Libraries, and the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor will start registering kids for the reading club that day too. In East Hampton and Bridgehampton, sign-ups are ongoing this month.

The Magic of Amore will present a hero-themed magic show on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at the Amagansett Library.

At the Montauk Library kids will watch a slide show of action figures and then sculpt a superhero of their own on Saturday at 3 p.m. with help from Joyce Raimondo. The program is for kids in kindergarten through sixth grade. Space is limited.

Kids who sign up for the reading club at John Jermain on Saturday will get a tote bag to carry their books in. Those 2 to 12 win prizes for each book they read. Those in fifth grade and above will earn tickets for an end-of-summer auction.

At the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton, kids of all ages can drop by the library at any time from Monday through next Thursday to make superhero capes, masks, and more in keeping with the reading club theme.

Lively Library

As summer gets under way there will be plenty to do this week at the Amagansett Library. Teens have been invited to create a book cover to display at the library on Sunday and July 5 at 2 p.m. On Wednesday, the Cornell Cooperative Extension will be on hand with its Seashore See and Touch Safari program at 3:30 p.m.

Wednesdays all summer will bring teen movies at 6 p.m. The first, this week, will be “Into the Woods,” rated PG. Family movies will be shown on Thursday afternoons at 3:30 starting next week with “The Penguins of Madagascar,” also rated PG. Thursdays are also D.I.Y. day for teens, who can stop in starting next week to do a range of self-guided projects from finger knitting to Lego robotics from 4 to 5 p.m.

Eggs and Airplanes

Frittatas will be on the menu on Saturday at 10 a.m. during a cooking workshop for ages 3 to 6 at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton. Young chefs will mix eggs, chop vegetables, and season their creations with herbs from the museum’s garden. The cost is $17 including admission, $5 for members.

Also at 10 on Saturday kids can make paper airplanes while learning the basics of aerodynamics. This one is free with museum admission, but reservations have been suggested.

Ants!

Ants may be creepy crawly, but they’re pretty fascinating too. Kids 5 and older can make their own ant farms to take home during a science program at the East Hampton Library tonight at 7. Tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. those 4 and up have been invited to imagine a new superhero and create a story picture that tells what he or she can do.

A metal etching program for ages 4 and up on Wednesday at 4 p.m. will include a lesson on the science behind the art.

Over at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton, teens can decorate T-shirts they take from home on Saturday from 2 to 3 p.m. On Friday, July 3, those 4 and up can drop by to make button spinners at 11 a.m.

A paper lantern craft is on the agenda for kids 6 and older on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the John Jermain Memorial Library. The right color choices could make these the perfect Independence Day decorations!

Advance registration has been suggested for most library programs.

Have to Have a Habitat

Families have been invited to explore a habitat on Saturday with the South Fork Natural History Museum, and on Sunday kids 8 and older can make a habitat of their own.

Crystal Possehl will lead a family outing to Munn Point in Southampton Saturday at 1 p.m. Participants will seek out killifish, herons, hermit crabs, egrets, and more and will use a seine net to collect creatures that will be released back into the water. The Sunday program will teach kids the “components that make up a functioning environment.” They’ll take a walk in the field to find microhabitats and construct their own habitats along with a story about how they work. There is a $5 materials fee for this one. Registration is required for both programs.

For Young Writers

Stony Brook Southampton will offer weeklong creative writing and scriptwriting workshops for young teens next month through the Young Artists and Writers Project.

Experienced writers will help students fine-tune their fiction, poetry, and personal essay skills in a creative writing workshop from July 6 through 10. The focus will shift to scriptwriting from July 13 to 17. Students will spend five days writing and doing improvisations as they develop a short script for stage or screen. Each program runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The cost per week is $525, but discounts may be available. Applications can be found online at stonybrook.edu.yawp.

Theater Camps

Bay Street Theater is offering two weeklong camps for kids 7 to 9 and two for actors 9 to 12 this summer.

A Superhero Spectacular from July 6 through 10 at the Bridgehampton Community House will have kids 7 to 9 choosing a favorite character or creating their own and then developing a play with those characters as stars.

My Life Is a Musical will be the theme of the week in a camp for ages 9 to 12. The camp meets at the community house from July 20 to 24 and at the former Stella Maris Regional School in Sag Harbor from Aug. 17 to 21.

From Aug. 10 to 14 children 7 to 9 will study and perform Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” at Stella Maris.

All four camps run from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The cost is $465 per week per child, $800 if children sign up for two weeks. Registration information can be found online at baystreet.org.