Kids Culture 07.27.17

Painting With Nature

The mother-and-son team of Andrea and Nathaniel Cote will lead kids 7 to 12 and their families in a painting-with-nature workshop on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton. Ms. Cote and her son, who is 9, will work with participants to mix and grind their own paints using natural pigments, teaching them about the history and science of making paint. Then participants will paint pictures of animals and landscapes using the paints they have made. Advance registration is required.

Kids Take on the Bard

Behold, young thespians, the Hamptons Shakespeare Festival’s Camp Shakespeare will alight at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett for two weeks starting on Aug. 7. The camp, for kids 8 to 15, includes workshops in acting, improvisation, movement, voice, and theatrical arts and crafts. It will run through Aug. 11, and again from Aug. 14 to 18, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., with performances at the close of each weeklong session. The cost is $475 to $500 per week. Registration information is online at hamptons-shakespeare.org.

Acrobats in the Hall

Guild Hall’s KidFest will bring the aerialists, acrobats, contortionists, jugglers, and world-record holders of Cirque-tacular to East Hampton on Wednesday for shows at 1 and 5 p.m. Tickets cost $18 for adults and $14 for children, $16 and $12 for members. An acrobat puppet workshop for kids of all ages at 4 p.m. that day will get them in a circus state of mind. The cost is $10, $8 for members of the museum.

Harry Potter Party

The Montauk Library will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Harry Potter books with a party on Saturday at 3 p.m. featuring a themed photo booth and crafts and snacks inspired by Harry’s wizarding world. The party is best for kids 7 and older.

On Tuesday, the Baking Coach will be at the library to make rice cereal sand castles with kids in second grade and above from 3:30 to 5 p.m. And, as a reminder, the Wellness Foundation’s Super Foods for Super Kids program for ages 4 and up starts this afternoon at 3:30. This week’s class, Power Up Your Plate, includes a smoothie demonstration. Next Thursday’s class is on healthy snacks. Advance sign-up is required.

Prokofiev, Here and There

The young dancers of the Hampton Ballet Theatre School in Bridgehampton will present Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” tonight at the Montauk Playhouse and on Tuesday at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton. Choreographed by Sara Jo Strickland, the school’s founder, the production will feature dancers ranging in age from 4 to 18, with Adam Baranello of the A&G Dance Company as a guest artist. The Hampton Festival Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Perea, will accompany the dancers, and the school promises “a surprise guest narrator.” Tonight’s show will be at 7. Tickets cost $15. The show on Tuesday will start at 6 p.m., but the gates will open at 5:30. Tickets cost $17 in advance through CMEE, $15 for museum members, and $20 at the door.

A Puppet Pied Piper

Goat on a Boat’s series of puppet shows at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will continue on Saturday, when CactusHead Puppets presents “The Pied Piper” at 11 a.m. Tickets cost $15. Next Thursday, Goat on a Boat will take its puppet shows on the road to the Southampton Arts Center on Job’s Lane, where A Couple of Puppets will present “The Three Little Pigs” in a free show at 4:30 p.m.

Bubbles and Filmmaking

Also at the Southampton Arts Center, Jeff the Bubble Guy will get kids into some “Bubble Trouble” during a free show on Friday, Aug. 4, at 4:30 p.m. Registration is underway for August student film workshops at the center with the Hamptons International Film Festival. Workshops run from Aug. 7 through 11. One for kids 8 to 11 meets from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Older kids, ages 12 to 15, will convene from 2 to 5 p.m. The cost for younger students is $375 for the week; older students pay $450. A free screening of campers’ films will take place on Aug. 12 at 11 a.m. Registration is at hamptonsfilmfest.org.

Those Flying Machines

Animals, flying machines, movies, and healthy eating are on the schedule this week at the East Hampton Library. On Tuesday at 1:30 p.m., kids 3 to 7 will listen to Robert Kinerk’s “Clorinda Takes Flight” and then get to work designing flying contraptions of their own. Those ages 7 to 12 will take a more scientific, but no less fun, approach to building flying machines in a program on Wednesday at 4 p.m.

The library’s Super Foods for Super Kids program continues on Monday at 1 p.m. with a workshop for ages 5 to 10 on health boosters. The final session on Aug. 7 will focus on grains.

Tomorrow, the library will show the family movie “Rock Dog” at 2 p.m. Next Thursday’s family movie will be “Smurfs: The Lost Village.” Kids in sixth grade and up can take in a screening of “Dr. Strange” on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m., with snacks inspired by the movie.

Next Thursday, kids 4 and older will have a chance to meet a bearded dragon, a Madagascar hissing cockroach, and other unusual creatures during a program from 3 to 4 p.m. Advance sign-up has been suggested for all programs, as space is limited.