Kids Culture 10.09.14
Creature Camouflage
On Sunday at 10 a.m. at the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton, Melanie Meade will lead a program for 3 to 6-year-olds on how animals camouflage themselves in nature. Kids will play an outdoor game and then do a craft inside. Advance sign-up has been requested.
Rocket Day
Across the street at the Children’s Museum of the East End, Sunday will be Rocket Day. At this free event, kids of all ages can make and launch their own rockets behind the museum from 10 a.m. to noon. In case of rain, the fun will be postponed until Monday.
Sketching Captains Row
Kids who love to sketch may want to join in a walk, talk, and sketching tour of historic Sag Harbor on Saturday at 10 a.m. Janet Sygar, an architectural educator with the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, will explore the elegant doorways of the village’s Captains Row with kids 8 to 14, with stops along the way to sketch. Participants will learn what the doors say about the “growing importance and affluence of Sag Harbor’s whaling industry,” according to a release.
The meeting place is the Sag Harbor Custom House on the corner of Main and Garden Streets. The cost is $10, and reservations can be made at 725-3229.
Animal Invasion
Creatures from the Quogue Wildlife Refuge will pay a visit to the Amagansett Library on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. Kids can expect to meet a snake, a turtle, a chinchilla, and a bird of prey, among other animals.
Children in first through third grade can make their own pair of wings during a costume workshop at the library on Sunday at 2 p.m. At the same time the following Sunday, participants can make capes. The programs are free and materials will be provided, but advance registration has been requested.
Teen Book Club
A young teen book club is in formation at the East Hampton Library. Kids in sixth through eighth grade who love to read have been invited to stop in at the library on Wednesday from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m. with their favorite summer novel or a new one they’d like to read.