Kids Culture 10.20.16
CMEE’s Halloween Bash
Get out your Superman capes and Batgirl tights, your mermaid tails and pirate patches, the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton will celebrate Halloween with a big bash tomorrow afternoon for children of all ages. There will be games, treats, crafts, and a costume parade from 4 to 6. Advance sign-up is a must, as this annual affair usually sells out. The cost is $12. Museum members will get in free.
Parade of Ragamuffins
In Sag Harbor, Sunday is the day for the chamber of commerce’s big Ragamuffin Parade. Starting at 1 p.m., costumed families will walk down Main Street from Nassau Street to the Custom House lawn, where there will be games and other activities, a bake sale, and a pumpkin hunt. D.J. Carlos Lama will be playing dance music to set the tone.
About Applying for College
High school students and their parents who are looking ahead to the next step — applying for college — can get the scoop on what to do when and how in a program at the East Hampton Library on Saturday at 10 a.m. Presented by Dawn Christian of Strategies for Success, it will cover such topics as standardized test preparation, the application process, and financial aid, while also laying out a timeline to guide families through the lead-up to the application starting in ninth grade.
Also this week at the library, there will be a story, music, and movement session with bubbles on Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. for babies up to age 3. That afternoon at 4, kids 4 to 6 can stop by for a Halloween story and craft. On Wednesday at 4, kids in sixth through eighth grade can decorate sugar skulls, a traditional craft associated with the Day of the Dead.
The library will screen a horror film for high school students on Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m. Advance registration has been requested for all library events.
The Science Wizard Alights
Professor Anthony Abbate, a.k.a. the Science Wizard, will be on hand at the Montauk Library on Saturday to teach kids 6 and older about things that glow in the dark while working with them to decorate T-shirts that glow under black lights. The professor will discuss the difference between luminescence, phosphorescence, and fluorescence. Participants have been asked to take a white T-shirt to paint. Space is limited, and advance sign-up is required.
Over at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor, kids 4 to 10 can make creepy treats like spider doughnuts and candy corn fruit cups on Saturday at 2 p.m. Registration ahead of time is required.
Pumpkin and gourd painting will be happening at the Amagansett Library on Saturday at 2 p.m.