Kids Culture 10.29.15

Young Cowgirls Theater

Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls will lead a Young Cowgirls theater workshop for ages 8 to 13 starting next week at Guild Hall. Participants in the seven-week workshop will explore issues important to them through theater games, journaling, and the development of short dance theater pieces that they will direct and perform.

Workshops are on Wednesdays from 4 to 6 p.m. through Dec. 9, with a final session on Dec. 15 before a Dec. 16 performance at Guild Hall. The cost is $225, or $220 for members of Guild Hall. Advance registration is required by phone or by emailing [email protected].

“Esoteric” Zombie Show

Adam and Gail Baranello of the A&G Dance Company, whom students may know through their dance workshops with the Project Most after-school program, will offer up an “Esoteric Hearts Zombie Show” for families on Sunday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Hampton Ballet Theatre School in Bridgehampton. Following a performance at 6 p.m. there will be a costume contest, games, and a family dance party. There is a suggested donation of $10 at the door. The ballet school is at 213 Butter Lane.

Loads o’ Halloween Fun

Before, or maybe in the midst of, trick-or-treating on Saturday, there are a number of Halloween parties to give kids a head start on the day’s fun.

A Halloween open house at the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society headquarters will run from 2 to 4 p.m. Kids have been invited to wear their costumes as the ladies serve up songs, stories, goodies, and a scavenger hunt.

Face painting, dodgeball, basketball, and costume prizes will be on the agenda during a free Halloween party at the Sportime Arena in Amagansett. The fun goes from 2 to 5 p.m.

Then at 3:30 p.m., the Amagansett Library will host kids for a bash where they can make bubbling bowls, decorate jack-o’-lantern cupcakes, and listen to a “shivery story.” Kids who stop by the library on Sunday at 2 can make a square for a quilt that will commemorate the library’s 100th birthday. Those in kindergarten through sixth grade also have a chance to make quilt squares on Mondays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. On Tuesday and Nov. 10 at 4 p.m. the library will offer a stop-motion animation class for third through sixth-graders.

Decorating Those Candy Bags

Before heading off to all the Halloween festivities on Saturday, kids may want to stop by the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton at 10 a.m. to decorate a canvas bag for all their treats. The cost is $17, $5 for members.

A pizza and pajama night at 6 on Friday, Nov. 6, will include a slice and a reading of Lois Ehlert’s “Leaf Man.” Entry is free for members, $10 for others.

Haunted House in Montauk

A reminder for those who read last week’s “Kids Culture”: Camp SoulGrow and Captain Kid Toys will have Third House in Montauk all spooked up for a Halloween Haunted House today, tomorrow, and Saturday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Entry is $5.

Green-Power Lab

Melanie Meade of the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton will give 6 to 8-year-olds an introduction to solar energy during a Green-Power Lab at the museum on Saturday at 11 a.m. Kids will make a solar water heater and a solar cooker that may or may not be hot enough to fry an egg. There is a $5 materials fee, and advance sign-up is required.

Arithmetic and Amaryllis

Now for something less exciting, but just as important: Middle schoolers can get help meeting the challenges of Common Core math during weekly sessions with a tutor at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor. Chase Mallia will offer assistance in English and Spanish with an emphasis on seventh-grade work, but all middle school students can attend. Sessions are on Mondays from 4:45 to 6 p.m.

Next Thursday at the library, the folks from the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons will help children 5 and older plant amaryllis bulbs at 3:45 p.m. Advance registration has been requested, as the library will provide bulbs, soil, and pots.