Kids Culture 11.19.15

Walking Dunes Adventure

Children on a backpack adventure with the South Fork Natural History Museum on Saturday will explore the Walking Dunes on Napeague, seeking out wildlife, plant life, and other things of interest.

Crystal Possehl will lead the adventure, which is for kids 5 to 7. Young explorers will use magnifiers, observation jars, crayons, and a notepad to study and record their findings. The program begins at 10 a.m. 

Back at the museum in Bridgehampton at 10:30, Eric Young will read to 6 to 11-year-olds from his book “The Rainbow Almond Tree,” about the Costa Rican rain forest. 

At the Libraries

Kids can decorate cupcakes to look like turkeys or pilgrims or anything else the Thanksgiving holiday brings to mind during a session at the Montauk Library on Saturday from 2 to 3 p.m. Treat boxes will be provided, should the cupcakes remain uneaten. Today from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the library, children in kindergarten through third grade will plant amaryllis bulbs with the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons that should be in bloom right around the Christmas break. 

At the Amagansett Library, elementary students will weave Thanksgiving placemats on Sunday at 2 p.m. 

Teenagers looking for community service hours or who are simply moved by the early holiday spirit can stop by the East Hampton Library on Saturday between 2 and 4 p.m. to make holiday cards for veterans and wounded service members. 

On Sunday at the John Jermain Memorial Library, kids 7 and older can learn to make a portable knitting loom and try it out from 2 to 3 p.m. Yarn will be available. 

Advance registration has been requested for all library programs. 

Cooking Workshop at CMEE

The smell of corn muffins will fill the air at the Children’s Museum of the East End on Saturday as families with kids 3 to 6 measure, mix, and bake from 10 to 10:45 a.m. The cost of the cooking workshop is $17 including museum admission, $5 for members. 

Looking ahead to Thanksgiving weekend, the Parrish Art Museum will have an open studio and activities for families on Friday, Nov. 27, and Nov. 28 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Activities will be free with museum admission.