Halloween will look a little different this year because of the pandemic, but there's still plenty of fun to be had.
At Guild Hall, Liz Joyce will perform a Minkie the Monkey puppet show on Saturday at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. for children ages 3 to 7. The show is centered around friendship and sharing with a slightly spooky twist. Tickets are $30 each for a socially distant lawn circle, which seats two people. Children have been invited to wear costumes, and they will receive a make-your-own-puppet kit and a special treat from Citarella afterward. Tickets can be bought online at guildhall.org.
Also at Guild Hall is "Stage Fright," a scary storytelling show appropriate for ages 11 and up. Show times are Thursday night and Friday night at 7 and 9 and Saturday at 6:30, 8, and 9:30 p.m. Your tickets to terror are $45 per lawn circle.
The East Hampton Library is having an Instagram costume contest for teens. Pictures in costume should be posted no later than midnight on Saturday with the hashtag #yacostumecontest. The winner will receive an East Hampton Library hoodie.
The Montauk Library's Halloween makeup tutorials are still available online, and the library will have a Day of the Dead celebration on Saturday, virtually, for children and teens to learn about Dia de los Muertos, a Mexican holiday. More information is online at montauklibrary.org/childrens-room-blog.
In Amagansett, the library has invited children to stop by in costume for outdoor pumpkin painting and a treat from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday.
Annie's Field of Jack-o'-Lanterns is a communitywide pumpkin-carving display in Sag Harbor. From 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, the Sag Harbor Historical Society has invited everyone to take their carved pumpkins to the Annie Cooper Boyd house on Main Street, with battery-powered candles only, to remain illuminated through Saturday night. There will not be a party this year, "but we can still make the season fun," the historical society says on its website.
The Southampton Arts Center will show "The Nightmare Before Christmas" outdoors Friday at 6 p.m., with a rain date of Saturday at 7 p.m. It's a bring-your-own-chair screening, and blankets have been suggested. The stop-motion-animated movie is rated PG, and tickets are $10, or $5 for arts center members. Afterward, the bravest moviegoers can stay for a free showing of the 1989 adaptation of Stephen King's "Pet Sematary," which is most definitely not rated PG, at 8 p.m. There will be a food truck selling treats.