Moving and Making
Project Most will keep kids thinking and moving this week at the Neighborhood House in East Hampton. On Saturday, at 10 a.m. or 12:15 p.m., Erica Dantzler will have kids 6 and up sewing pillows as they learn the basics of working with needle and thread. But first, at 9 a.m., she’ll get kids in kindergarten through third grade moving in a jump-rope and double-Dutch session for all levels. Then, at 2:15, she’ll lead an arts and craft session for the same age group. Snow globes will be the project in a STEM program for 3 and 4-year-olds at 10:30 a.m., while another STEM session for kindergarten through third grade at noon will tackle erupting Jell-O. Possibly messy, but definitely fun!
On Tuesday, Project Most’s Seuss and Sous story and snack time for kindergarten through third grade will continue at 3:45 p.m. with a reading of “How the Cookie Crumbles: True and Not-So-True Stories of the Invention of the Chocolate Chip Cookie” by Gilbert Ford, and a chance to make said cookies.
The cost for each class is $20. Advance sign-up is a must at projectmost.org, [email protected], 631-655-4586.
Birds and Trees
The South Fork Natural History Museum’s Young Environmentalists Society for ages 10 to 16 will meet on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the museum in Bridgehampton. All kids interested in the environment and caring for it are welcome at this free session. On Sunday, the museum’s Young Birders Club for ages 8 to 18 will meet at 10 a.m. under the leadership of SoFo’s executive director, Frank Quevedo. This program, too, is free, but people are asked to get in touch with the museum to save a spot.
Ornament Time
Color Me Mine, which runs ceramics painting sessions, will be at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton on Sunday for ornament painting parties for families at 10 and 11:30 a.m. Kits, at $35 apiece, will include four ornaments and paints. Registration is at cmee.org.
Cookies, Gifts, Movies
Also in Bridgehampton, the Hampton Library’s popular gingerbread cookie-decorating program happens on Saturday, with half-hour decorating slots available between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. by emailing [email protected].
On Tuesday from 3:30 to 5 p.m., kids in sixth grade and up can create designs to decorate tumblers that might be just the thing for a holiday gift. Next Thursday, a stained “glass” ornament program for ages 5 to 7 happens at 4 p.m.
As a reminder, there are movies on the schedule at the library tomorrow afternoon and evening. For kids 8 to 12, it’ll be “Night at the Museum 3” from 4 to 5:30, and for sixth grade and up “Beauty and the Beast” will be on the screen from 6:30 to 8:45 p.m. Advance registration is requested for all library programs.
Winter Fun-derland
There’s a lot happening for kids this week at the East Hampton Library, with programs celebrating winter and the upcoming holiday. This afternoon at 4, kids 7 to 10 can make Lego snow globes to keep or give as gifts. For kids 3 to 6, tissue paper tea light holders will be the project on Tuesday at 4 p.m., and coffee filter snowflakes will be flurrying about on Wednesday at 4. Kids 7 to 10 will make wreaths next Thursday at 4 p.m.
For high school students, an after-hours glow-in-the-dark manhunt game is set for Saturday from 5 to 6:30 p.m. An ugly sweater cookie-decorating session is on the menu on Wednesday at 4:30, and next Thursday, there’s a holiday movie time at 4:30 p.m. The library has requested sign-up in advance for all programs, as space is limited.
Over in Amagansett, Christmas smells will fill the air as the Amagansett Library works with kids 7 and up to make clove oranges, also known as pomander balls, at 11 a.m. on Saturday. Registration is by emailing [email protected].