Fabulous Spring Semester
Our Fabulous Variety Show, a nonprofit performing arts program, will begin its spring semester of performing arts classes in dance and acting for ages 3 and older on Monday. Classes in tap, jazz, musical theater, ballet, and lyrical dance, as well as acting and improv, will be offered at the program’s studio space at 977 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike in Bridgehampton and at the Neighborhood House in East Hampton through Project Most. Registration for Bridgehampton classes is at bit.ly/2V6PwWi and for East Hampton classes at bit.ly/3IAbN21.
Puppetry at St. Luke’s
Liz Joyce, founder of the Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre, will lead kids 3 to 6 as they make puppets and then put on their own puppet show during a program on March 12 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton. The workshop is free, but limited to only 15 children, so early sign-up by clicking the “Fun for Kids” tab at stlukeseasthampton.org is suggested. Younger children should be accompanied by an adult.
Project Most Fun
Project Most’s offerings for kids this week at the Neighborhood House begin on Saturday with a chance to make granola cookies or slime. In a STEM “textures challenge” from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., kids 6 and up will mix up cookies and then bake them before decorating them to eat at home. The cost is $35 and there is space for just eight participants. Slime will be on the menu for kids in kindergarten through third grade from 11:30 to 12:30. This one costs $20 and is limited to 10 participants.
On Tuesday, Virva Hennemo, an artist, will lead the first in a series of four workshops in which she’ll teach children about Native American spirit animals, or totems, while helping them make their own totems out of recycled materials. Sessions for ages 6 to 10 are at 4 p.m. on Tuesdays this month and cost $20 each, though kids are encouraged to take all four.
Obstacle challenges, jump rope, tag, and other active games are on the agenda on Wednesdays at 3:45 this month for kids in kindergarten through third grade. Wednesdays are “surprise science” days, also at 3:45. Kids in kindergarten through fourth grade will work on a different STEM project each week. The Tuesday and Wednesday programs are $20 per session.
Registration is at projectmost.org.
Nature Adventures
LeighAnn Montaglione, an educator with the South Fork Natural History Museum, will take kids 10 and older on a nature exploration in the Walking Dunes on Napeague on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. She’ll teach hikers about the ecosystem, the forces that shaped it, and why it’s important. On Sunday at 10 a.m., Sandra Reyes, another SoFo educator, will lead kids 6 to 8 on an “interactive migration survival game,” teaching them about the dangers migrating birds face. This program will be held at the museum in Bridgehampton. The cost for each is $10 for kids, $15 for adults. Museum members can join in for free. Registration is at sofo.org.
Duck, Duck . . .
Folks from the Suffolk County Farm will be at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton on March 12 for a program at 10:30 a.m. about ducks and other feathered friends. Little ones will get to meet a real live duck, hear a story, and do a craft. The cost is $15, and registration is required ahead of time at cmee.org or by calling the museum.
Record Breakers
Love the Guinness Book of World Records? Ever thought about trying to break a world record yourself? If so, a visit to the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton may be in order on Friday, March 11, at 4 p.m. Library staff will be on hand to help kids attempt to set records such as “most sticky notes on your face in one minute” and “most soft toys caught blindfolded.”
Tomorrow, it’s board game time for that age group, also at 4 p.m., and on Tuesday at 3:30 kids in sixth grade and above can learn the basics of making a zine. Advance sign-up is required for all programs at hamptonlibrary.org or by phone.
For the Birds
High school students can earn community service credits while also having fun painting birdhouses over the weekend. Birdhouse kits with all the supplies can be reserved through the library’s website and picked up tomorrow between 3 and 5 p.m. To get credits for the project, teens must return the painted birdhouses to the library by Monday. The take-and-make kit on Friday, March 11, will include everything needed for St. Patrick’s Day hot chocolate bombs. Yum!
On Tuesday at 4 p.m. at the library, kids 7 to 10 can make their own greeting cards. Also at that time on Tuesday, middle schoolers will get the materials and instructions for making sensory jars with a St. Patrick’s Day theme.
For younger children, ages 3 and up, there’s a stuffed elephant workshop, with an elephant story, on Wednesday at 4 p.m., and next Thursday at 4 a chance to use marshmallows to make shamrock stamps. Messes will be made.
Advance sign-up is required for all of the above.
Wind and Rainbows
At the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor, a leprechaun door craft is on the agenda for children in kindergarten through fifth grade tomorrow at 4 p.m. Sign-up is required online, in person or by phone.
There’s no need to sign up in advance, however, for three story times for younger children with an adult. Wind will be the theme of sessions tomorrow and Sunday at 11:30 a.m., and rainbows will be the focus on Friday, March 11, at the same time.