Stories in Springs
The Springs Library on Parsons Place is kicking off the fall season with a weekly story time for newborns and toddlers, and their caregivers, through the month of October. Taking place Fridays at 10:30 a.m., starting tomorrow, Little Ones Storytime is a joyful time for rhyming, reading, and singing. The sessions are free of charge and no sign-ups are needed ahead of time. The phone number for more information is 631-324-3165.
Skateboarding and More
Grab your knee pads and those non-negotiable helmets: Project Most will host a skateboarding clinic on Wednesday from 3:45 to 5:15 pm. Geared for children 6 to 13, this workshop will help rookies find their confidence on a skateboard (and learn a few tricks while they’re at it). Skateboards and pads will be provided, but helmets and a water bottle are required. Admission is $40. The location is Most Holy Trinity School at 44 Meadow Way in East Hampton.
Project Most also has a lineup of fun for kids 5 to 12 on Saturday. From 11 a.m. to noon, there will be a workshop on plant chromatography, featuring “an experiment that allows us to see the colorful pigments that leaves have hidden inside them,” according to the organization. The cost is $25 per student.
After that, from 1 to 2 p.m., there will be an easy cooking lesson, in which kids will learn how to make no-bake granola energy balls. There’ll be chopping. There’ll be pouring. And there’ll definitely be mixing, but no ovens required. The cost is $25. Advance registration is required for all Project Most activities, online at projectmost.org.
Pumpkin Time
Starting today and running until Sunday, Oct. 27, the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor will have pumpkin-decorating kits up for grabs. Turn your pumpkin into a masterpiece and take it back to the library to receive a treat. Additionally, on Oct. 27, the library’s community pumpkin patch will be on display for all to see. Registration is required online at johnjermain.org; there are 100 kits available.
The Amagansett Library also has pumpkin-decorating kits up for grabs, starting on Monday, and on Wednesday, kids in kindergarten through fifth grade can design and paint spooky monsters from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. In a program next Thursday called Autumn Book Buddies, older students are paired with younger students who want to practice their reading skills with a helpful friend. The program repeats on Oct. 17 and 24, all at 4 p.m. Sign-up is at amagansettlibrary.org.
Movies for Kids and Teens
The Sag Harbor Cinema’s family matinee, running at 11 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, is “Mysterious Island,” a 1961 film that loosely adapts Jules Verne’s famous work “The Mysterious Island.” It focuses on four Union soldiers who, after escaping from a Confederate prison by hot air balloon, find themselves stranded on a remote Pacific island with an active volcano.
For teen music lovers, the documentary “Eno” will be shown at 6 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday. It digs into the extraordinary career of Brian Eno, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame musician, producer, and genre pioneer, who worked with Talking Heads, David Bowie, Devo, U2, Coldplay, and many other popular acts. The film uses generative technology to randomize the interviews and clips shown in each screening, which results in a unique film each time.
Tickets cost $18.50 for adults and $14.50 for children 12 and under, with a discount available for cinema members and Southampton Town residents, and can be bought online at sagharborcinema.org.
Activities in Bridgehampton
Sock-puppet crafts for kids 8 to 11 are on the Hampton Library’s calendar tomorrow from 4 to 5 p.m. On Saturday the library’s Creation Station will be open to kids and teens with crafty interests from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For young adults in sixth grade and up, the theme of Tuesday’s art class is black cats, from 4 to 5 p.m. Sign-up is required ahead of time via the program calendar at myhamptonlibrary.org.
Ghost Stories and More
Tyler Allen Penny will lead a ghost-story writing workshop for high school students on Saturday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the East Hampton Library. The group will “explore ghosts and similar supernatural entities through prompts and writing exercises, and begin our own drafts of bone-chilling ghost stories.”
The library’s teen advisory board will meet on Monday at 3:30 p.m. Also that day, from 4 to 6 p.m., teens are invited to drop in to decorate up to two chocolate-dipped pretzels each.
On Tuesday from 4 to 5:30 p.m., high school students and parents are invited to take part in a free college admissions workshop led by Nathalie Kirkwood, a Princeton graduate, financial analyst, and former Olympic athlete. The session will cover admission trends, testing, essays, the significance of visiting schools, and more. Sign-up is required for all East Hampton Library programs online via its website.