Featherstone Center for the Arts has a raft of classes this holiday season to help you make your home festive and inviting.

Lynn Hoeft offers a trio of workshops for participants intent on creating a happy holiday home. From 9 a.m. to noon tomorrow — Saturday, Nov. 10 — her first program is on how to make memorable pomanders and centerpieces. She shows how to create a sweet-smelling, clove-studded orange, or pomander, then graduates to demonstrate a holiday centerpiece in a planter of bright green moss, sparkling red berries and votive candles.

Children’s Book Writing

People interested in writing books for children will meet Monday, Nov. 12, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the home of Carol Carrick in West Tisbury. This monthly meeting is for serious writers only. Members will read manuscripts and discuss them. They will also share news and advice from the children’s book world. For details and directions call Carol Carrick at 508- 696-6277, or Marilyn Hollinshead at 508-693-5803.

College Students Will Help

Build Island Habitat House

Students from Lasell College in Newton are scheduled this weekend to help Vineyard Habitat for Humanity continue to build a house off Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road in Vineyard Haven.

The organization welcomes volunteers to join with the Lasell students to help construct the house. Habitat invites volunteers to come work on the house Fridays and Saturdays.

Island Bicycle Event Will

Protest Global Warming

The Cycling Club of Martha’s Vineyard and the Martha’s Vineyard Peace Council have scheduled a Bike to Fight Global Warming event for Saturday, Nov. 3.

Participants will meet at the Vineyard Haven Lagoon Pond boat ramp by 10 a.m. and proceed on a leisurely ride to Ocean Park in Oak Bluffs. The rain date is Sunday, Nov. 4 at 1 p.m. Cyclists of all ages are welcome. Participants are asked to wear helmets.

Edgartown Book Fair

The Edgartown School Book Fair is next week, offering everyone in the Island community the opportunity to find new and classic books for children and adults for sale at the school’s library.

The fair begins with a preview day, Monday, Nov. 5, from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, the fair is open 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., with a special Family Literacy Night event from 6 to 8 p.m. Drinks and a light snack will be provided.

On Sunday, Nov. 11, children and their parents will bring homemade lanterns to gather at North Tabor Farm for the annual Lantern Walk. This is a seasonal festival celebrated by Waldorf communities, honoring ancient traditions of carrying light into the darkness of the coming winter.