This past Thursday was West Richmond's 14th Annual Harvest Lantern Festival, and I'd say a successful one at that! This was my first experience with the Lantern Fest and I was pleasantly surprised at the enormous turn out, given all the activities and family oriented atmosphere I shouldn't have expected anything less of our great community. The lantern festival has been around to celebrate autumn with family, both the blood-related kind and the West family. Some kid friendly activities and entertainment included Mr. Yo Yo Thrower, button making, face painting, pumpkin bowling and West's very own, world-class balloon animal artists (AKA our childcare staff, myself included). Winding down the festivities, our lantern processional began in front of the community centre, around the playground and circled back to be greeted with hot chocolate. I have to say, the way the lanterns lit up that chilly, foggy evening was really neat.
But what's a Lantern Festival without the lanterns?! For the week that led up to the event, the kids had been working on their own unique milk jug lanterns. Using the bottom half of a 4 litre milk jug, the kids used a paper-mache glue mixture to decorate their lanterns. They came out really well, resembling stained glass. We used a tea light glued to the bottom with a chopstick handle to finish off our lanterns.
I'm so glad that everyone who was able to make it out had such wonderful smiles on their faces, Thanks for coming!
-Sara
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| Busy hands at work! |
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| Lanterns lit the way in a little fog. |
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| A beautiful night for a nice walk. |
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