Lantern Parades

Lismore Lantern Parade, Lismore, Australia

The Great Halloween Lantern Parade, Baltimore, MD

The Illuminares Lantern Procession, Vancouver, BC

Annual Parol Lantern Festival and Parade, San Francisco

Seoul's Lotus Lantern Festival, Korea

Ulverston Lantern Parade & Festival, Ulverston, UK

Liverpool Lantern Company

Winter Solstice Lantern Parade | How it Began


Lantern Shopping

Amazing Rainbow Pumpkin Light! Perfect for our purposes.
http://www.pumpkinlight.com/

Other Lighting options
http://www.save-on-crafts.com

Revamp a pre-made lantern
http://www.paperlanternstore.com

Rice paper
http://www.amazon.com

Colored tissue paper
http://www.papermart.com

Basket Weaving Supplies
http://basketweavingsupplies.com


Lantern How-To's:

Star Lantern
http://www.instructables.com/id/Star-Lantern/

Lotus Lantern
http://www.llf.or.kr/eng/eotl.asp

Can Lanterns
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/06/how_
to_make_can_lanterns.html

Easy Japanese Lantern
http://familycrafts.about.com/od/chinesenewyears/
ss/eplantern.htm

Another easy one, just add a base & foil candle holder
http://www.craftstylish.com/item/4832/bend-to-
conquer-how-to-make-a-beautiful-paper-lantern

Super easy flashlight idea
http://www.shininghours.com/creating/
paper_lantern.htm

Paint a round one
http://www.halloweenmania.co.uk/stainedglass
-paper-lantern-halloween-decoraton.php

Put an LED in there
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/how-to
/how-to-make-your-own-paper-lantern-031603

Tea Light House
http://www.craftideas.info/html/tea_light_house.html

Cocktail umbrellas! (scroll down)
http://simplystated.realsimple.com/home/2008/08/
trash-to-treasu.html

Giant Puppets and Such

68 Ways To Make Really Big Puppets
The Puppeteers Cooperative
http://gis.net/~puppetco/

The Krewe’s Giant Skeleton Puppets How-To

Official Pageant Puppeteers for New York’s Village
Halloween Parade
http://www.superiorconcept.org/