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A how-to guide for making lanterns

Add beautiful, homemade torch lanterns to your wedding or any special occastion with these simple steps!

These fun and festive shamrock lanterns make for a great children's craft idea! Due to several cutting portions in this project, adult supervision is required. However, pieces can be cut ahead of time to keep the project going quickly for a classroom environment.

Easy and intermediate craft levels for Chinese paper lanterns. Use as decorations or invitations to a Chinese New Year party this February.

If you want to go camping, then you may want to use a lantern to provide light. There are many different types of camping lanterns that you can use. Some of the most common include gas, electric, and candle. This article will...

If you are tired of traditional Christmas lights and are looking for some new ideas on how to provide festive light for the holidays, why not try putting together a string of little Christmas lanterns?

Decorate your porch and steps this Halloween with these fun tin can lanterns. Design your own patterns and enjoy this project.

How to make and decorate inexpensive paper lanterns for the Fourth of July

These milk jug paper lanterns are a great way to recycle some ½ gallon milk cartons into a fun and easy craft project you can use outside or inside this summer!

In the days before electricity, oil lanterns and candles were the main sources of light for civilized folk. Just like modern people enjoy pretty decorator lamps in our homes, they enjoyed dressing up their candles as well.

Looking for a craft project to us up those zillions of Coke cans clogging you recycling bin? Well, look no further, these Coke can jack o lanterns are an easy craft to make. All you need it a little orange paint and some inexpensive tea candles.

This vintage looking 1930's Halloween Jack O Lantern craft was inspired by a sweet little old paper jack o lantern that was my grandmother's when she was a child.

This article provides a brief history of several of the traditions practiced on Halloween.

A mysterious group of lights were seen recently in the UK. Are these lights real UFO's or simply the new flying lantern craze?

What takes Chinese women to Kabul? What attracts men to Chinese women? Chinese tastes delicious. A piece that's humorously serious...

Don't limit pumpkins to Halloween. Pumpkins have a place at Thanksgiving and Christmas, too. Good for more than just Jack-o-Lanterns, pumpkins have a number of benefits and uses.

The warm Cuban night softly embraced the entire city, and the colorful lanterns adorned the walls of 18th century plaza where oval-shaped tables, covered in red, were still empty waiting for the guests to arrive.

While live pumpkins are used to make Halloween Jack-o-lanterns, and whole pumpkins serve as centerpieces for natural fall arrangements, it is a good idea to create an everlasting pumpkin decoration that can be used year after year.

Now that all the jack 'o lanterns have been extinguished and tossed on the compost heap, let's think about pumpkins less as decorations and more as what they essentially are: food.

Halloween is a beloved holiday in America. But where did it begin, and why do we celebrate it the way we do? Ghosts, Jack o' Lanterns, trick or treating and more examined.

A resource collection of video clips, art, music, science, language and cookery ideas for cultural lessons in preschools. Mid-autumn festival, where mooncakes, lanterns and many Chinese legends abound. The Vietnamese also celebrate it as an important harvest festival.

Spooky and fun Halloween celebrations and events in California. Pumpkin patches, jack-o-lanterns, costume contests and trick or treating opportunities abound!

An overview of how some of the traditions associated with Halloween, such as jack o'lanterns, costumes and trick-or-treating, first got their start.

Halloween conjures up images of jack-o-lanterns, ghosts, witches, sweet treats, and children dressed in costumes for an evening of trick-or-treating. Millions happily participate in Halloween traditions each year, but what are the origins of the holiday?

Halloween is a great time for everyone, but how much do you really know about the history of it? Read more to find out about the beginnings of customs of Trick-or Treat, Jack-O Lanterns and more.

An article about the traditions of Halloween including information about trick-or-treating, how Halloween got its name, the origins of Jack-o'-lanterns and why witches and black cats are associated with Halloween.

These Halloween tin lanterns are the perfect way to light up the front yard for Halloween.

While using sharp knives to carve pumpkins is too dangerous for young kids, you still want them to create a jack-o-lantern this Halloween. Here are some ideas for how to do it.

In the Autumn when the moon is at its fullest and brightest an ancient Chinese celebration of the moon is held: a festival of lanterns, moon cakes, and family reunion.

This Halloween consider trying this safer alternative to jack-o-lanterns. These jack-NO-lanterns require no flame and no cutting. They are great for families with small children, because even the youngest kids can participate in creating them.

Recycled tin coffee cans make really neat lanterns to leave on the tables around your camp site. This project will be best for older campers or adults since you will be using sharp nails and the tin may leave sharp edges.

An overview of the lanterns used in camping and hiking adventures.

This vintage candleholder project is perfect for a centerpiece, to put on the coffee table, and can even be mounted on the wall for a dramatic effect. I am always looking for great candleholder and lanterns.

In Europe, St. Martin's Day is the most popular of all saints' days, especially with children. The arrival of St. Martin is celebrated by entire towns and his departure is a day of gifts and feasts.

Directions for making a safe and attractive luminaria from a tin can.

Halloween is the perfect holiday for dressing up the front pathway or front porch with unique luminaries. They welcome trick or treaters to your door and put everyone in the holiday mood.

Porches, especially front ones, are supposed to be inviting spaces, like outdoor living room that you share with your neighbors, sys writer Susan Dunlap.

This is the story of a Waukesha Wisconsin shop owner's daughter and her family who to took their faith to the Great Wall of China to bring hope to two little girls. The family now live happily together their two little Chinese lanterns of love.

From ancient New Year to modern scarefest, how did Halloween come to be?

Whether going on a simple overnighter or that week long family vacation there are some things that are essentials and others that just help the great outdoor experience be a more enjoyable one.

If you like to shop and enjoy savoring good food, then Chinatown in New York City will certainly please your pallet. Here is your guide to visiting Chinatown.

An article with various suggestions for using the very versitile garden flags to add pizzazz to your yard.

Add pizzazz to your yard with graden flags.

Celia Guinto, A.K.A. Tita Celia, says she wouldn't be in business more than 14 years if her food didn't please the appetites of both native Filipinos and non-natives. Tita Celia's is a must-see restaurant for anyone visiting Los Angeles.

If you're looking for a place to retire that has great weather, a low cost of living, lots of culture and plenty of things to do - Las Cruces, New Mexico might be the right place for you.

This author thinks that ultra light backpacking is the way to go, but if you don't mind the extra weight, there are some great outdoor products on the market to make sure anyone can have a comfortable outdoors adventure.

Garden gnomes are more than just decoration; many believe they are beings in their own secret society.

Review of the grounds at red top mountain state park in georgia

The Turin cinema museum is the first of it's kind in Italy and Europe. Within the walls of the historic and beautiful Mole Antonelliana lies an amazing and interactive museum dedicated to the magical world of the movies.