Bring light to our community on February 26th with a lantern walk through the downtown with stops at American Flatbread, the Stone Mill and Town Hall Theater, all offering up free outdoor entertainment and food/beverages for purchase. Begins at 5:30pm at Riverfront Park, next to American Flatbread. Free to attend, food and beverages will be sold.
Free lantern kits available at Ilsley Library Children’s Room and make-your-own instructions available below. Bring your own and one for a neighbor if you’d like!
Saturday, February 26th from 5:30-7:30pm in Downtown Middlebury
How to make a lantern:
Here are some tutorials for different kinds of lanterns if you are eager to try something out. General suggestions are that bright LED tealights or battery-powered lightbulbs or fairy lights are good for the light, and big coffee filters are great for the tissue paper. Masking tape, white glue, and glue guns are all you need for sticking things together. Please do not use fire-powered lanterns for this event.
Easy:
Trickier:
Trickiest, classic wood and paper lanterns… a few versions of this with different tricks involved:
