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A weekend of messy lantern making!

 

ready for action

Padfield Lanterns

photos and feedback from two excessively sticky days in Hadfield Hall this weekend. 70 people on Saturday and maybe 90 today (Sunday). Trying to work out a collective noun for lanterns: an adhesion of lanterns? a glue of lanterns? a spike? an accumulation?

 

accumulated lanterns

These were lovely days and I can only thank both the Hadfield Hall helpers, High Peak Community Arts and all those well-glued members of the public with their good humour and patience as more and more people arrived and we gradually ran out of willow

Other comments come from participants…

hard at work: sponging

 

Very helpful staff, as a Grandma I needed help which I got lots of. Alfie had a good time sticking! We will see you all on Friday

 

 

My children and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Gordon was very helpful and entertaining. Much fun was had by all of us. Would love to do it again


Brilliant! Very well organised and well run. Fab morning + can’t wait for Friday


Really brilliant

hard at work: covering


Nice workshop, not rigid, so children could chose own designs which we liked.

 


Lovely idea, Beau really enjoyed it, looking forward to the parade and hope its on again next year when we can try something more ambitious when they are older

almost finished
stars were popular, even with rather grisly greetings!
evidence of hard work!
lanterns stacked, stored and waiting for the final procession