UPDATE: Due to recent wind and rain, we’ve moved all the lanterns to the small trees around the Schmanska Park barn. Please feel free to take your lantern to enjoy at home. Any left in the park on March 9 will be removed and stored in the barn. If you want to be reunited with your lantern after March 9, contact us and we’ll make arrangements for its safe return.
It’s time to unleash your inner artist and help us glow-up the park with a vellum lantern masterpiece. We’ll provide the lantern material, all you need is your imagination and the art supplies necessary to turn your vision into reality.
Here’s how it works:
Thursday, February 18, 4 – 6pm
Pick up free vellum sheets at the Schmanska Park barn. If you can’t make it to the barn on Thursday contact us. We’re happy to make other arrangements.
Each 9 x 12″ or 14 x 17″ sheet is prepared with the side margins marked, the tops reinforced with craft tape, and the holes pre-punched for hanging.
Create a design on the Vellum sheet using your own markers, crayons, paint, stickers, etc., leaving some of the paper clear where you want the light to shine through most brightly.
February 22 – 25
Once your masterpiece is complete, put your flat artwork in the weatherproof red cooler by the front door of the Schmanska barn. We’ll take it from there and turn your creation into a working lantern!
February 26 – 28
All the lanterns will be hung Friday afternoon and lit over the weekend, so don’t forget to visit Schmanska Park and enjoy the glow!
March 1 – 9
Please feel free to take your lantern to enjoy at home. Any left in the park on March 9 will be removed and stored in the barn. If you want to be reunited with your lantern after March 9, contact us and we’ll make arrangements for its safe return.
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