Category: Chinese
Make Holiday Lanterns from Cheese Containers
Here’s another easy way to make a lantern that you can light with a tea candle (careful!) or glow stick for festivals such as the Harvest Moon Festival or St. Martin’s Day. This will give you a cylindrical lantern that is easy to decorate in many different ways.
You’ll need: a cheese container -- the round, [...] Read More »
Make Chinese Mooncakes
If you’d like to make your own Chinese Mooncakes to celebrate Harvest Moon Festival, try this simple recipe from Shanghai, which can be made with ingredients that are relatively easy to find. Mooncakes are traditionally made using carved wooden molds with intricate patterns, but you can simply shape the dough into circles about 3 [...] Read More »
Chinese Mooncakes
Mooncakes are traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn or Harvest Moon festival. These small round cakes symbolize family unity. They are traditionally made by bakers using beautiful hand-carved wooden molds. Some mooncakes are made with a golden yellow egg yolk in the center that looks like the moon. If you'd like to try [...] Read More »
Make Holiday Lanterns from Milk Cartons
Here's an easy way to make a lantern that you can light with a tea candle (careful!) or glow stick for festivals such as the Harvest Moon Festival or St. Martin's Day. This is good to make with older children but will need supervision since it does involve some cutting.
You'll need: an empty [...] Read More »
Make Chinese Paper Lanterns
There are many holidays, such as the Harvest Moon Festival (Chinese, Vietnamese), St. Martin's Day (German) and Chinese New Year, in which Lanterns play a role. We're going to publish some ideas on how to make your own lanterns to celebrate these Fall and Winter holidays.
Easy Paper Lanterns
You need: colored construction paper, scissors, [...] Read More »
Harvest Moon Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival
The Harvest Moon Festival (also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival) is associated with the legend of Chang Er, who is said to have taken a pill, turned ino a fairy and flown to the moon to escape [...] Read More »
