All ages and abilities are invited to take part in the UUFCC IMAGINE & DREAM Lantern-Making Challenge…use your creative spirit to change old recyclables and ordinary household materials into bright and beautiful battery-powered Festival Lanterns! 

Lanterns can be made at home and brought to the event:  Click here for DIY  lantern-making instructions & resources.  LED tea lights and hanging supplies will be available at the event.

The event will feature a lantern-making activity station.  People are welcome to bring cleaned-up single-use jars, bottles or jugs that might make good lanterns (plastic food-container waste is often especially versatile).

UUseum Station Activities:

• Flex your creativity muscle by changing trash into twinkling lantern treasures

• Light-up your dream on a luminary bag for our DREAM BEAM wall

• Eat a lantern cookie and see its unique 3D-printed cookie cutter

• Read a poem to recognize Black History Month

• Marvel at some festive lanterns from around the world

• Move and groove in a community drum circle

• Find good books for all-ages and titles of movies on civil-rights-era dreamers

• Ponder how civil-rights-era dreamers ended laws against interracial marriage

• Play a lantern board game or help solve a lantern jigsaw puzzle

• Learn how to change the world one bite at a time

• Enjoy popular music about dreams and aspirations

• Discover the social-justice history behind songs like "This Little Light of Mine"

link to google doc for activity station volunteers (contact Doug for access)