Kids are always happy to help with an art project. So when the Friends of Deering Oaks needed help preparing the park for their first-ever Lantern Walk, they found dozens of kids who were happy to lend their hands Saturday.
The group collected 150 plastic bottles, cut them and washed them so they’d be ready for kids to create their works of art. The lanterns will have LED lights inserted and be hung in Deering Oaks for the Lantern Walk at 6 p.m. Sunday. The event is free but The Marshmallow Cart will be on hand with hot chocolate for sale – just in case any kids need a reward for their artful assistance.
Three-year-old Celia Colson holds up a lantern that she and her father decorated Saturday in a workshop organized by the Friends of Deering Oaks in advance of a Lantern Walk set for Sunday. Celia and her parents, who live in Kansas City, Kan., are visiting Maine. Photos by John Ewing/Staff Photographer
Supplies are set out for a lantern-making workshop organized by the Friends of Deering Oaks on Saturday. John Ewing/Staff Photographer
Elaina George of Sidney helps her 4-year-old son, Alexander, as he applies paste to a cut-off plastic bottle before adding colorful strips of paper to make a lantern.
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