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Lantern Festival

On Thursday Oct 16 we had our annual Lantern Festival. It was a lovely evening - the weather held out, there was a great turnout, and lots of fun was had by all!!

Here are a few photos to highlight the evening:





Mind Of A Snail was there to do shadow puppets - 
it was interactive and got many children involved and excited!
It was so much fun to watch as they discovered the potential of each of the masks!




Staff from the Out Of School Care programs were there to do balloon art.
As far as I could tell, they were kept busy all evening!


And what would the Lantern Festival be without a drum circle?
The sound of drums could be heard from the parking lot, 
welcoming everyone to the event! 


And there were many other fun activities for families to participate in, such as: 

Face Painting



Ring Toss


Apple Fishing

Participants from the Sr OSC program were manning this station,
and were extremely excited to be involved!


If you didn't have a lantern you could make your own!


The Wishing Tree


And then it was time for the main event -
 Lanterns were lit...



...and the parade began!



Thank you to everyone who brought donations for the food bank!


The shadow puppet screen was so delightful that I could not stop taking pictures -
It was so wonderful to see the creativity and excitment that was happening there!
So here are a few more pictures:





Thank you to everyone who helped to make this year's Lantern Festival such a huge success!

Happy Autumn!
Nicole


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