Celebrate the Lantern Festival and Chinese New Year by making your own paper lanterns with riddles. The Lantern Festival signifies the end of the Chinese New Year celebration and falls on the 15th day ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When it comes to mid-century lighting, few designs are as iconic as Isamu Noguchi’s Akari light ...

Spook trick or treaters with these homemade ghostly lanterns. Guide trick or treaters and other friendly spirits to your front door this Halloween with these easy-to-make DIY paper mache ghostly ...

Whether you are celebrating Chinese New Year or just looking for a fun craft project, paper lanterns can light up these dreary winter months. Artist Megan Connolly showed us how it's done. Megan is ...

The 10th Atlanta Beltline Lantern Parade kicks off Sept. 21 along the Eastside Trail. What began in 2010 with 1,200 people has grown into a parade with more than 70,000 participants carrying ...

Chinese New Year is almost here, but there’s still time to get decorations in order. Throughout the ages, Chinese lanterns have been used to symbolise vitality, social status and good luck. In fact, ...

Halloween originated in harvest festivals, and some seasonal fruits and vegetables, especially pumpkins and apples, are part of today’s celebrations. Historically, symbols of the season included other ...

Around the 1930s-'50s, pumpkin lanterns were a hot item being made in Germany as molded paper or papier-mâché jack-o-lanterns shipped to the U.S. With the going trend, reproductions came onto the ...

At the heart of Central, the bustling business district in Hong Kong surrounded by skyscrapers, an unusual "building" has attracted the attention of many locals. Made mainly of bamboo, iron wires and ...

TOKYO -- Several hundred years ago during the Edo period (1603-1867), towns bustling during the day were suddenly enveloped in pitch darkness at nightfall. At a time when electricity was still not in ...