Lantern festival

The family went to Chinese Garden to celebrate lantern festival. I was fun with picnic session, Auntie Jimma prepared pasta for dinner in the park. We had fun there. Mooi Cheok and another causin of mine joined us. This is the first time I see her in Singapore.

What I like most is still the balloon lantern with LED in it to give a bit of light. Cool and neat. The photo actually taken from the tent where a lady was walking about carrying this balloon lantern. The little LED in the yellow balloon brighten up the otherwise dull balloon.

In the pond, there are a pair of dragon lantern. Magnificient!!
The panda in the bamboo forest where cute too.


This year I feel that the display of the lantern was limited and disappointing. The kids where trying to get some game from the game stall but the stalls were too expensive for their $5 budget.

Rong lantern perade

Rong Child Care Centre organised a lantern block walk around. So cute to see the little ones swinging and walking with lantern. The rest of mum and dad are all busy with their camera.

Rong requested for a battery operated lantern.

Sure he has.

A butterfly one as a result of that.

Rong and dragon lantern

Rong lights up the lanterns all by himself.

Rui joined in after his 400 sentence writing ordered by dad was done. Rui plays with fire like a pro. A game of his since young. He lighted up a lot of candles on the tile and his spiderman lantern too.

In no time, they ran out of candles.

Everyday in the 8th month of Lunar Calender, they have a packet of candle to play. Under close supervision of course.

Candle play

Hooray! Is time to play candle again.

Yesterday was the first day of 8th month in Chinese calendar. End of the 7th month ghost festival and welcome lantern festival.

The kids spun into full action of lantern and candle play. 3 of them all have their own lantern.

En En is best in blowing candle. She attempted to light up the candle and actually manage to light it up a few times. When the wax starts to drop, she felt the heat and ended the play by an a ouch!! Her best play is to blow of candle.

Rong is able to light up a lantern all by himself and hang it up too. He cannot do this at three years old. He tried to light up a small lantern and burned it away. That’s the one in the picture. Lucky my ground rule of adult supervision at all time when playing fire save the scene. A blow by me settled the emergency, and the play goes on. The candle heat will not do major damage to the kids. Safety always first when fire play is concern.