With Halloween just around the corner it’s time to get busy and sort out what you’re going to do! Are you going to dress up with the kids and go trick or treating? Are you going to throw a Halloween party for your friends and family? Or are simply going to carve the best Jack O’Lantern of your life? Whatever you decide to do, make sure you include the use of a Chinese Lantern!

A Chinese Lantern (also known as Sky Lanterns and Wish Lanterns) are the perfect accompaniment to any Halloween idea. You can get Chinese Lanterns in orange now too so they will match the holiday perfectly. Chinese Lanterns look glorious when released en mass so why not get yourself ten or twenty lanterns and release them just as the sun goes down to welcome Halloween. If you use orange lanterns they will look like mini Jack O’Lanterns floating away into the sky!

It would be much easier to use orange Chinese Lanterns instead of going out and getting everything you need to actually carve a Jack O’Lantern out of a pumpkin. You can draw a face on an orange Chinese Lantern and use that as your Jack O’Lantern, only thing is, it will be sent up into the sky instead of being sat at your doorstep.

If you’re thinking of having a little Halloween party, the most delicious party treats to make are little mini Halloween cupcakes. You simply need 125g of butter, 3/4 of a cup of sugar, 2 eggs, 1 tsp of vanilla essence, 1 1/2 cups of flour and 1/2 cup of milk. Once you mix it all together just pop the mixture into cup cake papers and into the oven for 20 minutes. Ice with orange and black icing and you’re away! These cup cakes taste and look amazing, everyone at your party will be begging for more!

If you would like some orange Chinese Lanterns at your Halloween party, please click here to be directed to our online purchasing page alternatively please call us on 0845 500 1215 or email us on contact@wishlantern.com

There’s not much to a Chinese Lantern. Just some rice paper, bamboo, fuel cell and thin wire. So considering there’s not much to them, it’s amazing what they can create! They can make people cry, laugh and even stand there with their mouth open in awe. But most importantly, they help people to send off their wishes which is probably why they are so popular once again.

Chinese Lanterns are quite difficult to make due to the delicate nature of the product materials but are proving to be extremely popular once again. The Chinese Lantern was first used many years ago in Asian Festivals where people would make the lanterns themselves then release the lantern up into the sky as it was thought the lantern would take away their worries and problems with it up into the sky never to been seen again.

The Chinese Lantern was seen as an object that created good luck and fortune so the lanterns were made frequently and released even more frequently at festivals and special events. Over the past couple of years the lanterns have become popular once again. In the UK alone, they have become one of the most popular items used at a wedding.

Brides and Grooms across the United Kingdom have stumbled upon the beauty of a Chinese Lantern and the visual spectacular they can create in the skies above once released. Happy couples usually purchase between 50 and 200 lanterns and have the guests from their wedding release them at the end of the ceremony or reception. As Chinese Lanterns are made from rice paper they can be written on in a soft felt tip pen carefully so people often write wishes on the lanterns for the new couple and send them up into the sky.

Other events people are now using Chinese Lanterns for include, birthday parties, memorial services, anniversaries, funerals and christenings. If you have a special event coming up and would like to order some Chinese Lanterns to use there, please click here to be redirected to our online purchasing page, alternatively you can call us on 0845 500 1215 and we can take your order over the phone. If email suits you better, then we’re at contact@wishlantern.co.uk, we will respond to your email as soon as we can, usually within 24 hours if on a weekday.