Comments on: How to Make Chinese Sky Lanterns

By: Chinese Sweethearts « My Life, Only That Much Cooler

Chinese Sweethearts « My Life, Only That Much Cooler — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:01:01 +0000

[...] lanterns hang and glide gently in the air without the help of strings. These lanterns are actually not too difficult to make, but take quite a lot of [...]

By: Cooler Becky

Cooler Becky — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:02:34 +0000

These are really beautiful during the lantern festivals. Your design is quite traditional too, although the lantern is quite a bit bigger than some of the ones that we send up into the sky during the festival.

By: Rester

Rester — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:30:56 +0000

ive tried it just yesterday… and it works…. its safe .. im using a piece of cloth folded with floor wax as a burner

By: The Safester

The Safester — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:23:40 +0000

I am also extremely concerned about the possible cataclysmic outcomes from these flying death machines. But on a more important alert, everyone please take caution while chewing your food! It is a statistical fact that an inordinate amount of deaths over millennia (way more than sky lantern fatalities) have been caused by people not chewing their food and swallowing properly. Heed my warning and put all your food in a blender with lots of water and ingest with a straw. Eating by way of chewing and swallowing your food is a proven killer and a risk not worth taking.

By: David

David — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:44:54 +0000

I seriously doubt they could lift one ounce

By: a glass half full

a glass half full — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:35:16 +0000

To all those worriers out there … pfffft!

I’m guessing you think twice before you leave the house.

Paper balloon into jet engine or even getting hit by a prop = no bloody effect what-so-ever.

And if you’ve ever seen what happens to a plastic bag being blown around on a motorway you’ll know that these things won’t pose a threat to motorists.

Get a life and start living it!

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:16:46 +0000

I saw one of these for the first time tonight I watched it for a while, tried to find my big binoculars…lol eventually rang the police asking if anyone had reported anything strange in the night sky, heading towards the airport. After I had described it to the officer as a hot air balloon with its basket on fire, he asked could it be a chinese lantern. Obviously it was, and after reading this info, I think there may be several more flying around in the future…..lol

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:50:51 +0000

Wow! We let some lanterns off at our church New Year party (even tho’ it was a bit windy!) I’d never seen them up close before. I was just on the net trying to find out what they were actually made of and how, and I’m made up that I’ve stumbled across all this. I can’t wait to try it myself.

Thanks for all the info and instructions. I’ll try and leave a post on here re. my successes/disasters.

Karen, Southport, England

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:29:44 +0000

This was the greatest DIY information, and it works. Much more interesting to do it yourself, and you can completely personalise it to whatever celebration you are planning. We have done it at home with some friends. We have also done it with our woodcraft group kids here in the UK without the heatsource, scaled down and used hairdryers! also great fun. Thanks for taking the trouble to put the information up.

By: indigo carmen

indigo carmen — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:36:59 +0000

i agree with FoxIV,

if we treat everything as a risk, then, in theory, life is a risk of death…….

something to think about

indigo