<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/226c6df8-90a9-4ef7-9efd-a7c5902a2d57/A0E9BEE1-C01B-4005-AE30-0D6DED4CA572/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/decorate_a_paper_lantern.htm" href="http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/decorate_a_paper_lantern.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.activityvillage.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/decorate_a_paper_lantern.htm"><H1><B>Decorate A Paper Lantern</B></H1> <P> <IMG width="350" height="300" border="0" alt="Decorate a paper lantern" src="http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/paper_lantern.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/decorate_a_paper_lantern.htm"><P>This pretty craft is simple for the kids to do, but will take pride of place wherever it is displayed! Perfect for <A href="http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/spring.htm">Spring</A> or a <A href="http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/chinese_new_year.htm">Chinese New Year</A> or <A href="http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/japan_for_kids.htm">Japan</A> theme.</p> <P><B>You will need:</B> </p> <P>A round paper lantern (available cheaply from most home ware sellers) Pink paint<BR /><DIV> Black marker pen</DIV> <B>Instructions:</B></p> <P>Mix the paint with an equal part of water. Dot on the paint, to make your blossom. Paint several different trees around the lantern. When you are happy you have enough blossom leave the paint to dry. </p> <P>When the paint is dry use the black pen to draw on the branches of the trees.</p> <P>Alternatively you could draw or paint Chinese calligraphy characters onto your lantern to decorate it.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A0E9BEE1-C01B-4005-AE30-0D6DED4CA572/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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