# [Family and Community Day: Create Your Own Lantern](https://wknd.app/r/x8xc8n/family-and-community-day-create-your-own-lantern)

- When: 2026-11-14 13:00-15:00 (America/New_York)
- Scarcity: one_day
- Cadence: once
- Where: Morris-Jumel Mansion, 65 Jumel Terrace, New York, NY 10032 (40.8348943, -73.938583)
- Ages: all ages
- Price: free
- Category: class
- About: At Manhattan's oldest house, families explore how candles and lanterns lit homes before electricity, then make a handheld paper lantern of their own. Choose a traditional cone shape or a lantern modeled on the Morris-Jumel Mansion, decorate it with tissue paper and add a battery tea light to watch it glow. Free, no registration, materials provided while supplies last.
- Source: https://morrisjumel.org/events/family-and-community-day-create-your-own-lantern/
- Feed: [Manhattan family events](https://wknd.app/f/qaw3a5/manhattan-family-events)

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