Loi Krathong is a festival of lights celebrated in Thailand in November. People make beautiful boats of banana leaves, candles, incense and flowers and set them to float down the river. It is a festival in celebration of the water goddess and a time to make wishes and send away any bad luck. We will be making simple paper krathongs and putting a wish in the middle of it. They are fragile, so we will wait and send them home with you at the end of the unit when we have a little holiday party. (Details to follow soon.)
Yi Peng is celebrated in Northern Thailand at the same time, with thousands of rice paper lanterns set to float up into the sky as an offering to Buddha.
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