Every year, the 11th of November "St. Martin's Day" is celebrated in Germany as "Laternenfest" or "Lantern Festival." Children create their own lanterns in nursery school or at home and then march with their parents or in small groups or as whole classes through the streets with their own candle lanterns. These processions can be seen throughout the first half of November. The pictures here are from last week's lantern march of the Saibenkindergarten in Derendingen/Tübingen, Germany.

	Here are some of the kids with their candle-fired lanterns.
	When the procession reached the playground, some kids just hung their lanterns on the tree and went for a nighttime stint on the swings or on the slide.