All of the town’s schools have been busy creating and colouring lanterns to parade on the evening. This year’s theme is The Magic Pudding in celebration of the 100^th anniversary since the famous children’s book’s release. 

The festival, which drew a crowd of more than 500 people last year, will be held at Creswick’s splash park.

The festival will include a parade of lanterns styled on the book’s characters as well as a shadow puppetry show. 

Pavillion Arts member Bill Weidner said the event was created as a way to bring together the town’s 45 community groups. 

“It came about when Pavillion Arts decided to do a community building focus to develop resilience in the community.

“We had 45 groups but they were all polarised without a connection. Now we all come together to put on this festival,” he said.

The event will begin at 5.30pm before the parade at 6.30pm.