Chester Zoo

Quiddlesticks' favourite animal puppets return to Lanterns and Lights this year, including three new penguin puppets.

Stars line the path and hang overhead to give a wintry walkway an immersive sparkly feel.

Ten swan lanterns swim on the surface of the water, take off and land.

Using custom-made laser effects, the path and all around, becomes completely immersed in thousands of slowly rotating coloured points of laser light. The light pierces through the added mist to create a fun and playful area that captures the imaginations of children and adults alike.

Our fire gardens are accompanied by contemplative music and created using bespoke structures that fill the garden with patterns of real fire.

As you pass Father Christmas' garden, why not give him a wave, and say hello? He'll be delighted to deliver a little seasonal fun as you walk by.

A shoal of large fish appear to have jumped effortlessly out of the water.

Submergence is a large, immersive, walkthrough experience using many thousands of individual points of suspended light to create feelings of presence and movement within physical space.

Fireworks of light shoot through the tree branches, to an atmospheric winter soundtrack of exploding and dazzling fireworks.

Huge snowflakes up to 5m in height light up in time to the music.

Aurora is an overhead lit piece which brings the northern lights to life. Animated lighting recreates the tones of the Aurora Borealis while illuminating the audience and the garden’s surroundings.