Method 1: Prepare materials/tools: 2 disposable paper cups, double-sided tape, hand scissors and wool.

Step 1: First cut off the circle around the disposable paper cup with a knife.

Step 2: Then draw the paper cups into strips and divide them evenly.

Step 3: The next step is to beautify the cup and get some sharp shapes for it.

Step 4: This is the general shape of the finished product. Isn't the sharp corner beautiful?

Step 5: Then cut off the bottom of another prepared disposable cups and stick a circle of double-sided tape on the bottom.

Step 6: Stick the bottom part with double-sided adhesive tape to the sharp corner direction in the above figure.

Step 7: Then cut a circle around the cup with the bottom cut.

Step 8: Cut out a circle of disposable paper cups and stick them on the lanterns with double-sided tape.

Step 9: Press the finished lantern slightly from both ends to the middle to sort out the shape.

Step 10: Just string the prepared thread.

Method 2: Prepare disposable paper cups, colored handmade paper, bottle caps, glue sticks and scissors.

Fold two pieces of blue handmade paper into a bow, and then stick it on the outer wall of a paper cup decorated with yellow handmade paper; Cut 8 strips of paper with a length of 3 cm and a width of 1 cm on blue paper, and cut 2 strips of paper with a length of 5 cm and a width of 2 cm on gray handmade paper, and make these strips into paper rolls respectively.

Cut the crab's big "pliers"-shaped paper on the red handmade paper and paste it on the gray paper roll; Cut off the small "hook" pieces of paper on the crab's legs on gray handmade paper and paste them on the sky blue paper roll.

Stick blue and black circular pieces of paper on the bottle cap to make crab eyes. Stick the yellow paper roll to the bottle cap. Glue the crab's eyes and legs to the paper cup. Draw the crab's mouth on the cup wall with a colored pen. A paper cup crab is ready.