Handmade good-looking lantern making method is as follows:

Material preparation: cardboard, watercolor paper, ruler, solid glue, art knife, scissors.

1, first of all, on a piece of cardboard draw equal straight lines, straight lines do not have to the bottom of the top and bottom, leave a distance, as shown.

2, then fold the cardboard in half, cut along the straight line, as shown.

3, the last section cut off, unfolding is like this, as shown.

4, inside paste a red cardboard, red cardboard is smaller than the outside cardboard, pay attention to the size, and then paste it as shown, as shown.

5, and finally at the top of the two holes strung on the rope is complete, as shown.

6, simple and beautiful handmade lanterns on the production is complete, as shown.

Introduction of lanterns:

Lanterns, is a kind of cage-shaped lamps. Its outer layer of thin gabions or wire and other skeleton, and masked with paper or yarn and other transparent material, inside the light candle. For lighting, decoration or play. Lanterns synthesize the painting, paper-cutting, papier-maché, pricked sewing and other crafts, and the Chinese people's lives are closely linked to the temple, the living room, everywhere there is the figure of the lantern.

Chinese lanterns synthesize the art of painting, paper-cutting, papier-maché, stitching and other crafts, and among the lanterns made in China in ancient times, the palace lanterns and gauze lanterns are the most famous. Lanterns are closely related to the life of the Chinese people, and there are lanterns everywhere in temples and living rooms. Carefully projected, China has lamps is after the Qin and Han Dynasty, there are paper lanterns and in the Eastern Han Dynasty after the invention of paper.

Lanterns, is a kind of lamps in ancient times, as early as the eighth century AD in the Tang Dynasty has recorded the use of lanterns from. China has lamps after the Qin and Han Dynasties, and paper lanterns may have been invented after the invention of paper in the Western Han Dynasty.

The Lantern Lantern custom originated in the early Han Dynasty, but there are also rumors that Emperor Ming Huang of the Tang Dynasty in the Lantern Festival in the Shangyang Palace, is in order to celebrate the country's prosperity and people's peace, before tying the lanterns, with the flickering light, symbolizing the "colorful dragons omen Xiangxiang, the people of the country," the lanterns of the trend is still widely popular today.

The simpler shape of paper lanterns is cubic or cylindrical, and it is best to use bamboo branches or bamboo bark that can be bent to form a frame, and the joints are tied with a thin thread. If you can't find, long thin strips of cardboard and barbecue bamboo sticks can also be used, the degree of solidity and flexibility will be lacking, but placed in the interior is also a very good decoration.