Handmade Lanterns Step by Step

I. Required Materials:

1, lantern skeleton: cardboard several (waste packing boxes), color copy paper

2, lantern external decorations: a number of red cardboard (the bigger the better, or other red wrapping paper), cartoon New Year's Eve paintings (stickers) 3, 3 greeting cards, 6 rolled paper cores, red Chinese New Year couplets (couplets), diamond stickers, fortune stickers, Chinese knots (purchased or homemade) and so on. couplets), diamond stickers, fortune stickers, Chinese knots (purchase or homemade) and so on.

3, tools and materials: scissors, paper cutter, wide tape, double-sided tape, glue, glue stick, rope and so on.

? Second, the production process:

(a) making the lantern skeleton.

Because it is a double hexagonal palace lantern, the most important thing is to build the skeleton, which can be divided into two parts:

1, first do the lower lantern skeleton. Cut 12 pieces of rectangular cardboard of the same size, vertical splicing and paste firmly as shown. The size of each piece of skeleton depends on the size of the lantern. We made a large lantern, the lower skeleton is about the size of a regular greeting card.

2. Make the upper lantern skeleton. Cut 12 pieces of rectangular cardboard of the same size, horizontally as shown in the illustration and paste firmly. The size of each piece of skeleton should be coordinated with the lower lantern skeleton.

(2) Upper and lower lantern external decoration

?1, the lower lantern is the main part, the external decoration should be beautiful, shiny. Lanterns of course look best in bright red. So I chose to use bright red cardboard to wrap and paste the six sides of the lower layer. 6 sides of the paste different patterns, respectively, 3 Year of the Sheep stickers and 3 three-dimensional flower-shaped greeting cards.

2, the bottom of the lower lantern decoration: use ready-made gold fortune stickers to seal the lower lantern decoration, and then put on a Chinese knot as the bottom hanging decoration.

3, the upper lantern external decoration: respectively with hard cardboard printed auspicious blessings and auspicious cloud pattern, in turn, paste firmly. In order to reflect the requirements of the children also participate, I let An An put a lot of colorful shiny diamond stickers on the outside of the lantern. Under the light, the lantern shines even brighter.

4. The upper lantern's flying corners: I used an environmentally friendly material to make them - used paper rolls. 6 paper rolls were constructed to a good size, and then red couplets (or other red paper) were pasted on.

5, the upper lantern 6 flying corner decoration: homemade red spikes (tassels), pasted under the flying corner.

6, the top of the upper lantern decoration: the use of red bags (or other rigid wrapping paper) masking the top of the upper lantern

(C) the upper and lower lanterns connected: the upper and lower lanterns connected with a colorful or red thick rope, and the bottom of the skeleton of the upper lanterns and the lower lanterns on the top of the skeleton fixed.

In this way, a big red lantern is ready.