Method 1 for Lantern Festival
Tools and materials: paper, scissors, pen, straightedge, thread, tape (glue)
Steps:
1.Prepare the red cardboard
Prepare a piece of red cardboard first, or the paper of the yearly calendar that you have used in the house can be.
2, draw parallel lines and cut the paper
Draw a number of parallel lines in equal parts of the cardboard, and then use scissors to cut the center. Cut evenly and straight.
3.Roll the paper and glue the ends of the lantern
Roll the cut paper a bit so that the cardstock presents an arc, and then glue the two ends together to form the outer circumference of a lantern.
4, finished
Finally, you can go to find some thread, make the spike of the lantern can be.
Lantern Festival lantern making method two
Materials Preparation:Color cardboard, translucent white paper, window punch, glass bottle, glue and so on.
Operating steps:
1, choose red cardboard, cut into rectangles and then use a hole punch to make a window pattern on one side of the long side.
2, the window pattern should be arranged neatly.
3, in the other side of the long side of the same symmetrical openwork pattern.
4, lay the transparent white paper on the colored cardboard, cover the skeleton pattern, and paste it.
5: Roll up the cardboard and paste the tube shape.
6, take out an unwanted glass bottle, inside the center to fix the candle, and then put the paper tube on.
7, finished, beautiful Chinese lanterns done.
Why do we need to see lanterns on Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival is also known as the Festival of Lights, which is also one of the Chinese Valentine's Day. Lanterns Lanterns custom from the Han Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty, Lantern Festival activities more prosperous, the palace, hanging lights everywhere on the street, but also to establish a tall lamp wheel, lamp building and lamp tree, the Tang Dynasty poet Lu Zhaolin (about 637 ~ about 689, the word rose, Fanyang people) was in the "fifteenth night to watch the lanterns," which describes the lanterns Lantern Festival in full bloom "to catch the Han suspected of falling stars, according to the building seems to be hanging moon.
Lanterns are usually divided into chandeliers, lamps, wall lamps, lanterns several categories, it is with bamboo, silk, silk, bright ball, jade, silk, feathers, shells and other materials, by the color of the tie, laminating, knotting, embroidery, carving, and then with paper-cutting, painting and calligraphy, poetry and other decorative crafts, but also China's traditional folk handicrafts.