Illustrated tutorial on making DIY lanterns with red packets and how to make Lantern Festival lanterns with red packets:

1. Prepare the DIY materials for homemade lanterns with packets of packets: twelve packets of packets and book binding Machine, a Chinese knot hanging tassel, red silk thread 40 cm long. Note: You can use red packets with different colors and patterns, but the size of the packets must be the same!

2 Make all 12 red envelopes as shown in the picture. According to the break point of the "length" and "width" of the red envelope, fold all four corners diagonally and set aside.

3. Take 6 folded red envelopes as a group and arrange them as shown in the picture above.

4. Bring each folded corner together, and staple the edges of each crease twice to secure it. Six-petal flower shape

5. Take another set of 6 red envelopes and repeat the above steps to make two identical six-petal flower shapes. In this way, the front and back of the lantern are ready!

6. Order the two groups up and down.

7 Finally, thread the red string, or hang it with a Chinese knot for decoration (if you want to light up, you can put a light bulb through the middle of the red envelope. Make it hollow)

If you want the lantern to be bigger, you can prepare a few more red envelopes.