1, Step 1: Prepare 1 red cardboard and a piece of yellow cardboard, the yellow one is thinner than the red one, a pair of scissors and glue.

2. Step 2: Cut the red cardboard into a square with a side length of 15cm, and then cut out two slender strips with a width of about 7 mm..

3. Step 3: Cut the square into two rectangles, one of which is about 2cm wider than the other.

4. Step 4: Fold the big rectangle in half and cut it every 7mm along the folded side. Don't cut it to the end, leaving 5mm at the edge. In order to cut neatly, you can draw a line on the edge and cut it to the edge of the line.

5. Step 5: Cut and unfold, and glue the two sides to the two sides of the small rectangle respectively. The last edge of the small strip, cut off, so that the two sides can be pasted together.

6. Step 6: After pasting the edges, align the two sides of the rectangle, paste the edges and tidy them up, and the middle part of the lantern will be fine.

7. Step 7: Cut the yellow cardboard into two strips about 3mm and stick them at both ends of the lantern for decoration.

8. Step 8: Stick one of the two slender strips of red cardboard on the lantern to make a handle, and cut a small hole in the middle of the other, leaving a length about 1cm longer than the diameter of the lantern bottom.

9. Step 9: Fold the yellow cardboard into several layers, cut out the ear shape and pass through the small hole of the red cardboard. When you wear it, roll the upper end of the ear slightly to make it easy to pass through.

10, Step 10: Finally, stick the red cardboard with ears on the bottom of the lantern as the ears of the lantern to decorate the lantern, and a red lantern made of cardboard is finished. When making the middle part of the lantern, if the cardboard is not folded, you can cut the paper open with a knife, so that the lantern will not have creases and look better.

Folk custom

1 Tie lanterns: In ancient times, in Guangdong, when the Mid-Autumn Festival approached, children tied bamboo paper into rabbit lanterns, carambola lanterns or square lanterns. In addition, many children will tie lanterns with water peels. In addition, there are papaya lamps, banana lamps, etc. The simplest one is the "pomelo peel lamp", which can be made by children in almost every household. The tied lanterns are not only used to "tree the Mid-Autumn Festival", but also couples cuddle up with lanterns to enjoy the moon.

2, Guangdong and Guangxi lanterns: Mid-Autumn Festival, there are many game activities, the first is to play lanterns. Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the three major lantern festivals in China, so we should play with lanterns on holidays. Of course, there is no large lantern festival in Mid-Autumn Festival like Lantern Festival, and playing with lanterns is mainly between families and children. As early as "Old Wulin Stories", it was recorded that the Mid-Autumn Festival was a custom, and there was an activity of putting the "Little Red" lamp into the river to drift and play. Playing lanterns in the Mid-Autumn Festival is mostly concentrated in the south.