Mid-Autumn Festival traditional handicrafts

The practice of Mid-Autumn Dragon Lantern is as follows:

Materials: several disposable paper cups, 1 paper roll, gouache pigment, disposable straws, colored handmade paper, universal eyes, colored ropes, rubber bands, glue sticks and scissors.

Steps:

1. First, color disposable paper cups and rollers with gouache pigment and dry them. Of course, you can also use paper cups of different colors directly.

2. Then drill two small holes in each paper cup. All paper cups operate the same, only one is shown below.

3. Cut the straw into small pieces of about 3cm, and the rubber band passes through the small hole of the paper cup.

4. Fix the straws on the outside of both sides of the paper cup.

5. In the upper part of the paper cup, drill holes on both sides in the same way, fix the straw with a rubber band and pass through the hole of the next paper cup (equal to the two ends of a rubber band passing through the holes of two cups respectively) to form a series connection.

6, and so on, complete the connection of all paper cups.

7. Cut out the stripes on the dragon's dorsal fin, ears and nose with colored paper, and cut the colored rope into whiskers.

8. The faucet consists of a paper cup and a paper roll. The paper drum and the bottom of the paper cup are glued together with white latex, and the paper cup mouth is connected with the dragon paper cup mouth.