How to make lanterns with pictures

Skeleton making of hand-made lanterns: The simple shape of paper lanterns is cubic or cylindrical, and it is best to make a frame with flexible bamboo branches or bamboo skins, and tie the joints tightly with thin lines. If it is difficult to find, you can also use slender cardboard and bamboo sticks for barbecue. The firmness and elasticity will be lacking, but it is also a good decoration indoors.

Hand-made lamp body: buy some white and red ordinary rice paper or golden rice paper at the stationery store, cut it into the length and width of the lantern skeleton, and you can design your own patterns. Calligraphy, painting and paper-cutting can all be used on this paper lantern. After pasting, you can also use narrow silk-like paper to wrap the edges up and down, which looks more elegant.

If you are not good at painting and calligraphy, there is a simple method for reference. Use a thin paper to trace the desired words on the copybook, then overlap this thin paper with crimson rice paper and dig out the words with a single-edged blade. Remove the paper towel, and hollow handwriting will appear on the red rice paper. White rice paper is used as the lamp body, and red rice paper is pasted inside, which reflects candlelight or light from the hollowed-out place, and the effect is quite beautiful.