How to make mid-autumn lanterns and lanterns

1. First prepare some basic materials. When making lanterns here, the paper used cotton paper, there are some paper crafts made with cotton paper before, and at the same time will be recommended to you in this tutorial. Also needed are white latex, tape, wire, bamboo strips, pliers, etc.

Handmade Paper Craft Kongming Lanterns is actually the same as making flying lanterns

Cotton paper is not only good for making Kongming lanterns, but cotton paper itself is also very suitable for making some other related or similar handmade paper crafts. First of all, we recommend you to use cotton paper to make beautiful lanterns. We can see that the use of cotton paper made out of lanterns both in terms of color and style are very delicate and rustic, at the same time, cotton paper also has a very good light transmission, so the use of cotton paper made out of lantern light and shadow effects can be adjusted according to the needs of the producer, so as to produce a specific and desired effect.

2. Hang the paper as shown in the picture. Next, spray the paper with fire retardant.

The basic method of making papercraft lanterns illustrated tutorial helps you to complete the beautiful handmade papercraft lanterns

3. You can seal and paste the two different colors of paper with white latex as shown in the picture.

4. Fold the top sheet in half along the long side and then cut the sheet to the size shown in the picture. This is basically a half-drop shape. You'll need to prepare four sheets in the same way.

Basic handmade paper lanterns illustrated tutorial to help you make beautiful lanterns

Paper roses, as the most classic handmade paper flower making project, can also be presented through the production of cotton paper Oh. Here we see the cotton paper paper rose from the final effect, or from the simple production method, is a very worthwhile to learn the production of tutorials. You can see that the overall production method is very simple and easy to start, after easy folding can be expressed and presented the effect we want, and because of the simple production, so you can complete a large number of cotton paper roses in a short period of time, which is also quite important.

5. Place the four papers together.

6. Tape the edges of each of the four papers with white latex.

7. This time cut bamboo or wooden strips of appropriate size.

8. Use tape paper to tape the ends closed.

9. Then use the wire as shown in the picture to make a criss-cross winding, one is to play a role in fixing, and the other is to allow us to have a platform for placing the incendiary.

10. Use white latex to stick it to the base of the paper bag of the lantern, and then use the wire to fix it.

11. Make a small carrier from a can lid and place some burning agent on it, such as solid alcohol or a small candle.

12. Finally, tape it to the top of the wire with tape paper or a glue gun.

13. Once lit, you can easily release the lanterns.

Kongming lanterns are also called sky lanterns, commonly known as wishing lanterns. Is an ancient Han handicrafts, in ancient times more military purposes. Modern people put the Kongming lantern as a blessing. Men, women and children hand-written wishes to symbolize the success of the harvest, happiness year after year. Generally in the Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other major festivals.

It is said to have been invented by Zhuge Kongming (朱葛孔明) during the Three Kingdoms period. When Zhuge Kongming was besieged by Sima Yi in Pingyang, he was unable to send troops out of the city to ask for help. After calculating the direction of the wind, Kongming made a floating paper lantern and tied it with a message of help, and he got out of the danger, so the later generations called this lantern Kongming Lantern. Another theory is that the shape of this lantern is like the hat worn by Zhuge Kongming, hence the name.

Suggestions for the Lifting Procedure:

The Kongming Lanterns are simple to make, but they are greatly affected by the venue and weather conditions when they are lifted into the air. When it's windy, the lantern body will be easily blown diagonally and burned, and when it's raining, the lantern body will be easily drenched and can't be released, so it's best to release the lanterns when it's not windy.

1. First, hold the lamp open, and tie a control line around the perimeter and the bottom of the lamp.

2. Fill it with fuel.

3. After ignition, press down the air inlet as low as possible to minimize the loss of heat, but not too low, so as to avoid oxygen shortage and flame failure. At the same time, the control line must be straightened all around.

4. Heat the lamp until the temperature of the hot gas is sufficient, the surrounding control line slowly loosened to maintain a stable rise of the lamp body, and the bottom of the control line must control the speed and height of the lamp body.

5. After the sphere lifts up, you can control its height and direction by the line, or let it float freely, so the lift-off is completed.

When you want to light up the lamp to ascend to the sky, tie a piece of kerosene or peanut oil stained cloth or gold paper in the middle of the bottom of the bracket, the oil will be ignited before release, the fire inside the lamp burns for a while after the production of hot air, the lanterns will expand, let go of the whole lamp will be Ran flying into the air, if the weather is good, the bottom of the kerosene burned out the lanterns will automatically fall.

Note: The lanterns must be released in windless weather and open space, otherwise they will not only fail to fly into the sky, but also may cause a fire. When releasing the lanterns, you need 2-3 people's *** with the concerted efforts, and it is strongly required to be accompanied by an adult. In addition, you can tie a line on the bottom of the lantern, so that you can repeat the release, but also to control the take-off height and range, to avoid causing a fire.