Children's paper-cut lanterns are easy to cut

Children's paper-cut lantern scissors tutorial is as follows:

Tools/raw materials: scissors, fountain pen, colored paper.

Operating steps:

1. Take a piece of square colored paper, fold it in half along the center line, and draw a lantern pattern, as shown below. The decorative pattern of lanterns adopts crescent-shaped patterns, big or small.

2. Cut along the drawn pattern, as shown below. The crescent pattern needs cutting. Fortunately, the pattern is large and easy to cut. This requires that our scissors for paper-cutting must have sharp tips to facilitate the cutting operation.

Open the cut colored paper, it is a beautiful red lantern. This kind of lantern is the most common in our life, and the circle symbolizes reunion and happiness.

Paper-cutting art:

Paper-cutting is a folk art of cutting and carving patterns on paper with scissors or carving knives, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. Its inherited visual image and modeling format contain rich cultural and historical information, expressing the social cognition and moral concepts of the general public. Paper-cut art heritage has been selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list of China and the representative list of human intangible cultural heritage.

Folk paper-cutting is good at combining all kinds of objects and images to produce ideal and beautiful effects. No matter whether one or more image combinations are used, they are modeled by "image implication" and "meaning conformation", rather than by objective natural forms. At the same time, they are also good at using metaphor and combining conventional images to create various mascots to express their psychology.