How to make paper-cut lanterns

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Lanterns are very popular when the Lantern Festival comes. If you have leisure time, it is also a good idea to make your own lanterns. You can't make the "big guy" sold on the street, and you can't find materials such as steel wire and steel plate. Then make a simple paper lantern with bamboo strips, rice paper and pen and ink. Handmade paper lanterns are simple in materials and techniques, which can not only design their favorite patterns, but also add a lot of fun to festivals.

The first step is to make the skeleton. The simple shape of a paper lantern is a cube or cylinder. It is best to make a frame with flexible bamboo branches or bamboo skins, and the joints are tied 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.

Step 2, make the lamp body. Buy some white and red ordinary rice paper or golden rice paper in Four Treasures of the Study, 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 displayed on small lanterns. After pasting, you can also use narrow silk-like paper to wrap the edges up and down, which looks more elegant, much like ancient palace lanterns. 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.

The third step is to be a light source. If you put it indoors, you just need to light an ordinary candle in the lantern; If you want to realize it, you'd better make a simple circuit with light bulbs and batteries. It may look a little rough, but lighting a lantern made by yourself on the Lantern Festival will definitely have a different taste!

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If you want to make more distinctive lanterns, you must refer to several kinds of lanterns:

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1. Selection of materials: Any paper can be used as the material for making Kongming lanterns, but it is best to choose materials with high density, light weight and difficult to catch fire. For example: translucent paper.

Second, the design concept (sketch design perspective): The design concept must be considered.

1 position of the center of gravity of the sphere: try to avoid the design that the center of gravity deviates from the vertical center line, so as to avoid the fire source burning the sphere during the lift-off.

2 Appearance, aesthetics and surface treatment: If the design is asymmetrical, be sure to pay attention to the location of the fire source and the center of gravity.

3. The weight of the sphere and the size of the fire source: the weight of the sphere is related to the lifting force, which determines the temperature of the air heated by the fire source and the size of the sphere. The ball is too heavy and the fire source is too small.

Third, the manufacturing process:

1. Calculate the volume of the lamp body and the size of the split expansion (Figure 2).

2 Use these unfolded dimensions to cut the template with cardboard.

3 use the template to cut the skin.

4 bonding:

(1) There are two bonding methods:

(1) Overlapping bonding method: After bonding, the bonding place will protrude from the surface of the ball.

(b) After bonding, the bonding place is flat on the spherical surface. (Figure 5)

(2) Bonding step:

First, stick two pieces together.

(b) repeating the combining step of (a) until the appearance is finished.

5. Installation of lamp holder: Stick a base made of thin iron wire or cardboard on the bottom of the lamp body, and install a fuel bucket made of aluminum foil or lighter aluminum can on the base. (as shown in fig. 7)

6. Test its stability: blow the headlight body with a hair dryer to test its stability and check whether there are holes. (Figure 8)

7. Paint and color. (Figure 9)

Fourth, emission process:

The production method of Kongming Lantern is simple, but it is greatly influenced by the venue and weather when it is set off. When the wind is strong, it is easy to blow the lamp body obliquely and burn it out. It's easy to get wet when it rains and can't be released, so it's best to throw it when there is no wind.

1. First, turn on the lamp body and tie the control lines around and at the bottom. (Figure 10)

2. Fill it with fuel.

3. After ignition, the air inlet should be as low as possible to reduce the loss of hot air, but it should not be too low to avoid the flameout due to insufficient oxygen. At the same time, the surrounding control lines must be straightened. (Figure 1 1)

4. When the temperature of hot gas in the lamp body is enough, slowly loosen the surrounding control lines to maintain the lamp body rising steadily. The control line at the bottom must control the rising speed and height of the lamp body. (Figure 12)

5. After the sphere is launched, its height and direction can be linearly controlled, and it can also float freely, thus completing the launch.

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The method of making paper gourd is very complicated. Be patient when you do it.

Paper gourd is mainly composed of colored paper on the outside, paper stick in the middle, lifting thread on the top and paper colored strips on the bottom. Colored paper is the main part of paper gourd, which consists of "lower seat" and "upper head". "The next seat is 27 cm long and 8 cm wide (I mean the size of a medium-sized gourd,); It is 20 cm long and 8 cm wide, and the crease on the colored paper is "pushed" with a knife. " Pushing "paper" is a technical job. If you don't do it often, you can't accurately grasp the size, but we can set up a piece on the table and prepare a 7 mm thick chopstick. When grasping the paper, stand the chopsticks in front of the wooden block we put on the table, slide them down with a paper cutter, and lift them up when the paper is printed on colored paper. Another paper cutter pushed the paper onto the block we put on the table, then raised the knife, inserted chopsticks, and caught the knife. After a while, the printing of colored paper will be completed, and three or four sheets can be printed at a time.

In addition, the technical requirements of the post in the middle of the paper gourd are: the diameter is between 8- 10 mm, the length is 120 mm, and the material can be reed stem, straw, paper roll or something. One end is pasted with colored paper spikes (length 100 mm, cut into 80 mm colored paper strips, and one end of the column is left for 20 mm pasting), and the other end is threaded with red color lines for hanging gourds.

When you paste the next seat, paste the colored paper into a paper tube first. Because there is a seal on the colored paper, it has become a small tube when you paste it. It is difficult to separate the two ends of the small tube. When pasting, paste the colored paper on the post 20 mm, because both ends have been pasted into small tubes, and at this time the middle has become a drum shape. Push down the small drum and leave a 50 mm paste top on the post, and the next seat will be pasted. The coat is also attached in this way, except that one end of the coat is attached and the other end is attached where 20 mm is left. This 20 mm is used to make gourd mouth. In this way, the gourd is made.

I hope I can help you!